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Show THE GENTLER SEX. " Miss Bessie Boss is the wealthiest young woman in Chicago. Miss Nikita, the American diva,, is singing in Germany with distinguished success. Of the younger literary women of Bos ton Miss Sara Orne Jowett and Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott are the most beautiful. beauti-ful. Mrs. Livermore, during two hot August Au-gust weeks, traveled 3,500 miles and gave eleven lectures at Chautauq.ua assemblies. assem-blies. Mrs. Gladstone recently entertained Maj. Saunderson, the fiery Orange leader, at tea. M. Charles do Lesseps was also of the party. The daughters of Lord Petre, Lord Clifford, Lord Mostyn and other ladies of high rank are among the Sisters of Mercy in London. Miss Viola Roseboro, the new maga-rine maga-rine writer, is a Tennessee girl, her father fa-ther being a Cumberland Presbyterian minister at Pulaski. Miss Philippa Fawcett, the mathematician, mathema-tician, is quite an expert bookbinder, fond of fine needlework and given to artistic embroidery. Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, who first brought to this country from Germany tho kindergarten method of teaching children, is still living in Boston. Mine. Christine Nilsson, while entering enter-ing a railroad carriago in Paris lately, caught her foot between the step and the platform and sprained it badly. Miss Minnie T. Clay has been appointed appoint-ed captain of tho steam vessel Minnie, ?n Sebago lake, Me. She is an Andover student, and has passed a successful examination ex-amination as pilot and navigator. It is the boast of Mrs. John Wana-maker Wana-maker that there is a living plant in every room of her Philadelphia house. The postmaster general's love of nature is the source of these bits of living green. Miss Louise Lawson, of New York, who is to execute the memorial commission's commis-sion's contract for a statue of the late S. S. Cox, is the sister of Col. L. M. Law-son, Law-son, who was a Federal officer in the war. Miss Rhoda Broughton, in a charming, charm-ing, book lined study in one of the most picturesque old bouses in Oxford, writes the boolt3 which have produced so many smiles and tears in England and America. |