Middletown transcript., 1905-12-02
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

i Women are not photographed il
China.
lIorneo women dye the hair i'll fantas
tic colors-pink, green, blue and scarlet.
The value Of beauty in hospital nurse
is receiving close attention in London.
For interior decoration beefsteak anG
onions strike the average man as abou
right.
There are 20, 600 more men than women
in Iowa, End the state is also short o
school teachers.
Youth depends to great extent upon
our ability to keep the blood and circula'
| ton in healthy condition.
Considering what mighty little bit oi
good work is done in this world, there's
terrible lot of talking to go with it.
To securely seal all envelope use the
white of all egg. An envelope sealed in
this manner cannot be opened by steam
| ing.
Women employees of the city hospital
at Cincinnati are in revolt against rule
| Just promulgated and which provides
that they must wear corsets or lose their
jobs.
Mrs. John w. Aackay has purchased
the original tapestries which at one time
hung in the winter palace at st. Peters
burg. The cost is said to be quarter of
a million dollars.
Della George, whose husband was SOL
der in the war Of 1912, died in Lancaster,
N. Y, last week, in her l0Sth year.
Here is the highest notch in the centen-
arian record for this year.
The Duchess of Devonshire who was
given up to die has made the Duke
pledge himself to marry Miss Muriel
Wilson, a Yankee girl, whose beauty
and talents they both have long ad-
mired.
josef Holman, the noted "boy plan
list" was recently married to Mrs. Marie
Eustis, beautiful young American widow
of SO years. Holman is rs years. He
has been before the public twenty -one
years.
A bachelor girl, Miss Grace Stephen
son, has become editor of the Lindsborg,
Kan, MeWs, which used to have this line
over wedding announcements, "They Are
Happy Now" The new editor has
changed it to 'They Are Happy-Now." !"
Peacock blue is the coming color. 1t is
used profusely in the millinery salons
and for evening gowns. Smoke is the
latest shade of gray to demand trial
and "soap suds' is the name given to the
newest edition of white
Observant travellers say American
women, as rule, are noted for their dis
heveled locks. Except among the rich,
no one can afford the coiffeur every day,
and the French maid, who knows the
mysteries of hairdressing is only for the
RICH American women do not take the
serious view of hairdressing held by their
constinental sisters.
Women are to be given an opportunity
to demonstrate that they are more careful
and more to be trusted than men. Com
missioner Of Pensions Warner has dis
charged several members of the board of
review for gross negligence and has ap-
pointed as members Miss Edith Quacken-
bush of Indiana and Miss Fanny Beal of
Maryland, who are the first women ever
given those responsible positions.
The only college for women i'll Western
Asia is the American College for Girls, at
Constantinople, founded, supported and
incorporated by American women. 1t is
one of those agencies by which the
Oriental conception of the position of
woman is subtly undermined. 1t has
graduates in eleven different Oriental
nationalities. More than half of them
are teachers. The rest are in the profess
sions or are mistresses of homes.