The free press., 1895-08-22
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speaker.
Princess Helene, who recently mar
ried the Duke of Aosta, is an enthu-
siastic sportswoman.
Miss Emily Faithful during the lat
ter years of her life smoked cigarettes
necessarily for nervousness.
Labouchere, of London Truth, pro,
gressive in most matters, is opposed
to the use of the bicycle by women.
Florence, Italy, is rejoicing in the
visitation of party of fifty American
young women who have settled at Dan
Donate and go sketching in body.
Pupils in the Chicago Art Institute
design lace handkerchiefs, buckles,
combs and calendars, as we'll as wall
papers, rugs, iron lamps, fireplaces
and CRATES.
Lady Lytton, widow of the author
of Lucille, who has just received an
appointment in the British royal
household, is said to be in quite re-
| duced circumstances.
Paris may evolve another Marie
Bashkirtseff fever out of the sad case
of Motoysi Savian, young Japanese
poet who has just died in poverty and
neglect in one eff her h ospitals.
Those who have seen her say the
Queen of Madagascar is the handsom-
est of crowned women. She dresses
in abominable taste, and dresses her
self overwhelmingly with jewels.
Mother Mary Gouzaga, who is said
to be the oldest sister of charity in
the United States, celebrated the
sixty-ninth anniversary of her initi-
alton into the order at Philadelphia
recently.
Japanese women never discuss their
servants. To do SO would be contrary
to Japanese etiquette. They may talk
of dress, the theatre, the music, and
the rest, but tribulations must not be
referred to.
The number of women studying at
the University of Geneva is constantly
on the increase. This year 1913, or
twenty-five per cent. of all the stu
dents are women, most of them Rus.
SLAMS or Poles.
Sir Henry Irving says that English
women are singularly undemonstra-
tive. Although women admire him
greatly and often form the larger part
of his audiences, he gets his applause
almost entirely from the men.
Amelia Sternecker has invented
fender for trolley cars which will be
given a trial by the San Francisco
electric railways. She is but tseventeen
years of age, but has had a passion
for machinery since her early child
hood.
Mile. Marie Lafargue, who has
scored such brilliant operatic sue
cess in London, was discovered in the
Basque provinces by Comtesse de la
Rochefoucauld. who sent her to the
Paris Conservatory, where she won
the first prize.
Long as she has been an English
woman, the Princess of Wales has
never quite mastered the English ac-
cent. She cannot manage the letter
"r," and "channel" she pronounces
"shannel," besides other little foreign
peculiarities.
A prize of fifty gold dollars, offered
by the philosophy and science depart.
ment of the Chicago Womea's Club
for original investigation by women
students in the University of Chicago,
has not been awarded this year, the
work submitted being not up to the
required standard.
Miss Ramsey. the young lady who
has gained first class in the moral
sciences tripos at Cambridge, England,
is cousin to Mrs. Montagu Butler,
the wife of the Master of Trinity, u
lady who in 1887 took higher honors
in classics than any male student
achieved in her year.
In the cities of Japan there is u
large class of women who make their
living by furnishing amusement to
ennuied female patrons. They are
we'll educated, can converse, recite
poetry, tell stories, sing songs, play
the guitar and dance for the enter.
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Tacoma, Wash, claims the only
woman Custom House broker on the
Northern Pacific coast. She is Miss
Florence B. Moffat, daughter of a
steamboat captain, and is said to be
actively interested in shipping inter
ests and to know more ON matters of
transportation and commerce than
many men in the business.
The lady upon whom the great Cav
endish bestowed the proud title of
"Queen of American Whist Players, :"
Miss Kate I. Wheelock, is Milwau-
keean-a petite, fascinating woman,
engaging in manner and intellectual
in appearance. She has been playing
whist for fifteen years and teaching
the game for ten years.
At meeting the other evening in
London of the Healthy and Artistic
Dress Association several of the women