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Show WOMAN'S WORLD. THE UNTROUBLED LIVES OF ARISTOCRATIC ARIS-TOCRATIC SCHOOL GIRLS. social Lender. In New York The M'om-b M'om-b Voters of Iloiilon How to S;vi riuuilirm' 11111 How 3lrs. Cimlcr Suffer. Suf-fer. Mi, lilulne to Write a ISuvcl. Tho most expensive young ladles' School in tlic country i.s near 1'hikulol-phia. 1'hikulol-phia. Only tho daughter) of bonanza kins mid railway magnates can afford to go to it; but it ia not so very exclusive, exclus-ive, even with such people as patrons. Jay Cook's old mansion is turned into dormitories rather palatial, too and the fino grounds aro appropriated for hide-nnd-seck when tho ii-niiuiiie Greek :id Lai in scholars feel so inclini'd. Once a mouth tho young ladies aro allowed al-lowed the privilege of coining to New York or of going to Ualtimore or where-tver where-tver their wills h-ad them for n day's a . .. . ; city or any other largo city," said n leaning lean-ing employment bureau proprietor to 1110 yesterday, "aro tho first class competent compe-tent housekeeper. Thero ura few women wo-men who aro really competent to take charge of households lil;e tho Vander-bilts, Vander-bilts, the Astors, and so on, who aro willing to undertake it Tho competent woman has hail a, large house of her own at some stage of her lifo and has lr,t her fortune. She prefers to make her I: villi? in some other way than house-keping, house-keping, Viecauso it seems to her a lossof dignity. "In England women nro bred to tho profession of housekeepers, just an they j are taught to lie cooks, housemaids, lady's I maids and bo on. Here housekeepers aro housekeepers by chaneo inoro than any- ; thing else. That is tho reason why big ! salaries aro paid to really competent ! women. I know one such woman who enjoys a salary of $1,000 a year, has her wparato table and a servant to run her j errand -i. Jt is not infrequently that salaries of ifi.OuO to ,:) are paid." ! Mew York 1'ress. I gilded follies would bring them to cneir birthright of brilliant intellectual leadership. leader-ship. Who will ho thf immortal twenty to band together to establish "a anion for tho purilieation and organization of Americ an (society?" -ller Point of View in New York Times. llmprcft. JOIUrtbeth at Corfu. 15. -fore leaving Corfu tho Austrian empress em-press staled that on tho completion of the beautiful villa sho is having erected there her majesty and tho emperor of Austria, with their daughter, tho Archduchess Arch-duchess Mario Valerie, intended to pay a visit to tho island. Tho Empress Elizabeth Eliza-beth finds tho cliuiato of Corfu agrees with her better than that of any other 1 lace. The empress, who appears to bo recovering from tho effects of tho terrible terri-ble calamity that befell her in tho loss of hereon, tho Crown 1'rinco Rudolph, has been diligently studying Greek, and astonishes every one with tho fluency n-itli which sho can already converse in tho language. Athens Cor. London Standard. eutnig. Of course they aro provnlod ith one of tho teachers ns chaperon, liad equally, of eonrse, they behave them-clvos them-clvos in a most exemplary manner. Tho only thing needed for as much fun as they have is money, aud with tliat lliey aro well provide-d. Last uonth's cscursion was to New York. They lift Philadelphia at 7 o'clock in tho morning and landed in Jersey City at 9. They vent directly out to tho Metropolitan nmucum, and spent mi hour or two examining all tlietieiisiin'BtiKie. One o'clock (sharp found thorn in a private, pri-vate, room at Delmonico's partaking of a delicious little luncheon, wliich had lxen previously ordered; a little later they were at Daly's tln'atro absorbedly listening lis-tening to Ada Kehan'a la t word: the Uiatitieo over, they leisurely betook themsi lvc:i to tho railway station, ato their dinner.) in the dining room car of the train thut whilhd them back to Philadelphia, and 0 o'clock found them ail lucked up i:i their piiuw whiio bftiis dreaming of the next month's! holiday, al! of thirty days away. Tho school entertains nil Koits of ! celebrities aa they make their appear- ' uwm in tho neighboring Quaker city, j Ll'.en Tony visited the girls when t-ho ' v.is ia this country, and although fho ! r.tver reala for anybody thit did r-ad I lor them. Privileges are accr.-doil to ,' thorn which are sometime refused to ! ethers. They wanted to viiit Mr. Wal- i t-r'a lc.mso in B.dlimor, whose colleo- ! ti,i:i i.i as lino as that in many museums, j They gut pern lis; ion and went there in a I Lody. New Voi'k Sun. j I Mix. MiUiOiret 1 lllolt. In Mr. Warren's All Souls' choir there are pome distinguish, d lingers, chief among whom are Miss Margaret II. Llliott, the solo soprano, and Mr. Perry ' Averill, tho baritone. Miss Klliott is already quite well known in New York both as a concert and "Hociety" singer. j She has been in thin city only a year, having recently returned from a two ! years' course of instruction under tho famous teacher. Mine. Maiehesi, and it ! is to her schooling that she owes much 1 that is beautiful in her art. Miss Llliott during her long B'ay in Paris became I very well known among the members of : the lively American colony in tho world's ! capital, and often sang at tho houses of .Mrs. Pell, Mine. Snlsemeyer and Miss Fanny Koed. Her Parisian success has followed her to Now York. During the ; last summer season sho attracted general gen-eral attention by tho beauty of her voice , and face ami tho nrtUtio quality of her : work. Sho has won several notable triumphs. tri-umphs. Sho sang at ail of Miss Leary'a celebrated "Thursdays," first at Bar Harbor and biter on at Lenox. NuiV York Herald. Hot, riant.. Many plants taken up this fall nnd potted for display indoors during winter will ihov tho want of nkiil in the gar- I doner by drooping, by chungo of color of haves, and by ether signs of slowly dying. When plants get to that atago nothing will restore them but heroics treatment, as none but a gardener can restore them, and as gardeners do not I'lnoriretle Women. Mrs. Douglas Gordon, Mrs. Henry Winter Davis and Miss Mary Garrett, i who were mainly instrumental in secur-I secur-I ing the sum of money which is to open I the medical school of John Hopkins uiii versity to women, aro now laboring to raise the half million endowment fund which is necessary to the practical suc-I suc-I cess of tho new scheme. Women aro I working so generously and wisely all j over tho south for tho Ir'gher education of women that northern colleges must look to their ways or suffer in tho comparison. com-parison. San Francisco Argonaut. Health of the Queen. There is not the slightest foundation for the story which has been going round i the papers that "the queen's health is the cause of aomo anxiety in tho inner circles of thi court." Tho queen ia perfectly per-fectly well, and has driven out every afternoon since her arrival at Windsor, even on the coldest days. It is only natural nat-ural that the queen should not be quit so robust and active up sho was twenty years ago, but sho Ls in excellent health. London Truth. Hit's. Clark. Kato Upsou Claik, of Breoklvn, is the wife of K. P. Clark, of Tho New York Evening Post, mid the daughter of Edwin Ed-win Upson, just deceased. -Mr. Upson in lli was a member of th" firm of publishers pub-lishers who ware driven out of Mobile, Ala., for Belling one ropy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and tho "Lilo of Frederick Douglass." Writer. Mrs. Pering, who has been elected to tho oftice of roud overseer in Kansas, is a wide awake woman with snapping blai keyesand determined mien. "When she has occasion to say "No' her voice can be heard a milo away," says a correspondent. corre-spondent. Miss Annie Maxtor was elected county clerk of Jasper county, Mo., at tho regular regu-lar election, and Mrs. Caroline LeComto. Sorhil Lenders In wr York. Of tho people who are likely to be lirunglit forward this winter more prominently prom-inently than ever before as social leaders, in Now Vork none will Ktand a better chaneo of success than the wife of ex-Secretary ex-Secretary Whitney. Khe lias already given a. few breakfasts ami dinners that have been attended by tho best people hero and in Washington, and she prom isos to give the Astors, tho Vanderbilts, and the others a very lively chaso in the Matter of elaborate entertainments. Mrs. Whitney is peculiarly fortunate in havingn bouse toentorfain in a house built on a princely scale, tilled with rare pictures and works of art, a veritable museum of treasure. And to these may be added a superb chef, a retinue of well drilled servants and a dining room large enough to seat forty couples at din- I haug around our houses, to be at hand i in such emergencies, and as tho plants will die at any rale, we will give a treatment treat-ment which will (save them if they have not gone too far. I Heat witter up to about 110 degree, ! : and wi'h it water the plants as usual; next day use water up to 123 degrees, : ne.t day up to 1.10 degrees; pursue this ! live or hi:; days and a fino growth will j result. Tho rationale is that the hot I water expands tho sap and sap channels I and thus fold's tho sluggish sap iuto I vigorous circulation, and when that is established the plant only requires common attention. Gennautown Telo-! Telo-! graph. i lluw Mr. Ouster HnlTera. j Mrs. Custer isonoof the most widely j sought women in New York society. Though by no means a society woman, of Columbia, has been appointed state librarian by ( lovernor Tillman, of South Carolina. Tho world moves. Miss Flora E. Powers, stenographer to the attorney general, is said to bo ono of tho most indefatigable vvorki rs at the capital, frequently working far into the night in a stress of business, not absenting absent-ing herself on Sunday. iuoul;ii oy no means n socieiy woman, and permanently saddened by the death of tho general, she frequently yields to the importunities of friends and goes forth to beconie the life and soul of the circle that sho chooses to enter. Two classes of society bold out welcoming bands to this gifted lady; the literary world, on account of the excellent books that she lias added to their libraries, and the social world, because her name ami family entitle her to enter its domains. I It is said that Mrs. Custer suffers acutely in writing of her own and her husband's war exts-rioiiees. Each pen stroke brings back the past as vividly as if days, and not years, had intervened between it and tho present. After an A watch in accordance with feminine raney is in tho form of a rose with pearl colored leaves, the dial forming the center cen-ter of the rose. This swings from a chatelaine of pearl set chains. In Ireland women tailors used to so monopolize the trade that men tailors were unknown, but of late one or two men have been allowed to enter iuto competition with tho women. The Pratt institute, in Brooklyn, N. Y., is to have a large annex devoted to women wom-en students. The cost of tho building will be about sflT.V'OO, and the work on it will bo begun next spring. Miss Elizabeth Cotesworth is about organizing a co-operativo company of Enu'lifh K-'iitlewoiiien for tho raising of fruits aud vegetables, to 1 delivered directly to tho consumers. Mrs. Bonnet Edwards, the authoress, has made a donatiou of -),000 to Geu. Booth to further bis scheme for the regeneration re-generation of "Darkest England." Mrs. Tolly Holmes, agod 00 years, of Cape Cod, Mass., lias knitted two woolen skirts since her birthday in August and has nearly completed a third. Mrs. Tb'ury Ward Beecher Ins numerous numer-ous offers for alifeof thogifted preacher, but her health is too poor to permit of tiio U.k. ier. Mrs. Whitney is as clever a diplomat as was Talleyrand, and with a fortune that brings her an income of ludf a million a year, sho may be depended upon to more than hold iier own in the contest. Une of her most intimato friends at present is Mrs. Joseph I'ulit-iter, I'ulit-iter, the wife of tho owner of The World, who is also likely to bo heard of during the winter as an extensive entertainer. Mrs. I'ulifziT is a singularly attractive woman, a delightful conversationist and as charming a friend as one need have. 2'ew Vork Letter. The Women olrrn if l!ontn. The action of 7,018 women voters of Boston and its results show tho efficiency effi-ciency of women as a factor in our municipal mu-nicipal politics. In an election where tho Democrats carried their mayor by J2.000 majority, -with two-thirds 'of the council and board of aldermen, not a Binglo person was elected a member of the school committee who was not nominated nomi-nated and supported by some organized body of women. The independent women wom-en voters nominated eight candidates and elected fourof them, nooneof whom had tho Democratic nomination. Tho Public School union also nonii- I Hated tight candidates and elected four. Last, but not least, Mrs. Kmily A. Fi-lield, Fi-lield, tho only woman nominated by any party, received a larger vote and a larger majority by 2,000 than any other candidate, candi-date, although not nominated by the Democrats. The unparalleled fidelity of the women voters is shown by the fact that out of 7,018 registered women over 7,800 aro known to have voted, with good reasons found for the few absentees. A prominent Republican politician said: "You ladies can account for your absentees. ab-sentees. We cannot account for ours." A picturesque incident was tho voting cf twenty-five old ladies in Ward 9, ono lifter another, of ages ranging from 05 to i JiO. Woman's Journal. i How to Save Plumbrr'a ISills. Directly it begins to freezo there is a ! tleinand on plumbers to open frozen pip:;s. : It is strange that in nineteen cases out of twenty it is tho escape pipe from the sink, and not the f.ipply pipe, that freezes, although tho latter is always full of water. Why is it? dimply because be-cause pipes indoors seldom freezo aud rijo.e tiian half the time the escape pipe is blocked with rubbish. The bend is generally half full of fragments which ! evening of such scenes with her dead hero and love, Mrs. Custer retires to her room to walk the floor till luuruiug j light. Now York World. J Mrs. Itlaine to Write Novel. An intimate friend of Mrs. James O. j Blaine, Jr., told me yesterday that this unfortunate young woman, who hns seen so much trouble, was trying her band at authorship, and that a novel from her may be looked for within tho next two j months. Young Mrs. Blaine has had a ! good education, has traveled and read a good deal, and I am told that writing comes very easily to her. As the public knows, the young woman's cireum-Ptances cireum-Ptances aro not of t ho brightest, she being be-ing still contined to her room, and if she makes a profit of her literary venture it will bo a most w eleonio one. At any rate, I understand she is going to try it, and if she misses her goal it will himply be an expenditure of time, and "of that," as she herself says with a deep sigh, ,-I have so mm h, so much." Edward Ed-ward W. Bok's Letter. I.ejrclns Are Too Cumbersome. Those undressed kid leggins which button up ho prettily over the knees of the spoiled boy darlings are very fashionable fash-ionable and make the little follows look so swell, you know. I eaw two little fellows fel-lows come out of a Murray hill mansion wearing tan colored leggins that almost came to the hips. '! two darlings valked with most aristocratic languor j fttid apparent insensibility of the pleasures pleas-ures of lifo untfl around the corner. "Let's get these plaguy things off and have some fun," said one. In a trica tho unwieldy leggins were hanging on a fence, and tho two aristocratic aristo-cratic darlings were only two jolly littlo boys, playing tag and shrieking with laughter us they chased one another up and down the sidewalk. By and by nurse appeared oa the scene, grabliod the leggins and led tho two tiny culprits homo looking as unhappy ns possible for two healthy littlo boys. It cannot be that tho two darlings got a plebeian tpanking. New York Telegram. Brilliant Women Wanted. The interest; and discussion which Mrs. John Sherwood's delightfu. paper on "The Salon and Its American Possibilities'' Possi-bilities'' have evoked, hazards the prophecy proph-ecy that society may take tho matter seriously in hand when the pedigree fever has somewhat abated. Mrs. Sherwood puts the case very clearly. American women are equal to the task if they will rid themselves of the groveling toys, the selfish and sordid ambitions which now debase them. Their wit, tact and intelligence, intelli-gence, (die urges, are undisputed. More ptjrsovuraiico in study aud less pursuit of have been forced through the trap holes. Then when it gets very cold the greasy wdcr that is poured down nettles quickly, quick-ly, and tiie whole becomes a congealed mais, which is only tightened by attempts at-tempts to force water through it toiling water, in which as much sal Foda ns it will take bus bi-e" di-.(lvel. should iii xmred down, or if the pipe is full cf cold water the next best thing is to get as much soda into it as possible. This will soften the mass below and ir.ake it as Roluble as soap, and in a few lionre all will pass away. This beats trying to thaw out a lead pipe with a red hot poker, which process is equivalent equiva-lent to killing a man to avoid hni'tipg lain. A lead pipe will melt under such circumstances before enough heat can be poi through it to dissolve ice if there is tiny there. Interview in St. Louis Ulobo-Imocrat. 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