The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-20
NEWS IND NOTES FOR WONEN.

fIaluS are growing III Iafcl. iHe
Rob Roy, Victoria and Gordon are
TIE best liked
Princess Helene, who recently mar
riel the Duke of Aosta, is al enthu-
siastic sportswomau.
Miss Emily Faithful during the lat
ter years of her life smoke cigarettes
necessarily for nervousness.
There are said to be 200 women in
New York City who 60 to Europe
twice year tc buy their dresses.
Labouchere, Ct London Truth, pro-
gressive in most matters, IS opposed
to the use Of the bicycle by women.
Twenty-threo per cent. Of the par
ticipatnts in the recent celebrations of
the Goethe Society in Germany were
women.
Florence, Italy, is rejoicing IN the
visitation OF party of fifty American
Young women who have settled ut San
Donate and 60 sketching in body.
Pupils in tho Chicago Art Institute
design lace handkerchiefs, buckles,
combs anal calendars, rs we'll MS wall
papers. rugs, iron lamps, tirep!&ces
and CRATES.
Blouse waists OF finely striped wash
ing silks, with turnover collars OF
lawn or white silk edged with lace, are
the coolest things possible and dainty
to look upon.
Laly Lytton. widow of the author
of 'Lucile." "who has just received an
appointment in the British royal
household, is said to be in quite re-
ducel circumstances.
The first American woman to occu-
DIV professors chair in coeduca-
tional institution was Helen G. Nor
gan, who was made Professor OF Latin
at Fisk University in 1862.
Paris may evolve another Marie
BaShkirtscff fever out Of tho sad cnse
of Motoysi Savian, young japanese
poet who has just died in poverty and
neglect in one ef her b ospitaLs.
Those who have seen her say the
Queen of Madagascar is the handsom-
est of crowned women. She dresses
in abominable taste, aud dresses her
sell selfoverlavishingly with jewels.
The first woman elected Mayor over
borough included within the domin-
ion of the British Empire was Mrs.
Yates, of Onehunsa, New Zealand.
She was elected in January, 1884.
Mother Mary Gcuzaga, who is said
to be the oldest sister Of charity in
the United States, celebrated the
sixty-ninth anniversary Of her initi-
alton into the order at Philadelphia
recently.
japanese women never discuss their
servants. To do so would be contrary
to japanese etiquette. They may talk
OF dress, the theatre, the music, and
the rest, but tribulations must not be
referred to.
The number of women studying at
the University Of Geneva is constantly
on the increase. This year 12S, or
twenty-five per cent. of all the stu
dents are women, most of them Rus
SLAMS or Poles.
Sir Henry Irving says that English
women are singularly undemonstra-
tive. Although women admire him
greatly and often form the larger part
Of his audiences, he gets his applause
almost entirely from the men.
Amelia Sternecker has invented q
fender for trolley cars which will be
given trial by the San Francisco
electric railways. She is butseventeen
years of age, but has had passion
Tor machinery since her early child
hood.
Mile. Mario La'argue, who ha'
scored such brilliant operate sue
cess in London, was discovered in the
Basque provinces by Comtcssc dc N
Rochefoucanld. who sent her to the
Paris Conservatory, where she won
the first prize.
Long as she has been M English
woman, the Princess Of Wales has
never quite mastered the English nc
cent. She cannot manage the letter
"r," and "channel' she pronources
"shaunel," besides other little foreign
peculiarities
The earrings worn by Italian women
indicate the part of Italy tie wearers
come from; the longer the earrings
the further south the women come
from. In the extreme south most OF
the earrings hang close to the shout
ders; in the fur north they are quite
short
A prize of fifty gold dollars, offered
by the philosophy and science depart
meut of the Chicago Wome2's Club
for original investigation by women
students in the University Of Chicago,
has not been awarded this year, the
work submitted being not up to the
required standard.
Miss Ramsey. the yonng lady who
has gained first class in the moral
sciences triposat Cambridge, England,
is a cousin to Mrs. MontaSu Butler,
the wife of the Master Of Trinity, Il
lady who in 1887 took higher honor'
in classics than any male student
achieved iii her year.
IN the cities OF Japan there is a