Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — and her followers Madagascar would be! [ARTICLE]

and her followers Madagascar would be!

f - An Exchange for Woman’* Work has been opened by the ladies of the American colony in Paris on the plan of the exchanges in this country. American pies, cakes and other Specialties are provided, a circulating library has been organi ed, and once each week musical matinees are givronuge of the ladies who are interested in the enterprise. < ■ - Old Duke Ltidwig, of Bavaria, is very wretched just, now because the woman for whose love he renounced his rights in the family saccession, and by morganitic marriage placed himself beyond the pale of polite society, is dying of an incurable malady. For thirty-live years the married lovers iuive lived together in delightful sympathy and harmony which has recompensed fully the man wfaorai nee! Ii ! s ~p mspects and bligh t ed his future for the sake of. .possessing the woman of his choice. The Baronoss was previous to her marriage an ordinary coryphee at the Munich Opera House.

A philanthropic Russian lady who. owns several villages has closed all the liquor stores in her towns and established in their places tea houses, where the peasants can buy meat, rolls and all the tea they ean drink for a small sum. On Sundays the lady and her husband soend the afternoon at these tea houses entertaining their peasant guests with extracts from the newspapers or pleasant booksDr. Arabell Ivenealy views the fact that many women must re naiu spinsters by reason of their preponderance in numbers with cheerful e niunimity, for she says; “The increased and increasng surplus of women is forcing,upon us the impossibility of marrying all our daughters, and we are compelled therefore to provide them with professions whereby Lhsy can make provision for themselves, ft fs this swelling of the tide until itr busy over.lowed the do nestic procinets that has carried us out into (lie current of the larger and fuller life. Patti is fairer than ever, now that she has discarded her blond locks for the familiar dusky ones, her admirers say. She has won her suit against the Russian lmptessurio who compelled her to pay the large sum for breach of contract to sing at Moscow and St. Petersburg. And she is on h«r wny for another farewell tour to America in radiant good spirits.