The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-08-05
ABOUT WOMEN.


III ABOUT WOMEN.
London has a home for unemployed gov
err esses.
lis Tennyson's fElaine" which Adelaide
Nelson is having Gramatized.
Madam Janauschek will proceed from San
Francisco to Melbourne.
Eleven women have been indicted at
Lynehburgh, (Va.) for illicit distilling.
Two girls, twins, residing at Smithville
Flats, n. Y, weigh together 420 pounds.
Clara Morris says that when she PLAYS
Cleopatra she will use a pigment to discolor
her skin.
"Jaqustte; or, Ia the Tolls" is the title o.
a drama written tor jennie Wallace by Fred
Marsden.
over thirty young ladies took lessons in
Violin playing the present term az the Bos
tor observatory.
A new French prima donna recently made
quite hit at Drury Lane, London, in LA
Traviats.'' Her name is Mile. Chapuy.
"Give the devil his dew" said q pretty
young lady who had spoiled her new bronze
boO.s playing crcquet in toe morning.
The death is announced of Mrs. Pollock,
for more than half century lessee OF the
old 'Fheater Royal at Aberdeen, Scotland.
Fully two thirds OF the letters which reach
the dead. letter Office get there because wo-
men have an insane desire TO write fine
hand.
Miss Julia Mathews and an English opera
bouffs company will play short engage
ment at Wallsck's Theater, New York, in
the fall.
An anti-womsn's rights association has
been formed in England, and number of
leading members of Parliament are mem
bsrs.
Vassar girls, by way of Joining amuse
ment to usefulness, propose getting up a
washing match at the close OF Shs coming
school season.
Emily Messenger has withdrawn from
Hooley's Comedy Company, in San Fran
cisco, in consequence of not wishing to act
on Sunday nights.
The Wellesley College for Women, which
Mr.. Henry F. Durant, OF Boston, has founded
and built at a cost of $500, 900, will be formal
ly opened on September s.
A colossal monument is proposed to the
husband of the authoress of st. Elmo, in
view of the fact that he has got from Der
pledge never 20 write again,
A young lady of Boston has been enrolled
as honorary member of the Fifth Maryland
Regiment, and is consequently more psrlicu-
lar than ever about the right dress.
The newest bathing costumes for ladies
are made OF Turkish toweling, the skirs
being embroidered in rather gaudy colors.
They are belted In, and are quite elective.
Maude Harrison, Morsnter, otherwise
pupil of Miss Fanny Morant, will make
her debut in New York, next season. She
is a1fully handsome-at least, so they say.
A Fon du Lac widow, beresyed few
weeks ago, felt the loss OF her husband so
keenly that she refused to wear anything
but black domino to the masquerade last
week.
The daughter of Mano and Grisi has mar
ried the son of the Rev. Mr.. Vaughan, of
Christ Church, Brighton, England. The
bride was born in Brighton, and hence arose
the acquaintance which has ended in this
m2rEl3sr.
An intellectual lady of Salem, Mass, has
given her whole mind for several years to
the collection of buttons, of which she now
has string "a feet long. To perfect this no.
bic work We would suggest that she
make but On-holes to match them.
The descendants Of John Eliot, the apostle
to the Indiaus, are to have a family reunion
A. the Guilford Point House, Guilford, Ct,
in September. A committee hes been sp-
pointed 10 make arrangements, and the oc
caslon will be, without doubt, an exceeding
y interesting one.
A Young lady in Washington county, ".
Y, beautiful and well educated, and the
owner of an 5000 farm In her owa right,
says that when she is married the entire wed
Ding expenses, including her dresses, shall
not cost over $6S, and that she will make her
husband happier than any city belle can
who takes off four chairs full OF padding at
hight, and can not go to party wearing a
dress that cost under S140-
The beautiful Mrs. Clara Rousby is
at present in Paris, but will COM
mence her second American tour ct New
York some time in August, at Booths
Theater, in a society drama written ex-
pressly for her by Dion Boucicault. Mrs.
tousby will run her own travelling com
panv throughout the season, which viii in
ciude a California engagement, engi neered
nv a business manager of tact and expert
cree.
A foreign correspondent SAYS: The Queen
of Madagascar has been making royal
progress through her domains. And Father
GeIbose describes her appear ance at recep
ton. with satin dress and golden crown
with a huge scarlet umbrella in one hand
and al. ivory scepter in the other. NOW you
may all Dance she says, after the torman-
ties. They will begin to hop about In an
ndeDendent and comicsl manner, as though
the floor was a hot gridiron, the old folks
with the rest, and the queen seems 70 ENJOY
itgreatlY."