Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-03

fore each guest.
At Reading, Penn, seventeen school
mattresses are to have authority to
arrest disturbers.
A deaconess hospital in connection
with the Church of Scotland has been
opened at Edinburgh.
The Johns Hopkins University of
Baltimore, Nd, allows female students
only in its medical school.
The hennins, or huge headdresses,
worn by the ladies of Paris during the
fourteenth century, often cost as much
as $40.
There is noteworthy preponder.
ance of females in Sweden. The latest
statistics show 14S, ,669 more females
than males.
The Governors of Westmeath Asy-
lum, Ireland, have appointed woman
doctor to the medical charge of the fe.
male lunatics.
Women are employed to tend rail-
road switches in Holland. They do
not fall asleep at the switch, and do
not get drunk.
Talented young women find con-
tinually expanding field for work in
designing pictures for the newspapers
and magazines.
Harvard refused to meet Boston
University in debate until the latter
cut out woman who had been chosen
as one of its champions.
The Countess of WharncliGe cut the
first sod in England for the extension
of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lin
colnshire Railway to London.
A Philadelphia woman, recently de-
ceased, whose will is now being con.
! tested, made provision that she should
| be buried in her seal skin sacque.
Miss Mary McCulloch, daughter of
Hugh McCulloch, the famous financier
and ex-Secretary of the United States
Treasury, has started on tour around
the world.
The Duchess of York has become
General President of the South Lanca-
shire Needlework Guild. The majority
of the associates are pit and factory
glrls, domestic servants and farm
help.
Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner is said
to be the best amateur musician In
New England. Most of the able mu.
sical criticisms so prominent through.
out Mr.. Warmers writings are due to
her influence.
1t is curious how many women named
emma" have become famous in the
musical world. There are Em ma
Eames, Emma Caive, Emma Nevada
and Emma Abbott, all of whom were
or are queens of song.
Miss Florence Nightingale, who is
enjoying excellent health at seventy.
four, is in very comfortable circum.
stances. Besides her private income
she has $250,0 publicly subscribed
for her at the close of the Crimean
war. .
"Gyp," the French writer of sensa.
tional novels, Is Nine. de Martie. She
is forty-four years old, was born in
Brittany, and is greatniece of Mira.
beau. She married at nineteen, and
her eldest child, boy, is twenty years
of age.
The cynical Detroit Free Press re.
marks that a woman may love q man
for what he does for her, and the
cynical Atchison Globe remarks that
after O woman marries she doesn't see
the point of her husbands Jokes as
quickly as she used.
There is business woman in New
York who lives in daily fear of failing
in business. She has put away thou
sand dollars in her tea-caddy. This
is to purchase chickens for the nucleus
of stock farm if business manipula-
tions turn out wrong.
Nobody will accuse the artistic girl
of turning her boudoir into an apothe.
cary shop. Still, it is fact that the
cunning creature is supplying her den
with mysteriously beautiful light ut
night by placing globes of colored
water in front of lighted candles
placed on corner brackets.
A woman jeweler and engraver, who
sits in window in Sixth avenue, New
York City, busily engrossed with her
work, attracts the attention of the
passers-by. 1t is wonder more
women do not learn these trades, as
their nimble fingers would seem to fit
them peculiarly for the work. A
pleasant and lucrative employment il
is said to be.
Rev. DR.. Phebe Hanaford, the we'll.
, known Universalist clergyman, enjoys
the rare distinction of having been the
first woman chaplain to preside over
a body of legislators. This experience
was hers in the years TO and TO al
New Haven, Conn. For such services
she received the stipulated pay giver
men Tor like Offices and was presented
with check on pay day as were the
lawmakers. 1t is an honor not often
conferred upon women to-dNy.