Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1895 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

THE FAIR SEX.

England nas au,uOiF barmaids, The peasant women of Japan do not wear any form of head dress. Tadsu Sugie is the name of a Japanese young woman- who has been studying in Wellesley college three years, and who is now teaching in Osaka in a Christian school for girls. Mrs. Scott, the widow of Judge Luciep Scott, of Leavenworth, Kas., is the manager of her ranch in Texas, where she owns ,260,1)00 acres of land, all fenced in, and browsed over by between 6,000 and 7,000 cattle. The master of an ocean steamer, who has experienced several perils at sea, asserts that during times of disaster women are more self-pos-sessed and more heroic than men. Her Serene Majesty, Wilhelmina Helene Pauline Marie. Queen of the 7 Netherlands, is now a charming young girl of fourteen, whose life so far has been as unclouded and happy as though no cares of state were hangingover her head for the future. Her life is very simple. She rises at 7, goes the first thmg-tor-feav good" morning to her mother, and then at 8 has her breakfast, after which for three ho urs sh e is b usy with he r lessons and masters. Her first governess until she was four years old was a French woman, Mrs Liotard, who was then replaced by the Queen’s English governess, Miss Winter, who has been with her ever since. Queen--Wilhelmina is very -bright and clever, and studies hard, so as to learn everything that the ruler of a kingdom should know.

The shipping of all nations is of the approximate value of $1,100,000,000, while the 110,000 locomotives at work represent a value of 1,000,000,000. The railways give employment to 2,394,000 people, while shipping employs only 705,000. Few of the great vocalists wqre total abstainers from intoxicants. Malibran, before singing, drank Madeira and ate sardines; Garcia stimulated herself with coffee and brandy. and Dumesnil worked himself into a high state of fervor with two or three bottles of champagne.