Dames And Daughters

DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.

Miss Cora N. Hickman is deputy clerk and official stenographer of the probate court of Cincinnati, O.

Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson of Baltimore has been presented with a private car by her husband, Dr. Emerson.

Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain will be entertained by the American women of Johannesburg while she and the colonial secretary are in the city.

Mrs. Julia A. Fletcher Carney, who wrote the famous poem "Little Drops of Water," is living at Galesburg, Ill., and is over seventy years old.

Mrs. Frederick Smyth, widow of ex-Governor Frederick Smyth, has been elected president of the Northern Telegraph company, Manchester, N. H.

Mme. Bernhardt announces that she has been writing her memoirs of the last four years and that they will be published in English, German, Italian, and French.

Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas "saloon smasher," has bought for $7,500 a fifteen room house in Kansas City in which she proposes to establish a home for drunkards' wives.

The Awdiffred prize of $30,000 has been awarded to Mme. Meyrier, wife of the French consul at Djarbekir, Turkey, for her heroism during the Armenian massacre in 1895.

Mrs. Brown Potter's hobby is a curious one, at any rate for a woman. She collects knives of all sorts, and among her treasures are some horrible looking weapons, some of which are connected with stories of crime.

Mrs. Albert Burns of Laurens, S. C., has had a very busy life. In twenty two years she has raised thirteen children. In addition to this she has started and run a sawmill, run a ginnery, which in the busy season she feeds herself; does general teaming, her own housework, and takes in sewing.