Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-05
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Frenchman proposes a tax on cor


trunks.
Paris widows wear Grape knicker-
bockers when bicycling.
Patti will sing in Ireland this year,
her first visit for many years.
In Franco alone about nine million
corsets are worn out annually.
More New York women paint their
faces to-day than ever before.
The Queen of Italy is said to have
nm extrava8ant passion for inery in
dress.
Miss Asenath Philpott, of Gaines
vile, Texas, has the longest hair. She
wears it ten feet seven inches long.
According to the very latest science
the typical female criminal has irregu-
lar teeth and "virile physiogomy."
The Princess Helene got over $780,
900 worth OF wedding presents at her
recent marriage to the Duke of Aosta.
The New York World advises lady
bicyclists who go riding around the
country to carry pistol for tramps.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes
very little nowadays. She says that
she has earned q rest from literary
labor.
Smallest size palm leaf fans covered
with silk aud hand painted look to be
in more than ordinary fashionable
popularity.
Wheelwomen who go out riding at
. very early hour of the morning
would do well to "take snack of
something before they mount the
wheel
Grecian headbands of jet or tortoise
are worn by matrons Mt Newport, r.
l., fashion of some years ago revived
by one of the several so-called "society
leaders"
Baroness Won Glzycki says that the
majority of German professional wo.
men are teachers Comparatively few
are to be found in other skilled occu-
pations.
A motion to prevent its school
teachers wearing boomers was voted
down by the Toronto (Canada) School
Board, and the women are happy over
the result.
A large majority of the women who
have applied for places in the various
departments OF the municipal Govern
ment within the first half of this year
were unmarried.
Edne Lyall has always been de-
termined sort of a parsonage. At the
age OF ten she made up her mind to
be novelist, and stuck to it in spite
of many discourngements.
Mrs. Humphry Ward got $4,000 for
the English rights to her new story,
"Bessie Costrell. They say she will
get Mt least SIS, 000 out of the story,
or about sixty cents a word.
Lady Jeune's articles on the new
woman have had an unexpected result.
Her husband, Sir Francis Jeune,
President of the Probate and Divorce
Court, has taken to a bicycle.
In England politics is fashionable,
and while women are not allowed to
vote they are allowed to make speeches
and help their husbands by their
presence on the platforms and at the
polls.
The new woman is coming out of
the West. She is driving prairie
schooner all alone and camping out
by night. She halls from Idaho, has
reached Nebraska and is headed for
Ohio.
The Princess of Wales has lately dis
carded the big sleeves, but she does
not rule the fashions of women us her
husband does those of men, and the
women will continue to wear big
sleeves.
A white marble swimming bath,
forty by twentynine feet aud nine
feet in depth, is to be constructed for
the Russian Empress in the palace at
st. Petersburg. She likes to take q
plunge every morning.
Miss Mary A. Proctor, daughter OF
the late Professor Richa1d A. Proctor,
is following in the footsteps OF her
distinguished father by popularizing
science, and, though young woman,
has already won high reputation as
n writer and lecturer.
Nine. Patti entertained her guests
at Craig-y-Nos Castle by producing a
new dumb show piece entitled "Moi-
AXE, the Enchantress. She played the
title role, and her pantomime per-
formance was admirable. She con-
cluded with an outburst of song.
Miss Agnes Briggs, daughter of
Professor @. A. Briggs, of Union
Theological Seminary, is serving as
nurse in st. Luke's Hospital, New
York City. At the end of her term of
service she is to be ordained dea-
coness. She has already devoted two
years to study preparatory to her ex-
perienca in nursing.
Two American girls took n promi-
nent part in the English elections.
These were Miss Letter, that was, of
Chicago, who recently welded the
Hon. Geo. N. Curzon, and Miss