Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1892 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

A firm of machinists in Scandinavia employs a young woman agent Europe. She recently arrived in London direct from Moscow and ep route for Melbourne.. Th,e womaq conj'.ncrcial traveler is frequently met on the Continent, one London firm employing several women as travelers, and many manufacturers having one or more women as agents. From one town in the Union conils the report of a club of women whose members pledge themselves to go to the Fair next year in a simple, serviceable gown, easy and comfortable in fit, and unhampered by any extra length of skirt. A small, light bag, which may be carried iu the hand, must-hold all the other necessities, and, with a minimum expenditure of nerve force, this club will enjoy a maximum of sight-seeing. -

The colored women of New Orleans have sent Judge Tourgee a silk lap-robe of which the material has been grown, spun, and made up and delicately embroidered by tbe women as a token of their gratitude for Judge Tourgee’s efforts on behalf of their race, —- ■■■-■ - ■; -V __ A gracious and generous lady in Ventura, Cal., has caused to be planted about her grounds a beautiful hedge of heliotrope 200 feet long. The public walk is three feet below the level of her garden, and on the banks above wires support the plants, which grow to a height of six feet, their drooping branches falling back to the walk, and covered with fragrant bloom. The little children passing fill their hands with flowers, ladies break the fragrant sprays for their belts, and gentlemen owner, Mrs. Shepherd, announces that the heliotrope belongs to the town and its people.

Mrs. A. M. Mankly has bequeathed to the city of Washington a large sum of money for the erection and maintenance of a borne for destitute women, as a memorial to her mother. In memory of her husband she has willed to the Children’s Aid Society $30,000 for the erection of a home. Frances Hodgson Burnett says that she has made up stories ever since she can remember, and has written them ever since she was 7 years old. She picked berries and sold them to obtain the postage for forwarding her first printed story to the publishers.

It is suggestive of the recognition which dramatic talent receives in London that the baby daughter of Lady"Granby at her recent christening had a duchess for one godmother and an actress for the other, with no less a personage than Mr. Arthur Balfour for the godfather. The little maid was christened in the gown worn by all the old Dukes of Rutland and in her mother’s bridal veil. Her sponsors were the Duchess, of Portland and Mrs. Beerbohm Tree, who stopped playing Ophelia long enough to assume the role of godmother. * To celebrate the christening of her only daughter and her own 34th birthday, the Empress of Germany gave 100 sets of baby clothing to the maternity homes in the empire, and the Emperor released 400 women imprisoned for various offences.

Lima, Peru, has a paper devoted to literature, politics and science which fs edited by a woman, the Senora Chlorinda Matto de Turner. Another prominent South American woman is the Senora de Cassorate. an artist of considerable talent, whose faithful rendering of the creole type, which will soon be known from the records of history,promises to make her famous.

A “ Friendship Garden, ” that is the name of the latest fanciful conceit with which the beautiful Lady Brooke amuses herself. There is a nice Old World ring about the title, and a pretty attractiveness in the idea, for within the borders of this garden grow only such enduring plants and shrubs as those near and dear to the heart of its mistress have planted there. One wonders it any of ,the Sandringham lilies that the gentle Princess of Wales loves are planted within the enclosure as yet. The industrial exhibits at the Mechanics’ Fair in Boston include the establishment of a woman printer, in active operation, an exhibit from the laundry of the Home for Intemperate Women, a display of factory work by wbmen, of silk culture from the woman’s prison, and other industries carried on by women, such

as the culture and preserving p? small fruits and of bjee keeping. Forty years ago Oberiin admitted Afl-t-oinetW Brown -and-Lell iee-Smi tk to study in its theological department, an innovation so radical that even liberal Oberlin. whose charter secured to w6men the right to study in all its departments, was fearful of results. On a single Sunday last month, in the city of Denver, thirtyfive pulpits were occupied by as many regularly ordained women min-isters—--3=rr—

“A complete Dack-down,"--Puck.