The free press., 1895-09-26
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John Jacob AStOr has bestowed
81, 900, 900 piece of jewelry on his
wife.
Lady Carnarvon lavishly decorates
herself with jewelry, of which she has
great deal.
Mrs. Faurc, wife of the President OF
France, is opposed to the use OF bloom
ers by women.
Archduchess Stephanie, of Austria,
is reported to be the best dressed Wo-
man in Europe.
At wheelmen's ball in Chicago sew
eral women danced in boomers and
knickerbockers.
The st. Louis priests and preachers
are trying to start crusade against
the bicycle bloomers.
Marguerite Arlina Hamm declares
that women employed as servants
should wear boomers.
Ella Ewing, of Prince, Mo-, is said
to be eight feet two inches IN height
and weighs 200 pounds.
Queen Victoria is quoted as saying
that all children should wear sashes,
as she did when she was girl.
Miss Llewelyn Davies, the leader of
the women suffragists of Great Britain,
is q remarkably handsome woman.
Those who ought to know say that
the Crown Princess of Roumania is the
handsomest sprig of royalty IN Europe.
A favorite diversion of Baroness
Marie EIDE Won Ameline is the killing
of tigers. -Four have met death at her
hands.
Ex-Empress Eugene has in her pos
session forty portraits of herself. the
work of some of the best known artists
of Europe.
Among the employees of the Treas
ury Department Mt Washington is
Mrs. Wilcox, grandniece of Presi.
dent Andrew Jackson.
Several towns in Russia have elected
women as mayors, on the ground that
they are best fitted to be intrusted
with the interests of the community.
The Countess of Dudley is the only
countess in England who can claim the
distinction of having been bona fide
shop girl before she assumed the title.
Nine. CasimirP Perier, wife of
Frances President, has organized
crusade against the use of birds
breasts and wings for decorative pur-
poses.
Miss Adelaide Hasse, the new chief
of the Department of Government
Documents of the Agricultural
Bureau, is an expert fencer and BIZ
cyclist.
Mrs. Stewart, widow of the late
Sheriff OF Greene County, Missouri,
has been appointed to succeed her
husband until new Sheriff can be
elected.
Mrs. E. M. Watson has an april
cot ranch in California, managed en-
tirely by herself and employing 800
people, and Mrs. Harriet Strong has
an English walnut ranch, $40 acres in
extent.
Miss Virginia Fair, daughter of the
California money king, is an expert
ventriloquist and often amuses her
friends by playing pranks similar to
those in which Valentine Vox in
dulged.
There is'a peculiar process Of spe-
cialization always going on in popu-
lar things Thus discussion OF the
bicycle has ceased, and everybody is
taken up with the boomers, q mere
accessory.
A prize of 50 worth of ice cream
tickets for the first woman who will
ride bicycle, in bloomer costume,
around the public square in the even
ing is offered by the Times, OF Clay
Center, Kan.
The degree of LID has been con-
ferred upon Alice Freeman Palmer by
the faculty of Union College Mrs.
Palmer was formerly President of
Wellesley College and more recently
dean in the Chicago University.
Rev. Ella G. Thorp married acouple
in Wichita, Kan, June 20. The affair
attracted considerable attention, rs it
was supposed to be the first instance
where a woman has performed the
marriage ceremony in that State.
A leading jeweler in the West End
of London asserts that earrings are
slowly but surely coming into vogue
once more, and that the revival prog
nosticates change in the style of
headdress in the arrangement OF the
hair.
In the latest bicycling costumes in
Paris the Zouave knickerbockers are
made much less full than formerly,
and now skirts are seldom worn 1t
is said that women in cycling dress
are frequently to be seen in the boulo-
ward cafes.
Miss Emma Kinkle, of Woodville,
Oregon, met and killed fair sized
bear while out alone with n gun re-
Gently. She is a good shot, and has
stalked and killed several deers, but
never went hunting for bear. She
wasn't hunting this one.