Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

The mother, grandfather, great- , grandfather, and great-great-grand-father of a six-months old baby at Rural Retreat, Va., all live under the same roof. Frau Cosina Wagner has been stricken with paralysis. She is a daughter of Franz Liszt, and, before the composer married her, was the wife of Hans Von Bulow. One of Charlotte Bronte’s most intimate friends, Miss Mary Taylor—the Rose Yorke of “Shireley” and the * M." of Mrs. GaskeU’s “Life"— has just died at the age of 76. The ladies of Dresden have been holding "a riding tournament, the honors of the ]oust being won bv a voung English girl, Miss Theresa Brooks. □ Her final exploit was the driving of a pair of horses tandem, while riding her own hprse at full speed.

WALL POCKET. Nearly five hundred women are employed as station agents in France but they get only half as much pay as men in the same positions.

BLACK VELVET JACKET. The infant daughter of the Duchess of Fife has already entered upon her duties as a philanthropist. She has joined the Children’s League of Pity.

NEW SPRING HAT. During the last, year 300 women took scholast c degrees or passed tripos examinations in England and Ireland, sixty-one of these having been placed in the first division of the London University.

AN ELEGANT NEGLIGEE. It is said that Maxwell Gray, who .vrote “The Silence of Dean Mait ’and,” is not a man, but a woman* and an invalid at that. Miss Tuttrell is her name, and most of her work is done up«n her couch.