The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-06-01
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

flower,
Queen Victoria has solid gold din.
ner service.
Lady Brooke, the English beauty,
has about twenty small Japanese span
iels, worth $500 each.
The Duchess of Bedford is studying
all the necessary subjects to qualify
as a sanitary inspector.
A Scotch girl, twenty years OF age.
has carried off the honors of the Uni
yersity Of London, against 1000 male
attendants.
DR.. Emily A. Bruce declares that
more women die in England through
improper dressing than from all other
causes together.
1t is no unworthy aim for woman to
study to adjust her "crown of glory"
to her individual needs, irrespective of
prevailing fashions.
The widow of DR.. d. Hayes Agnew,
of Philadelphia, has given S25, 900 to
the University Hospital of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Queen Victoria keeps seventy dogs
chiefly collics and Pomeranians
ut Windsor. Mar o, an Italian Spitz,
is Her Majesty's favorite.
woman has been made church
warden in England. Sho is tho
Dowagcr Lady Hlndlip, and her parish
is Hadsor, near Droitwich.
Miss Harriet Adams has. graduated
from the State Medical College in
Kansas with first honors for the best
commencement examination.
A small heal is one Of the most
beautiful of personal endowments,
AMI tue hair should never be arranged
to increase it's apparent bulk.
Mrs. Terry, OF Rome, Italy, the
mother Of +. Marion Crawford, the
novelist, is said to be the oldest Ameri-
can resident Of the Eternal City.
FJc get-me-nots are quite the vogue.
Golden hair5, maidens of Gotham wear
huge lunches pinned at their corsage
The stems are tied by long, pale blue
ribbons.
Miss Ellen Hayes, professor Of mathe-
matics at Wellesley College, has re-
Gently revised her text book in higher
:tSoota, Nuu new eulGlon ~ aUOuI TO
be issued.
Mrs. Mackay, the Silver Kings wife,
has perhaps the finest jewels in the
world. She has sapphire worth
Sl50, 600 and a pair of solitaries valued
nj St.J, 000
Among Princess Maud of Wales
museum of ivory are two tusks Of wild
boars shot by the Gar of Russia. and
trophies Of the chase contribute by
her athcr and brothers.
jackets of the latest cut are shorter
and not quite SO full in the skirt
Black is the most useful color, but n
fnwn coat with black moire vest can
be worn over almost any dress.
A feature of some of the modern
English weddings is the chili-brides.
maid, who is sometimes actually deco.
rated with diamonds, sprinkled With
perfumes, and horrible to say, pow.
derAd ana painted.
Nine. Schliemann, the widow of the
archaeologist, is personally superin-
tending the excavations now in prog
ress on the site of Troy. That she
should do this was one of her hus.
bands last wishes.
Miss Tompkins, of Kentucky, a
clever young woman who has Eeen
purchasing agent for the Supreme
Court, has been appointed assistant
marshal of the court. The young
woman is under thirty.
The Queen of England always wears
on one wrist n bracelet in which is n
miniature of the late Prince Consort
On the other wrist she wears as con-
stantly n bracelet with the miniature
OF her latest great-grandchild.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas agitator,
toll II Detroit reporter that she
believed she was a woman of destiny,
''And," she added, "as woman Of des,
tiny ] feel that I wiH one day meet "a
violent and bloody death for my opin.
ions
On the show case outside of mil
Nnery parlor' on West 125th street,
New York. is this notice: "Milliners
are composers. Bonnets are rhythmic,
symphonic, harmonious or melodious
rs the composer may dictate. Let us
compose You one on trial.
Mrs. Allen H. Gardner tells the
Womens Press Club, of New York,
that the time has gone by for regard
ing women as an annex Of male hui
manity. But an occasional reference
to marriage notices will shov the an.
nexation plan hourishing in undimin.
ished popularity.
Unity Church, Cleveland, Ohio, is
probably the only church in the world
that has rs pastors two women. They
are Rev. Marion Murdoch anl Rev.
Florence Buck. They are highly edu-
Gated women, having finished their
clucntion Mt Oxford University,
Euglanl. They are co-pastors to the
church, and have been remarkably
successful.
Notable jewel robberics in England
have 50 frightened n number Of women
in society possessing magnificent jewels
thai they won't travel with them any
longer. When they begin course OF
country house visits they leave their
Jewels at the bankers and take with
t,nm i'm .LntiDnS &, brnntifully mo 10