The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-09

husband whom she adores. Her friend will be
for the future we fancy, no friend. But it may
do these impertnent newspaper correspondents
good to be impertinently written Of once in a
while.
The Countess de Chambord, wife of the gen.
tleman whom the Legitimists take pride in
referring to as "Henry "" it is said by a
French newspaper, will wear nothing that is
not French-her dresses, her bonnets, her
back hair all coming from Paris.
Estella Delmonte Lewis is called 'the Sappho
of America" by gushing correspondent, who
says that she is in Paris, "feted, fattered,
crowned and covered with bouquets by the
grand monde of the gay capital, and enjoying
the society of Alexandra Dumas, fills, and other
celebrities" All this refers to the author of
the tragedy of s'Sappho."
Balzac says that Partisan ladies have genius
for graceful walking. and seem to imprint in
the fold of their robe the mold of their tiny
feet. When an English or German lady at
tempts this step, he states, they have the air Of
a grenadier marching en- aoa1,t to attack re-
doubte.'' -f- ..-r ..-. ...
Henry Swan, of Oswego, N. Y, called his
wife to him as he was dying, and said: MARY
Jane, when you feed the hogs tomorrow night
you will be the Widow SWAMI and she was
Obsery alton of a woman: The foot is the
point of departure for the whole toilet. She
who can prettily dress her feet is very easily
costumed elegantly but a woman who breads
to expose her feet can lever be well attired.
The German, who has generally big feet is
always badly dressed. The Russian, who is
not pretty, is ravishipgly attired, for she has
little feet. The Spaniard is elegant, her foot is
small, but she dresses it badly. The French
woman has little foot and her boot is the
height of perfection.
Mention is made in far Western newspaper
of an Indian maiden who wears army panta-
'.Falling Water"
Rose Hersee is said by the Pail Mall Gazette
TO have surpassed all predecessors in the part
of "Arline" in "The Bohemian Girl"
At o swell-wedding lately in England the
Ladies Gwendoline and Muriel Talbot wore
mob-caps Tie mob-cap is a loose bag of net,
edged round with broad frill, and tied be-
tween the frill and the crown with a gray rib.
bon, and having bow in front. The st. Louis
Repnb lcan says our girls would call the mob
cap dowdy and trying, but, on girl with any
kind of rolling eye, it wears saucy and
piquant expression. Ladies Gwendolne and
Muriel may have looked cute and sweet in
them, but not all the blue blood of all the
Howards and Talbots combined can resuscitate
the fashion of mob-caps except for night furni-
ture. .-s .-.e.r.7f e..
: Nine. Judic is beginning to compete with
Mime. Patti as recipient of jewels. The Prin-
cess Mathilde recently presented her with .
magnificent brooch of pearls and small brilli-
ants, whereupon the acute Judic removed all
the jewels she had been wearing, and appeared
upon the scene adorned only with the orna-
snent just given her. far-l4 10 f.lsat3i Is 4
The Springfield Republican declares that the
woman who holds up her skirts in the streets is
rs vulgar as the man who is constantly occu-
pied ia reefing the slack of his breeches.