The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-24
Feminine Gossip
In Vanity Fair

The highest-paid woman in the gov
eminent service is Miss Estelle Reel
who is superintendent of all Of the In
dian schools. She is very handsome
and distinguished looking, and not
m Rs 30 ar of San Th b she
in Washington, most of her time is
spent in travelling about all over the
country, her task being to improve the
management of and the educational
methods adopted in the day schools,
boarding schools, kindergartens and
other establishments maintained by fed
eral authority for training the minds
Miss Reels power in such affairs is
well-nigh absolute, and she has insti-
tuted many important reforms in the
schools. Her pay. is $4,000 a year plus
travelling expenses, and she earns the
money.
Mrs. John Jacob .Astor labors under
As As Yet y'1 her figure has not Of noticeably
lost any Of its grace, but there is a
haunting fear that the curves are be-
coming too curved. Mrs. Astor tells
of visit she once paid to a. Partisan
tailor in company with friend who
had taken on numerous superfuous
pounds. The stout woman was having
so tight she could not sit down. The
tailor, who understood American slang,
blandly incurred: "Does madame pre-
fer a gown in which she can stand up
and look smart or one in which she can
sit down and look -sloppy?' Madame
ordered the tightftting costume, OF
courses but Mrs. Astor lives in terror
| Of duplicating the experience which be-
fell her friend.
Mrs. Florence E. Shaal, manager Of
the Massachusetts woman's depart
ment of the Equitable, seems to be
Boston's woman ''top notcher,' as re-
CARDS salary. Her annual salary is
reported to be $1,000. Life insurance
is without doubt woman's happy hunt
ing ground so far as big salaries are
comes Mrs. Stella E. P. Drake, who has
charge Of the woman department of
| the Mutual Life Insurance company.
| Mrs. Drake is Michigan woman, who
went to Boston about eight years ago,
worked for several publishing houses,
then took up insurance. Upon the re-
tirement of Mrs. A. F. Potts, the first
manager Of the Mutual's woman's de-
partment, she succeeded to that posi-
| ton.
Collectors of precious stones in New
York are. awiting with eagerness an.
nouncement of the time and place of
| the sale of the late Mrs. Leland Stan
ford's jewels. They are said to be
worth $2,000,000, and are to be sold at
auction, the proceeds to go to Leland
Stafford, Jr., university.
Five sets Of jewels from the collec-
tion Of Queen Isabella Of Spain make
up the most interesting part of the
Stanford collection. They are valued
at $1,000,000, and were bought by Mr.
Stanford in Europe.
The money obtained from the sale OF
the fve-string pearl necklace is to PC
/ to the library fund, according to CO.
l dicil to Mrs. Stanford will. 1t viii
probably be sold in parts.
Lady Curzon is the recipient of a
| verltable wonder gown. 1t has salts
fed her exacting fancy to the full, and
has caused a stir in blase London. 1t
| was sent to her by an Indian raiah, and
is composed of $4,000 wing cases of In.
1 dian beetles. They are sewn upon q
silken robe, and lend shimmering iri
| descence to the flowing folds Of the
garment. No wonder She describes il
as dream, for its coloriDg and texture
are almost as elusive as the fabric that
1 dreams are made of. Nearly every
/ woman who has beheld the marvel has
i broken the commandment against cove
| tousness, and tho many have tried to du
1 plicate it, their efforts have been in
vain. Both because Of the rarity OF
the wings and Of the difficulty Of affix.