Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-01-06
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physician.
The Queen of Roumania fairly revels
in literature.
The Princess of Wales is fine plan
ist and practices regularly.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson has
sailed from San Francisco for her
home in Samoa.
The London School Board wants to
introduce fogging into the industrial
schools for girls.
A New York City restaurant keeper
proposed to put his waiter girls in
bloomers, and they struck.
The captain Of the British Ladies'
Football Club complains that men will
not take the play of women seriously.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, whose
eightieth birth lay was ntly cele-
brated, is learning to play on the
piano.
A woman lather Is regularly en-
ployed at her trade in the neighbor-
hood about Biddeford, Me-, in which
town she lives.
Governor Stone, of Missouri, re-
Gently commissioned as notary public
member of the Order of Sisters of
Charity, in st. Louis.
1t is altogether possible that the girl
baby Olga born in St. Petersburg the
other day may be the autocrat of all
the Russias some day.
"John Oliver Hobbies, the charming
young authoress who recently visited
in New York City, speaks eight lam
guages, including Latin and Greek.
Princess Maud OF Wales objects to
marrying Prince Christian of Dem
mark, as has been arranged for her,
ON the ground that he is her cousin.
Five mattresses in bloomers have
been serving in a Los Angeles tCal.)
restaurant for several weeks, and the
innovation is regarded as q success
there.
The editor of Missouri newspaper
has offered years subscription to his
journal us prize to the young woman
who will write him the best proposal
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ThirtY-five young women bicyclists
of Topeka, Kan, arranged to make a
sensation on certain Sunday by at.
tending church in 4 body arrayed in
their bloomers.
The old time Quaker half handker.
chief is beruffled out of acquaintance
with itself, and appears on the shoul-
dersof the girl of to-day who is any
thing but Quakerish.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton thinks
that the horse show, New York City s
annual social function, is an immoral
exhibition, on account of the costumes
of the women who attend.
Fanny ]. Crosby, the hymn writer,
esteems her blindness special bless
ing, as it led her more than anything
else to hymn writing. She has COM
posed over three thousand inspiring
songs.
Mrs. Bonda, of Newark. N. j.,
scared away tramp with n revolver.
and then tainted away. She says that
she was terribly afraid that the re-
volver would go off and shoot the
rascal.
Miss Louise Imogene Quincy, the
poetess, is described as "a light, blue
eyed girl, delicate as wild rose, elu-
sive as thIstledown. Miss Quincy
has both Irish end French blood in
her veins.
Mrs. Rhoda Stearns, of Highgate,
VT, familiarly known as Aunt Rhoda,
is now in her 1O3d year. She enjoys
good health, with her mental facul-
ties unimpared, and bids fair to live
for years to come.
Ellen Terry, the actress, never
travels without collection OF recent
photographs of all her kith aud kin.
She puts them last into her baggage,
and decorates her room with them
wherever she stops.
NJ. Rousseau, the new Governor
General OF the French possession in
Indo-China, is SO intensely opposed to
evening dress for women that he has
issued an order that all ladies attend
ing Government balls shall wear high
necked gowns. He is humorously
known among the colonists as "Mr.
Modesty."
Mrs. Maybrick, the poisoner i'm
prlsoned for life in England, is an
American woman born, bred and edu-
Gated in the South. Her father was
William G. Chandler, prominent
banker of Mobile. Her ancestors
served in the Revolutionary War, and
one of them, Samuel Phillips, was
Lieutenant Governor OF Massachu-