Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Mrs. Jernsba Black, who died a ibort time ago, in Oak wood. 111-, it the age of 99, was the mother of .wenty-eight children, eighteen of vhom survive her. Mme. Navarro ("Mary Anderson) s staying at Nice this winter. She s ill with a nervous affection and :-an neither visit nor receive calls. Mrs. Humphry Ward’s new novel, “Marcella,” will be published late text month. It has been delayed by ihe author’s illness.

Girl babies are so little thought of by the Chinese that they are seldom named; They are merely numbered, in the order of their appearance, as No. 1, No. 2, Np. 3, etc. Acccording to an English pap-r Mme. Marie Roze puts galoshes on her King Charles spaniel when shs takes him out for a walk. His boots have gutta-percha soles and soft kid tops, fastened with tiny buttons, and the long-haired beauty picks his way along a rnuddy road with them on as -Jaintily as the softest-headed dandy jn Rotten Row,

The Venus of Milo is representcc by a young lady in a London theater. She wears black gloves almost to the 3 louldcrs; and as she is in white, against a dark background, she appears, to be, like the famous statue without arms. ~

A brief Cessation from labor wa? indulged in by a bride in Portland Oregon. Her occupation is scrubwoman in the City Hall. She requested an hour’s leave of absence from duty. Having obtained it, she went off, was married, and returned to her work in forty-five minutes.

An industrious woman in Saco, Me., has a toper for a husband, and also a cat which she loves. The husband, like most topers, needed money f>r liquor, and stole, the cat, and would not bring it back until his wife gave him SSO. Now if somebody would steal the husband, she would be perfectly happy.

The first woman to bo ordained as a preacher in the Congregational Church in Massachusetts is Mrs. Amelia A. Frost, who was received into holy orders at Littleton. Up to within a comparatively recent time Paul’s injunction against the prominence of women in the Churen was rarely disobeyed, but the success in the pulpit of late years of Miss Kollock in Chicago, Mrs. Patterson in Boston, and Mrs. Stetson in New York has shown that woman is peculiarly fitted to be a religioui teacher.,, .

FOR JOURNEYING.

A FELIX PLUSH COAT.

MERELY A SUGGESTION.