Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — THE PAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

THE PAIR SEX.

Frokeo Ida Falbe-Hansen is the first ■ woman to attempt the ordeal of lectur. ting at the Copenhagen University for the decree of Magiiter in Danish literature and languages. A large number of ladies of hjigh jrank in Russia have joined the -colony started bythe followers of Tolstoi at 'Vishnevolotzki, and live exactly like Jtrhe peasants about them after Tolstoi’s methods. George Elliot’s books have become more popular in the past few years than during her entire lifetime. In India “Silas Warner” has been included in the list of books used in the public schools. - The domestic servants’ unions have been formed in London, the promoters of which intend establishing a registry office in every part of the city, where good servants may find good mistresses and be found by them. | Miss Alice Longfellow, daughter of the poet, is a fine amateur photographer, and has made a specialty of storm pictures taken along the Massachusetts coast to illustrate a new bookof sea songs which will soon be issued. ; Miss Inez Coulter, an anti-Mormon missionary, is preaching against the sect in their own stronghold and causing so muoh agitation that she is obliged to go armed, lest the saints and elders arise in their wrath and destroy the enemy that thus condemns them. When the sale of tickets for the Patti concerts In St. Petersburg began, people stood in line the whole of the night waiting for the opening of the box office in the morning. Thousands of people wore gathered in the crowd, while those actually in line numbered about 1,500.

! A syndicate of widows is being formed to move the French Government to help Lucien Wyse to wring a renewal of the Panama concession from the Government of Colombia. Thiß union will be numerically great, as 16,000 free and independent ladies are interested in the Panama affair. The Swiss universities are the most hospitable to women and very popular among them. The four schools of Zurich, Basel, Berne, and Geneva have 183 women students—l 32 in the medical department, 45 in the philosophical, aud 6 in the law, 107 of these women are Russians, Switzerland being represented by 15. Some of the most remarkable bathing costumes seen at Ostend this year were composed of thin black cashmere and worn with a white saayf about the waist. Another striking costume, worn with no corsets and ofrer fine flesh colored tights, had a white Rusjsian blouse, embroidered in metallic thread; trousers confined at the knee with embroidered bands, and white buckskin leggings! Miss Ray Frank is one of the first Jewesses to preach in the synagogue in modern times, for, notwithstanding the fact that Miriam and Deborah preached to women, and Huldah preached to men as well, the prejudice against women preachers is greater among the Jews than in any other congregation. Even female choiristers are not allowed in the orthodox synagogue. The temple of the W. C. T. U. being erected at Chicago is to cost $ 100,000 and to be thirteen stories in height The magnificent audience room on the first floor will be known as Willard Hall, in honor of the President of the society, and will bo lined with marble, upon which will be inscribed the names of noble women, and memorial windows and busts of the women who have lived and labored for the cause of temperance will form its decorations. 'Sifter-Rose Gertrude’s- engagement and Mme Patti’s synagogue furnish in* exhaustible material to the paragraphed pen in disputing one day what they have asserted the previous day. The latest from the ardent apostle to the lepers is that she is not going to marry Dr. Lutz after all, but will remain at Honolulu for a time as governess and later will visit Tokelau, Gilbert Islands, Fiji, and Poumoutous to take notes and photographs of tropiical diseases. Modern wives are not the only ones obliged to submit to the dictation of hasbands as regards their dress. -Napoleon 111 was most fastidious in regard to the appearance of his wife, and could not endure to see her in a abort or high necked dress. On the day of the marriage, ass-the Empress appeared at the window of the Tuilleries to acknowledge the shouts of the people, she caught up a shawl to throw over her bare shouldersj hut the Emperor refused to allow her to appear again until she had exchanged it for a magnificent cloak of red velvet. The latest thing in the photographic line is a camera concealed in the necktie now worn so much by women. The camera, which is very light and flat, is concealed beneath the tie, the lens formulating a stimulated soars pin. It contains six plates about one and one-half inches square, and catches a subject at a distance of two or three feet. The shutter is set by turning the top button of the eoat or waistooat, and discharged by means pf rubbing tubing connected with a bulb carried in the pocket Countess Taafe, in order to promote the Viennese mother-of-pearl industry, which is at a low ebb, has inaug. urated the custom of wearing carved mother-of-pearl hairpins on dressy occasions. In the Bame planner Archduchess Valerie excited Interest in the silver workers. Empress Eugenie of France brought prints into faahion to help the manufacturers of Alsace; the Princess of Wales has brought Irish poplin into popular favor, and the /royal ladies of England have made the

once coarse and despised Harris on* sf the most universal dt materials for street gowns, both in, New York aa well as in London. Nine of j;he clever daughters of Erin had conferred upon them the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the Royal University, Dublin, at the last commence* ment. Miss Frances Helena Gray is now entitled to write LL. D. after her, name, and Miss Maud Joy fit obtained the degree of M. A.* with first-class honors m modern literature. - In the competition for scholarship the women were on equal terms with men, and, of course, excelled them. The Ducbesse de Fitzjames, who owns large vineyards in Campagne, is one of the most successful and scientific vine growers in France. When her vineyards were destroyed by the phylloxera, she replanted 500 acres with American cuttings, followed with unfaltering regularity the experiments successfully made by scientists, attended all the congresses held in regions attacked by the phylloxera, energetically applied every means science had discovered to destroy the insect, and recently wrote a clear and vivid account of Her splendid results for the Nouvelie Revue.