Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31
Feminine Notes.

King Oscar of Sweden has expressed him
self enchanted with the lovely singing of
Frau Nansen, the wife of the explorer, who
has hitherto hid her light under a bushel.
Miss Pond Is to conduct the European tour
of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the colored poet,
who will read from his own poems. They
intend to visit all the great literary centers.
The children of Harriet Beccher Stowe are
said to be opposed to the erection of a statue
to their mothers memory. They would
prefer that the money should be spent ON
a scholarship in some college.
The princess royal of Italy is a sculptor
as well as a musician. She has just mod
eled in clay a monument to her ancestor,
Vladilla Danilo, which is being finished off
by NJ. Trorchet, and will be placed in the
Paris exposition of 1900.
Miss A, H. Whitney of Lancaster, Mass,
Is to be Judge of st. Demands and New
foundlands at the twenty-irst annual dog
show of the Westminster Kennel club, to be
held in New York during the week COM
mencing on Washington's birthday.
The Minneapolis Board of Education
elected Mrs. Jennie C. Crays president. 1t
is the first case in, the northwest where
so important a body as the Board of Educa-
ton in a city the size of Minneapolis has
placed a woman at its head.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, when she was
first married, made, washed, ironed and
sold shirts to a neighbours stablemen in
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entertain certain delegates in a manner be-
fitting her rising young husband.
Among Mrs. Cleveland's aids in the blue
room at the New Years reception was Mrs.
Harriet Lane Johnston, who was the lady
OF the white house during the presidency
of her uncle, James Buchanan. Miss Lanes
gracious dignity is one of the fine tradi-
tions of the mansion in the days before the
war.
LADY Arran Is managing n handwriting
industry in County Mayo, Ireland. AL
though designed to give work to such of
her husbands tenants as needed employment,
the venture has proved profitable inan-
cially, 1000 pairs of stockings having been
knitted last year and So, 900 spent in wages.
Matilde Heintze, who, after poisoning her
husband with arsenic at Sarnawko, Prussian
Poland, fled to the United States, whence
her extradition was obtained, has just been
executed at Lissas, the decapitation, as
usual, being effected by means of a big
two-handed sword welded by the Execu-
toner Reindel.
Mrs. Margaret Hood of Frederick City,
Md. has notified the board of directors of
the Women's college of Frederick that she
intends to transfer to it a number of in
vested securities, worth $40 600. The money
will be used a2 an endowment fund, which
will bear the name OF the donors husband,
James Mifflin Hood.
Lady Henry Somerset is so deeply inter
ested in the Armenian refugees that she has
sent a woman doctor and two trained nurses
from London to Bulgaria to care for those
who are sick. A refuge is to be built and
the work carried on under the auspices of
the Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
The Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford of New
Haven, has discovered how men wipe dishes,
and incidentally that woman ought not tc
he the G0la OppnnantS nf the kitchen She
quotes Bible authority for this in a verse from
III Kings, xxi, 10, which reads thus, And
l will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a
dish, wiping 1t and turning 1t upside down."
Mary Judson is the name of a remarkable
woman who has lived for half a century
in Cumberland county, South Jersey. She
is considered one of the best shots in the
state, and is absolutely devoted to hunt
ing and all kinds of outdoor sport. Her
entertainment Is a shooting match,
in which she is more than apt to win. She
is six feet tall and can do farm work as well
as a man.
Lady Randolph Churchill has gone into
racing. 1t appears that she is a partner
with r. ]. Lacey in the yearling Florentine,
which they have leased fol- the season to
Lord Cardross. Her ladyship Is not the first
Of her rank and sex to enter into competition
upon the turf. The late Duchess of Montrose
was well known in racing circles, where she
operated uHueT u masculine name, MT. MIL
ner. No important race meeting was com
plete without her presence, and her doings
as much discussed as those Of any
stable-owner.
1t seems that Janet Carlyle, Thomas Car
sister, Is still alive. The rector of
in Bruce county, Ontario, writes to
the Worcestershire Chronicle: mrs. Robert
Hanning, the Janet Carlyle'of Froude's
reminiscences (my much beloved mother-in-
law), is keeping in excellent health for a
lady who passed her SD birthday on July
last. She Is now the last OF the C~arlyles,
and a melancholy interest attaches to her.
Her present residence is at Comely Bank
Farm, near Oakville, in Halton county, On
tario, the home Of Mrs. John II. Leslie, her
eldest daughter. She passes most of her
time in her own room, rereading many of her
brothers. works, certain ~favolite religious
and her Bible"