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Show . I FOB FEMININE HEADERS. j The siege of Lucknow seems to have 1 been ages ago, but one of its heroines. Lady Inglls. has just died in her quiet Englleh home. She was tho daughter of the first Lord Chelmsford and the wifo of tho famous defender of the British residence at Lucknow, Sir John ; Eardley Wllmot Inglis, IC. C. li., who died as late as 1B82, and In memory of whose services In the Indlau mutiny Lady Inglls had a pension. After having; hav-ing; gono through the horrors of the slego and tho perilous Journey to Uio coast. Lady Inglls was ship-wrecked on her way to England, and must, under such a concatenation of misfortunes, have felt herself pursued by fate. Thirty-seven days of terror, In which she looked momentarily for a hideous death, i the slow journey acroes country during ; every moment of which the little party is In Imminent peril, and then to be I wrecked on the coast of Ceylon! After this last misfortune the passengers took to small boats and drifted for days, In despair of being saved, when they were picked up by a native vessel and taken 1 Into Trlncomnlee. Mrs. Ernest and Mrs. Francois Carnot have opened at Nice an establishment where hundreds of young women are busy preparing bandages and hospital supplies for the Russian wounded. , Money is received dally, and the ladles hope to send a tralnload of supplies to the Czarina at St. Petersburg. Rejecting wealth and Its attendant luxuries to enter her chosen field of evangelistic work. Miss Mary Tl. Robinson, Rob-inson, daughter of a millionaire Pittsburg Pitts-burg railroad magnate, has gone to Chicago Chi-cago to preach from tho pulpit of Bethlehem Beth-lehem chapel. Miss Robinson, who is worth SGOO.OOO In her own right wa? director of a Pittsburg church chorus, at a largo salary. The Bostonian3 made her an offer of ?10.000 a year to Join their opera company, but she refused. Soon after nhe left home to enter evangelistic evan-gelistic work. As an expert tea-taster Miss Minnie ' C. Albro of Minneapolis has won buc-salc buc-salc and retail house as an expert tea-taster tea-taster and tea-blender, and is probably the only woman engaged In tiat line of work in the country. She can toll at once, upon tasting a tea, what country coun-try It comes from, what variety It is, and also of how fine a grade. She can tell whether the tea. of a given country coun-try has been grown upon a mountnin or cess. She is employed by a large whole-ln whole-ln a valley, since there is a distinct difference ln ilavor. With between fifty I and sixty different kinds and grades of I tea to handle constantly, she knows at a glance where each belongs. Tight-lacing has been revived In England and the smart women of London Lon-don are becoming distinguished by that long-abandoned deformity, the wasp waist. , The French Government in Algeria proposes to establish a woman doctor in every village where the natlvo popu-, latlon is large enough, the native women wom-en being prevented by their social customs cus-toms from consulting men physicians, In Algiers a dispensary has already been opened for women. Mrs. Pauline Stclnem, president of the Council of Women of Toledo. O., Is rf candidate for membership on the Toledo To-ledo Board of Education. During the past winter Mrs. Stelnem haa addressed ad-dressed many meetings concerning the school codes before the Legislature. At the request of Toledo women, ri:e spoke before the State Legislature a few weeks ago In behalf of small boards, election-at-largo nomination by petition, peti-tion, and the' tight of women to vote and be voted for in all echool elections. |
