ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3560, 15 August 1905, Page 2

ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

A street in Brooklyn laid out durin" the hooysklrf era has a 17-ioo4 sidewalk and a SC-loot wa>. ••*}« Thc -latter is io bo widened by P er *

mission o; ranie eas-t-.-i.. Mrs. Florence Mayln-kk is aJegecl. to have been the first per>C!» who actually snug' “The Holy City,” as it is now known. The song _written by Jier brother-in-law, Micha c\ Mayhrick, better known as Mtepkcu Adams. ♦

Miss Estelle Feel, superintendent of Indian schools, has compiled a uniform course of study for the government Indians who attend. It is printed in a convenient and serviceaJde volume by the government, pri'n.4 ing office. Miss Dorothea Klumpke, who for a number of years has been an. sistant at the Paris observatory, IS going to Leland Stanford (Jr.) university, as chief assistant to Prof, Isaac Roberts. Her special work WiR be astral photography. )Vith the possible exception of} Baroness Burdett-Coutts, Mias Alice De Rothschild I s the wealthiest woman in England. She owns several country estates and much _ property, including a house in BWScadilly and a villa at Grasse. The newest thing in boas is reported from Monte Carlo, where a Mrs* Richard He Bromsley Eiclmrds, an English woman, appears for her’, promenade with a live black and ; white ouistiti sitting on her shoulder, with its long and bushy tell turned snugly around her throat. An ouistiti is a small monkey, the principal part of which is the tail. Prima Donna Cake's father, a halo and hearty peasant nearly 80 years yk), resides in the south of Frapce, He is immensely proud of his famous daughter. Pointing to the rose trees in his garden he said to a visitor; “Look at these. Most pt them are covered with blooms, but here is one tree which has borne only one • rose:. It has spent all its strength m producing one perfect blossom. That is the history of my daughter and her ancestors. She is the supremo flower of a hundred forgotten generations.” , __________ •