Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1889 — CONCERNING WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

CONCERNING WOMEN.

Women give most free rein to their thoughts when they write iySarah Bernhardt has becomejjinfatuated with tho phonograph and will own one as soon as possible. Miss Toki Madira, the daughter of one of the highest families of Japan, has decided to take the veil in Munich. As Adam remarked to Eve as they sat outside the garden gate: “We’ve had an unusually long fall, have we not?” Miss Eva Sars, who is to marry Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, is one of tho finest lady skaters in the world. Mme. Christine Nilsson has not yet recovered from the deafness and loss of memory which followed her illness last spring. The late duchess of Sutherland had a great antipathy to yellow, and would not tolerate that color in any of her floral decorations. Miss Florence Bayard, daughter of the ex-secretary, is the champion lady tennis player of Delaware and of the District of Columbia. The daintiest baby trousseau is being prepared for Mrs, Joseph Chamberlain, nee Endlcott. Many of the garments are trimmed With genuine Irish lace. A woman jumped into San Francisco bay and on being rescued maintained complete silence for nearly two days, when she gave this explanation io+ going overboard: “Oh. I wanted to go to heaven, and that was the quickest way.” -