Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-09-16

lifting of the English sailor than any
other woman. She has established
many rests" and during the 80 years
OF her labor has done much for the
cause of temperance among the tars.
her temperance magazine, ashore
and Afoat," has met with such flatter-
ing success that the United States
authorities have especially requested
! her to mail the magazine to American
warships.
Miss Julia Nelson can lay claim to
being not only the most classically
beautiful. but also the tallest woman
on the British stage. Alma Tadema
/ considers hers the ideal Greek figure,
and he is very fond of designing her
costumes. On more than one occasion
she has often had the advantage of be-
ing coached by her sister-in-law, Miss
Ellen Terry.
! The aged mother of Joaquin Miller,
the poet of the Sierras, who has lived
| with him on the heights back of Oak
land, Cal, for many years, is slowly
| recovering from a stroke of paralysis,
and it is thought she will survive.
Mrs. Miller, though 50 years old, is
| strong and active. She lives in
pretty little cabin only d few rods from
a similar cabin, in which Joaquin
dwelt before he sailed for Alaska.
Juliette Atkinson, who is again the
champion woman tennis player Of this
country, was chorus girl in a comic
opera last winter. She made this
humble start with the idea of advanc-
ing in her profession, and she an
/ ounces her intention Of continuing in
the future to play tennis in the sum-
mer and stick TO comic opera in the
winter.
Miss Braddon joins to her talent as
novelist genius for housekeeping.
She always trains her own servants,
and can teach something to even the
most accomplished pupil of school
of cookery. She is also an excellent
needlewoman, and when her children
We're young she delighted in nothing
so much as making and mending their
clothes.
Mrs. j. X. Odell of Davenport has
her grandmothers first calico dress.
There is six yards of goods in the
garment, and it cost rs cents a yard.
The money to pay for it was earned
by teaching school six days each week
at rs cents per week. And yet some
of our girls of today are dissatisfied.
Queen Victoria has conferred the
decoration OF the Royal Red Cross
upon the following women, who have
heen such devoted nurses of the sick
and wounded: Sister Mary Aanasta-
STA Kelly, Sister Mary de Cantel Hud-
don. Sister Mary Stanilaus Jones, and
Sister Mary Helen Ellis.
Miss Elizabeth Lowe, who died re-
Gently in London, had been the editor
of the London Queen for thirty three
years Her brother had trained her
in journalistic work at period when
the woman journalist was rare bird
indeed.
Frau Wagner has declined an offer
of $4,000 from an American for the
right to produce "Parsifal" in this
country. Wagner, in his will, directed
that this music-drama should be pro-
ouced only at Beyreuth, and the dis
tinction is worth much to the town.
Princess Louise of England has
new fad. She has caused to be opened
in London a hospital devoted to the
treatment of sores and wounds by oXy-
gen. The system is based on the cura-
tive properties Of pure air.
The queen has presented to the poet
laureate copy of the two volumes
OF her journal OF Our Life In the High
lands, with an autograph on the fly
leaf.
In her early days Queen Victoria was
diligent sketcher her mother, the
duchess of Kent being her tutor. A
collection of her drawings, dated 1888,
each bearing her autograph, will soon
lie offered for sale.
A Cambridge, Mass, woman, during
the recent very hot days hired a small
boy with sponge to stand at water
ing trough near her home and wet the
heads of all horses as they came up
to drink.
1t is noted that the women of the
royal families of Europe are on the
ayerage, much stronger mentally and
physically than the men.