Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, of Chi-; jago, has opened the subscription list for a Swing memorial chapel with a check for SIO,OOO. The University of Chicago will be the plaee for the memorial. New Orleans has the honor of having a first-class orchestra composed entirely of women, and their services are in great demand at entertainments and parties.

The Misses Julia and Letitia Stejvenson, daughters of the Vice-Pres-ident, will make their debut in Washington this winter. The only woman trainer of race horses in this, country, Mrs. Chalmers, has five sons who are either trainers or jockeys. And she has taught them all they know about horses aud racing. Every Friday the Duchess D’Uzes, the wealthiest woman in France, puts on the ordinary dress of a nurse and, going to the cancer hospital, acts as one of the regular attendants, placing herself entirely under the orders of the superintendent.

When Mrs. Hetty Grgen entered the Tutt House, at Buffalo, the other day, the clerks thought she was a beggar, and were disinclined to let her register. She wore a rusty old black dress, and carried the dilapidated handbag that has been her trusty companion for years. She walked with the aid of a cane. The room given her was the cheapest and most secluded in the hotel. Signora Crispi, wife of the Italian Prime Minister, is a confirmed >smoker of cigarettes. Crispi does not use tobacco in any form. Bernhardt has been photographed pver one thousand times. Her first picture was taken in 1867, and she was shown in crinoline and an innocent, childish face. Sophie Christensen is anxious to get work in Chicago at her trade as a carpenter, which tends to show that women can do anything except agree with their husbands about the good looks of other women.

Indianapolis News. The patrol-wagon drove up at full speed, tfie gong clanged, and the small crowd separated as two stalwart officers half led, half carried a drunken man to the wagon. He was placed inside. W ith a rattle of the wheels and another warning clang from the gong, the wago turned the corner and disappeared. The crowd was about to scatter, when a grimy little boot-black sent them into a roar of laughter as he turned to his companion, with a long face and a solemn voice, and remarked: "Now. will var be stood?”

A Solemn Warning.