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A WORD WITH THE WOMEN
(By Elia W. Peattie)

A druggist in town is advertising medicines at reduced rates. He displays placards inviting one to invest in job lots of quinine, and avail themselves of salve going at a sacrifice. One lives in expectation of seeing fire sales of phenacetine announced, and bargain days for remnants of asafetida.

The woman's department of the Cotton States and International exposition has received from the Southern society of New York an offer of the loan of a valuable collection of books, containing about 2,500 copies. These are rare works, selected because they were subjects particularly interesting to people in the southern states.

In Douglas county, Oregon, living on Wolf creek, is a new sect of religionists, the members of which confine their diet to goat's milk, goose fat, ducks' eggs and mush. No doubt these people are convinced that they have a special revelation, and are praying that he unregenerate world may come to their way of thinking and eating, and be united with them in a universal brotherhood.

It is said that Belle Bilton otherwise the Countess Clancarty, is coming to America to dance. In spite of her marriage with a British peer poverty has driven her back to the stage. It is no secret that this beautiful and audacious young woman led a wild life, previous to becoming a peeress. She was even defiant of the properties to an extent after she was married, but only in the way of retaliating upon her noble old father-in-law, whom she thought, very justly, had no call to criticise her for misdemeanors. She considered herself quite good enough, morally and intellectually speaking, to enter the house of Clancarty, and the consensus of opinion appears to be that she was right. When the old peer died from alcoholism--as Belle Bilton had foretold--leaving not a cent that he diverted to his son the peeress, with her new title still sitting strangely, starred in a spectacle. She kept the larder filled in the impecunious ancestral halls and though her costume was abbreviated to a startling degree, she acted with as much decorum as the circumstances would permit. Old debts of her husbands, the enormous expense entailed in supporting the Clancarty estates, and extravagant habits of living, have forced the count into the hands of the money sharks. It is the hated beauty, of course, who must come to the rescue of the family. The estates are to be placed under an administrator for the benefit of the mortgage creditors, and the countess will support herself, husband and child by singing and dancing on the stage. She has been studying all the time during her retirement from the stage. Whether she will wear her coronet and ermines before Omaha audiences or not remains to be seen. Belle Bilton was always worth looking at or listening to, they say, and her majesty's cousin, the Countess Clancarty, and Viscountess Dunlo, Baroness Kilconnel, Baroness Trench, Marchioness of Hesden, nee Belle Bilton, will draw for other reasons. Tommy loves a lord. And the American woman--as a whole--will go to see Bilton. Besides, they say she is as beautiful as our Lillian Russell, and that's reason enough for going to see her

Wood carving has been an interesting pastime for women for several years, and now some women in England have really produced substantial evidence of their skill in a handsome organ case, which has recently been put into use in a new church in Falmouth.

The diplomacy of woman and her unclouded understanding of the peculiarities of her sex is shown by a lady who sent out invitations to a fancy dress ball, and received many requests to allow the conventional evening dress. To these she replied that all ladies over 30 might appear in their accustomed style of dress, and the ball was a great success.

A WORD WITH THE WOMEN
(By Elia W. Peattie)

A druggist in town is advertising medicines at reduced rates. He displays placards inviting one to invest in job lots of quinine, and avail themselves of salve going at a sacrifice. One lives in expectation of seeing fire sales of phenacetine announced, and bargain days for remnants of asafetida.

The woman's department of the Cotton States and International exposition has received from the Southern society of New York an offer of the loan of a valuable collection of books, containing about 2,500 copies. These are rare works, selected because they were subjects particularly interesting to people in the southern states.

In Douglas county, Oregon, living on Wolf creek, is a new sect of religionists, the members of which confine their diet to goat's milk, goose fat, ducks' eggs and mush. No doubt these people are convinced that they have a special revelation, and are praying that he unregenerate world may come to their way of thinking and eating, and be united with them in a universal brotherhood.

It is said that Belle Bilton otherwise the Countess Clancarty, is coming to America to dance. In spite of her marriage with a British peer poverty has driven her back to the stage. It is no secret that this beautiful and audacious young woman led a wild life, previous to becoming a peeress. She was even defiant of the properties to an extent after she was married, but only in the way of retaliating upon her noble old father-in-law, whom she thought, very justly, had no call to criticise her for misdemeanors. She considered herself quite good enough, morally and intellectually speaking, to enter the house of Clancarty, and the consensus of opinion appears to be that she was right. When the old peer died from alcoholism--as Belle Bilton had foretold--leaving not a cent that he diverted to his son the peeress, with her new title still sitting strangely, starred in a spectacle. She kept the larder filled in the impecunious ancestral halls and though her costume was abbreviated to a startling degree, she acted with as much decorum as the circumstances would permit. Old debts of her husbands, the enormous expense entailed in supporting the Clancarty estates, and extravagant habits of living, have forced the count into the hands of the money sharks. It is the hated beauty, of course, who must come to the rescue of the family. The estates are to be placed under an administrator for the benefit of the mortgage creditors, and the countess will support herself, husband and child by singing and dancing on the stage. She has been studying all the time during her retirement from the stage. Whether she will wear her coronet and ermines before Omaha audiences or not remains to be seen. Belle Bilton was always worth looking at or listening to, they say, and her majesty's cousin, the Countess Clancarty, and Viscountess Dunlo, Baroness Kilconnel, Baroness Trench, Marchioness of Hesden, nee Belle Bilton, will draw for other reasons. Tommy loves a lord. And the American woman--as a whole--will go to see Bilton. Besides, they say she is as beautiful as our Lillian Russell, and that's reason enough for going to see her

Wood carving has been an interesting pastime for women for several years, and now some women in England have really produced substantial evidence of their skill in a handsome organ case, which has recently been put into use in a new church in Falmouth.

The diplomacy of woman and her unclouded understanding of the peculiarities of her sex is shown by a lady who sent out invitations to a fancy dress ball, and received many requests to allow the conventional evening dress. To these she replied that all ladies over 30 might appear in their accustomed style of dress, and the ball was a great success.