Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1893 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

The Duke and Duchess of York received over 9,000 wedding presents. At the twenty-fifth annual Go-op-erative Congress, held at Bristol, England, last month, over thirty women delegates were present from as many co-operative societies. By the terms of Miss Garrett’s gift to the medical school at Johns Hopkins University the award of honors to both sexes will be absolutely impartial in that school, and this may possibly alter the poliev of the whole university in time. WALKING DRESS WITH CBAPE FICHU. Marie Antoinette fichus are most becoming to youthful figures, and are much worn over summer dresses, also fichus like the one here seen, to be made of a plain piece of gauze, Orape, muslin, or net about 3 yards

81 inches long and from 19J to 31J inches wine, trimmed all round with lace fulled slightly. The fichu is drawn loosely round the shoulders, crossed over the chest and tied once at the back A North Carolina girl was halted on the highway by three men. She whipped out a pistol and firing on the crowd, wounded one man and put them all to flight. General Booth has passed over his son, Lieutenant General Bramwell Booth, and has nominated his daughter, La Marechale Booth-Clib-born. to succeed him in command of the Salvation Army, and explains himself by saying that “women make the best leaders.” Miss Gordon, sister of the late Chinese Gordon is dead. Her loss will be greatly felt in connection with the movement at Southampton, London and elsewhere for the establisment of the Gordon Boys’ brigades commemorative of the work and life of her famous brother. A CAPE WITH TABS. This dressy little wrap reaches just over the shoulders and is composed of two capes of fluted black satin. These fall gracefully from a

joliarette of Venetian lace. This fastens with two black satin rosettes. The novelty of the capo lies in the two long satin tabs, which hang straight down the front of the gown. These are confined at the waist by large black satin rosettes. The capes may be lined with any colored silk desired. The women of Kenwood and Hyde Park, suburbs of Chicago, have formed the “Mothers’ Educational Union,” with a constitution that states that its objects are “to create public sentiment that shall rcgulalJt amusements and minimize social dig tractions and dissipations. The first daily newspaper printed in the English language was by a woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Mallett. tfho started in London, in 1702, the Daily Courant. not as a paper for women especially, but to “spare the public at least half the impertinences which the ordinary papers contain." The daughters of Mr. W. P. Fri + h, the Academician, are both business women. One, Mrs. Panton. is an adviser on home decoration, first in the Ladies’ Pictorial, later in tht Gentlewoman. Her sister, Miss Frith, is a business partner of Lady Moncton in*tbe latter’s little shop at the sign of the Spinning Wheel.