Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-08
Feminine Notes.


Ec-nininc Notes.
Celia Wentworth, the American artist. has
received the decoration Of Officer de la
Academic.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake suggests that
international disputes be left to the women
IL the men cannot settle them.
Miss Virginia Pope is head window-dresser
for a large dry goods establishment in Buff
falc. N. Y, and she receives next to the
largest salary paid in that establishment.
Lady Aberdeen hae decided that an Irish
castle will occupy an important place in the
exhibit which she is arranging for the Irish
Women's department of the coming ekposi-
ton.
Mrs. Cannon, wife Of the new Utah senator,
Is an earnest believer in woman suffrage,
but is, nevertheless. an orthodox Mormon
and a stout defender of the doctrine of plural
marriages.
Miss Ethel Reed of Newburyport, Mass,
| the only woman poster artiet in the country,
is engaged to be married to the son of Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. The prospective
groom is also an artist.
America has not an entire monopoly Of
rich heiresses. Lady Mary Hamilton Doug
lass. daughter of the late duke of Hamilton,
will have an income of 81 900, 900 a year
when she becomes Of age.
Mrs. fernando de Soto Money, wife OF the
new Mississippi senator, 10 a brunette of
small, slight, willowy figure, Jet black hair
and eyes Of almost a purple tint. She is
q woman of considerable literary talent and
a clever talker.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Pickerell of Denver has
been awarded the contract for the removal
of garbage from the back alleys of that city,
which now boasts of an alley inspector, a
dairy commissioner and a school superin-
tendent of the gentler sex.
Archduchess Maria Annunciata, niece of
the emperor CT AUSTRIA is said to be the
only royal abbess in Europe. By virtue Of
how TTina cho haC the macmillan right or
crcwning the queen of Bohemia-the only
instance wherein that august function is per-
formed by n woman.
Mile. Rhea, the actress, has purchased a
villa en- Columbia Heights, in the north
western section of Washington, near Con-
necticut avenue. and will make that city
her permanent residence when she retires
from the stage at the end of the present
season. Her present home is at Mont
mcrency. a suburb of Paris.
Mrs. Estelle L. Pickering of Milford, Mass,
has carried on her husbands business, that
of a mason and builder, ever since his death
a. year ago. She has proved to be capable
and successful, never lacks work, and even
at this dull season has five men in her en-
ploy. Intimate friends say that in the
sorrow of her great bereavement the busi-
ness has been her salvation.
Mrs. Mary Scott Rowland, who has been
spending the past season in London, where
she dispensed lavish hospitality, especially
to members of the operate and dramatic
profession, had a pleasant surprise not long
ago. when a group of friends, headed by
Patti, Langtry and Melba, presented mel
with a superb gold medal and pin set in
diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds.
Mrs. Amelia E.. Barr, the American novel
list. has taken a shy in opposition TO the
woman suffragists, and gives a new reason
for opposition 10 granting the rights OF sun
rage to her own sex. She says that to give
women the ballot would increase
the power Of certain clergymen and religious
combinations, and that the result would be
the canting Of an immense vote in the way
the preacher directed 1t should be cast.
Florence Kelley of the Hull house, Chicago
says that nowhere is the wage-earning child
exposed TO such risks Of ruin of body and
mind as in the labor markets Of Illinois, now
the third manufacturing state in the union
This unfortunate condition for children has
been largely caused, she says, by the de-
cislons of the supreme court, which, under
the constitution adopted when the state was
agricultural, has contracted a habit Of de-
claring most laws for the protection of wage.
earning children unconstitutional.
Nine. Hanna Korany, who came to Americs
as delegate from Syria to the Worlds fair
has left this country for a visit to her native
land. Her health has been seriously affected
by our climate, but she proposes to return
and become an American citizen, having takeI
out her intention papers, previous to hel
departure. Nine. Korany was the frs
T woman to speak in public in Syria, and she
has given many lectures in different parts o
her country. She is famous, also, for hel
writings, and is called the George Eliot o
the East" She has spoken before man,
women's aclubs in the United States, ant
has engagements for lectures and articles OF
her return.
Ellen Terry's pet decoration for any room