The free press., 1895-12-26
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For the first time in the history Of
Germany, woman has been invited
to take part in public discussion.
In Belgium, for the first time, Par.
lament has been asked to consider a
bid for woman's municipal enfran.
chisement.
An Areckaree Indian, Miss Dawson,
q graduate of Hampton University.
has been appointed Field Matron at
Fort Berthold. North Dakota.
The first bill introduced by woman
member of the Colorado Legislature to
raise the age of protection for girls to
twenty-one years was carried.
DR.. Hee King Eng is the first Chi
nese woman graduate of an American
college to practice in China, and the
second woman of her race to take an
Occidental medical degree.
A Chicago dry goods man estimates
that the women of that city spend over
100000 for big sleeves to their silk
dresses alone. The expenses of a we'll
armed Nation are always heavy.
Rhoda Broughton, the English nov.
elist, is lover of roses, and her little
old house in little old street in Ok
ford has walled garden overrun with
rose bushes and latticed vines.
The Vassar girl was home on va.
cation. Said her maiden aunt, (which
do you say at college. gymnaysium or
gymnawsium?" And the Vassar girl
answered, "We call it the gym
According to Philadelphia man
who saw Anna Gould and her husband
in Paris, the Count is ungallant
enough to Chamber into his carriage first
and leave his wife to follow unassisted.
Mrs. Kelley, the famous old English
actress, now within three months of
ninety, recently astonished London
audience by the force and pathos with
which she recited at charity enter
tainment.
Entertaining princes is a costly
honor, as the Duchess of Marlborough
found out the other week. Albert Ed
ward visited Deepdene for a three
days sojourn. 1t cost the Duchess
$4,000.
Mrs. Harriet Maxwell Converse,
born in Elmira and now resident OF
New York City. although of CaucaVian
ancestry, is chief and the custodian
and adviser of the Six Nations of New
York Indians.
The English novelist, Miss Alice
King, is an accomplished horsewoman,
and though totally blind since child.
hood, is entirely fearless and rides
over the widest country, SO far in
perfect security.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, is soon
to publish her experiences as an AL.
pine climber. The book will be is.
sued in sumptuous form, and will be
illustrated with pencil sketches made
by the Queen and said to be highly in.
teresting.
Woman has forced her way into the
orchestra seats of the Comedie
Franchise, which heretofore only man
could occupy. She must appear in full
dress, however, and bonnets and all
other forms of coverings for the head
must be left outside.
Princess Waldemar, wife of the
youngest brother of the Princess of
Wales, when a recent conhagration
broke out at Copenhagen borrowed a
fireman's helmet and tunic, mounted o
burning wall, and bravely assisted IN
putting out the flames.
Mary Anderson Navarro is said to
be inclining toward feshliness. 1t is
told of her that during her engage
ment in New York sho would eat q
"smothered Venus" (fried steak and
fried onions) at 3 o'clock in the after.
noon, shortly after her usual light
luncheon.
De Brazza's bride, who is to accom-.
pany him to Africa, is almost an Amer.
lean. Her father, the late Marquis de
Chambrum, was for years resident of
Washington as legal adviser of the
French Legation, and his daughter,
who was brought up there, has hosts
of friends at the American Capital.
Nine. Deschamps, who claimed to
have invented the preparation of
chopped vegetables called Julienne
soup, has lately died in Paris at the
age of ninety-four. she was the old
est of the Paris market women and re-
membered the entrance of the allied
troops after the battle of Waterloo.
Miss Mary Fl. Kingsley, niece of
Canon Kingsley, has penetrated to
some portions of the Cameroons
Mountain where no white explorer
has ever been before. Her only COM
panions are party of native Africans,
furnished from the nearest military
station of the German Government.
Helen Mathers wrote her novel,
"Comin' Thro' the Rye" in a bit of
pique. Her father, who was a strict
disciplinarian, denied her some cher
ished wish, and she paid him otf,by de-
picting the family martinez in her
book. She was greatly surprised
when her novel was accepted by the
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