Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1894 — THE PAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE PAIR SEX.

Women eat more and better food nowadays than ever and show a show a highly civilized willingness to pay for what they eat out of their own pockets. Nothing is more common than to see parties of girls in restaurants consuming such satisfying viands as turtle soup, rare roast beef, with Brussels sprouts, followed by a French pancake, with jelly, and w ith degluti tion assisted by n bottle of California wine. The result is that women can endure much more hard work than formerly; and, indeed, the social and domestic treadmill over which thousands of women pass daily would otherwise have invalided or killed them twenty years ago.—New York Recorder. The attendance of Mme. Ju, wife of the Chinese minister, at a recent White House dinner was the first time in the history of the goyernment —possibly in the history of any government —when a Chinese woman attended a function outside of her own house.

Mrs. E. P. Buckingham, of Vacaville, Cal., has the largest orchard acreage of any woman in the world. She has over three hundred acres planted in fruit trees, of which fully 150 acres are in bearing. Ten years ago she began the business with twenty acres. Miss Francis Willard suggests a Christian theater, one conducted, as she says, in such a way that religious papers could advertise and recommend it, to which a young girl might be taken without iear of anything on the stage that would bring a blush to her cheek. Mrs. Ne!lie.Grant Sartoris is again settled down in England with her children. Her father-in-law left her property that realizes #&),000 a year. The Wellesley College girls are wearing a white ribbon around their arm in token of respect for their late president. Miss Shafer disliked the wearing of black as mourning.

Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, a niece of President Buchanan, who presided over the White House during his term of office, has purchased a valuable property in Washington, where she will make her permanent home. It is known as the old Travis mansion, and is on the corner of Eighteenth and I streets. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the veteran woman’s rights agitator, despite her years, is actively engaged in organizing a grand rally in the interests of female suffrage, which will be held simultaneously all over the country. Miss Maud Rogers, of Janesville, Wis., twenty-one years of age, attractive, vivacious and of well-to-do parents, is now growing a third set of teeth. She is the wonder of the dentists in the No) thwest. Isabelle Sparks Kress is the name of a young woman in Brooklyn, who is known as the “Gospel Nightingale." She is the widow of an army officer who has given herself up to the work of a singing evangelist. She is one of the conspicuous figure# in the great religious revival now ■weeping over Brooklyn. * r —j

SILK AND WHITE SATIN BANDS.

A LACE-TRIMMED “MATINEE" OF BABYBLUE CASHMERE.