The free press., 1895-07-18
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| The Bishop or LOuuOu uuS JOiANe
the ranks of the women sutfraglsts.
Transparencies of lace are let into
many of the skirts with very good
effect.
/ Our modern housemaid insists upon
| large bow instead of cap on ner
head.
Philadelphia hotels have abandoned
the rule against the entertainment Oh
women unaccompanied.
Twenty-one neighboring farm
houses in North Paris, Me-. have sent
out twenty-four schoolmarms.
The Princess of Wales adorns her
+ bondoir with curious patter ms OF
skates of all countries and ages
It isn't called "women's rights" or
"women's suffrage" any more. 1t is
equal rights" in the new pariance'
MANY women wear the hair comoed
! down over the ears and waved out at
the side like the old style OF forty years
ago.
There are said to be over 1000 women
in New York who, in ono way or an
other. make their living by their
pens.
Louis Imogen Quincy, the New
England postmistress-poet, has start
ed on a walking trip through Eng
land.
The first woman to apply for and
Get place on police force was MISS
Edith Walker of Bogota, Colombia, III
1894.
It is said that the ex-Queen Isabella
of Spain is the godmother OF more
children than any other woman in the
world.
The first paper devoted to woman
suffrage ever published was the ona'
edited by Mrs. Paulina Davis, OF Prov
idence, r. l.
Dona Manuella Palido, the first and
only woman lawyer in Spain, opened
an Office in tho Spanish capital in
February, 1894.
A woman drummer, representing n
Boston (Mass) wholesale drug house,
has invaded kentucky, and is taking
in the larger towns.
The first European women to marry
native of Burmah was Miss Mabel
Coserove, who married Chan-Toon, OF
Rangoon, in January, 1894.
The Misses Brice, daughters OF SEN
ator Brice, of Ohio, will make bicycle
and kodak tour of the rural districts
of France during the summer.
Pompadour silks and those with
chine grounds in soft colors OF blue,
beige or fawn color are much used
for rich, dressy blouse waists.
Vienna has q society--the Gisela
Verein-which raises funds for young
girls to enable them to marry. Last
year sixty-six were provided for.
Over 10000 women are attending
colleges in America, yet it is only
twenty-five years since the first col
lege in the land was opened to women.
The Princess Maud of Wales is a
bicyclist. but does not rush into
bloomers. She wears a neat and mod
est costume, with a riding-habit skirt.
Many of the new imported model
trimmed hats are veritable "dream." "
Such lovely flowers can only be an i'm
itatlon of those growing in Paradise.
Cherry wood handles are the fashion
in some of the newest umbrellas
There is not as much real or imitation
silver used in ornamention as hereto
fore.
Skirts in Paris havc more godets
than ever, and they are very much
wider than skirts worn over here,
Everything is trimmed with "choux"
and flowers.
Fashionable women i'll London arc
wearing wide ribbon around the neck
to hang down on either side nearly to
the edge of the skirt. 1t has the ef-
feet of priests stole.
Miss Lilly Marshal, an English girl,
is the inventor of the fine iridescent
effects in brass work which have at,
tracted so much attention. She has
studio in New York City.
The death of Mrs. Henry c. Lewis,
of Coldwater, Mich, leaves the art
collection possessed by her late hus-
band, valued at $500, 900, at the dis.
posal of the University of Michigan.
Beatrice Harraden, author of "Ships
That Pass in the Night" has slight,
girlish figure, short, curly hair and
big, brown, "astonished" eyes, to-
gether with sweet voice and gentle
manners.
DR.. Helen Webster, of Wellesley
College, is the only woman who has
ever earned the title of doctor of
philosophy. She went to Germany
and literally won the honor by hard,
unremitting labor.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has presented
to the First Presbyterian Church of
Richfeld Springs new pipe organ
and an addition to the church build
ing as memorial to her husband. 1t