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Show .. Dropped Stitches. . Thre is great activity among the wo aaan suffragists of Kansas. A strong effort ia being made to extend the right women to vote at all elections. At present they vote oa school and municipal munici-pal affairs. There are too raany invalid wives in this country, and not enough gymnasiums gymna-siums for women. The loss which was most felt by the Queen of the Belgians when her paiace it Laeken was destroyed by fire a short time ago, was the portrait of her son, the young Duke of Brabant, who died in 1869. Accordion plaited s'cirts in silk, tulle and net, and in plain and bordered textiles, tex-tiles, arc still fashionable; also straight evening skirts of rich lace or net, with two or three rows of rather wide ribbon carried in and out in the meshes of a border. Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, has recently entertained sixty members Of the Girls' Friendly . society. They were received with as much distinction as if they had been the most select members mem-bers of the sacred Four Hundred. There was music from Lander's orchestra and Pinard served the supper. "To display a diamond properly," says a prominent American jeweler, "it must be worn alone. Few people seem to understand this. If a solitaire is pure it is obvious that if worn next to a ruby it will reflect the hue of the latter, and thus its value will be obscured." Th 3 wives of several congressmen have beeri interviewed on the cost of living at Washington, and they all agree that 5,000 a year is not nearly enough. Thirty-seven women have been admitted ad-mitted to the Chicago bar. Mrs. Josepha North has just completed a bust of Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, which is a fine portrait of the woman suffrage leader. Mrs. North is now modeling mod-eling the head and shoulders of one of the most blooming of New York's youug society belles. ' French society women have invented, to bridge the gap between luncheon and 5 o'clock tea, an entertainment which they call the "3 o'clock," and at which distinguished singers and actors are welcomed wel-comed as guests without being expected to sing or act. |
