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Show THE GENTLER SEX. Mrs. Anna Roush, of Letart, O., has fully 2,000 living descendants. She was born in Morgantown, Pa,, June 4, 1787. Blanche Willis Howard is acting as a chaperon at Stuttgart, Germany, for American girls who go over there to sing and paint. Annie Fenton Reynolds enjoys tho distinction of being the first woman dentist den-tist to graduate in Massachusetts. Her degree has just been awarded to her at the Boston Dental college. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is said to be fond of Empire gowns, and sometimes the waists of them are worn as low as Mme. Recamicr's. The poetess wears her hair in a Greek knot with such a costume. Little Mabel Stevenson, the New York girl, has captured the English with her imitations of birds. She has been quite as much the rage in fashionable drawing rooms in London asCarmencitahasbeeu in New York. Miss Philippa Fawcett, who made such a wonderful record for scholarly attainments attain-ments at Cambridge university, is a pleasant faced young woman of charming charm-ing manners. She is fairly pretty and is only 23 years old. The work of grading the line of the Cleveland and Wellington Railroad company com-pany is in the hands of Miss Fannie Williams, who is well known throughout through-out Ohio and Indiana as a successful railroad contractor. Mrs. Jinsiwala, Sanskrit professor at the Wilson college, Bombay, has undertaken under-taken to check the vigorous Indian movement for improving woman's status by lecturing to native students against female education and social reforms. |