The Mena weekly star., 1897-09-22

eats rare beef and bread and drinks beer only; is hard trainer, very mod est and retiring.
 Miss Katherine May Wood a young lawyer of Omaha, Neb., is acquiring considerable fame in her profession. She makes a speciality of divorces and refuses to accept any cases but those of women. She has practiced success fully before the supreme court
 As a successful huntress, Mss Hat tie Richards, daughter of New York merchant, has few equals. She has killed many deer and her last trophy was bear weighing over 400 pounds which she shot in the deep woods of Maine, where she is still hunting and fishing.
 Miss Mildred M. Hurlburt, is a young woman of Kansas City, Mo, who has started to the Klondike gold region to seek her fortune digging for the yell low metal. She is quite pretty but has the strength of character and de- termination that should make her successful in the perilous expedition.
 Edward Bellamy has again ushered himself into public view. His great GIT Do oI, was published seven years ago, and very widely read, is followed by a sequel, Equality. It contains 349 pages, but will hardly reach the high mark of popularity of the former book.
 Miss Maud Maynard Noel, a beauti- full young woman of grace and refine ment, in Chicago has begun cam paign which has for its aim the slaughter of all weak and unhealthful humanity, whether ph ysical or mental. She would kill by a painless method and holds that the end would justify the means, as it would benefit the race.
 While other women are seeking fame and fortune in the far-off Klondike, one woman with pluck and determine tion to amass wealth, is laying the foundation to pretty fortune in the coffee lands of Hawaii. Miss Rita Wildwood, 23 years of age, while serv- ing as stenographer in law office in San Francisco was advised to invest her small legacy of 5000, Interesting her brother and two friends they started a plantation two years ago and Miss Wildwood estimates her eighty acres will net her $lO,0OO at four years growth.
 Mrs. John Dreen, perhaps the most highly esteemed actress of the present generation, died in New York, August 3l. She was born in England seventy seven years ago, and her career on the stage began at the age of $, and con-
 
 her professional associates were the elder Booth. Forrest, Macready, Edwin Booth, Florence, Clark and Owen, all of whom have passed away. Promi- nent among her contemporaries who survive her are Joseph Jefferson and Couldock. The part in which Mrs. Dreen was best known of recent years, is Mrs. Malaprop, in "The Rivals"
 Miss Edith J. Griswold, of New York city, is solicitor of patents, and she carries on her business in one of the big down town office buildings. Although youthful in appearance, Miss Griswoiai has been in her present patent business for twelve years. She obtains patents for people all over the United States and foreign countries and gives opinions on patents and trade marks She is also studying law with the intention of passing the New York bar examination. With all her work, Miss Griswold, finds plenty of time for exercise, riding a wheel, swimming and practing several other branches of athletics.
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