OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 353, 12 February 1903, Page 6

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

Elisabeth d« Belle, an Atlaet^-fg* i \ - womacTluiruaTang a came for herself in law practice in Chicago. She rrcentlj iron a oaae iarolTing real estate rallied at SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie ia a very plain, practical woman who burs carefully. Thui, while her gowns art fashionable, she wastes no part of her money on Paris dressmakers. Countess Tolstoi, Sophia Anderona, is a mild-seeming woman who since her marriage has deroted her whole time to her husband and her three children. For the latter she made all the clothes until they were ten yean old. A French deputy has announced his intention to bring in a bill during ths present session of parliament making it not only -admissible but legally obligatory for women to sit as jurors. He proposes that all juries shall be required to eonsist of six good men and true and six woman similarly qualified. It is not often that a woman <>f today can array herself in any fabric that once formed part of the wardrobe of Queen Elisabeth. The countess of Pembroke ha.v howerer. this priTiJpge. and at the last drawingroom she attended she wore a white snd silrer gown, the peaeh-eolored train of which was trimmed with old Point de Flandre, which not only had been owned, but also worn, by the famous Tudor quaes.