The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-29

woman fruit grower of Southern
California. She has one of the largest
walnut groves Ia the world.
Mrs. s. S. Frackelton is famous for
her own inventions. She began by
grinding clay in a coffee mill and roll
ing it out with pastry roller.
Mrs. Caroline H. Polhemus, of
Brooklyn, proposes to build dispen-
sary for the Long Island Hospital, to
cost $3.50, 0,000I also TO give $3.50, 600
for its endowment.
Mrs. Carload Aguero de Richards,
widow of a prominent Cuban physi-
clan, bought the first gun used in the
Cuban warfare and carried the cart
ridges to Csmsguey.
Nearly 400 English women were
elected on the poor law boards, forty
women on the Parish councils. The
total number of women elected this
year in England and Wales is S93,
gain of 624 on last year.
In New South Wales the two great
opposing political leaders, Sir Henry
Parks and Sir George Dobbs. have
both declared themselves in favor of
woman suffrage, and the Legislature
has passed resolution supporting
their views by very large majority.
The Empress Of Japan is President
of the Red Cross Society, the orgniza-
tion which gave Christian help and
sympathy to wounded Chinese pris-
oners.
Laura A. G. Houghes, a graduate of
Tufts College, of the Training School
for Nurses and Of Sargent's Gymnas-
ium, has been elected member of tho
Massachusetts, Medical Society and of
the Boston Hospital Club. She estab-
lished one of the first emergency hos.
pitfalls in Boston.
Miss Gertrude Simons, the Sioux
Indian girl who carried off the orato.
rical honors at the Earlbsm Ind.) Col
lege the other day, was educated at o
Quaker school in Wabash, Ind. She
was born on the Sioux Reservation
near Deadwood, South Dakota, twen-
ty-two years ago.
High handshaking had its origin in
London in the necessity at drawing
rooms and other Court functions of
ladies carrying their heavy trains over
their arms. Try carrying a weighty
drapery over one arm, and see how
natural it is to use the right arm as
high as possible to shake.
Miss Alice NJ. Taft, of Upton, Mass,
hop ipx 4nI 80 =
of buttoned shoes. 1t is a common
shoe button with attachments so placed
that they can be let out or drawn in
to suit the wearer's taste. 1t affords
comfort, and Miss Taft thinks she can
make quite little amount of money
on it.
Queen Victoria's most recent oc-
cupation has, it is said, been the read
irg of the works of modern English
poets. She has manifested q particu.
lar liking for the writings of William
Watson, and has read his "Lachrymm
Musarum" several times. Her favor
ite novelists are George Eliot and
William Black.
Mrs. Uhl is considerable OF lin
gust, speaking with tluency the Ian
guage of the country to which her
husband becomes the second Ameri.
can Ambassador. In this respect she
has the advantage of her distinguished
consort, who, though himself of Ger
man ancestry, is struggling with his
earliest German nouns.
In the many silk factories in Turkey
a large number OF women and girls
are employed in unwinding the
cocoons. Some of the silk is OF q
most exquisite yellow and the rest
pearly white in color. The poor wo-
men can earn only about four plastres
a day, equal to fifteen cents, and have
to work hard to get even as much as
that.