Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

The New York School of Design for Women is to have on exhibit, at the Fair the designs for Brussels, table linen, stained glass, embroidery, calico, fcnd laces. 1. i l - Mrs. Langtry made a promising turf debut winning about SIO,OOO on her colt Milford. The Jersey Lily gathers in the shekels, whether it is on the turf or behind the footlights, and is one of the shrewdest women in the in the world. It is less than thirty years since the first great woman’s college was founded, and there are now 40,000

girls studying in the different colleges, and several thousand more have graduated are distinguishing themselves by good work inj the various departments of art, literature, and science. The common children ol Athens are taught ancient and modern Greek, French, and sometimes English. Their “readers” are the classics of their own country, and while they are still children they are familiar with Homer, Xenophon, Hftrodotas, and the dramatists. Their nursery tales are the myths ol Hellenic literature. Advertisement writing is a comparatively new occupation for women and one in which she promises to excel. From sto 10 cents a line is paid for work done by the piecej but in large houses, where a regular advertiser is employed, the salary is from $1,500 to #2,000 a year. E*6rtunate [s the woman who has knack at rhyming or can draw illustrations for her —------ ———

Antoinette Sterling, the American , ginger, who is now much Interested |n London temperance work, attributes the perfect health she enjoys to the fact of being an abstainer from gtimulating beverages. She has pever been ill, never had any pains andftaches, is the proud mother of healthy and happy children, but she is much stouter thau an Afherican would care to be. -—Tfag English-nrarrrtage settlement; — which seems a rude interruption to the poesy of betrothal days, is a wise provision for the sterner necessities of practical life. By its conditions, neither adversity nor extravagance, gambling ndr bankruptcy, differences nor estrangements, can affect the wife’s settlement. It is inviolate from creditors and can not be reclaimed by the husband. Many engagements are hopelessly shipwrecked on this rock of the marriage portion, however, and many a fair English maiden is left fancy free because of the dreaded interview between exacting fathers and ious suitors. A new form of summer diversion is promised us P the idea of which is copied and elaborated from the gypsy'caravan. The caravan or perambulating house is built somewhat on the order a hramn boat, and is drawn by string dray horses. By a clever arrangement the dining table is made to disappear under the floor when not in use, and a pianette, a typewriter and a stove for cooking as well as heating, are included among tho comforts provided. To admirers of nature’s rest and quiet the nomadic life has possibilities for health and happiness as well as the chhrm of novelty.

About the granite pedestal of the bronze presented to the King and Queen of Denmark on the occasion of their golden wedding is a row of bas-relief portraits of the fifty-one children and grandchildren of the house. The most remarkable thing about the group is that out of the fifty-one descendants only one is dead the Duke of Clarence, lew women can count upon their fiftieth anniversary afamily of fifty living descendants, numbering among them a daughter who is an-Empress, a son who is a King, and ter who will be a Queen when Victoria is gathered to her fathers,*

A certain famous Archduchess in Austria has resolutely defied the tyranny of the dressmaker. The gowns she wears on occasions of state, when she takes tjje Empress’s place, 6he tries on once, never twice. Gowns for ordinary wear she never tries at all'. Life has for her evidently larger anxieties than how a dress ‘ fits the back,” or whether it wrinkles under the arm or is smooth. She claims that she feels proud every time she succeeds in noF'Ordering a ! new gown.

MRS. CLEVELAND.