The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-05-08
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

w Ian H1tC01 IL WOMENs
Susan B. Anthony has not slept at
home for four years.
Lady Randolph Churchill wears the
very exceptionally granted and much
coveted imperial order of the crown of
India, conferred upon her by the queen.
Mrs. Burton Harrison is said, on good
authority. to be the best piad woman
writer in the country. The Century
Magazine pays her 1871 cents a word for
all her stories.
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler, of Castle
Hill, Va. who has had return of rheu-
matism by the recent cold weather, is
forced to seek dry climate and has gone
to Texas
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an untiring pa
tron of manicurists, givers of facial mas
sage, chiropodists and champooers. She
says she believes on principal, in being as
good looking as she can.
Mrs. Eva Wilder Broadhead, known in
literature as Eva Wilder McGlasson and
who is now enjoying wedding trip on
and about the Mediterranean, is said to
be the youngest established magazinist
the country.
Women real estate agents have already
been successful in several places, and it
is somewhat surprising that more women
do not go into business for which many
of them seem so we'll fitted. A we'll
known professor at Johns Hopkins be-
HeVeS that the renting of houses is es-
sentially bushes suitable for women.
Sister Agnes, the superioress of a
nursing institution at Brest, has received
the order NJ no IF hic
makes the 18th nun that has received the
honor. The first was Mme Biget, known
as Sister Martha, who was decorated by
Napoleon in 1915. Apart from sisters 10
women In all have received the decora-
ton.
Mrs. Willie X. Vanderbilt is going in
for cycling. At first she went to an
academy" for her lessons, but now she
practices under the same tuition in the
great ballroom Of her own house. II
haven't yet found a costume I'll wear in
pubic, she said the other day, but I'm
having lot Of people make me designs,
SO l expect to get something tolerable
before the summer comes.
It is noticed that Mrs. George Gould
has changed her whole manner and bear
Ing since the death of her father-in-law
When Jay Gould was alive she was very
quiet, went out but little and had but few
visitors even to her opera box. Now hers
IS one OF the gayest boxes in the Metro
poiltan Opera House. And the gilded
youth gather about her. She dresses
superbly and is as handsome as ever,
and her intimates say she is still the de-
voted mother. 1t was as a devoted
mother that she first won the cordial ap-
prevail of her husbands family.
"A Woman's paradise exists in the In
dian ocean. The tiny island of Minicoy.
midway between the Maldive and Laca-
dive group, is entirely under feminine
rule, the men humbly taking the second
place on every occasion. The woman is
the head both of the government and of
the nome, and when she marries her hus-
band takes her name and hands over all
his earnings throughout his married life
Silk gown are the universal wear, the
upper classes donning red silk and ear
rings, while the lower ten appear in dark
striped silk of coarser quality.
An enterpr1sing young woman who has
lately opened an office announces that
she is ready to render practical help to
men and women of affairs, to save them
time and annoyances. She proposes, if
people will give her the opportunity, to
act as representative, private secretary
ana intermediary where discretion, d.
plomacy and good judgment are re-
CURED; as purchasing agent for the
household, buying anything from gro
ceries to wedding outfits and bric-a-brac;
as a dispenser of charity where investi-
cation is required; in fact professionally
to I'LL the office Of Capable person..
IN the community. AS in every large
city there is constant demand for Just
the services that this young woman pro-
poses to render, there seems to be 10
reason why she should not succeed
The average waist Of woman is now "a
inches against 10 inches Ave years ago
This development is not attributed to r..
dress refOrmers, but to Sarah Bernhardt
The people who invent new csstunss
have been inspired by the grace ana
beauty Of Sarah's clothes. These are
copied for their co.turners. It is imDos-
slble to wear these costumes with cor
sets. Hence the waist has its chance.
Nine. Dieulfoy, the wife of the French
explorer, who fnas permission of the
French government to wear mems
clothes, has recently had collection
Of dress reform clothes submitted to her
for an expert opinion. She held them ,,p
by the fingers and commented on them
scornfully. That they were ugly, form
less and inartistic outweighed any adj
vantage they might possess. Between
women's clothes and mems is no middle
ground Mems clothes, looking at her
own smart coat and trousers, consented.
were the last expression in dress. Wom-
en- might arrive at them. Nothing would
ever superseded them.
PARIS MODES.
In Paris gray blue is one Of the fash
ionable colors just now. It appears in