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Feminine Chat

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Mlle. Adele Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo, is still living in Paris, but the place is kept secret owing to the wishes of the family. 

 

Mme. Patti and Mme. Nordica met by chance the other day at St. Moritz, Switzerland, and renewed acquaintance of bygone days. 

 

Miss Isabel Hagner, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary, has fallen heir to $100,000 through the death of an aunt. She may resign her position as social secretary to the president's wife. 

 

Lady Henry Somerset, the temperance crusader, has recently celebrated her fifty-second birthday. She has been president of the Britten Women's Temperance association since 1890. 

 

Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, widow of the former vice president, has consented to sell the home where her husband spent his last years to make way for building improvements in the city of Indianapolis. 

 

Miss R. O. Kanyevsky, a Jewess, is the first woman student to take her degree at the Ecole des Pont et Chaussees, in Paris. She was born in Zinhoff, Poltava, where she received her elementary education. 

 

Miss Jane Scherzer of Franklin, O., has just passed the doctors' examination at the University of Berlin in English philology with a dissertation on a medieval poem. She is the third American woman to pass this examination. 

 

Miss Helen Gould is now an honorary member of the fire department of Tarrytown and of Roxbury. While Miss Gould is not liable to active fire duty, she is a full fledged fireman and is eligible to a seat in any state convention of firemen. 

 

Miss Kate Shelley, the heroine of many poems and writings in prose, who when a child saved a trainload of people from death by creeping over a frozen bridge near Moingona, Ia., in a raging storm and warning the engineer of the danger, has been engaged by the state insane hospital at Cherokee. Ia., as a nurse. Miss Shelley is quite old.