Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-09-14
GOSSIP.

The whole of Princess Maud's trous-
seau was made in England.
Twenty-six Kansas women have
banded together to write novel.
At the present time the Princess of
Wales's holding Of pearls cannot be
worth less than $50, 900.
Forty Carthage (Mo.) girls have
started local fad by having break.
fast picnic and wading party.
Princess Helene, the Duchess of
Sparta's baby, is Queen Victoria's
twenty-second great -grandchild.
A bride in Montreal appeared at the
altar with her pet canary fastened to
her shoulder by golden chain. Dur
ing the marriage ceremony the bird
broke into song.
"I do not belong to any woman's
club or organization, says Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, with the single ex.
ception of the Daughters OF the Amer
lean Revolution.
Paris dressmakers have declared
themselves in favor OF the proportions
of the Venus de Milo, and health and
beauty oil the artistic kind are prophe-
sled as the result of the movement.
The eyeglass threatens to come into
fashion among section of very smart
and up-to-date London ladies. In
Bond street you may see three or four
ladies who use single glass with skill
and ease.
DR.. Sarah I. Shuey, who has Just
been elected President of the Board of
Health of Oakland, CAL, is the first
woman to receive such an honor in
that commonwealth. The Office was
given to her without the least solici-
tation on her part.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
miniature farm, the produce of which
she gives to the poor and to the hos
pitfalls. Her Swiss chalet is stocked
with the accumulated toys of twelve
years or more and here she learned to
"keep house" in the most approved
Dutch style.
Mr.. Victoria Woodhlll Martin, an
American who now edits a London
journal, says that the cause of woman
suffrage in America is virtually won.
Professor Goldwin Smith says the
cause is dead in this country. This
seems case where great minds run in
different grooves.
Ex-Queen Emma of Samoa is now
in Berlin on visit to the exhibition,
accompanied by her husband, who was
formally an officer in the German
Army. They are said to be an ideally
happy couple. Her ex-Majesty has
dropped her queenly title and travels
as simple German frau,
New Workers may be surprised to
read in the London Sketch that the
latest new thing in Gotham is lady's
bicycle hat, OF Tyrolese shape, in straw
or light felt. but surmounted by u
white quill "rising from miniature
bicycle wheel, with rubber tire and
natural-looking spokes."
The good old fashion of home weav.
ing threatens to become lad since
the Princess of Wales and her daughters
have turned their attention that way.
Woolen homespun, cotton and silks
are not only more durable, but more
satisfactory from an esthet.c point of
view, when handwoven.
The Rev. DR.. j. f. Clymer, OF the
State Street M. L. Church, Troy, N.
Y, in recent sermon on the bicycle,
characterized the wheel as "a me-
chanical embodiment oil the principles
OF Christianity" and a nineteenth
century sigh of the emancipation Of
woman from bondage of sex."
A memorial has been addressed to
the Vice chancellor ofCem bridge Uni
versity bearing the name of 139 mem
bers OF the Senate who favor the con-
ferring of some title which does not
imply membership of the university
upon women who, having satisfied the
requirements of the university, have
already passed or shall hereafter pass
a tripos examination.
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