Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-08-12
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Scarlet is mourning color for un.
married women in Brazil.
Kansas has twenty-five newspapers
which are edited by women.
The Empress Elizabeth OF Russia
was one OF the stoutest women of her
time.
Mrs. Siddons was large, with very
striking features. and an air of great
personal dignity.
Eight ladies hold commissions as
colonels in the German army. They
are all queens or princesses.
Queen Victoria has signed but one
death warrant, and that was for an
execution in the Isle of Man.
The British matron is nettled by
Daudet's caustic observations on her
lack Of physical charms and of taste OF
dress.
Princess de Polignac, formerly Win
marietta Singer, daughter of the great
sewing machine man, is said to be tho
best amateur musician in Paris.
The Empress of Austria says she will
never wear anything but black here
after, and is distributing her court
dresses among her intimate friends.
A movement is on foot to erect
memorial to the late Christina Rosetti
in Christ Church, Woburn Square,
London, where she worshiped for
twenty years.
A number of girl students in tho
University of Michigan decided to
wear knickerbockers hereafter. They
expect that all the girls in the uni.
versity will follow their example.
Miss Carrie Liebig, who has just
been appointed division surgeon of
the Northern Pacific Railroad at Hope,
Idaho, is the first woman physician to
be appointed in the railway service.
A number of women are making a
good income in Philadelphia design
ing and drawing pictures for illustra.
ting the newspaper advertisements OF
the big retail mercantile advertise.
ments.
Tt is the suggestion of thrifty wo-
man that pieces of children's dresses
Of wash materials should be included
in several launderings to secure the
requisite change of color that will
make patches unnoticeable.
"Mme. La Presidente," as Nine.
Faure is called in Paris, is described as
the highest type of French womanly
character. She abhors scandal, disap.
proves of Irritation, loves her home
and frowns upon all risque tendencies
in Partisan society.
Miss Boswell, the only woman dele
gate in the Republican Convention at
Cleveland, is decidedly handsome,
though of delicate physique. She has
what is described as "warm colored"
hair, transparent complexion and ex.
pressive brown eyes.
The up-to-date ladies of the Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church in Tow
son, Nd, are raising money with
which to buy bicycle for the rector
of the church, which he is to use in
making pastoral visits md in attend
ing to other parish duties.
The college at Benzonia, Mich, is
thirty-two years old, but had its first
graduation this term. The scholar is
girl who took an eight years course,
carried off all the class honors because
she was the whole class, was, honored
with Pin. p, and is new woman.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, who has
been much talked of recently in Eng
land. is in private life Miss Minnie
Mackay, daughter of the late Charles
Mackay. Her first book, ga Romance
of Two Worlds" was published in
1886, when she was twenty-five years
old.
The old homestead of Jane Grey
Swisshelm in Swissvale, Penn. is the
Mecca of many visitors to Pittsburg.
Mrs. Swisshelm was the first woman
engaged to report Washington news
for daily newspaper. She was en-
ployed for that purpose by Horace
Greeley.
A woman angler, Miss E. T. Cros-
by, caught thirty-one trout, averag.
ing three-quarters of pound each,
in thirty minutes at Rangeley Lake,
Me-, q few days ago. She is noted in
that region for her skill with tho rod,
having earned the sobriquet of 'Fly
Rod" by her achievements.
1t is said that Queen Victoria has
had q chair constructed which will
support her in n standing position
while receiving visitors. The chair is
cunningly arranged, so that its form
is covered with regal draperies, and
report says it would deceive any one
who didn't know it was there.
Lady Randolph Churchill, formerly
Miss jerome of New York, widow Of
Lord Randolph Churchill, is now tc
be seen in Paris in the smartest cycling
version of mourning. 1t is added thai
she wears black alpaca suit edged
with black leather knickerbockers
concealed by short skirt and black
straw hat.
Suburban women may be seer
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