Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-10-28
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Saco boasts of the only women un-
dertaker in Maine.
Queen Victoria has worn her crown
only sixteen times.
Dublin, Ireland, has new paper
called "To-day's Woman" 1t is ed
tied and written by group of talent
ed women, many of whom are .univer-
sity graduates.
Queen Victoria, like many women,
is II good judge Of character, being
able to tell much about a person from
the single piercing glance which she
gives each stranger.
The Empress of Japan is getting
more and more European in her ideas,
and has for some past entirely dis
carded the National dress in favor of
costumes made for her in Paris.
According to the London Figaro the
only woman in England to be admired
by the Shazada of Afghanistan was an
American, Mrs. George N. Curzon,
formerly Miss Letter, of Chicago.
Mrs. Eleanor Sedgwick, dean of
Newnham, England's famous college
for women, is q sister of First Lord of
the Treasury Balfour, and famous as
one of the best mathematicians in
England.
A prize OF two dollars worth of ice
cream tickets for the first woman who
will ride a bicycle in bloomer costume
around the public square in the even
ing is offered by the Times of Clay
Center, Kan.
Miss Alice Ireland, of New York,
has graduated as a dentist. She
claims to be tho first woman to prac-
tice dentistry in Gotham, although
there are others in various parts of
the country.
Mrs. Arthur Stannard, better known
as John Strange Winter, claims that
the Writers Club, of which she has
been President since its organization
in 1892, was the first women's press
club in the world.
The Privy Council of Holland are
beginning to look around for hus-
band for their fifteen-year- old Queen
Wilhelmina. She will not be allowed
to exercise much of her royal prerog-
ative in the matter
White satin was the principal ma
terial at the court ball at Buckingham
Palace recently, as it has been for the
past three seasons-satin shot with
gold, with pink, with silver and with
mother of-pearl tints.
Buttons are surely growing in favor,
and their size is certainly on the in
crease. They are becoming quite
necessary accessory of a costume now
adays, and seriously increase the ex-
pense of the garments.
Miss McFee, of Montreal, has just
obtained the degree of Doctor Of Phi
losophy at Zurich. She is graduate
of McGill University, and studied phi
losophy at Cornell and under Profess
sor Wundt, of Leipzig.
The headdress OF the reign OF Louis
XIV. were wonderfully made. They
were lrameworks of wire, from two to
four feet high, divided into tiers and
covered with bands of muslin, ribbons,
chenille, pearls, flowers and aigrettes.
A London newspaper recently con.
tained the following advertisement:
Shine young ladies want to rent ele-
CANT apartments, with convenient
rooms for their bicycles. Conditions
neither cats nor men in the neigh
borhood."
A Mohammedan widow of Bombay
started on pilgrimage to Mecca
recently, taking her jewelry with her.
After landing at Jeddah she was
forced to marry Turkish soldier
whom she had never seen before and
who disappeared in couple of days
with all her property.
Tho late Professor Huxley's sister,
Mrs John Scott, n woman of remark
able intelligence and strength of char
acter, was resident of Nashville,
Tenn, for many years. Her husband,
when n young surgeon in the British
army, was the friend of Trelawney
and Byron.
Miss Lillian Chandler leads an
orchestra in Boston, numbering forty
five women. These women have thor
oughly overcome the difficulty of the
trombone, clarionet and flute, and
hope soon 10 be masters of the horns,
trumpets and bassoons, which men are
now employed to play,
Miss Adelaide Hasse, who has just
been selected by the Secretary of Ag.
riculture for the position of chief of
the department of Government docu-
ments, is an expert fencer. She is
also an expert cyclist, and if she were
n man would come under the classif-
cation of a good fellow"
A European lady living in Japan ac-
quired no fewer than 700 teapots of
various patterns and kinds. Another
lady had hobby for collecting bon
nets. She made rule never to part
with one she had worn, and, when she
died, left behind her wonderful col
lection of feminine head adornments.
German women singers, according