The Philipsburg mail., 1898-08-05

Mrs. Eliza E. Smith, who presented
$4,000 to the city Of Lancaster,
Penn, short time ago, is the sister
OF the late Congressman A. H. Smith.
The money is for free public IL
brary.
Germany and Austria have about
100 cooking schools A four years
course is necessary before the stu
dent obtains diploma. Most of the
hotel iefs have diplomas from these
schools.
In Bucharest, Roumania, women
perform some of the severest forms of
labor. They mix the mortar and car
ry it, as we'll as the bricks, to the top.
most stories Of buildings in course of
construction.
In some parts of China the young
women wear their hair in long
single plat, with which is intertwined
q bright scarlet thread. This style OF
ornamentation denotes that the young
lady is manageable.
Wearing braids down the back il
not permitted at Berlin University.
Two women students, who wore their
hair in that fashion, have been ex.
cludesl from the lectures on the ground
that it made them look like school.
girls.
On the principle that the hand thai
rocks the cradle rules the world, q
French paper has lent its columns in
support of woman's movement 70,
the disarmament of the armies of the
earth. The scheme is to bring up
children to hate everything military.
Among the well known women who
~ill be entertained in Atlanta by the
Daughters of the Confederacy at the
coming reunion will be Mrs. Jefferson
Davis, Miss Davis, Mrs. Hayes, Miss
Hayes, the Misses Hood, the Misses
Lee, Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and
Mrs. General Pickett.
Colonel Joseph M Bennett has pre-
sented property valued at $50, 900 to
the University of Pennsylvania to be
used in increasing the privileges open
to women Mt the institution. 1t is ex-
pected that the university will now be
able to open complete courses of study
for women in the undergraduate de-
partments.
A Peruvian heiress recently paid
Worth $50, 600 for 2, gown trimmed
with lace. OF this sum $40, 900 was
for the lace. When M. Worth wishes
to create a new fashion he does not
make designs on paper, but takes the
materials and drapes them around the
models until he has either developed
his idea or hit upon something new.
Nine. Payer, Swiss woman who
has taken the degree of doctor of
medicine, is strongly opposed to tight
boots and gloves, corsets and long
skirts. Her arguments are said to be
so convincing that at the close of one
of her lectures more than one hundred
women pledged themselves to discard
corsets and to wear dresses ten inches
from the ground.
kendrick is the first city in the
State of Idaho to boast of having
woman for its Mayor. Miss Jessie
Parker is the executive in question,
and Is but twenty-five years old. She
was elected on the Independent ticket
the first Tuesday of last April after u
very bitter campaign. She says the
disreputable element cannot run this
city while | am in Office
Miss Hesba Stretton author of the
popular religious story, "Jessica's
First Prayer" and among other
books, the clever novel, "The Doc
tors Dilemma, lives at Ham, near
Richmond, in Surrey, England. Her
house, a modest dwelling covered with,
ivy, and known as Ivy Croft, stands
at the side of the pleasant Green,
where the authoress resides quietly
with her sister.