Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1897-01-24
Feminine Notes.

Another woman who has recently been adj
mitted to the bar is Miss Daisy ID. Barbee
OF st. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Caroline Bartlett OF Kalamazoo Mich.
has just married DR.. Augustus w. Crane,
the ceremony being performed by herself.
Nine. Sarah Grand has taken the INNS. OF
the new novel which she is writing to Spain
with her, where she intends to finish it
while recruiting her health
Mile Rachael Hoffman, the pianist who
will be heard in America this winter, is a
, graduate of the conservatory in Brussels,
and is the first woman who ever received
the gold medal there.
Mrs. Almeric Hugh Paget, the duchess OF
Marlborough and the countess of Castellane
are all devoted to bowling and Miss Helen
Gould has fine bowling alley at her place
in lrvington-on-theH Hudson.
Mrs Agnes Repplier makes a voluntary
statement in the December Scrbner's to the
enect that there is no reason why the liter
ature OF the Sunday school should be uni
formly and consistently bad.
Miss Lucy E. Andrews, a graduate of the
University of Michigan, and for six years
an Instructor in Wellesley college, is now
devoting herself to the work of extending
the knowledge of scientific cookery.
Mime. Daudet, wife of the distinguished
novelist. has written her "Reminiscences"
ON visit she and her husband paid to Eng
land. Mrs S. Lowades is translating 1t into
English and 1t will be handsomely illus
trated.
Miss Jessie Shay of America was the first
pianist to play Paderewski's Polish Fam
tasie' In Berlin. She met with an ex-
tremely Kind reception from the German
critics, who have not heretofore been noted
for their gentleness.
Clerretta Nora Avery, "the colored child
preacher" is addressing large audiences in
Boston. She stated In the course OF one of
her sermons" that she was converted and
became Christian at the age Of Is months.
She Is now only IL years old.
Miss Lillian McAllister has declined an
invitation to become an assistant In the OBJ
seryatory of Columbian university Miss Nc
Allister graduated in June from Vassar and
Is now teaching French and mathematics in
the Mute Endowed High school In Milton,
N. ii.
Mrs. j. Hunter Orr, chairman on decorative
and applied arts for the Tennessee centennial
has made collection for her New York
exhibit OF portraits and busts OF women.
painting done by women, and photographs
taken by them. 1t is said that Mrs Hunter
Is one OF the best ceramic painters In the
south.
Andre Theuret. one OF the new members
OF the French academy, when he laid bunch
OF wild thyme at the feet OF Sarah Bern
hardt on the occasion of her jubilee, said
that the great merit OF his verses was that
Sarah sometimes rected them The other
new academician, M Albert Vandal, Is a
writer OF books OF travel and historical stud
les
In a recent interview Miss Susan b. An
thony says that there should be law COM
pelling every husband TO give half OF his
earnings to his wife. II either has any
money on the wedding day, he or she has
a right TO "hang on to II ALL" she declares.
but what the man gets afterward he should
divide with the woman, who. being his
wife. earns exactly as much as he does.
The empress OF Russia was very popular
the Parlslans during her visit to the French
capital. Curlously enough, her mother 10
only mentioned in the biographies published
In French papers. German contemporaries
ask whether the French cannot forgive her
father that he contributed largely to tho
defeat OF the French army at Grayelotte.
where he commanded the Hesslan division.