The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-05-05
GOSSIP.

-
GOSSIP.
New Orleans lorbids high hats in It's
theatres.
In Russia women householders vote
for all elective officers and on all local
matters.
Miss Q. @. Talbot is q commissioner
of deeds in Brooklyn. She is her
fathers partner in insurance and real
estate.
In Tasmania there has been organ
lied II lodge for female Oddfellows,
and it is claimed to be the first one in
existence.
Miss Clara Stimson, of Maine, is
continuing her fathers business as
lumber manufacturer, and has been
successful with her shingIe mill.
Miss Grace Hubbard, OF Iowa, ia
civil engineer: She was given the con-
tract by the United States Government
survey for the maps OF Montana.
Miss Nellie Patterson, of Connecti-
cut, is about to engage in toolmaking.
With this object she has served four
years apprenticeship to a machlnist.
1t is one of the dainty customs of
the time for girl, when she gives u
man few violets from tho bunch she
wears, to tic them with hair from her
own head.
Although the Revolution ended 115
years ago there are still, it has been
found, no fewer than twenty-four
daughters OF Revolutionary soldiers
now living in Connecticut.
OF the ffty.fve female Russian stu
dents at the University of Berne,
thirty-nine study medicine, while OF
the twenty-four Swiss female students,
only three take medical course.
Miss Daisy Barbee. lawyer of st.
Louis, Mo-, was the counsel for the
defense in criminal case the other
day, and got her client off. She is
pretty woman and addressed the jury
in a soft voice,
One Missouri mother has hit upon q
successful plan to get her three daugh-
ters homo at satisfactory hours from
their various social diversions. She
requires the last one in to arise first
and prepare breakfast.
The Emperor of Russia, through
Baron Mohrenheim, has presented to
each Of the sixteen girls who, on his
laying the foundation stone of the new
Paris bridge, presented him with a sill
yer vase containing orchids.
A Chinese girl, the daughter Of q
prominent magistrate in the province
Of Shantung, acts as her fathers gen.
eral assistant in the business connected
With his public Office. She has proved
herself most successful accountant.
Sorosis is emphatically a woman
,lub Recently she celebrated her
birthday, and the presi.
lent stated that they had held in that
lme 630 meetings to only twenty
light OF which men had been been in
tied.
In the Dominion OF Canada women
AVE municipal suffrage in every pro-
ince and also in the northwest terri
cries. In Ontario they vote for all
lective officers. except in the election
i members OF the Legislature and
'arliament.
Mrs. Frank Lord, of Washington,
7as one of three ladies who were pres
mt at the formal notification of Presi-
ent Lincoln of his denomination. She
oncealed herself behind stairway in
he ball when the committee entered
he East Room.
The women of st. Louis want rep
esentation on the school board, and
S the simplest way OF securing it have
bill drawn up which, if passed, will
Mt an end to existing masculine mo-
opoly OF school management in the
tate of Missouri.
Interesting evidence of woman's
resent prominence as a playwright
as offered in London during Christ
lbs week, when three theatres in the
trand-the Globe, the Opera Comique
nd the Olympic-presented plays
ritten by women.