Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-01
Feminine Mates.


Mrs. Marion Crawford, wife of the famous
novelist. has dark eyes and golden hair. two
things rarely found in the same person.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop writes to a
New York paper to urge the immediate need
of a hospital for poyerty-stricken victims of
cancer.
Miss Christine Law has been appointed
assistant clerk Of courts for Hampden
county, Massachusetts,. She Is the INST
woman in the state to hold this office,
Miss Nellie Patterson OF Mount Carmel.
Conn, has completed four years appren-
ticeship to the machinist trade, anu will
undertake toolmoking as her particular limo
Of work.
Miss Shidzu Naruse is a Japanese woman
studying nursing in a New York hospital.
She has been trained in Japanese hospitals
but came to this country to study Ameri-
can methods.
The duchess Of Cleveland has the outside
of her London house washed down from
top to bottom by men Of the fire brigade.
The task is performed very early in the
morning.
DIR. Anna McFee, who has been recently
appointed a resident physician to the In
fants' hospital on Randalls island. is Scotch
by birth and a graduate of the Toronto Med
ical College for Women.
The countess of stanford is at the head
Of an organization known as the Flannel
Shirt club. The aim of the society is to
seek out the shirtlcssN and supply them
with warm garments.
Miss Maria Straub. who recently died in
Chicago. was the author OF more than 200
hymns which have been set to music and
sung all over the country.
The first woman admitted to practice as
a barrister and solicitor in Australian courts
is Mics Ethel Rebecca Benjamin, LIB, OF
Dunedin, New Zealand, who has passed her
bar examination. She is % years of age.
Mice IN,b,l Ng,r,,, 80, ,,n,., -
Detroit, Mich, swan a mile and a half the
other day in fOrty-four minutes. Miss Muir
ray is a pretty girl, is years old. She
weighs 127 pounds and is five feet four
inches tall.
Miss Lell Seguer, superintendent of the
city schools of Decatur, Ind, refused to
swear to the assessors list, or to give him
a list of her taxable property. For this she
was arrested and fined SIS. She believes
that If she cannot vote she should not pay
taxes.
Mrs. Daniel Whalen is a st. Louis woman
introduced to fame through her original
method of preserving the harmony OF her
home. Her husband, coming home intoXi-
Gated, tried to strike her. When he had
gone to sleep Mrs. Whalen sewed him up
in the sheet and gave him a sound threshing.
Two Iowa girls, Miss Gertrude Terrell and
Miss Theodore Plambeck of Webster City,
shot a burglar who had entered their house
last week. The girls were alone in the
house, and the burglar made several at
tempts to get in before he succeeded. He
will not recover from his wounds. The
young women are members of the Clarion
Gun club and are good shots.
The queen OF Denmark and her husband
live a quiet, ideal life, caring more for home
than for affairs of state. The family gather
ings at Copenhagen have become historical.
Their children are all famous and there Is
probably not another mother in the. world so
proud of her children's achievements as
Louise of Denmark.
Miss Juliette Atkinson, the champion
woman tennis player of this country, is not
satisfied with this side Of her career, but
during the winter months, when tennis Is
not feasible, devotes herself to work in the
theatrical profession. Miss Atkinson ap-
peared in New York City last season in a
minor part in comic opera and cherishes the
idea of winning a higher place on the stage.
Miss Beulah Dix, a Chelsea High school
graduate, has captured the Harvard prize Of
$3.50 for the best thesis on The Published
Collection of English and Scottish Ballads,
1865 to 1902" The prize is open to under
graduates of Harvard, graduates who reside
at the university as students and the young
women at Radcliffe, or annex.
An English woman, Miss Gertrude Long
bottom of Girton college, Cambridge, has
won from Bryn-Mawr college a fellowship
of mathematics, tenable for one year and of
the value of $500. Miss Longbottom has had
a brilliant career at Girton, last year had Il
place among the wranglers in the Cambridge
mathematical tripos and won further honors
this year. She will probably arrive here In
time for the opening Of the college in the
fall. This is the second time that Bryn-
Mawr has bestowed a fellowship upon an
English woman.
A dinner significant of the change in the
position of women during the Victorian era