Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Henrietta Herscbfeld. the first woman graduate of the Philadelphia College of Dental Surgery, is assistant court dentist in Germany. Queen Victoria has written an account of the Balmoral tartan which will be given in a work upon “Old and Rare Scottish Tartans,” to be published shortly. The volume will contain reproductions of the various tartans described, not in colored plates, but in silk, woven exactly to pattern, color and scales. The work contains a series of letters on the subject of tartans, written Dy Sir W alter Seott-amt Sir Thomas Dick Lauder. «,

Among the wedding presents received by the Prinqess May was a churn and a sewing machine, and the announcement is made that she is also to be presented with a cheese from the dairymaids of Ontario. A family of Loflings, in England, is said to owe its wealth to the thimble, which, called then the “thumb bell,” as it was worn then on the thumb, was first made by one of their ancestors in London less than 200 years ago.

Lady Margaret Scott, the first lady golf champion, is the daughter of the Earl of Eldon, who is an ar dent devotee 4>f the ‘‘royal-aud ancient game.” He has an almost perfect course at Stowell Park, his Gloucestershire seat. Lady Margaret Scott is a member of the Cotswold Golf Club, and when in London plays on the ladies’ link at Wimbledon. ■ i— ■' ‘

Not long since Mrs. Grant was buying the confectionery for a din ner at West Point. While she was in the shop some young girls, accompanied by cadets, came in and bought candy, the girls paying for it, as the cadets are never expected to have money. Mrs. Grant smiled on them and said, “I am buying candy for the old Generals and the pretty girls are buying it for you.”

Miss Charlotte Mary Young, the author of “The Heir of Redclyffe.” “The Daisy Chain” and other popular novels, completes her seventieth year on August 11, and her friends propose to present her with a birthlay gift.

Mrs Nancy W. Boynton celebrared her 100th birthday at Hoosick Falls, if. Y., Sunday last. Mrs. Boynton, whose maiden name was Wheeler, was born in Fitchburg, Mass. She has bad ten children, of whom seven are living.

THE VERY LATEST ORNAMENTS FOR THE WAIST.

SOME PRETTY BELTS.

THE SUMMER GIRL’S FAVORITE.