Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-03-04
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Sheridan has recently made her debut
in Washington.
Box-naifing contests for women are
the newest entertainment at Massa-
chusetts church fairs.
OF the women in the professions
there are 25o0 doctors, 275 preachers 8,
and an increasing number of lawyers.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, having
reached the age of seventy-three
years, is to retire from the lecture
platform.
Miss Rhoda Broughton, the novel
ist, has been described as fa snippy
lady with girlish figure and fond.
ness for tea"
Paris has only one apothecary shop
controlled by woman, while Brussels
has five. London had 1340 female
chemists in 1891.
In Eastern Bengal, near the Kasia.
hills, a will cannot be made in favor
of man, and property only descends
through the woman.
There are twenty-four women TAX.
ing the graduate course at Yale this
year. Among them is one from Rad.
cliffe College.
There is craze for red and black
plaids, or perhaps they should be
called checks, as they are not in any
degree related to the clan plaids.
West Virginia has q girl hunter
whose aim is death to bears. She has a
record of seven large animals of the
bruin family during the past year.
Hannah Adams was the first woman
in America to publish book over her
own name. 1t was called "a Review
of Religions" and came out in 1884.
A public library recently presented
to the city of Galena, ILL.,, carries
with it the very modern condition
that four of its nine Trustees shall be
| women.
Nobody ever tries to whisper in the
presence of Queen Victoria. 1t would
only be in bad taste, but useless. The
old lady's ears are supernaturally
sharp.
The coming summer bonnet is to be
| small, fiat affair, worn well back on
the head, similar to the extreme even.
ing bonnet occasionally seen at the
theatre.
A new purse is made of>woven gold
threads, made small at the top by q
patent gold spring, and finished with
q gold knob set with jewels or holding
o tiny watch.
At the dances of one of tho wealth.
lest hostesses in London printed cards
are hung on the walls with these words
engraved on them, ''No introductions
are needed"
Miss Isabel Darlington, daughter of
the late Congressman Darlington, OF
Pennsylvania, has an elegantly fur.
nished Office and q growing medical
practice at West Chester.
Miss Ellen Dortch has been ap-
pointed Assistant State Librarian of
Georgia. She is newspaper fel.
low," and her appointment is warmly
commended by the Georgia press.
Miss Volatirine de Cleyre, of Phila.
delphia, is the leading feminine ex-
ponent of anarchy in the New World.
She is personally attractive, moves in
good society and has cultured home.
Miss Cora Bepneson, graduate of
the Michigan University law school,
who has been already admitted to
practice in Illinois and Michigan, has
been admitted to the bar in Massa.
chusetts.
Ex-Empress Eugene is said to be
the most begged woman in Europe.
The big postbag, which arrives weekly
at her residence, is stuffed with ap-
peals from France, and mostly in the
oame of religion.
The Grand Duchess of Baden has the
reputation of knowing enough about
cookery to keep her three chefs up to
tho mark, and as consequence the
best of all the royal tables of Europe
Is said to be found at the court of
Baden.
Beatrice Harraden thinks the wo-
men of the United States have few
things to complain of, and she admires
their frankness, honesty, cleverness
and lack of saffectation. She particu-
iarly ''likes the way American girls
behave about men,"
The Grand Duchess Vera Constan-
tinova, OF Wurtemburg, enjoys the
exclusive distinction among European
princely houses OF having twin daugh-
tors. Her children, the Duchosses
Elsa and Olga, are nearly nineteen,
and are charming, wholesome young
women.
Miss Helen Gould is not one of the
women who find only picturesque
charity attractive. With the check
that goes yearly to the Babies Shell.
ter of the Church of the Holy Com
munlon goes, too, the condition
"ReserVe the cots for the two most
uninteresting babies"
To clean jet bonnets and jet trim
mlngs use piece of black velvet or
bit of plush to rub lightly over the
dusty beads, and rhinestone buckles
and ornaments can as well be cleaned
by this means, while feather trimmed