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Show GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN. It' is rumored; in Paris that Amelia Rives, now Princess Troubetskoy, will settle there permanently and - establish a literary salon for the purpose, pri-, marily, of securing a French transla tion of her literary works and such other recognition as she thinks they deserve. de-serve. 'Mrs. Phoebe Hearst says that her plans for the new University of California Califor-nia will not be realized for ten or fifteen fif-teen years. Miss Mayine Jester, a niece of Buffalo Buf-falo Bill, is said to be the only female press agent on the road: She left the newspaper business to go into this new field. Mrs. S. S. Platt,president of the General Gen-eral Federation of Woman's Clubs, says the general federation biennial meeting, meet-ing, to be held in Milwaukee next June, ! will be the biggest of the kind on record, rec-ord, with over 3,000 women in attend-I attend-I ance. j ' Mrs. Arthur Eliot Fish is the origi- nator of the scheme for furnishing the poor of New York with' fuel at a nom-i nom-i inal rate. The plan is to be carried out j by the Minerva club, . an organization j of fashionable women. j Miss Florence King of Chicago is the j first woman to hold a government office j in Alaska. Governor John C. Brady has ! just appointed her commissioner' of deeds. She will be stationed at Cook's j Inlet, one of the southern bays, ten days' trip from Seattle. Mrs.. Sarah Marshall Hayden, who I died in Indianapolis last week, was onej of the first writers to appreciate the literary capabilities of Illinois. Her first book was "Early Engagements." It had a great success and was written in 1S41, when the author was only 16 years of age. Mme. Duse is so much interested in dress reform that she recently got her daughter to write a letter to the president presi-dent of the Berlin Society for the Improvement Im-provement of Women's Dress, in which she declared that she herself never wears a corset and has never allowed her daughter to wear one. Miss Ellen Terry was lately implored bya lady hairdresser for a testimonial for some hair wash and consented to supply one. Imagine the surprise of the hairdresser when she received a large portrait of the great actress as Marguerite Mar-guerite ih "Faust," with the traditional long plaits supplied by the wigmakery with this autograph inscribed underneath: under-neath: "Ellen Terry, after one application appli-cation of Miss Blank's hair wash!" |