Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-21
Femininc Notrs

pleats are. laid perpendcularly.
Feminine Notes.
Your majesty" Is the manner in which
Mrs. Dominis OF Hawaii Is Invariably ad-
dressed by her attendants during her present
visit in Washington.
1t is said that Mrs. Althea Briggs-Stryker
of Kansas is Mrs. Leases most powerful
rival. She is a quiet but persistent young
woman OF 40 with a soft voice and pleasing
presence. She Is the wife of the state super
intendent of education, but was "a prominent
popUlist long before her husband was publicly
known,
Minnie Hauk lived as a girl in the now de-
serted town of Sumner. Kan, three miles be-
low AtchiSon, and waited on the table at her
mothers boarding house. The Atchison Globe
says that she came to Atchisos to give
concert after she had become famous, but
she did not attract much attention except
among a few OF her mothers old boarders.
Lady Henry Somerset's interest In the suf-
ferings of the Armenians is of a very prac-
tlcal sort Having learned that the refugees
in Bulgaria were in distress she sent q
woman doctor and two trained nurses from
London to care for those who are sick
refuge Is to be built and the work carried on
under the auspices OF the Worlds Woman's
Christian Temperance union.
Mrs. Parnell has improved In health since
her return to Ireland. The celebrated woman
is at her old home I'm Avondae county with
granddaughter, Mrs. Della Cleary. Mrs.
Parnell continues to be profound student
of history while she receives with much
eagerness every item of news from the
United States
That professional and business women
should be in bed by 10 o'clock at night that
they should eat three substantial meals a
day and two light ones between and that
they should take regular, brisk morning walks
is the health theory of Mrs. Margaret Sang
ster Mrs. Sangster says she cannot find
time to go into society, because 1t would
interfere with the regularity Of her hours.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson asserts
that men are the only members of the COM
munity who have homes. Women have to
sleep and live and eat in the place where
they do their work. she thinks that the
greater part of the work now done in the
family dwelling is destined eventually to be
removed from it's social precincts, and when
this is done, she says, women Will have
homes.
Queen Amele of Portugal Is a physician
in good and regular standing" having
passed the examinations of the Eschola
Polytechnica the leading college of Lisbon.
and taken it's degree. Her services are given
exclusively to the poor among her subjects.
and 1t is said that she attends to her pro-
fessional duties with as much zeal as
physician dependent upon his profession for
support.
Miss Grace Patton state superintendent
Of public instruction in Colorado, has long
been one of the faculty of the state agri-
cultural college at Fort Collins. She is
good speaker, and has done effective work
for the democratic party. Her political
hobby is proportional representation, and
though it is her hobby, she rides it with
moderation. She is young woman, alive
20 the best educational ideals of the time;
ambitious not for herself alone but to re-
fleet credit on her sex and her state. Sho
will make an efficient officer.
Mrs. Stanfords gift to Stanford university
of the family mansion on Mob Hill, at San
Francisco, with all its art treasures, sur
prised no one who is familiar with her devo-
tion to the institution. Her plan Is to erect
fine art gallery at Palo Alto, to which may
be transferred many of the paintings and
works of art in her home after her death.
In the address which she made to the
trustees at the annual meeting she dwelt
on the importance of religious ideals In
educational work and on the neglect OF
manual training which was made clear by
the reduction in the number of students In
the course Of mechanical arts.
Mrs. James Robo.tom OF Jersey City is an
indefatigable student of everything Egyptian.
having made such progress In her work that
the great Psychologists of France and Ger
many have written to urge her TO complete
her Investigations by an extended stay IN
tho land of the pyramids. Ten years ago
somebody loaned Mrs. Robottom "Ona
| Thousand Miles Up the Nile" She read 1t
while convalescing from an illness, ana De-
came so enamoured with the subject that she
has pursued 1t vigilantly from that day to
this. She has lectured in Jersey City and
Brooklyn several times, and has been invited
to speak at Cornell. One or her talks Is
about Queen Hatasee. legend OF whom
| adorns one side Of the obelisk In Centrai
mark. This queen was the daughter of ono
| of the warrior kings of Egypt. Mrs. Robot
| tom reads these legends easily, having long
since familiarzed herself with hieroglyphics.