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Daughters Of Eve

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Day
10
Month
May
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mrs. Garfield has an annual income of over $20,000. Mrs. Cleveland always brushes her pet dogs herself. The wife of Secretary Eudicott is quite an amateur painter. The Princess of Wales' favorite dish is Yorkshire pudding. An international conference of Quaker women is spoken of. It is rumored that Mrs. George Gould wants to live in England. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, of Boston, spends $50,000 a year in charity. Emma Abbott believes firmly that she wiU be killed in a runaway accident, prolonged visit there. The empress of Austria is undergoing a course of Dr. Metzger's treatment at Amsterdam. All the eight bridemaids of the Princess of Wales are alive, married and none is divorced. Miss Susan B. Anthony never eats ice eream, while Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is passionately fond of it. Mrs. Mary A. Judkins, who died recently in Portland, Me. , was a native of the state in which she died, and was born 117 years and seven months ago. Mrs. Oscar Wilde is making green the only color of her garments. Sbo has suits of half a dozen shades of the verdant hue, with bonnets, hats, gloves and parasols to match. The crown prinoess of Sweden will ultimately inherit the large fortune which her grandfather, the Emperor William, bequeathed to her mother, the grand duchess of Baden. Mrs. Mary Hurley. of San Francisco, is 105 years old and without any one to care for her, having outüved all her family. Bome time ago her only son, aged 80 years, died, and a few days ago she lost her only remaining child, a daughter of 68. Actresses are especially noted for their fondness for pets. Sarah Bernhardt likes a tiger cat; Fanny Da venport used to fancy a dolí that she could dress and undress; Rose Coghlan loves babies, and Mrs. Langtry likes horses and dogs. As for Mrs. Potter, she is always in "a pet" with her manager. Mrs. James Brown Potter is an expert seamstress and frequently made portions of ter own gowns bef ore her stage career enabled her to employ French dressmakers. She recently remarked: "The Southern woman does not know as much about housekeeping as the northern, but she generally does know how to sew, and doesn't think it much of a feat to cut and make her own clothes."

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Ann Arbor Register