Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-03
Chat About Women.

The Marchoness Of ormonde, possesses a
gold plate service $50 years 0ld SAID TO De
the most valuable in Great Britain.
Margaret Jessie Chung 16-year-old girl
Of Chinese parentage living in Los Angeles,
Cal, has become a newspaper reporter
there, She is teaching English in the Chi
past has been secretary of a church me-
mortal union. Miss Chung is thoroughly
American in spirit dress and ambition.
Miss Edith A. Smith of Salt Lake City
has been granted patent for button that
can be securely fastened on a garment
without sewing. The button is said to be
is particularly adapted for undertaking
and wash material Miss Smith has had an
offer to place her patent with large manu-
featuring firm.
Miss Minnetta Taylor of Greencastle, Ind.
for years professor OF romance languages
in De Pauw university, speaks huently
twenty-five different tongues, is able to
converse fairly well in nine others and can
read four more. From early childhood she
showed astonishing ability TO master
languages, and when little more than a
and Hebrew that she spoke each of these
tongues.
The death OF Lord Leigh has given the
barony to his son and has thus raised an
other American woman to place in Burke
The new Lady Leigh was Helene Forbes
Beekwith; daughter Of the late n; M, Beck X
some remarkable pearls, is devoted to
gardening and Is most popular with her
noted for her exquisite taste in dress and
also for her amazingly fine jewels She
was one of the first women In society TO
inaugurate the becoming fashion OF an all
around jeweled crown.
Miss Helen Gould, with the intelligent as
sist nee Of Miss Elizabeth Altman, annually
disburses $500 900 In charity. Probably Miss
Gould supports directly and indirectly more
charities than any person living. While II
does not mean that she gives away such
sums as are recorded Of the Rockefeller
hest
ority her donations annually reach 800 or
more benefciaries. Miss Altman Is Vas
sar graduate and first met her present en-
ployer some seven years ago, when Miss
Gould was visiting the college. Since then
she has been an active agent in giving
away nearly 100000.
Mrs Roosevelt has one well-deveoped
hobby and that is the collecting OF old
china. Under her supervision one of the
most valuable collections in this country
has been placed on exhibition in the base
day when she can add something Of his
toric worth TO the treasures. The exhibit
dinner sets which formerly served the presi-
Dental families. II begins with some rare
gold-trimmed plates and cups and saueers
toms heart and continues down TO the era
OF Mrs. Ida Saxon Mckinley.
There are nearly score of women law
ysrs in New York CITY who practice in
attorneys and counselors at law" is said
TO be the only woman's firm. Attention was
attracted 70 this firm OF lawyers by a
damage suit against a railroad. begun in
the supreme court in which Miss Ashley
appeared. She Is a sister Of Clarence ID.
A 1srey %H9 ssbo sJh GI t senior loTK
Der Of the firm. She was graduated from
the New York University Law school about
beth s. Pope and Madeleine T. poty, who
were one or two classes behind her. II was
agreed among them that when Miss Pope