Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-04
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tallest; American next.
Oakland. CAL, has n fashionable
young ladies natatorial club.
Mrs. Robert Garrett has an $4,000
poultry house at Baltimore, Md.
A perfectly formed face is two
thirds forehead and one-third lip and
chin.
A West Virginia girl has the proud
record of having shot and killed
twenty bears.
Susan B. Anthony, it is said, can
make the best bread of any woman in
Rochester, n. Y.
1t has been decided in Paris that
pearls shall be the most fashionable
ornaments this winter.
A daughter of President Tyler is an
inmate Of the Louise Home in Wash
ington. She is entirely without
means.
OF 1913 candidates for the London
School Board twelve are women, in
cluding one described as an "inde-
pendent lady"
The Queen of Saxony maintains
three eminent doctors, whose sole
duties are to attend to the ailments of
the suffering poor.
There were no manufactures in this
country 100 years ago, and every
housewife raised her own flax and
made her own linen.
A Mississippi girl, born blind, and
only eight years old, is an expert on
the piano, making music that equals
that of professionals.
Miss Mary Proctor, daughter OF
the late distinguished astronomer,
Richard A. Proctor, is lecturing on
the "Stories of the Stars"
Mohammedan widows find it diff.
cult to re-marry. An association to
assist them in finding husbands has
been organized in Turkey.
The most difficult age to dress is
about sixteen, when a girl is either
tall and thin or hopelessly stout. She
must never be overdressed.
Feather trimming is revived again,
and some exceedingly pretty garni-
lures of this sort are in market. 1t is
especially becoming to those who re.
quire fully effects.
The wife of DR.. Lyman Abbott. OF
Brooklyn. is Il pleasant-faced little
woman, who takes good many of the
minor cares of her husbands church
on her own shoulders.
The latest oruamentation for the
dining-room table is dish of jelly in
the midst of which are three or four
small electric lights. The effect is
pleasing and picturesque.
st. Louis has thirty women who are
graduates of regular medical colleges,
but on the other haad it boasts that
only two of its entire female popula.
tion have stopped to practice law.
The latest thing in the world of
New York millionairesses is the EN-.
ployment of private society press
agent to ''exploit" the employers do.
ings, dresses, gewgaws, and so forth.
German mothers are now naming
their babies "Aegir," after his song,
and duly informing the Kaiser every
time, in the hope that he will sub
stantially recognize the compliment.
Only once a year, and then on the
occasion of n religious festival, is the
Empress of Japan seen in native gar.
ments. As a rule she affects the
choicest creations of the Paris "map
milliners,"
By the steamer Gulf OF Siam party
of fifty single young women, who left
London for Australia, under the aus.
pices of the United British Womens
Emigration Association, have landed
at Fremantle.
DR.. Charlotte L. Benton has held
the responsible position of dental sur
geon at the New York Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb for over year,
where she has charge of nearly 35U
patients OF all ages and both sexes.
The usual allowance for dress to the
daughters of family where money is
plenty is $4,000; on that a girl in SO.
ciety is supposed to be turned out in
perfect form on any and every occa.
sion upon which she is supposed to
vie with others in her rank of life.
A new thing in women's clubs has
just been organized at Princeton, Me.
They call it the Snow Plow Club and
its members are to hold teas, socials
and fancy fairs during the winter,
with the object of raising funds to
keep the streets and sidewalks clear oi
snow.
Common metal thimbles should not
be used by sewing people. Thimbles
cost very little, and for that reason,
if no other, those made of brass
should be tossed into the fire. Silver
or steel thiubles and such Us are lined
with porcelain are recommended by
the highest medical authorities.
Mary Ann Dalton, of Ashland, N.
H., is ninetysix years old, but is
active enough to supply all her own
wants. She spins, weaves and makes
the cloth and clothes she wears, the
rugs she walks on and the sheets and