Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-09

was written when she was schoolgirl Of i6.
| This was in 1861.
The clever Illustrations In the BLACK
| Cat are made by the wife of the editor,
| airs. Littlehale Umbstastter. She and her
| husband have a charming home in tho
Back Bay quarter Of Boston.
Mrs. Phlncas NJ. Barber OF Philadelphia
| is about to erect and equip at a cost OK about
$4,000 seminary for girls at Annist ton,
Ala. and hand it TO the Presbyterian Board
| OF Missions for Freedmen.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson will hereafter
live In San Francisco. her former home.
she has gone, accompanied by her son and
| daughter for brief visit to Samoa, In order
TO arrange the affairs of the deceased now
| elist
The first American novel was written In
| lIS9, and Its author was woman. Mrs.
| Sarah Wentworth Morton, whose pseudo
| rym was philenia. This novel was in two
| volumes, and was called THE Power OF
sympathy; or. the Triumph OF Nature"
Miss Marguerite Merlngton has just fin.
| ished the libretto for a comic opera, tho
score Of which has been composed by MIR.
Arthur Bird. Miss Meringtons play. Capt.
Detterblair," has been most successful. and
| is marked by sense OF humor rare in
women.
The queen of the Beglans is an efficient
nurse and understands the modes of pro-
cedure prescribed in the course Of aid in
emergency cases. Recently one of her serv-
ants was attacked with apopexy and the
queen made very practical and successful
demonstration of her skill.
1t would be by no means an unheard- of
thing for a woman to be a professor Of
anatomy at a. university. In tine sixteenth
century the Italian universities had several
women professors, one at Bologna teaching
the science in question, while another was
great mathematician.
The young Dutch maiden, Maria Cvetskens
"a m
beaten the record in the annals of somnoence.
On December she had been asleep 220 days.
The doctors, who visit her in great mum
bers, are agreed that there is no deception
in the case
Mrs. Mckinley, wife of Ohio's ex-governo
and the possible future mistress of the white
house, has a pretty fad OF making dainty
bedroom slippers for her friends. During
the long years of her nvalidism she has
made nearly 1900 pairs of these slippers
every pair of which she has given away.
The empress of Russia has caused to h,
built magnificent swimming bath at IT,
Winter palacei 1t covers an area of som
1,4O0 square feet, is Fix feet deep, and is bui,
of white marble. The young empress h.
altogether had great many alterations mao
at the palace, which are said to have el
tailed an expenditure of several million
:oubles.
Mrs. Nellie Marshall Showalter of Ker
lucky charming society woman, has within
the past few years won unusual distinctio'
in the chess field, which is supposed to be
long peculiarly to men. Mrs. Showalter vii
take part in the international chess mate
by cable, which will be contested in Apri
between the women Of England and America
Miss Frances Power Cobbe was the first
woman regularly employed on the staff of {
London daily. Her long career Of literar!
and journalistic activity began fifty years ag'
with this pioneer work in London, the foun
dation of her later success. Miss Cobbe tolc
in her "reminiscences of her hard work ant
untiring labors when she was London's first
newspaper woman.
Miss Fannie Leidesorf of San Francisco nc
longer breads downpours Of rain and drifts
of snow. She has adopted a dress which she
considers perfect for the Drawing Of storms.
Boomers are its most conspicuous feature,
They are of navy blue cloth and fall well
below the knee, where they are met by
legginge of the same shade. The rest of the
costume consists Of a black jacket, black
and yellow hat, and black serge skirt lined
with moreen, but not stiffened with it. Miss
Leidesorf throws it over her arm when walk
ing and drops it when in stores. In the
former position the hem of ii does not reach
the knees.