Arizona republican., 1898-05-02
FOR THE LADIES.

FOrIy-S6Von women nave 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 wo- mems smoking apartments in railway cars.
 This getting married" remarks your bachelor friend, lis like renting a door for the purpose of keeping a wolf from it."
 Says one who knows: Woman is deliberately cruel; man thoughtlessIy so. Man needn't pat himself on the back and immediately conclude that he possesses the less cruel form of cruelty. To be thoughtlessly cruel carries more heartaches with it, more discoura agements, than deliberate cruelty. One knows how to meet and fight woman who is deliberately cruel, but enc never knows what to expect from 8 thoughtlessly cruel man.
 The oldest married couple in the world is believed to have been MT. and Mrs. Jacob Miller of Niles, Mich, who died this month within a day of each other. Their respective ages were 107 and 1O9 and they had been married eighty-nine years.
 A rather trying situation is that in which Madame Patenotre, the Ameri- can 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 Elver- son of the Philadelphia Inquirer, is helping to keep up the war spirit at home through the columns of his pa per. Madame Patenotre refused to speak for publication before sailing. but her brother speaks for her: "YoI. can readily understand he explains "as the wife of a diplomatic agent she cannot speak for fear of committing her husband. She iis an American girl, with American ideas, and if she is at Madrid during possible conpli- cations between Spain and this coun- try her position will be most delicate Of course, as the wife of Frenchman she is now really Frenchwoman and whatever her sympathies may be she is, Automatically, a subject Of France"
 The following decree of Miss Fran ces B. Willard, whose remains have just been cremated, was found in scribed in her autobiograph: Hay ing the purpose of helping forward progressive movements, even in my last hours, I decree that the earthy mantle which I shall drop ere long xuTo the world unseen, shall be swiftly en- folded in flames and rendered power less harmfully to affect the health Of the living. Let no friend of mine say aught to prevent the cremation of my cast-off body"
 Women are to be permitted this year to enter the annual bicycle cen tury run of the congress or wheelmen of Newark, N. J., which will be held late in May.
 Dr. Mary Walker of Washington. D. C.: "I have been arrested thirteen times for wearing mems clothes but the soft impeachment has been false How can clothes be mems when a woman is the wearer, the owner, the purchaser? I confess to be so lack ing in brains that I cannot compre- bend mans ownership of my gar ments"
 "A pioneer of higher education for woman" is the title bestowed upon Mrs. Emma Willard, the founder of the Troy female seminary, by the com pliers of the story of her life, soon to be published under the title, Emma Willard and Her Pupils" Mrs. Will 1or r-1 is ole tho of the words to the song, Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" and as the editor of many textbooks which were compiled for use in the seminary. It is said also that many dlstlngulshed women of today owe their careers 10 the training which they received at the old Willard school. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the we'll known advo- cate of woman suffrage, was a mem Der of the class of '33. Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, the famous nov elist, was another distinguished pupil. Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick was known ln 1854 at the Troy seminary as Kettle Fowler. She has been most liberal patron of educational institutions in Chicago.
 It is reported that there is some thing new in the belt line for the col lege girl, or rather the girl who has a fondness for college students. : It is a belt made of the flags of the lead ing universities and colleges 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 en- blem of Yale waves side by side with the crimson of Harvard, and Colum- bia, Cornell. the University of Penn sylvania, Princeton, Rutgers and all the others are represented.
 The marriage question, after all, is one of considerable interest and 50 are the following statistics whi h some one has been kind enough to dig np: Between 15 and 19 only one girl