Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Susan B. Anthony says: “After my lectures I do not accept invitations to swell suppers. Igo straight to my rooms, take a bath, and drink a cup of hot milk and eat a dfacker. I think if I lived down in New Orleans I would merely eat an orange and a cracker before retiring.” Dean Hole is the authority for the opinion given in his latest book that for one silly young woman there are fifty silly young men.

Among the eecentricities that Harriet Beecher is said to have developed in her old age is a detestation of all reference to her famous book. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” She can stand no allusion, however distant, to her noted novel, and her friends and relatives are very careful to prevent the mention of the book in her presence. Mrs. Samuel Crawbaugh. of Cleveland, 0., was the first woman in Ohio to register as a qualified voter. She went to the board of election the other day and remarked that she desired to register, as she would be out of the city on the regular registration days. She sa'd she was sixtyone years old. Secretary Rowbottom placed the pen which she used in the safe, and will present it to the Western Reserve Historical Society. The Queen of Madagascar always dresses in European fashion. She wears a purple costume with a train on great occasions, and sometimes assumes a golden crown. She is very vain of her personal beauty, and has three times refused to accept loin struck to her order because she

did not consider her likeness sufficiently handsome for circulation. Princess Bismarck, though shrinking from public gaze, was by n« means a weak woman. She had strong religious feeling, was of 2 lively disposition, even witty al times, foird of music and herself < good piano player. She had studied medicine somewhat and spent a good deal of time in visits of charity among the sick and poor in the country. When the Empress of Austria announces her intention of going for a walk her maids of honor tremble. 1 She is an untiring pedestrian and frequently walks twenty miles at a stretch, and this at a pace equal ta that of a man’s. Mademoiselle Paulina, native o) Holland, appears prepared to justify her claim to being the smallesl woman on earth. She was bort eighteen years ago, and caused much comment concerning her smallness. Her weight is under nine pounds.

No, this is not the three headed lady, but Maude, Ethel and Cynthie as they appeared to our artist when he met them on their triplet.