People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — For and About Women. [ARTICLE]

For and About Women.

Kate Douglas Wiggin is in England, where she has been received with much attention. Lady Caithness gave a ball in Paris, when supper was served at 5 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. Challoner, the widow and the sister of well known horse jockeys, is said to be the only woman who trains race horses. The Empess of Austria, when she travels incognita, uses indifferently the three following names: “Mme. deTofna,” “Mine Nicholson,” and “Miss Simpson.” Princess Louise, in the studies that have resulted in the production of the Queen’s statue at Kensington, had the assistance of Miss Henrietta Montalba, a talented Canadian woman. Mine. Modjeska carries in Henry VIII. a handkerchief which is said to have been the property of 'Queen Isabella. The handkerchief is one of the rarest pieces of old Spanish lace in existence. There seems to be no lack of openings for female medical practioners in this country, for the Indian bureau announces seventeen vacancies for women. Ouida has uttered another plea in defense of her favorites —animals. It is called “The New Priesthood,” and is a protest against cruelty tcufaimals, and especially agajfjj|^ivisecMiss Edith Carrington has written a book called “Workers Without Wage,” dealing with all kinds of animals, including the earwig. She has been asked by the English society for the prevention of cruelty to animals to write another book, which the society will publish officially.