The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-11
stick and fastening them there that spoils
most umbrellas

stick and fastening them there that spoils
most umbrellas.
When you buttonhole scallops In your
embroidery hold the concave edge towards
you, and instead Of knotting your thread,
which may cause trouble later. take a
few running stitches to start the thread.
Always put through the eye of the needle
first the end Of the thread which comes
off the spool, and the thread will be less
apt to knot and snarl.
II any part of the body is heated more
than the rest by overdressing 1t or any
other cause an undue flow of blood sets
in toward the part. often resulting in
chronic Inflammation. A fatal case of
kidney disease once developed by work.
ing at desk with the back near heated
stove. Similar effects are produced by
having one part of the body more warm
ly clothed than the rest.
Table-cloths and napkins should not be
hemmed until they have first been shrunk-
en-; but before the shrinking process each
one should be made into its proper length.
If this Is done they will always fold evenly
when ironed, which is not the case If made
up without shrinking, or If shrunken in
the piece and then made into proper
lengths.
An English way to cover flower-pots is
to paste the narrow ends of the tissue
paper sheet together and cut 1t of the
right height, making the top edge tulip
pointed. Crlmp the paper together the
same way, as the lamp shade; this will
bring 1t about the right size to fit an or
)dnary fiower-pot. Finish with rib
bon of the same shade.
ABOUT NOTED WOMEN:
Russia has five female astronomers who
have submitted papers to the Academy Of
Science.
Mrs. Samuel Crawbaugh, of Cleveland,
O., Is tho first woman In Ohio to register
as qualified voter.
A fashionable dress designer In the west
end of London is computed to make on an
average between $25,OO0 and $4,000 year.
Having saved up 100000 crowns since 1890,
the women of Norway are going to pre-
sent their government with torpedo
boat.
Mrs. Glider. wife of the editor of the
Century Magazine, never pays calls. She
entertains a great deal and she says she
would be killed If she had to make formal
calls
Kate Field says she thinks that Worth
made her the only dress that he ever made
of American meterial. 1t was American
satin, and it took coaxing to get him to
touch 1t.
Mrs. Frances Klock, of the Colorado leg
islature, has introduced bill in the house
providing for an industrial school for
girls and appropriatng $4,000 for its es-
tablishment and maintenance,
An old woman who plays a hand organ
on Denver streets has been found to be
worth over 100000 and to earn as high as
s25 a day. Last year she hired a crying
child to hold in her lap for 50 a week.
Mrs. w. B. Brown, of Washington. N
c., has given to the state council Of
Kings Daughters beautiful home, which
is to be used as a home for imbecie chill
dren. The legislature of the state will be
asked to make appropriations for its sup
port.
The Princess StrozZi was sentenced at
Bologna to twelve days Imprisonment for
theft. She was employed as a chamber
maid in a hotel and yielded to tempta-
tion to relieve her parents necessities.
The Strozzi family is a younger branch of
the famous house of that name.
Woman in marble has frequently been
lifted high in the air as figuring liberty or
justice, but in San Francisco the colossal
figure of Progress. for the dome of the city
hall, is a winged female figure 221a feet
high and holding aloft a torch At night
this torch will be brilliantly illuminated
and, as the statue is over 800 above the
ground, it makes a beacon light of Prog
ress.
Miss Bird, the traveller, has stated that
Japan. of course in time of peace, spends
twice as much upon the elementary
schools as upon the navy, while Great
Britain spends more than twice as much
upon her navy as upon her elementary
schools. Herbert Lewis, NJ. p in quot
ing this statement, remarked that the ex-
traordinary progress of Japan in both di-
rections might we'll give us cause for re-
Election.
A very picturesque view of cookery is
given by Ruskin when he says: Cookery
means the knowledge of Medea and of
Circe and of Helen and of Rebekah and of
the Queen of Sheba. 1t means the knowl-
edge of all herbs and fruits and balms and
spices. and of all that is healing and sweet
in fields and groves and savory in meats
1t means carefuness and inventiveness
and Willingness and readiness of appli-
ance. 1t means the economy of your
grandmothers and the science of the mod
ern chemist; 1t means much testing and
no wasting; it means English thorough
mesa and French art and Arabian his
pitality; and. in fine it maens that you are
to be perfectly and always ladies'-loaf-
givers.'
Women have painted battle pictures and
they have written battle hymns, but not
until now has any American woman sculp-
tured a fighting commander "Theo.
RuSgles-Kitson," says the Boston Tran
script, has been commissioned to make
for the city of Providence bronze statue,
feet and inches high, of Esek Hopkins,
the first admiral of the American navy.
and native of Rhode Island. 1t is per-
haps one of the most conspicuous in
stances in this country of the selection of
g. woman as the sculptor of heroic figure.
Her sketch model won the instant liking
of the commissioners and of the Hopkins
descedants. Coming from the hand of a
delicate woman, the model is strangely
strong and forcefu simple and temperate.
and altogether satisfactory Admiral Hop
kins In the clay sketch is represented as
giving command from his quarterback
and pointing a long marine glass toward
the enemy. 1t has good deal of the kind
of spirit which has made the Concord
Minute Man famous"
THE WOMEN M I'D DANf,C