Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-01
Ecu,injup Notes.

Mrs. Gladstone is a very fne organist and
still plays occasionally at chapel worship.
A newcomer in the pulpit Is Rev. Ellen A..
Copp OF Hlllsdale, Mich. In addition to her
theological attachments she is also a graduate
in science and collegiate learning,
Miss Agnes +. Watson Of Pittsburg. Pa,
has been admitted to the bar after a very
honorable examination. She is the first
woman who has achieved her position In that
part Of the Keystone state.
1t is said that %, 900 copies Of Marie Cor
ellis new book. THE Sorrows Of SATAN
were sold before the book was published.
Miss Corelli enjoys tine reputation of being
a favorite author Of Queen Victoria.
When Mrs. Leland Stanford was Miss
Lathrop she was a great favorite in Albany,
where she resided. Her father kept a big
store. and he gave his clever daughter the
best advantages that were obtainable in those
days.
1t is said that oulda leads a most retired
life at her handsome villa near Vallebuia,
Italy. She receives no guests and is fond of
walking about the country where she lives.
Her companions upon these walks are a half
dozen dogs.
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson is a southern
beauty with a stately figure, easy carriage,
blue eyes, brilliant color and golden hair.
She is not square shouldered. neither has she
a broad, low brow. She Is a lot prettier than
Mr.. Gibson's paper women.
Miss Edith okey is a successful veterinary
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from the Veterinary college at Toronto. Can
| ada, and was the first woman to obtain a di-
ploma in that institution. She makes the
fifth of her profession in the United States.
The women of Lexington, Ky, had the OPP
portunity to vote for the first time at the
recent school elections. They signal!zed the
occasion by breaking up a corrupt ring which
had long governed the schools and by electing
an entire reform ticket of four men and four
women. The women on the ticket ran far
ahead of their colleagues.
Mrs. Wette. Humperdinck's sister, wrote
the libretto for his "Hansel and G%retel," and
there is truly a brotherly and sisterly spirit
Of mutual playfulness in the gingerbread
opera as the foreign papers call it. 1t is
the "sheer childishness'' of the whole thing
which delights and meets half way the
grow up childishness in us ALL" according
to one New York critic.
Miss Louise Stockton is well known in lit
erary circles, not only because she is the
sister of "Rudder Oranges" author, but for
her own work in current periodicals. Among
her intimate friends Miss Stockton is always
called Lulu and is admired with a sort of
wonder by those who remember her delicate
health in girlhood and see what she has been
enabled to accomplish since then. Her first
essay in the field of literature was in the
form OF a tract.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the poetess,
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blue-eyed girl, delicate as a wild rose, elusive
az thistledown.'' Miss wilkins is a great ad-
mirer OF Miss Quincy, counting her and Miss
Alice Brown as the most talented and prom
Using of the New England poets. Mss Quincy
has both Irish and French blood in her
veins. the former showing its pathos and wit
in the familiar Irish peasant song which Will
liam Black has paid the tribute of quoting In
Highland Cousins"
Societies for the higher culture of women
are not only growing daily more numerous
in st. Petersburg, but they ere rapidly
spreading throughout Russia, and the i'm
%rortance of the movement can hardly be
overestimated. The sudden impetus is due
to the influence of the young empress, who
is known to have the welfare Of her female
subjects intensely at heart. 1t is her i'm
perIai majesty's conviction that most, II
not all, the great reforms which have taken
place in the world have been brought about,
if only indirectly, by women's opinions and
persuasions.