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Show Ladies' Corner. Mrs. t! rover Cleveland's favorite (lower is the pansy. ; Dimples are the llower-poU of ; blooming youth; wrinkles are the open graves of youthful charms fal- ; len, battling against age. j The largest woman in .Maine is only 2S years old and weighs 415 pounds. It is impossible for her ; to stand more than a minute at a time. I The Princess of Wales has given orders that nothing need be sub- mitted for her inspection or that of her daughters, in which birds are used as trimming. Boston has a woman dentist in successful practice, a graduate of the Boston Dental college. She has had all the work she could do without with-out putting out her sign. The Arkansas building at the Columbian Fair is to be built by a woman. JI'iss .lean Longhorough has been notified that her plan of the building has been accepted, and that she will he made superintendent superin-tendent of its construction. Recent patents granted to women include a grass-catching attachment attach-ment for lawn mowers, a flexible fireescape ladder, a rein support, a machine for hanging wall paper, a foot support for telegraph poles and a street sweeper. A prominent lady novelist asserts as-serts that she receives many sad letters from husbands, who claim that their domestic happiness is being be-ing undermined because their wives devote their attention to study instead in-stead of to housework. In speaking of the extravagance of women of our day, Marie de Mcdicis bad a gown sown with 32,000 pearls and 3,000 diamonds, and her example was followed by lesser personages, who cheerfully expended more than their incomes on gowns so laden with precious stones that their wearers could scarcely move about in them. There are no old maids now. The typical spinster, with her cat and her poodle, her corkscrew curls and her bandbox, has passed into oblivion. In her place is a being never before known to the world. This is the gtrl bachelor, the girl who looks the world square in the face, who is free to go and come at her own sweet will, to exercise without an escort, amuse herself without a chaperon, earn her living and possibly pos-sibly win fame and fortune in trade or profession. Rosa Bonbeur, the famous animal painter, is a short, stoutly built woman with brilliant hazel eyes, hair that is silvery white and a singularly strong face. She now wears masculine attire altogether, complaining that the burden of I petticoats makes her feel ten years older than she is, which is just seventy. She lives in a picturesque pictur-esque mansion in the Forest of Fontainbleau, France, which was built for a hunting lodge for Marie de Medeci. and her love for animals imparts many pleasures to her life, among her numerous pets being a tame rabbit that follows her about like a dog and resides in her studio. |