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expert in the preparation of almost
any sort of food is to have at command
means of obtaining g. good livelihood.
New York,Ledger.
Gossip.

Gossip.
There are over 600 women employed
in the various Government Offices Of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Stella l.. Stuart was elected
Register Of Deeds for Bourbon County,
Kansas, by majority vote Of 729.
Mrs. Alice Barber Stephens, Of
Philadelphia, has had great success as
an illustrator, her work being always
in demand.
Mile. Reichemberg, who has just
retired from the Theatre Francois,
played leading ''iuvenile" parts for
thirty-fve years.
The richest princess in the world is
the Grown Princess Louise Josephine,
of Sweden ard Norway, married to the
Grown Prince of Denmark.
Miss Frances Goodwin, of Newcas.
tie, Ind, has completed bust of
Schuyler Colfax, which will occupy a
niche prepared for it in the United
States Senate chamber.
Miss Frances Lewis Lawrence. who
was graduated from the Sheboygan
wis. High School, is filing the r.
sition Of; director and supervisor Of
kindergarten work in the Hawaiian
Islands.
One OF the most active workers in
the University Settlement for Women
in Bombay is the daughter Of Austin
Dobson, the poet-Miss Mary Rachel
Dobson. Her work is principally
among the Parsees.
!! Miss Mabel Hay Barrows, whose
Greek play at Brown University was
so successful, will soon conduct
Latin play, 'The Flight of Eneas,"
for the benefit of the Eotchkiss School
at Lakeville, Conn. ..
The Princess of Wales designs her
own gowns and sends a water color
drawing executed by herself to her
dessmaker, who rarely sees the royal
lady, the gowns all being fitted on o
wax model Of her figure. .
Queen Christine Of Spain has signi-
ffedsher disapproYaI of: The stage by re-.
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the s5sfd ST Sonora Guerrero, who is
commonly caHe9a6he Bernhardt OF
Spain. The actress is the wife of Don
Fernando Mendoza, one OF the grandees
of Spain, which makes the slight all
the more pronounced.
Several women have been appoint
ed by State Governors to responsible
positions-Miss Mamie Montgomery
to be State Librarian Of South Caro-
lima; Mrs. John 4. McAllister to be
trustee of the Agricultural College Of
Utah; Miss Helen N. Staples, State
Superintendent Of the Industrial
School for Girls in Maine.
The eight women colonies Of the
German army, who draw swords only
occasionally and their salaries regu-
larly, are: The Empress Of Germany,
the dowager empress, wife Of the late
Frederick Ill, Princess Frederick
Charles OF Prussia, the Queen Regent
Sophia and the Queen Wilhelm1na OF
the Netherlands, the Duchess Of Con-
naught, the Duchess Of Edinburgh,
sister Of the Empress Of Russia, and
Queen Victoria.
One Of the most interesting features
of the big cloth-niil strike has been
the bringing forward to the notice OF
the public Of two women leaders.
Both are weavers, and beth are mem
bers of the Weavers' Protective Asso-
c;ation, as the New Bedford Wcavers'
Union is known. The more pronl-
nent is Mrs. Harriet Pickering, an
Englishwoman, and a representative
Of Lancashire, which is known on
both sides OF the water as the home OF
unionism. The other is Mrs. Maria
Hindle, Yorkshire woman, and an
able speaker.