Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — CHAT ABOUT WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

CHAT ABOUT WOMEN.

I Mrro'wcd that tbe golden day was dead, .1' Its light no more the country-side adorning! But whilst I grieved, behold!—the East grew red With morning. I sighed that merry spring was forced to go And doff the wreath that did ao treH become her, f t-iT-ar. , But whilst I mnrmure 1 at her absence, lo !--- ’Twas summer., I mourned because the daffodils were killed By burning skies that scorched my early posies; ; But while for these I pined my hands were filled With roses. Half broken-hearted' I bewailed the end Of friendships than which none had once seemed nearer,. But whilst I wept I found a newer friend, * And dearer. Andthus I learned old pleasures arc estranged Only that something better may be given, Until at last we find this earth exchanged For Heaven. Mrs. Sheridan is still young, oeing but 35, and beautiful. Queen Victoria has had wicker baskets made for her cats to travel inR Queen Victoria is exceedingly fond of oat cakes and scones.

Miss Kittie C. Wilkins, of Idaho, is the owner of between ’ 700 and 800 horses. Mfss Flora Philips is secretary of the F. C. Electric Light Company at Rockford, 111. The Czarina is so passionately fond of dancing that she is called '“la Santerelle.” Mme. Moreau, who died in Paris the other day, made over SIOO,OOO by for-tune-telling. J. Ellen Foster resides at Clinton, la. She is her husband’s partner and professional counsel. Mary A. Livermore began her ministerial life in Chicago as pastor of the Univerealist Church. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has learned to speak French, Italian and modern Greek since her marriage. Miss Isabelle Darlington, daughter of the Pennsylvania Congressman, has marked oratorical ability. Th.e mother of Gen. Boulanger, who is a Welsh woman, has passed her 84th year. Mrs. E, J. Nicholson inherited the New Orleans Picayune ten years ago and has made the property signally successful. f

Miss Lottie Dodd, the champion tennis player of England, is 18 years old and has been an expert for eight years.Lady Eleanor Lambton, to whom Lord Robert Cecil, the third son of the Prime Minister, is engaged to be married,,has a fortune of $300,000. ' Miss Effie Harris, of Lake Eustis, Fla., aged 13, has such skill with the rifle that she thinks nothing of plugging a twelve-foot ’gator through the eye, or bringing derwtt-a bird from the top of-a tree. * A Massachusetts man offers to prove by statistics that seven-tenths of the marriage engagements that are broken are broken by women; that three widows remarry to one widower, and that two wives elope to one husband. well-known poet, has taken up the profession of letters. She has j ust published a volume of stories bf an evangelical character entitled “Cherryburn.” She is also author of a number of tracts. Mrs. Abigail P. Harrington, widow of the late John Harrington, and niece of Gen; Israel Putnam, of revolutionary fame, died in Boston recently at the advanced age of 90 years. .She was bom in Hinsdale, N. H., July 17, 1798, but has resided'the greater part of her life in Boston. She leaves two children—a daughter and a son.

—Sinceithas been made public that James L. Babcock will inherit $280,000 i he marries within the next five years he has been overwhelmed with letters, photographs, circulars from matrimonial bureaus, locks of hair, etc. He finds it unpleasant to jump into prominence in leap year. The Queen of England never sends her personal correspondence through the regular mail, as her subjects do. Every trivial communication, whether of a personal or a private nature, is delivered at its destination by a Queen’s messenger. She is the only European sovereign who does this. The other potentates are democratic enough to use the mails. Princess Sophie of Prussia, sister of Emperor Willliam, has been betrothed to Prince Constantine, crown Prince of Greece. The couple are respectively 18 and 20 years of age. The betrothal is one of the results of the emperor’s visit to Copenhagen, Prince Constantine being a grandson of the king of Denmark. While there has been no falling oft in the increase of female medical practitioners, the growth of the last three months would probably have been larger had not a goodly number of the medical neophytes been diverted to the study of the sister art, dehiitry, which has recently gained many recruits from the sex. In New York, particularly, the number of women matriculating at dental colleges is rapidly growing. The statistical crank has let himself loose again, and now turns up with the information that the seaside resorts this summer have had an average attendance of twenty-eight women to every man. There has, indeed, been a deplorable scarcity of men at all the resorts. At many of thehalls the ludicrous spectacle of a Bet composed of one man and I seven girls is common, and the entire set is not infrequently danced by girls.