Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-01-26


year.
Froken Hulda Lundln, the well.
known Swedish lady teacher of Sloyd,
has received a silver medal from the
Ladies' Committee of the Chicago Ex-
position.
Miss Francis Willard is the third
woman upon whom the degree of LII. d.
has been conferred, the other two
being Maria Mitchell and Amelia B.
Edwards.
Miss Morrison, San Francisco
girl, recently graduated from the
medical department of the University
of California with the highest honors
of the class.
Twenty female clerks are employed
by Sydney New South Wales in.
surance office, Their work is noted
for being more correct than that Of
male clerks.
Hat pins mounted with spheres OF
silver liligree work in every conceive
BILE design IRE shown in abundance.
Those inlaid with tinted enamel are
simply elegant.
One of the surprising things to
American women in England is the
number of English women who marry
men from five to twenty years younger
than themselves.
Miss Emily Davies, who laid the
foundation of Girton College, Eng
land in 1869, is still living. Nine.
Bodichon, who gave the first endow-
ment to Girton $4,000, is dead.
A new departure in Russian jour-
nalism has been initiated in Helsing-
fers with the establishment in that
city of u newspaper edited and con.
Quoted entirely by staff Of ladies.
The three women elected to the
Legislature of Colorado have decided
that they will not wear their hats in
the Legislative halls. They reached
this decision after special caucus.
The use of ribbon for trimming is
more general than ever before. Plain
waists have shoulder straps, braces
and suspender-looking trimmings of
ribbon either in satin or grosgrain or
velvet.
Mary AndersonNavarro says that
for the first seven years she enjoyed
the life of the stage. Gradually the
work became irksome after that, and
for the last year it was scarcely en-
durable.
Bracelets, by the way, are no longer
sold in pairs. Only one arm is deco
rated nowadays, the left or right, as
fancy dictates, and this may exhibit
as many bracelet oddities as one cares
to display.
Nine. Cas,mir. Perier, wife of the
French President, according to pri-
vate letters from Paris, manifests a
disposition to be very gracious to.
ward some social stars of the Ameri-
can colony there.
Charming toilets are made by Paris
costumors for Parisiennes for $50 or
si5, but let an English or American
woman order similar outfit and she
will have to pay third more on ac-
count of her nationality.
Miss Marie Celeste Stauler, OF New
Orleans, to whom Samuel J. Tilden
left 500, 900, was married few days
siuce at New Orleans to George Pres
ton Eastwick. The wedding and re-
ception were fashionable affairs.
Another American woman has be-
come an English Countess. This lady,
who was Miss Corbin, married Mr..
Walpole. nephew of the Earl of Ok
ford, and the Earl having lately died
leaving only two daughters, the title
goes to his nephew.
The only woman chemist in Paris is
yassar girl, Miss Ida Welt. She has
distinguished herself at the Univers-
ity of Geneva and at the University of
Paris. The Academy of Sciences has
lust published her Researches on
Dissymmetrical hydrocarbons
Grandmamma's fashions in ten and
dinner sets are now the order of the
day, and tho dainty treasures of the
long ago are shown with great care
and pride. Antique mirrors are also
highly priced Just now, the long and
narrow shape being the most desir'
able.
1t is common belief amoug women
that the moth will not attack any
green material and many of then
make it point to buy stufs of green
dye whenever the color is not imcom
patible with the purpose for which tn,
material is intended. Green dyes ofter
contain arsenic, und that may account
for the antipathy of the moth to TIT