The free press., 1895-08-08
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Mrs. Langtry's jewels are valued by
Experts at over $3.50, 0O0.
Portugal has 1,OsO, ooOtwomen more
than seventeen yenrs old.
Holland, though small in size, has
l.O7O, 900 women, young and old'
There is flourishing Young Wo-
,,on,s OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in Calcut-
ia, India.
All over Washington State the
tadies are organizing cooperative
home industrial associations.
"Ouida" is small, with scanned ana
wrinkled face, \overhung with gray
rinolets. and is afflicted with dis
tinctly bad temper.
Unless a Chinese father happens to
be a schoolmaster, and at home Win
nothing to do. he never thinks OF
teaching his daughter to read.
Durham (England) University has
been authorized to bestow degrees
mon women. Oxford and Cambridge
Universities, however, still refuse
The widow of John Brown, of slav-
ery.day fame. lives in pretty cabin
] in the Sierra Azure Mountains, ABOUT
fifty miles from San Francisco, Cal.
Over 40, 900 women are attending
colleges in America, yet 1t has only
been twenty-five years since the hrst
college in the land was opened to wo-
men.
The furniture revival next year for
the drawing room will be the rosewood
and red velvet of over fifty years ago,
when there was less style, but more
solidity.
| The glove manufacturer who will
make "black kids of kind that will
not "rub off on everything" may not
| be knighted, but he will be blessed by
everybody.
The first woman admitted to prac-
tice law before the courts of California
was Mrs. Clara S. Foltz, who was ad-
| mitted to the bar of that State on Sep
| tember 5, 1878.
The first woman to act the part of
woman character on the stage was
| Margaret Swartz, who made her first
appearance in London on the night OF
! November 8, 1856.
A few courageous women have ap-
| peared carrying canes on the promen-
ade. OF course, it Is generally under
stood that these articles are more orna-
mental than useful.
The first woman elected Mayor of
nm American city was Mrs. Susanna
Mado-a Salter (nee Kinsey), of An
| gonia, Kan. Mrs. Salter was elected
in the spring of 1887.
Dickerson County, Virginia, has a
woman mail carrier. She is widow,
sixty years old, and covers her route
regularly and punctually in all wealth
ers, rendering the best of service.
Mrs. Frances Klock introduced a
bill in the Colorado Legislature pro-
yiding for an industrial school for
girls, and the general feeling seems to
be that she has struck in good time.
Mrs. Langtry declares herself so
much pleased with the United States
that she has determined to put her
| daughter Jeanne, who is now thirteen
years old, at school in New York City.
1t is now reported that since the
presentation of copy of the New
Testament to the Dowager Empress of
China, Christian Chinese woman has
been called to the royal palace to fill
the position of nurse.
Ex-Empress Eugene, who is now in
Paris and is showing herself more than
at any time since the death of the
Prince Imperial, was present ut the
dinner given by Princess Mathilde on
her seventy-ffth birthday.
Women have worn corsets from the
earliest times. The mummy of the
Egyptian Princess, who lived 200C
years b. c., was discovered in 1872,
and around the waist was contrivance
closely resembling the modern corset.
The quiet Swedes, who make capa
BILE servants, are now in such numbers
in Boston that an attempt is being
made to raise funds to finish the struo
ture, partly completed, designed for 9
Methodist Episcopal Swedes' Church
Miss Mary NJ. Haskell, of Minneap
oils, is about to exhibit her courage
and endurance by venturing alone OF
horseback, in her capacity as census
taker, into the wilds of Cass County
Minnesota, which is largely inhabited
by Indians.
Princess Nasle, of Egypt, one of tn
most intelligent and progressive wo
men in Europe, is constant lahore
for the advancement of her sex. Sh
is now arranging an exhibit of TIL
work of Egyptian women at the AT
lanta Exposition.
Miss Maria NJ. Love, of the Buffal
! IN. " w. G. Il. u, told the loca
, conference of charities and correc
! tons, few days ago. that if girl
! would learn to coook, sew and kee
, | bousa +idily thara wnuld ba uucb las