The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-15
About Women.

About Women.
Nine Urso uses two violins in her concerts,
one made in 1712 and one in 1877. Both have
been in constant use, and are unsurpassed by
any in the world.
The Countess Hidegard Usedom, daughter
of the former German ambassador to Rome is
distinguished amateur singer, and is said to
have "Jenny Lind" voice.
Miss Harriet Hosmer is engaged on new
conception of Beatrice Cenci.
The enterprising lady who invented the
Bloomer costume is Mrs. d.. G. Boomer, of
Council Bluffs, Iowa. She early abandoned
her short skirts and breeches, and concluded to
use long dresses, but the mischief has had
slender existence among certain females for
thirty years. Mrs. Bloomer is still a warm
friend of Susan B. Anthony, and entertains
that lady when she goes West. Her talents
are now employed in the temperance move
ment in Iowa.
A bridal veil just invented by Russian gives
the bride the appearance of an angel, wings
and all.
Mrs. Lydia Ii. Stone, of Kalamazoo, Mich,
has started on years tour over Europe with
ten young ladies of her state. Among them is
Miss Lydia Graves, daughter of Benjamin f.
Graves, of Battle Creek, Justice of the Su-
preme Court.
Itmakes one melancholy to think that there
are now in Milan three hundred American
girls studying singing, with a view to the OPP
cratic stage.
Philadelphia gives employment to no less
than 60, 200 women-chiefy in exhibiting their
spring bonnets on Chestnut street.
Mrs Gaskns, of CartaIet county, N. c,
weighs GAO pounds, and one of her stockings
can hold bushel of shelled corn.
Amid all the diamonds and patrcian beau
ties of royal drawpg-room recently, the most
onspicuous being in the throng was young
Australian girl of II, who wore no jewel but
own metropolitan beauty. She is Miss
Annie Gray.
Emeline Gum of Sheffield, Conn, was only
hired girl at the time of the Schiller disaster,
but the death of Mrs. Ridgway makes her the
possessor of $4,000, and the youth of the
neghborhood maintain that they always did
think that when she was properly fixed up she
was Just the prettiest girl in that section of the
country.
sIts generallyIthe case with bad boys" philo-
sophically remarks Miss Anthony, 'that they
look like their mother, and act like their ia
ther,"
An Ohio girl got up the other morning to
battle her face in the liquid dew, and cut off
one of her fingers on an old scythe hidden in
the grass. There's always some drawback to
sentiment.
The New York Mail is much puzzled to
know how it is woman who is twisting up
her back hair, and has her mouth full of hair
pins, manages to keep on talking.
Maud Oswald had TO stand behind a counter
in fancy store in Troy, N. Y twelve hours
day. She asked permission to sit down, and
being refused. resigned her $6-a-week salary,
and applied to Barnum for situation. She
nows drives the most gorgeous chariot, does
bareback act and, on salary of $75 week,
comfortably supports herself and mother.
A lover of his race has a bit of information
for sentimental young ladies. He says that as
soon as the baby's teethng begins, the romance
of m arried life ceases. No woman can feel any
sentiment for man who travels round in his
night shirt of a hot summers eve. with a
squalling infant dangling over his shoulder. 1t
is then that she stops calling him Darling"
and descends to such commonplace observa
tions as "John Camfre, be careful how you
hold that baby
The ex-Empress Carlotta continues hopeless
ly insane at Brussels, but her physical condition
is improving She lives in constant commune
cation with imaginary beings, and dislikes the
presence of any living persons. She speaks on
ly when obliged 10 do so, and gives orders to
her attendants in writing. She dresses herself
without permitting assistance, takes fixed
walk in the park every morning when fine, fire.
quently plays on the pano-forte, and some
times draws and paints with decided taste. She
recognizes no visitors, not even her brother,
King Leopold, or the queen. The latter al
ways accompanies the physician on his month
ly visit, when, in reply to his inquiries as to
her health, the empress coldly says she is well,
and Immediately retires She has become stout
er, and shows tendency to corpuency, but at
present it is stated that this has only increased
her beauty, which is now truly striking,
Few women famous in literature are less
known to the outside world than the anthor of
Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Mid
dlemarch Mrs. Lewes lives in London, near
Regents Park, where the great city loses its
urban character and the houses stand apart in
yards, surrounded by trees and flowers. Here
in square house, two stories high, hidden by
a wall which shuts out jarring sights and
sounds, lives and writes the greatest of living
English women. Within and without every
thing has an air of refined simplicity The
appearance of the lady herself is remarkable.
Her large head, covered with mass of rich
auburn hair makes the visitor think, at first
sight, that she must be tall, for surely such
head could not rest on other than large body.
But when she rises, her figure appears of but
medium height. Her manners are very sweet
and simple, and entirely free from affectation.
She neither talks about herself nor seems to
desire to lead in the conversation. She has the
delicate tact to make others talk, and the art
of drawing out all that is best and most ele-
waited in them. In her presence the ordinary
small talk of society would seem an imperti-
nence There is great earnestness about her.
Looking into her mild eyes, the visitor feels
that they have looked deep into the sad and
awful truths of existence, and that to the
woman whose soul gazes out through them,
the gift of genius is great responsibility.
Literary Notes.