OCR Text |
Show THE GENTLER SEX. ". Cannencita, the famous dancer, can neither read nor write. Christine Nilsson recently attended a eoiree Iu Paris attired in a' dress of moire antique of the new tomato red, relieved with sashes in very pale blue and yellow. Miss Blanche Willis Howard, author of "Guenn" and "One Summer," lives in Stuttgart, and receives and chnperones young ladies studying music, languages and the like. Miss Juliet Corson is now the professor profes-sor of cooking and household economy in Rutgers female college and her lectures lect-ures are said to he very popular among tho students. .Mrs. Martha Lumpkin, of Upson county, coun-ty, Gil., is in her ninety-eighth year and enjoys Kood health. When ninety-five years of age she knit sixty-five pairs of socks during tho year. Annio Louise Cary-Raymond spends her leisure time during summer vacation vaca-tion at the seashore in knitting warm shawls for the poor old women who are on her charity visiting list. Mrs. George Armour, one of the pretty women of Chicago, is a brunette of less than medium height, with soft, curling dark hair and dark eyes. Her manner is simple and unassuming and her disposition dispo-sition is retiring. Miss M. A. Booth, of Longmeadow, Mass., is a fellow of the Royal Microscopical Micro-scopical Society of England, and is to edit the department of microscopy in a new monthly journal, called The Observer, devoted to natural history aud science. Miss Brackett, tho writer end teacher, has had a right hand side sadillo made and rides on either side of her horse indifferently. in-differently. She was moved to this by the conviction that constant riding on the left side was injurious to both rider ui Uorej). . i ... . -.' ... . - j |