Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

In; England and th# United State! most women suicides are young—which means that social disgrace n taken very keenly. In France most of them are old—-which means poverty. The rumor that Helen Gould daughter of Jay Gould, is engaged to a young man who has small means a denied by friends of the family. They say she isn’t engaged to anybody, be he rich or poor. The report that Miss Sartoris. granddaughter of General Grant, is in Buffalo studying for the stage, is untrue. She is in London with hei mother, and is said to have no intention of becoming ah actress. Lady Amherst has been made an honorary member of the guild of the turners. She is skilled as a manipulator of the lathe, and her house is full of specimens of her work. The Queen of Italy is taking her usual annual, holiday among the Alps. She is attended onl}' be two <;f her ladies-in-waiting, and with them she proposes to make an ascent of Monte Rosa. The tetai amount of sufiscriptions for the wedding present from the women of Canada to the Princess May is $3,716. Orders for a sleigh, robes, harness and hells have been given to Montreal and Quebec deal ers.

FOB A TAO-lKAl! 01.0,

President Helen A. Shafer, of Wettest}* College, is the second wor.an in America to receive the hon>rary degree of LL.D.„ Maria Miteh?ll being the first, It was conferred >n Miss Shafer this year by Oberlin, ler alma mater.

The Ladies’ Improvement Association of Narragansett Pier has undertaken to build a sea-wall along the ><*ean road, and one evening last veek an entertainment in aid of the lund was given. The program consisted of the play A Comical Countess and Mrs. Jarley’s Wax Works. Nearly 2,000 persons attended.

Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, the widow of Andrew Carne?ie’s brother, has contracted with a Baltimore ship-building company for i handsome steel yacht, on which she expects to cruise in Southern waters. Mrs. Carnegie owns an islind off the coast of Georgia, of which she has made an attractive summer resort.

k Bicycle costumes are thus described by a looker-on at the Bois de Boulogne: There is Mile, de Saint Sauveur, who, however, is a circus rider, and doubtless feels quite at ?ase in her bicycle costume of a white silk skirt with full sleeves, and white flannel trousers buttoned below the knee. Another is a famous French duchess, who rides with her friends in the morning, attired in a fawn cloth coat and breeches disappearing into top boots of suede feather.

Miss Kirby Jmith, daughter of the famous Confederate leader, was only a fourth-class postmistress when she was given the office at Sewanee, Tenn., but she has man aged with such tact as to carry it into the Presidential class, and she dow gets $1,300 a year out of it.