Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-12-09
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A Chicago girl announces that she
will skate in boomers this winter.
A Minnesota girl has started
school of agriculture to teach girls
farming.
Worth once told Mrs. Langtry that
the Americans were the best dressed
women in the world.
Rosa Bonheur at seventy-three is
painting large picture representing
q fight between two stations.
The widow of Ex-Governor Chase, of
Indiana, has been presented with
handsome residence in Wabash.
They say that the Queen of England
has been painting Emperor Williams
portrait, and is going to present it to
him.
An American photographer paid
Mrs. Langtry $500 for the privilege
of taking her photograph. Nine.
Patti received $1,000.
Mrs. Lamont, wife of the Secretary
of War, is an expert landscape photog-
rapher, and has taken many fine views
of American scenery.
According to the Lewiston journal,
Annie Louise CaryRaymond has sung
$500 into the treasures of poor little
Maine churches during the past sum-
mer.
Miss Laura Clay, daughter of Cas-
sius M. Clay, of Kentucky, addressed
tho South Carolina Constitutional
Convention in favor of women's suff-
rage.
Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, of Bos-
ton, IS one of the few prominent wo-
man sculptors of America. Her work
was we'll known in Paris before she was
twenty.
A number of Baltimore ladies have
for the erection of a monument to
Henry Bergh, the apostle of gentle
ness to animals.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the
musician, is tall and slight, with fair
complexion, gray eyes and brown hair.
She is Vermonter by birth and is
quite musical critic.
The servants in school for girls in
Connecticut, while cleaning up the
rooms after the school closed, dis
covered 3678 wads of chewing gum
stuck about in various places.
Lady Haberton, inventor of the di-
vided skirt, is said to have new fad.
She contends that female servants
should wear knickerbockers, as such
costumes facilitate movements.
Princess de Polignac, daughter of
the late Isaac Singer, the sewing ma
chine inventor, is named as among the
several bright writers on social and
political topics in the Paris Figaro.
The Frankfurter zeitung says that
Finland, a dependency Of Russia,
boasts several fire engine companies
composed entirely of women, and that
these have already won glory at sew
eral great conhagrations.
A. farmers wife in Delaware has SO
cunning fashion of her own for can
ming whole tomatoes that Philadel-
phia concern contracted with her for
all she could put up this season, pay
ing her $1,000 for the job.
The Bishop of Carlisle boasts that
he "can sew button on better than
any woman" The late Bishop OF
Worcester learned to knit, so as to be
able to take up his wife's dropped
stitches when she grew old.
The close friendship between Queen
Victoria and ex-Empress Eugene, of
France, continues undiminished.
Eugene has taken up her residence at
the castle of Abergeldie, which has
been placed at her disposal by the
Queen.
Princess Pauline Metternich, niece
of the famous Ambassador to Paris
and the more famous Princess Pauline,
his wife, has just made her first ap-
pearance as violinist at charity
concert at Marienbad. She is only
fifteen years old.
Lady Spencer Clifford, of England,
has passed with first honors the ex-
animation for IL sea captains license,
her purpose being to qualify as cap
tain of her own yacht. However, if
she SO desires, she can now serve as
master of any ship Oh the high sea.
The Velo makes announcement of
an important tricycle. race shortly to
be held in the velodrome at Lyons,
France, between Baronesse Emma Won
Sattender and Miss Amy Ever. The
victorious maiden will win the hand
of German millionaire, Albert
Meller.
Mrs. Julia J. Irvine, who is the sue.
cessor of the widely mourned Helen
Shafer as President of Wellesley Col.
lege, is graduate of Cornell. took
special course at Leipsic and at an in.
tercollegiate contest in Greek, in her
student days, took the prize over sixty
students.
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