ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 20 January 1906, Page 4

ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

A street in Brooklyn laid out during: the hoopskirt era Ims a 17-foot sidewalk and a 26-fool driveway. The latter is to be widened by permission of Dame Fcshion.

Mrs. Florence Maybrick is alleged to have been the first person who actually sang "The Holy City,” as it is now known. The song was writtan by her brother-in-law. Michael Maybrick, better known ns Stephen Adams.

Miss -Estelle Bed, superintendent of Indian schools, has compiled a uniform course of study ? or the government Iruk i.-is who a.tend. It is feinted to a convenient ami serviceable volume by the government printing office. Miss Dorothea Klumpke, who for a number of years has been au assistant at the Paris observatory, is going to Ldand Stanford (Jr.) university, as chief assistant to Prof. Isaac Roberts. Her special work will be astral photography. With the possible exception of Baroness Hurdett-Coutta, Miss Alice De Rothschild is the wealthiest woman in England. She owus several country estates and much urban property, including a house in Piccadilly and a villa at Grasse. The newest thing in boas is reported from Monte Carlo, where a Mrs. Richard De Hromsley Richards, an English woman, appears for her promenade with a live black and white ouistiti sitting on her shoulder, with its long and bushy toil turned snugly around her throat. An ouistiti is a small monkey, the principal part of which is the tail. Prima 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 daughter. Pointing to the rose trees in hia 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 ia the history of my daughter and her ancestors. She is the supreme flower of a hundred forgotten generations."