The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-06
WOMEN TALKED ABOUT

.stateswoman," and Miss Flora Shaw.is
the firstt to be credited with It.
Mrs. Dodge. nee Anna G. Peabody Of
Newburyport, Mass. is member of the
Hawaiian Board Of Education.
Mrs. c. B. Craig and Mrs. N. M. Bell
of Denver, Col, have been drawn on a
jury, and are willing to do their duty as
jurors, citizens and taxpayers.
Word has been received from the presi-
dent of the W. G. 7. u, Mrs. Nichols of
Prospect, Adelaide, South Australia, that
the adult suffrage bill has been carried,
giving all women the right to vote on the
same terms as men, and with no barrier
to seat in Parliament. The bill now
only waits the Queen 8 consent.
Mrs. Selnda Whitford of Baltimore has
given $50, 600 to the Catholic University
of Washington to endow chair in the
department of law.
Queen Victoria, at the earnest request of
Princess Beatrice, has decided to con-
is reported that the first volume will
soon make its appearance.
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley has a fad for col
Letting parasols, and has gathered great
many of them for her cabinet.
Miss ALA Tickle of Heno, Butler county,
Ohio, is said to be the smallest fully de-
veloped woman now living. She is 81
years Olu anu Wei8ns puo eWehty-e CIV
pounds.
Marion Butler o. North Carolina, who
is only 81 years old, will be the youngest
member of the new Senate.
Queen Louise of Denmark is one of the
oldest of the European monarchs. She is
n years of age, but is quite youthful in
appearance.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt is muniicent
in her charities and untiring in her good
works, but she does not go. upon the
housetop to advertise what she is doing
for the poor.
Lady Frederick Bruce, a prominent
English woman, is one OF the leaders in
the vigorous warfare now being conduct
ed against skirt dancing, which, it seems,
is quite crowding out music as form
of entertainment in English country
houses.
Slgnorina Labriola is the first woman
to receive the degree of Doctor of Laws
from the University of Rome. She is
mere girl as yet, only Is years Of age,
and the honor conferred upon her is as
fiattering as it is exceptional.
Mrs. Flora Steel, who is in humble
way Mr.. Kippling's rival, has acc uired
five of the native Indian dialects for the
purposes of her literary work
A hundred years ago Mrs. Hannah
North of Augusta, Me-, began sending
mnce pies to the prisoners in the county
Jail on Thanksgiving Day. The custom
was followed by her through life, then by
her daughter, and now her granddaughter
is observing it.
Mrs. Bradley Martin is always talked
about when the question of jewels comes
up on account of her owning and having
worn bofere she went into crepe the
famous jeweled crown OF the Inflated
Queen Marie Antoinette. This diadem
is truly regal and enhances the majestic
ally inclined mein of Mrs. Martin.
Magdelena Pisculter of Santa Teresa
Galivri, Sardinia, died the other day at
the age OF Ill years. Sixty grandchildren
followed her to the grave.
Mrs. Yates of Onehunga, New Zealand,
the only lady mayor in the British do
minions, is to go on prolonged lecturlng
tour at the close Of her term of office. She
is said to be an excellent platform speaker.
The Queen Of Portugal is the most
if she was seen on Chestnut street in all
her dry goods glory she'd create bigger
sensation than a car off the track, with
dog fight on the platform.
Eighty-two women were successful in
gaining the B. A. degree from the Lon
Charlotte Fowler Wells was the first
woman publisher. She has been in bust
ness since 1874, and is still at it in New
York II
Mrs. Nat Collins, widely known as the
Montana Cattle Queen" will soon issue
a volume of "reminiscences, giving his
tory of over forty years of life in the camp
and on the prairie.
At Gardiner, Me-, there is cookbook
ing and spry young woman who draws
grocery wagona.sNo fear of her wasting
her time fooling with the servant girls
unless they have got new .bonnets, .sic, b,
Miss Anna Shaw, d. d., says the best
way to address an audience is to talk as
if you were scolding your husband ~
Mrs Humphrey Ward is a wonderful
lingust, and is versed in Spanish, Ger
man, French and Italian literature to a
marvellous degree. Her books are mostly
written at farm near Haslemere, Surrey.