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Show . THE GENTLER SEX. Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of Chicago, is tie editor of The Legal News, and is an indefatigable worker for the rights of women. Mrs. Reagan, wife of the Texan senator, sena-tor, learned shorthand, without a teacher, teach-er, in order to become her husband's private pri-vate secretary. The best shot of her sex mast be the Countess Maria von Kensky, of Bohemia, Bohe-mia, who, one day last winter on her estate es-tate of Chlamce, shot 138 hares. Mrs. Mary L. McGindley, of Dulnth, recently admitted to the practice of law, is said to be the only woman so favored in Minnesota. She is the wife of a judge of that county. Mrs. F. P. Fish is one of Chicago's prttty women. She is a talL-irnnette, with dark hair, lovely browireyes and an exquisite complexion. She has a fine contralto voice, Mis3 Mitchell, of Kingston, graduate of Queen's university, who recently received re-ceived a license to practice medicine, is the first woman in Canada to write M. D. after her name. Mrs. Delia Cross, of Brooklyn, is now Mrs. Capt. Cross, of the schooner Oregon. Ore-gon. This is said to be the first case in which a woman has become own?r and master of a sea going vessel. Miss Tisdel, the daughter of CoL W. T. Tisdel, of Washington, recently created cre-ated a genuine surprise in theatrical circles in Paris by the admirable manner man-ner in which she acted at an amateur performance. Mrs. Annie Louise Cary-Raymond, the famous opera contralto, spends her leisure leis-ure time during her summer outing at the seashore in knitting warm shawls for the poor old women who are on her charity visiting list. Miss Cooper, niece of J. Fenimore Cooper, is a member of the BeUeme Training School for Nurses. She is a tall, slender, graceful girl of the brunette bru-nette type, with the brilliant coloring of that class of beauty. Miss Fawcett, with all her mathematics, mathemat-ics, ia an expert needle woman and fond of embroidery. She has also a pretty taste for binding books, and has put some of her continental volumes into covers of her own designing and manufacture. manu-facture. Mrs. Anna Lea Morritt, whose painting paint-ing "Love Barred Out" was bought in I London by trustees of the Chaatrey bequest be-quest for exhibition at Sonth Kensington, Kensing-ton, is a native of Philadelphia who has lived in England, with her husband for many years. |