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Show 1 I 1 ;wa WOTHB ABOUT WOMIX. I Mrs. Jane Evans, 73 years old ad once ' a slave, has Juet graduated with' keftbrs from the elementary grade of a night Bchool in New Haven, Conn. Slr began atendlng school lat fall, wishing to learn to read the Dlble and newtpapers. Mrs. Evans was liberated by Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Jr Elizabeth Dune, daughter,. and only child of Mme. Elcanora Due, the Italian Ital-ian tragedienne, has rntrred an English collcgo devoted to the.4tudy of farming and horticulture, Slgc&rina Duse Is only 17 years old. To hermother'a great Joy sho has shown no desire tor siago Hto her tastes are, in fact, strongly antl-tho-nter and she has never even neon Duso nut. In appearance, however, tho two aro wonderfully alike, Mrs. Alfred Chapln, of New York, Is be-llovpd be-llovpd to own the finest collection ot black diamonds in the country. Most of Mrs. Chnpifi'fl sable gems, came from the provlncJ of Rahla, In 'flraxll, nod nearly nil aro of exceptional beauty, Thoy do not sparkle like whltji diamonds .nor, though opaque, are they as glossy as Jet, but they havo n beauty of their own and their rarity gives them additional addi-tional charm In the night of the enthus! ast. Mrs. Peary will not -accompany he husband on his next trip to the arctic Not that she does not wish to go, for she Is a hardy traveler, but because Lieut. Peary Is gblng to take such chances chan-ces this time as he never took beforo, and he docs not wish his wife to sharo the peril. Mrs. Peary was a most valuable val-uable member ot the expedition In which she took part. Strong, courageous and determined, she was -willing to take he.r sharo ot privation and danger, refusing iu accept say oqqs uecause 01 ucraex. Mmo. Loubct, mother of the president of the French republic, who died the other day, passed away in tho house in Marsanne In wh Ich she was born, reared and married. She was in her ninety-third ninety-third year and active up almost to thi end. Although her family for generations genera-tions had owhed tbo land on which the little farmhouse, "La Terrasse," is situated, sit-uated, Mme. Loubet was not wealthy. She had little education and what little she had acquired ot letters and the arta was gained In her later life. Sho never visited Parts and th6 only city of any size In which she ever set Toot was tho city of Volence, near her home. Not even when her son was Installed in the highest office in the gift of the French people could sho be persuaded to desert her home. |