Show SOTABLB WOMEN Interesting Facts and Narratives About Fern mines of Fnni The queen of Denmark has been honored hon-ored with so many decorations and orders that she cannot wear the emblems all atone at-one time and even when she has only a section of them on her dress looks like across a-cross between a jewelers show case and a pawnbrokers window Mrs Stonewall Jackson the confederate soldiers widow is devoting all her time now to the education of her two motherless mother-less grandchildren Julia and Jackson Christian She is suffering from weakness weak-ness uf vision caused by the strain of red lag tho manuscript of the recentlypub lished memoirs of her husband The late Mrs W T Sherman and Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell have given more money to the Catholic church than any other women in America Miss Caldwell Cald-well has given the money through her private purse Mrs Sherman through subscriptions sub-scriptions raised among her friends Both women received from the pope special gold medals The young Princess Victoria who when she is IS will become eligible to establish her claim as the heir apparent of Hawaii will enter Wellesley college next term She is said to be an amiable and kmd girl of pleasing personal appearance and can getaway with her share of candy and chewing gum as naturally a any pure white girl at Vassar The wife of Sir Edward Malet British ambassador at Berlin has an odd fancy for collecting various kinds of shoes Sbo has now in her German home more than 1000 pairs of boots The collection contains con-tains the smallest dancing slippers and the largest snow shoes It is said to be unique und very valuable Betsey Trumbull who died recently at the almshouse in Skowhegan Me at the ago of 92 was supported by the town trom the day of her birth to tho day of her death for although able to do considerable work both indoors and out she was of feeble intellect in-tellect and unable to take care of herself Ninetytwo years on a poor farm is the longest time on record It was Queen AnneRichard IPs Queen Anne who introduced trailing gowns into England nearly 500 years ago It was the same royal lady > ho first set the fashion of enormously highpeaked headgear from which the matinee hat is no doubt descended de-scended and also changed the mode of lady horsemanship from the cavalier style to the side saddle Tim Empress Josephine had a very long and slender foot To shorten the length n her feat she had recourse to very high heels which were sloped toward the bal of the foot This apparently diminished the length so that thagmpt ess came to have tho reputation of tho owner of a remarkably remark-ably smell foot although she wore a shoe that could now be marked with a large No G The quoen of Italy once one of tho most beautiful girls in the kingdom is now one of its handsomest women She is bright and witty in conversation and learned with a leaning toward bluestocklngism but without pedantry She Is universally admired and loved by her subjects and the attachment King Humbert has for her is a rare example of conjugal devotion in a royal household A famous duchess in London recently went through the ordeal of having a dress made on her own uiurc She stood for three hours while tho dressmakers wrought fifty yards of rare old lace that could not bo cut into a gown for a soiree at the close of which every stitch had t be carefully care-fully cut and picked out before the lady could disrobe The amount of torture that fair woman will undergo In the name of vanity would astonish the martyrs The odor of musk has been known to cause people with sensitive olfactory nerves to faint away but it Is most surprising sur-prising to learn that the perfume of flowers flow-ers can affect a singers voice Mme Pauls maid however makes the statement state-ment that the perfume of violets causes a hoarseness In the divas throat such as might bfl due to a bad cold Consequently no plants of any kind and especially no cut flowers arc ever allotvod to remain in the prima donnas bedroom One of the shining lights of Sorosis read a clever paper the other day with a jeweled thumb ring flashing on the hand that held tho manuscript The jewels were set thickly in the band and were of large size und great brilliancy The wonder was that a woman with the intelligence indicated indi-cated by her argument could wear such a barbaric decoration upon tha hnd that wielded the quill But the thumb ring ia of ancIent Grecian origin and is to supplant II sup-plant the pinkie ring now in favor |