The free press., 1895-07-11
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In the Michigan spring election no
less than eight women were elected
School Commissioners in as many
counties.
Some Ohio girls have formed an as
sociatiop to veal the bloomer costume.
Twenty-four have already adopted the
short dress.
Full woman suffrage in South Aus
tralia is an accomplished fact. Queen
Victoria has signed the bill and 1T has
become law.
Mrs. Frederick T. Greenhalge, wife
of the Governor of Massachusetts, is
an enthusiast upon patriotic antiqui-
ties and Puritan gene alogy.
: Ex-Empress Eugene has hedge
hog for pet. She carries 1t about
with her constantly in wicker bas-
ket lined with padded silk.
Mrs NJ. Terry, a pretty st. Louis
woman, is suing an engraver and
shoe manufacturer for using her pic
ture on an ad. without her consent.
Bicyclomania is reaching stage
among fashionable people that must
bring about reaction. 1t is already
too fashionable for the conservative.
LADY Sutton, the widow of Sir
Richard Sutton, who tried to win the
Americas Cup with the Genesta, IS
going to marry again; curate this
time.
Mrs. Louis Agassiz has contributed
largely to scientific literature, writing
Jointly both with her husband and
her stepson. She has also written for
children.
One is hardly in the swim at all
without needlework and insertion
front of some sort. These pile the
counters of the shops in literally doz-
ems Of styles.
After a long consideration of the
subject the Cumberland Presbyterian
General Assembly has decided that
women cannot be ordained to preach
in that church.
The box plated front for waists is
in high favor. 1t is SO very common
that for the woman who will have onl y
one or two waists it is wise to select
another style.
Women are employed in telegraph
offices and post offices in Russia be-
cause corporations find them more ac-
curate in details and more careful to
please customers.
Out of the 1000 artists not acade
or architects exhibiting at
the British Royal Academy this year,
1877, over n sixth, are women, includ-
ing thirty-seven married women.
1t is intimated that Lady Aberdeen,
a diplomat of the first water, might
have had quite rs much to do with the
recent adjustment OF the Manitoba
school difficulty as her husband, the
Earl.
Mrs. Lii Hung Chang has 1000 SER
wants, 1000 coats, 1900 pair of trou.
serettes and 500 fur robes. Her feet
are so small that she cannot walk and
she dresses her hair in fifty different
ways.
So much has the art of dressing and
dyeing feathers been developed that
numbers of the seemingly rare feather
boas worn have simply been made
from the plumage of the ordinary
fowls.
Lady Isabel Somerset has arranged
q series of mass meetings in the lead
ing cities of England, to take action
upon the Armenian question, at all of
which she will be one of the leading
speakers,
Mrs. Lyme Stephens, who died re-
Gently in London, England, was tor-
merly French dancer, but marrieda a
wealthy member of Parliament. The
other day her art treasures were sold
and brought $685. 900.
The sailor hat, that never-to- -be-for-
gotten member of the millinery fami-
ly, is moro prominent than ever this
season. 1t has wider front and
more dropping effect than of yore.
and is garnitured in great variety of
ways.
Miss May Proctor has taken up her
fathers work and recently gave an en-
tertaining lecture for the benefit of
the Woman's Press Club in New York
on "Other Worlds Than Ours"
which was illustrated with many pic
ures and maps.
Several young women in London
have started novel and sensible
dressmaking establishment. They take
last seasons dresses and make them
over in the prevailing fashion. No
entirely new dresses are made and tho
charges are reasonable.
Miss Stainforth and Miss Larpent
have opened an agency in London for
The renting of houses and flats aud to
fecure lodgings for those who desire
them. This they do not only in Lon
don, but in towns on the Continent.
They also do shopping for their out
of-town customers and propose to add
theatre ticket agency.
Miss Susan b. Anthony, who, at
seventy five, is 1.-the, graceful and ac-
1.-Two ascrihes her health tO her raou