The free press., 1895-08-15
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Scarlet is mourning color ioi Ill
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 on air OF great
personal dignity.
Eight ladies hold commissions as
colonels in the German army. Ihey
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 the
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 q
memorial to the late Christina Rosetti
in Christ Church, Woburn Square,
London, where she worshiped for
twenty years.
A number of girl students in the
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 a 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 q
good income in Philadelphia design
ing and drawing pictures for illustra-
ting the newspaper advertisements OF
the big retail mercantile ADVERTISE
ments.
1t is the suggestion of thrifty wo-
maa 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 rs
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 a bicycle for the rector
of the church, which he is to use IN
making pastoral visits and in attend
ing to other parish duties.
r The college at Benzonia, Mich, il
thirty-two years old, but had its first
graduation this term. The scholar is
a girl who took an eight years course,
carried off all the class honors because
she was the whole class, was honore(
with PHI. p, and is new woman.
Marie Corelli, the novelist, who la;
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 Romano,
of Two Worlds" was published il
1886, when she was twenty-five year
old.
The old homestead of Jane Gre,
Swisshelm in Swissvale, Penn, is tn,
Mecca of many visitors to Pittsburg
Mrs. Swisshelm was the first woman
engaged to report Washington new
for daily newspaper. She was EN-
ployed for that purpose by Horac
Greeley.
A woman angler, Miss e. T. Cros
by, caught thirty-one trout, averag
ing three-quarters of pound each
III UulTby IuluuttS w ltuuSclCy hdhc
Me-, few days ago. She is noted il
that region for her skill with the rod
having earned the sobriquet of "Fl.
Rod" by her achievements.
1t is said that Queen Victoria ha
had a chair constructed which vii
support her in standing position
while receiving visitors. The chair i
cunningly arranged, so that its form
is covered with regal draperies, an
report says it would deceive any on
who didn't know it was there.
Lady Randolph Churchill, formerl
Miss Jerome of New York, widow O
Lord Randolph Churchill, is now t
be seen in Paris in the smartest cyclin
version of mourning. 1t is added tina
she wears black alpaca suit edge
with black leather knickerbockers
concealed by short skirt and blacl
straw hat.
Suburban women may be see
boarding the trains these days for