The free press., 1895-10-31
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Women letter-carriers may be seen
in parts of France.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has
large collection of dolls.
Books on social etiquette continue
10 multiply year by year.
Women act as stationmasters on
some of the Austrian railways.
Many society women are quoted as
suffering from tea intemperance.
Governesses able to cycle will soon
be in demand in Paris, such is the rage
for cycling among girls.
Several of the New York hospitals
have been presented with ambulances
by Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt.
At the age of fourteen years Anna
Dickinson, the lecturer, was con-
tributor to leading periodicals.
Mrs. Temple, wife of the Bishop of
London. acts as his private secretary.
She is an expert shorthand writer.
A Vermont man cured his wife of
the new woman fad by clothing every
on the premises with a pair of bloom
ers.
Americans are the only women in
the world who do not by their dress
indicate whether they are married or
single.
Yachting is the only form of ath-
tetics in which the Princess Of Wales
indulges. She disproves of bicycling
for women.
Mrs. Richard King, one of the larg-
est land owners in this country, holds
title to an entire Congressional Dis
trict in Texas.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely fails to attend
the regular church services and is
rcrupulously exact in being present on
Rll special days.
One result of the Tory victory in
the British elections is the loss of
strength in the Commons by the advo-
Gates of woman's suffrage.
Queen Victoria saves her dining
room carpet at Balmoral by covering
the space around the table with strips
of drugget that will wash.
Queen Victoria is great tea drink
er, and is so particular about her fav-
orite beverage that, when away from
home, she always makes it herself.
Mrs. Thomas G. Platt. wife of the
political leader, and owner of sue
cessful orange grove in Florida, is the
inventor of an improved packing case
for oranges.
The Police Comm issioners of New
York City have issued an order de.
claring that women who ride horse
astride in the public parks shall not
be interfered with.
A famous tiger huntress is the Bar
oness Marie EIDE Won Ameline, who
killed with her own hand the four
beasts whose claws she invariably
wears around her neck.
Mrs. Peter White, who had charge
of the Irish village at the Worlds
Fair, agreed to read paper on the
progress of Irish industry for women
at the Atlanta Exposition.
Fraulein Won Gotze, daughter of
the General commanding the Seventh
Prussian Army Corps, has been deco
rated for saving servant girl from
drowning at the risk OF her own life.
There are twenty-five ladies acting
as certified sanitary inspectors in Eng
land, and it is noticeable that the dis
tricts they control are in better order
than Others in which men do the in.
specting.
Queen Victoria is said to attribute
her general good health to the fact
that she has never been victim of in
somnia. She always eats light sup
per before retiring, and sleeps soundly
for seven hours.
1t will surprise many people to learn
that Rose Hartwick Thorpe, author of
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" is
only forty-tive years of age. She wrote
the poem that made her famous when
only sixteen years old.
Seven hundred and eleven female
missionaries are at work in India.
During the last two years these visit.
ed 4O,513 heather families, and il.
structed 62, 415 heathen girls in the
different mission schools.
An English lady-Mrs. Plumtre-
has Just finished dictionary for the
blind at Braille. 1t has been great
undertaking and has occupied her
nearly two and half years, working
at it four, five and often six hours a
day.
Tulare, CAL, boasts of woman en-.
gineer who has charge OF the great en-
g1ne in one of the largest lumber mills
near there. She is not obliged to call
apon d man when the machine is out
of order, as she is fully able to repair
1t herself.