ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3611, 18 January 1906, Page 4

ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

1 'a street in Brooklyn laid out dur.Off the hoopakirt era has a 17-foot Sidewalk and a 26-foot driveway. ■ The latter is to be widened by per- , mission of Dame Fashion. Mrs. Florence Maybrutk is allege*, to have been the first person * actually sang 1 "The Holy City, as i Is now known. The song ten by her brother-in-law. Mi-h* m Maybrick, better known as Stephen Adams. Miss Estelle Keel, superintendent Of Indian schools, has compiled a uniform course of study for the government Indians who attend. It is pyinted in a convenient and serviceable volume by the government printing office. Mias Dorothea Klumpke, who for a number of years has been an assistant at the Paris oh -- rva tory, is going to Lelaud Stanford (Jr.) university, as chief asr-,braid, to Prof. Isaac Her special work will be astral photography. With the possible exception ot Baroness Burdett-(’outls, Miss Alice De Rodi child is the wealthiest woman In gland. She «m*i.u several country estates and much urban property, incTding a house in Piccadilly and a villa at (irasse. The newest thing in boas is reported from Monte Carlo, where a Mrs. Richard De Brornsley Richards, an English woman, appears for her promenade with a live black and white ouistitl sitting on her shoulder, with its long and bushy tail • turned snugly around her throat. An : ouistitl is a small monkey, the principal part of which is the tail. ITima Donna Calve’s father, a hale and hearty peasant nearly 80 years old, resides in the south of France. He is immensely proud of his famous ■u daughter. Pointing to the rose trees in his garden he said to a visitor: ‘‘Look at these. Most of them are covered with blooms, but here is one tree which has borne only one rose. It has spent all its strength in producing one perfect blossom. That is the history of my daughter and her ancestors. She is the supreme flower of a hundred forgotten generations.”