Kansas City journal., 1898-04-18
FEMININE FACT AND FANCY.

Forty-seven women have just been added
to the number of New York city lawyers.
In the natural order Of things comes the
agitation, started by a certain class of New
York women, for women's smoking apart
ments in railway cars.
This getting married." remarks your
bachelor friend, lis like renting door
for the purpose of keeping a wolf from
it,
Says one who knows: Woman is de-
liberately cruel; man thoughtessly SO.
man needn't pat himself on the back and
Immediately conclude that he possesses the
less cruel form of cruelty. To be Thought
lessly cruel carries more heartaches with
it, more disappointments. more discourage
ments than deliberate cruelty. One knows
how 10 meet and fight woman who is de-
liberately cruel, but one never knows what
to expect from a thoughtlessly cruel man.
The oldest married couple in the world
is believed to have been Mr.. and Mrs.
Jacob Miller. of Niles Mich, who died this
month within a day of each other. Their
respective ages were 107 and 100 and they
had been married eighty-nine years.
A rather trying situation is that in which
Madame Patenotre. the American wife of
the French ambassador at Madrid, finds
herself. Madame Patenotre has just sailed
for Spain. and it has been suggested that
about the time she is paying her respects
to the queen regent the American fleet may
be bombarding Havana, while her father.
who is James Elverson, of the Philadelphia
Inquirer. is helping to keep up the war
spirit at home through the columns Of his
paper. Madame Patenotre refused to speak
for publication before sailing, but her
brother speaks for her: You can readily
understand he explains. "as the wife of
a diplomatic agent she cannot speak for
fear of committing her husband. She is All
American girl. with American ideas. and
if she is at Madrid during possible compi-
cations between Spain and this country
her position will be most delicate. OF
course. as the wife of a Frenchman. she is
now really Frenchwoman. and whatever
her sympathies may be she is. diplomatical-
ly, a subject of France
The following decree of Miss Frances E.
Willard, whose remains have Just been
cremated. was found inscribed in her au-
tobiograph: Having the purpose of help
ing forward progressive movements. even
in my latest hours. decree that the earthly
mantle which l shall drop ere long. when
my real self passes onward into the world
unseen, shall be swiftly EMBODIED in flames
and rendered powerless harmfully to affect
the health of the living.
Let no friend of mine say aught to pre-
vent the cremation of my cast-ofr body"
Women are to be permitted this year to
enter the annual bicycle century run of
the congress of whcelmen of Newark. n. j..
which will be held late in May
DR.. Mary Walker. of Washington. D. c.:
II have been arrested thirteen times for
wearing mems Clothes but the soft i'm
peachment' has been false. How can
clothes be mems when a woman is the
wearer, the owner, the purchaser? ! con-
fess to be SO lacking in brains that / can
not comprehend mans ownership of my
garments"
"A Pioneer of HIGHER education for wom-
an is the title bestowed upon Mrs Emma
Willard. the founder of the Troy Female
seminary, by the compiers of the story of
her life. soon TO be published under the
title, Emma Willard and Her Pupils"
Mrs Willard is also known as the composer
of the words to the song. Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep" and as the editor of
use in the seminary. 1t is said also that
many distinguished women of to-day owe
their careers to the training which they
received at the old Willard school. Mrs
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. the we'll known
advocate for woman suffrage. was mem
her of the class of SO. Mrs. Louise Chand-
Ter Moulton, the famous novelist was an
other distinguished pupil. Mrs. Cyrus Nc
Cormick was known in 1854 at the Troy
seminary as Nettie Fowler. She has been
a most liberal patron of educational in
stitutions in Chicago.
1t is reported that there is something
new in the belt line for the college girl,
or rather the girl who has fondness for
college students. 1t is a belt made of the
flags of the leading universities and col
leges in this part of the world. These flags
are linked together by silver chains, gild-
ed. and the effect is as gay as happy
college boys heart. The blue emblem of
Yale waves side by side with the crimson
of Harvard. and Columbia Cornell. the
University of Pennsylvania. Princeton.
Rutgers and all the others are represented.
The marriage question, after all, is one Of