Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1895 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

The Chinese now find it more profitable to raise their female infants than to strangle them. In I'B7o the average price of a wife in the flowery kingdom was £5. Now It is £SO. _ . ... I ■ - ■ Tadsu«|>ugie Is the name of a Japan se young woman who has been .- udying iu Wellesley College for three years, and who is now teaching in Osaka in a Christian school for girls.

Although it can hardly be said that Bueen Victoria edits the Couyt Circular, Her Majesty as a rule jlances through the proofs- and freely cuts outs anything that lo.es not meet -with the royal approval.

Dr. Charlotte Ellabv has just come back to England after completely restoring the sight of the Maharani of Jamnagar, whose court is en fete over the event. The operation was for cataract. The Maharani, ing toa correspondent, can now read small print with ease. The EmDress Dowager of Russia has a jointure of $500.(100 per annum, and a palace in St. Petersburg, la country place, and the villa Livalia, where the Czar died, for life, all the establishments to be kept by the state, quite independent of her income. The young daughters get 1200,000 a year when they come of ige.

One of the latest housekeeper's fancies is the Dutch bed room, furnished with a set of old holland mar“ qu ‘try. The snowiest bed covers and window curtains must be used in the room. All the fittings possible in the room are of Delft'chtna. Even the mirror frame of the toilet table, with its draperies, is -nade of this quaint old pottery. There are Delft candelabra, and a quaint little Flemish writing desk, with a blue Deify inkstand and writing set. There are blue Delft jardinieres in the windows, planted with growing tulips, to complete the picture.