The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1895-04-20
or Interest to Women.

sou, a Girton girl remarked not long
ago that the woman ques ion would
easily be- solved il we could only
have three generations Of single
women.
Ladies who kiss their pet dogs are
varied by no less an authority than
DR.. Meguin, Of the Paris Academy
OF Science, that the little bessts are
one OF the great agencies III spread
ing disease, especially consumption.
Theodore Thomas, the orchestra
director, will celebrate his golden
jubilee in July. He was born in
Hanover sixty years ago and came
to America lad OF 10. He played
in New York while q youugster As a
kind OF Juvenile prodigy.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor may be-
said to have the athletic fever. She
rides horses-this probably being
her favorlte sport. Then she rides
the bicycle, going often when home
for morning .piu over the fine
roads of the park.
A story recently told about Queen
Victoria's wedding is rather a pretty
one. IL wish to he married as a
woman, not as a queen" she said
when asked by the Archbishop OF
Canterbury il she wished hun to
leave the word obey" out Of the
ceremony.
Mrs. Theodore Havemeyer, wife OF
the wealthy sugar king, is a queen
| OF extravaganza. She is fond OF
flowers. She buys lsvishly and has
spent as much as 5000 for a great
basket OF orchids. She also shows
great ingenuity in devising schemes
for spending money.
Some Of the eastern papers have
already begun to call him Speaker
Reed" In an interview the other
day the busy Maine man expressed
the opinion that should the United
States Supre me Court declare the in
come tax law TO be unconstitutional
an extra session Of congress would
probably result.
The Countess de Castellane, when
she was Miss Anna Gould. at oue
time attended the fashionable ladies'
school at Ogontz, near Philadelphia,
and was so noted for her pranks and
violation OF the rules that only her
"pull" saved her from expulsion.
Among her many misdeeds, she had
q marked partiality for dirtatiou
through the fence rails with the
youths who attended the military
academy at Chel,enham,
Take, snys Henry Norman, tn.
light from the eyes OF a Sister Of
Mercy at her gracious task, tn.
smile OF maiden looking over the
seas for h'S lover and the heart Of
an unspoiled child and materialize
them into a winsom8 and healthy
little body, crowned with mass OF
jet black hair and dressed in bright,
rustiing alks--you would have the
typical Japanese woman. A some
what enthusiastic estimate, borne
out by others.
Gertrude Franklin Atherton, the
author, lives modestly in Fifty. mint b
street with Der maid, says a New
York paper. She is in the neighbor-
hood OF her thirtieth year and is a
widow. She is beautiful, with the
plump face and slender figure Of a
schoolgirl. Having made her own
way with two books, having meaus
OF her own to live upon aud owing
nothing to the machinery by which
so many ieebleT lights gather oil Tor
their wicks, she has not attached
herself to any OF the 40, called lite,
rary coteries in town aud is not to
be seen on exhibition in any OF their
parlors.
A new employment which requires
skill and cleverness rather than
means is the dressing OF fashion
dolls for store windows, the idea
having developed rapidly since the
exhibit OF historic French dolls At
the Chicago fair. A woman with
real taste in dress can thus find
scope for her talent in designing
pretty costumes for little figures
which must be just as chic in every
detail as the full sized ones. They
please the eye and are a great help
in selling goods, laces and dres,
trimmings, so that proprietors are
glad to make them a feature Of al
new displays. The models are about
Is inches high, representing the
latest fashions accurately. Another
profitable way Of making q living il
renting furnished rooms, provided
the house aud furniture are moi
wanting. When the house is in I