Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

The German Empress made her first visit to Rome on the occasion of the silver wedding of the King and Queen of Italy. Fdr three weeks , before her departure from Berlin she listened to daily lectures upon the art treasures and interesting sights: of the southern city from a professor of the university. The lectures were given in thg Her Majesty was greatly interested in them. The Empress, like her husband, has seen little of the world. She rarely accompanied the Emperor on his excursions, and before her marriage she was too poor to do much traveling.

THE LATEST COIFFURES Mrs. Lucy Stone, of Boston, the wife of Dr. Blackwell, is an ardent woman suffragist, and when the privilege was granted »to women of voting for the school board she went happily off to register. But she found that in registering she must sign her name as Blackwell. This Mrs. Stone declined to do and walked mournfully away. Now her sister suffragists are pondering whether loyalty to the cause required that she vote at any coSt, or whether it was more progressive to refuse to sign her husband’s name. AN EVENING COIFFURE. A style of hair-dressing which mocks at the reaent simplicity of parted and braided locks comes from France. The hair is elaborately

curled and gathered upon the top of the head. An adornment of feathers caught with a star of brilliants is placed well towards the front curls. Out of the long list of candidates for the post of butter maker 4o the Cheshire Dairy Institute atWoreleston, Wales, Miss Bowdage, a North Wales dairymaid, has been selected, with a salary of S3OO a year, with board and residence. Miss Bowc 1 age’s home is at Cotton Hall, near Denbigh, and she has been a frequent prize-winner in butter making competitions at many important dairy shows.

DESIGN FOR A SERGE GOWN. An exchange prints the fact that the first Mrs. Rider Haggard was a Miss Carroll, of Baltimore. She was divorced from the English novelist and is now living on the Pacific coast with a third husband. A further bit of information is that this initial Mrs. Haggard, nee Carroll, is the original of the writer’s remarkable creation—the terrible and ageless beauty. “She—who must be obeyed," is an American woman* A- pension of 6,000 francs a year has been granted to Mme. Renan by the French govemnsent.