Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-25

dead bodies from wrecks. and any other
srewsome work in that calling.
MISS Florence Stactool Is going to Holland
TINS month TO deliver three lectures on
Womans Suffrage" at Amsterdam Rot.
terlam and The Hague. Tho lectures will
be lNen In English to the Dutch women.
| Mrs. Mary MARSHALL Allen. who asslstcd
the sufferers during the earthquake in Japan.
has been presented with Japanoso
| memorial, signed by the prominent people
OF Aomorl in recognition of her services.
Princess Henry OF Prussia has entered
fifteen photographs taken and developed by
herself. to- the International exhibition OF
amateur photographers now open In Berlin
under the patronage OF Empress Frederick,
Mrs. Jane Severance, known as the Mon
tana sheep queen, died at Chicago. She
went to that city last month to undergo
surgical operation for the removal OF a
tumor. Tho tumor had encroached too near
the heart.
Lady Currle. the wife OF the British am
hassador at Constantinople, has contributed
poem to the first number OF Ladies' Realm
under the nom de plume of Violet Fame
me poem is called ION the Marmora in tho
Time OF Disturbance"
Mrs Frederick w. Vanderbilt has COM
pieted arrangements for giving a Thanks
giving dinner to 800 newsboys at Newport.
she has Just arrived at her villa on the
Hudson upon which she has expended many
thousand dollars in the last few weeks.
Countess Danneskjold. who recently mar
rled Comte Aage Moltke In Jutland. had a
novel wedding, and among other original
features was a bridal procession headed by
ten bridesmaids dressed In bright scarlet.
who drew tho carriage carrying the bride
and groom.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood. who has Just re-
turned from attending the international con-
vention OF charities in Geneva, Switzerland.
reports that much good was accomplished.
At concert on shipboard as she was re-
turning to this country, she read paper on
international Peace"
The Bond street shop that bears over its
door In large letters OF gold Countess OF
Warwick" is not conducted by the erstwhile
Lady Brooke as a money-making enterprise.
She has started on her estates n dressmak-
ing and millinery establishment where tho
young girls are taught by thoroughly ex-
perienced French modistes and milliners
to become competent workwomen.
Lady Spencer has collected s.. 500 toward
the 100000 required for the memorial to
Nelson, which will soon be erected at Burn
ham-Thorpe. near Norfolk, England.
Through the efforts OF Lady Spencer and
her corps OF lady assistants $50 900 has
been subscribed. Miss Heath Wilson. whose
Anglo American library in the Spanish pl-
azza in Rome has proved such success,
has just added several hundred volumes
in again opening 1t for the winter season.
Miss Fannie Elkins of Brooklyn Is an
artist of anatomy. She draws. paints and
models in clay for medical books, surgeons.
doctors. hospitals and colleges the human
body in all its parts. in their healthy state
or diseased and her work is taken as n
standard by the greatest doctors of New
York. And even more than this, she has a
foreign reputation. Throughout Europe she
Is regarded as an authority, and efforts
have been made from time to time by the
English surgeons to get her to draw and
paint for them. But all foreign offers she
absolutely refuses The New York doctors,
hospitals and medical schools keep her
busy. and she will not venture beyond
them.
Miss Amalia Kussner who has painted
many miniatures of beautiful American
women. is enjoying great a vogue in
London as in this country. She went
abroad last spring and she carried with her
letter of introduction to Mrs. Arthur
Paget, formerly Miss Mary Stevens, and
the latter at once used her powerful In
nuence to advance Miss Kussners interests
In the fashionable world. Some of tho
artists miniatures were shown to Sir John
Millais, and found a place in the Royal
Academy, where they were greatly adj
mired. She at once received many orders.
and when nine miniatures OF English beau
ties had been completed, Mrs. Paget gave
tea" to exhibit them, and this resulted
in moro orders.