The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-04-22
GOSSIP.

In Roumania women both study and
practice medicine.
Tho Empress of Austria is making o
collection of COWS.
The Iowa State Senate defeated q
resolution giving women the right to
vote at all elections.
Wilhelmina, the girl Queen of the
Netherlands, is one OF Queen Victoria's
most constant correspondents.
Women medical students will, in all
probability, be admitted to the Uni.
versity of Budapest during tho next
tenn.
Miss Annie Scott, of Great Bend,
Kan, a niece of Justice Brewer, has
been appointed clerk to the Venezue-
Ian Commission.
The Kentucky Legislature debated
n bill to allow women all over the
State to vote for School Trustees and
also to hold the Office of School Trus-
tee.
1t is said that Mrs. Cleveland has
developed very healthily since her mar
riage, and now tips the scales at 1876
pounds, though her flesh has not
marred her figure.
In New York City at Sherry's, So.
ciety had 'Spinster's Leap Year
Ball." The handsome women did the
handsome thing, and took the young
men down to supper.
Decatur, Mich, is the paradise OF
the new woman. She holds all the
offices of any consequence, manages
the business, leads the thought and
runs the whole place.
In Scandinavia there are thirty wo-
man doctors, and in Finland three.
India has eleven medical colleges and
sixty-nlne women doctors, chiefly
medical missionaries.
The ex-Empress Eugenie has pre-.
sented in the Paris Museum of Decor
ative Art all the plans and drawings
prepared for the decoration of her
private apartments at the Tulleries.
DR.. Mary Altman, who died the
other day in Philadelphia, is said to
have been the first woman dentist OF
the world. She got diploma from
the Philadelphia Dental College in
1881.
Mrs. John W. Foster is said to dis
ply remarkable ability as q presiding
officer, coupled with great patience
and tirmness. in the discharge of her
duty as President of the Daughters of
the Revolution.
Some of the new poke bonnets have
already been in evidence on several
heads among the smart set. 1t is
significant that only the prettiest of
pretty women have had the courage to
appear in them.
Downey, the London photographer,
who takes most of the pictures for the
royal family, says his success in maxi
ing photographs of the Queen is due
to her "being perfectly natural aud
avoiding all fuss"
Miss Elizabeth Moorhead Stone,
daughter of the Pennsylvania Con-
gresham, is one of the most accom-
plished musicians in Washington So
ciety and one of the few young women
who can wear Vatican effects in dress.
-haIy LISuCu lSlui elueSI uHuBltef
of the late Eugene Field, is preparing
herself to read in public the poems of
her father. She is handsome young
woman of noble presence, and will
make a striking appearance on the
platform.
Many women who have Inherited
jewels must have in their collection
few amethysts or topaz, and now is
the time to get it out, for the "great
jeweler" declares them the fashion,
and shows the former in both brooches
and rings The latter are seen in
brooches, surrounded by pearls and
diamonds.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, whose
husband founded the church variously
known as the Disciples, the Campbell
ties and the Christians, is living, at the
age OF ninety-four, in Bethany, w. Va.
Several of her children have estab-
lished themselves we'll in life, but the
one who is, perhaps, best known in
the Nation is Mrs. w. r. Thompson,
who was long postmistress of Louis.
vile and is now a resident of Wash
ington.