Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Madame Debondy, widow of the great French sugar refiner, who left her a fortune of <30,000,000, lives in a small house at St. Cloud and spends about SI,OOO a year.. Hei son, however, is compensating foi the maternal economy by squander ing the fortune with a prodigal hand. Miss Alice Fletcher, the,ethnologist, received $8 a day from the Government as a special agent of the 1 ndian Bureau while making the allotment of land for Indian tribes. This is the highest salary Uncle Sam has ever paid any of his daughters.

Mrs. Lewis Rice, of Frederick, Md., has collected enough money tc place a suitable monument over the grave of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner”. A flat marble slab now marks the place where he lies in Mount Olivet cemetery, Washington, D. C. There is a very han Jsome monument to Key in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Miss Mary Remsen, the daughter of Dr. Cornelius Remsen, a veteran of the war of 1812, died, recently, in Wappinger’s Falls, N. Y., leaving nearly all of her estate of SIOO,OOO, to missionary enterprises and benevolent institutions. _.

The young person with an extravagant fondness for perfumes will fee' that she is an economist when she reads that Mme. Pompadour was in the habit of spending SIOO,OOO a year on that portion of her toilet. Here is a sworn statement of Mrs. Anna Potter’s expenses as candidate for Mayor of Kansas City: Juvenile colored band, $25; band wagon, $5; another band wagon, $5; band, $24; tickets. $18.50; four banners, $2. Total, $79.50. This is offset by the receipt of just 29 votes.

A new visitimg costume is of otter colored velvet. The corsage has the favorite basques of the period. The velvet sleeve is draped over a lining of the ordinary shape, and is surmounted by capes round at the back and full sh front.

L Attendance at’ the women’s colleges grows apace. The number in attendance at the Harvard annex r last year, was 263, of whom eighteen weregraduate students from eight colleges where women study, and nearly one-third of the remainder were regular students in the undergraduate classes preparing for the degree of A. B. Although Massachusetts furnished 197 of all the students, among the rest twenty-eight States, as well as the Dominion of Canada, were represented.

A CHARMING COSTUME.

VELVET AND PLUMES AND YELLOW HAIR.