Dames And Daughters

Miss E. A. Hardy is treasurer of the Grand Opera House, Boston.

Mrs. M. L. Wadleigh of Topeka has been appointed as examiner of insurance companies by State Insurance Commissioner Lulling of Kansas.

Princess Metternich, who is now approaching her ninetieth year, has just completed her memoirs, which are not to be published until after her death.

Miss Pauline Astor will be the only American girl who owns an English castle. Her father, William Waldorf Astor has presented his recent purchase, Hever castle, to her.

Mrs. Douglas Robinson of New York, a sister of Mrs. Roosevelt, has offered financial assistance to William Pickens, the Yale negro student who won the Ten Eyck prize for oratory.

The Countess of Warwick, who has done considerable writing in the past, is now giving the finishing touches to a history of Warwick castle. She has been at work on the publication for five years.

Miss Celeste J. Miller has just returned to Chicago from her third trip around the world. She goes alone and unattended and says she finds that courage and determination invariably secure her good treatment.

Gisela Eibuschitz has been awarded a certificate of competence by the Watchmakers' guild of Vienna. She is the first woman watchmaker to be recognized in the Austrian capital. The innovation is said to be regarded with disfavor by the men in the trade.

Mrs. Minnie M. Belcher is head of an Albany (N. Y.) company which does a large business in subscription books and newspaper premium works. Mrs Belcher took up business upon the death of her husband, R. S. Belcher of Pittsburg, succeeding to his interest in the company that he organized.