Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — THE FAIR SEX, [ARTICLE]

THE FAIR SEX,

Princess Christian sent ,a beautiful old Chippendale escritoire as a wedding gift to Miss Fairbank last week, and the Princesses Victoria and Louise presented an ivory and white lace parasol, paid for out of their own pocket money. The bride is the daughter of the late Dr. Fairbank, family physician to the royal household. The Queen of Denmark took the trouble to write out a summary of Siberian horrors and post it to the Czar of Russia. Now the unfortunate monarch is in receipt of an open letter from Lady Florence Dixie, with an autograph copy of her new book, "Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900.” If this sort of thing goes on, his majesty will become very weary of the woman question. A young woman who has a dressmaking establishment in East Thirtyfirst street, New York, makes her rent by storing furs, wraps and winter, dresses for her customers during the warm weather. ; The garment is cleaned, renovated and packed away, and when called for is freshened with new linings, ribbons, buttons or frills, and a suffleint sum charged to covfer the bill, including insurance. Mrs. Ellen Mitchell, who has been a member of the Chicago Board of Education for the past two years, was a friend of the Brownings, and corresponded with the poet up to the time of his death. Some of the letters she received are in the Fortnightly Club, a society composed of a few brilliant women, and a lot of purse proua women who are not so literary. But they pay the bills and the blue stockings do the edifying and mystifying. Mrs. Theodore Tilton is a sad and lonely woman, with silver-streaked hair, a careworn face and stooped figure, who freqents Lincoln park in Chi-" cago with her grandchildren. Every pleasant morning in the year she goes to the pleasure-ground, but is seldom recognized and never seen speaking to any one. She lives with her married daughter, who contributes to the family income by waterscolor paintings, many of which are very lovely in conception and treatment. Mrs. T. R. Gibbs, a resident of Newport and a lover of little people, gives a July fete every year to which every small boy and girl in the city is welcome. At the last fete the poor little ones were entertained in a pink and white tent big enough to cover a circus at which many society ladies assisted. There were music, recitations and games, and each youngster received a small flag, a big seed cake, a box of ice cream and a box of candies. Annie Miller is too wise a doctor to accept her own dresses, even in small doses. The long coats, reefers, evening toilets and walking , costumes, in wnich she bewitches her audiences, are all carefully, fitted over a French corset. When she mounts the dress-reform ladder her whalebone is laid aside, and the auditors are at liberty to climb up, too, and feel for themselves. The apostle of reed waist |ind divided skirt- is a very beautiful woman, but she couldn’t be hired to risk her grace in her own garments. Like tho pill people, her goods arc made to sell. The Rev. Phoebe A. Hanaford, of New Haven, Conn., is one of those sweet, good women who in progressj ing find time to speak gentle words ! that soothe the heart and do the little kindnesses that help so much to smooth over the rough places. 1 ‘Let not one heart be sad” is tho tenor of her song. The reverend lady is the author of a number of books, including l "The Heart of Siasconsit,” "Daughters of America,” "The Captive Boy in Terra del Fuego,” and "Field, Gunboat, Hospital and Prison.” She also wrote the lives of Lincoln, Dickens, and Peabody, and a volume of poems bears her name.