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Show THE WOMEN OF TO-DAY A beautiful young Austrian traveled all the way from Vienna to Fort Worth, Tex., to marry her sweetheart. ---- The Crockery and Glass Journal says that the principal fault in decorative work done by American ladies, is an unconscious inclination to the millinery business. ---- Miss Rachel Vent, who recently died in Baltimore, learned her father's trade of blacksmith and succeeded to his business, working herself at the forge and anvil. Her acts were louder than her words. ---- The Archduchess is taking lessons in the Spanish language of Senor Palacios. He was formerly on the Spanish Embassy at Berlin, and while there gave similar lessons to the Crown Princess of Germany ---- The Paraguayan Government has imposed a tax of five dollars a year upon all single men between the ages of twenty-five and fifty. Women are not taxed, on the assumption that they are not to blame for remaining single. ---- The lady artists of Cincinnati have contributed a fine ceramic display to the Industrial Exposition. The native artists have produced what is known as Cincinnati faience? Rivaling that of Limoges, and there are large exhibits of underglaze decoration of stone, china, etc. ---- All female lecturers are not happy. Mrs. Weldon, an English lecturer, told her audience that she was over forty, and was a middle-aged, sober, well nigh heart-sick woman. An American woman would have more pluck and kept her disappointment to herself. ---- The ceramic kraze still continues, though in a less degree than a year ago. At a recent sale in London a pair of china jars, enameled with birds and flowers, brought $2,221. But this mania has given way to hand painting and this will in turn give way ot other, and thus "runs the world away." ---- Miss Alice S. Hooper, of Boston, left $100,000 worth of property by will to friends and public institutions. She gave $1,000 each to the Boston Training School for Nurses and the Bethesda Society of Boston. The rest of her valuable property she bequeathed to personal friends and relatives. ---- Mrs. Mattie Potts, who in May last left Baltimore for New Orleans, has returned, having made the whole distance on foot. She averaged twenty-one miles a day, wore out five suits of clothes, "Didn't spend a cent," was entertained free at all hotels and eating-houses, received innumerable presents and sent her trunk ahead of her by express all the way "without charge." If a man did this he would be styled a "dead-head," but gallantry will not permit the title to be applied to a woman. --- The poor authorities of Dover and Canterbury, England, are greatly puzzled over a supposed Japanese girl who was recently found wandering about the streets of the latter city. No one there or in Dover being able to converse with her, she was sent to London. The Japanese Consul of that city says that there is no similarity between her language and that of Japan. The girl and her stories remain mysteries. As no one will support the poor stranger "in a strange land," the authorities send her from one city to another. |