The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-04-06
About Women.

About Women.
lima de Murska was married In Sydney res
Gently to the pianist of her troupe, Alfred An.
| derson.
Mary j. Randolph, granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson, died in Alexander. Va. on
Thursday, aged 72 years.
| Miss Mary Sher dan, eldest danob,o, oe
Lieut. Gen. Phil Sheridan, gave lunch na,t.
last Thursday. The youthful hostess Is Ave
months old.
| Queen Victoria's daughter the Princess Lon.
Use, is announced as about ''to open school in
London" 1t is only, however, in dedicatory
| way
Charlotte de Reisig, the cook for the once
Emperor Macmillan, earned S38, 900 in the
kitchen of his royal hghness. She lent il To
her brother and he lost it, and now she's at
work at West Point.
Maggie Mitchell will appear in new play in
st. Louis this week-''Nannette O. Weari.
| thorne," dramatized from the novel, by Miss
Marion Reeves, entitled "Wearithorne." Iti
announced for single performance only.
MRS. Mather of Mirzapore, India, who has
spent 80 years among the Hindoos, has issued
in clear and terse Urdu" Bible dictionary.
containing 1876 articles and filling 57s super.
royal octave pages, illustrated with 157 wood
cuts.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has lectured 12O
times during the last lecturing season, and has
realized enough to pay off her $4,000 debt, in
curred by the bankruptcy of the Revolution.
The last dollar of this obligation was paid last
week.
Miss Charlotte Thompson, so long end favor
ably known in connection with the play of
"Jane Eyre" is about to appear in new play
written expressly for her and founded on
"Maud Muller'' "And the Judge looked back
as he went up the hill, and saw Miss Thomp-
son playing STILL"
The late Countess Danner, widow of Fred
erick VII. of Denmark, left her property.
valued at nearly S4,0O0,00O, for the mainte-
nance of an institution for orphans and de-
serted girls of Denmark. The Castle of JAEGER
spris, in North Zealand will be the eentral
building of the institution, and accommods-
tions for 600 or 800 children will be provided,
The Graphic sketches by type and picture
the sponsor, as it were, of the Emma mine, =
aChicago schoolgirl daughter of Robert Bruce
Chisholm of Elgin, ILL.,, who used to owa half
the now notorious mine, but sold out at q
profit. The original Emma is II, and the cor
respondent says good looking, though the pic
ture doesn't.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, who was
widely known as the "Black Swan" died sud-
denly of paralysis last Friday morning at her
home in Philadelphia. She was born slave
in Natchez, Mass, sixty-eight years ago.
Having good voice she cultivated it under
many difficulties, and won recognition as n
singer from many of the noble families of
Europe.
Mrs. Jane Reynolds went last December 10
Waverly, N Y, in response to dispatch, and
there identified the body of man who had
committed suicide as that of her husband. She
had the remains buried in the family vault at
New Haven, Conn. She has been almost in
consolidate ever since, and when her husband
walked into her presence en- Friday her shrieks
drew crowd which shared in her interest In
her husbands story of pleasure excursion to
the northern part of the state. The reunited
pair are now anxious to learn whose bones oc-
cupy the family vault.
A Washington letter says of Mrs. Christian
cy:-'The old mans darling has q beautiful
figure and face, and her complex xion is perfect,
1t is pure and fresh in contrast with dark eyes
and hair. Such clear, brown eyes have not
seen in many day, and they have an appeal
ing expression which one cannot resist A
dimple in the left cheek and another in the
chin complete the charm of the face. The
mouth is only pretty when closed. 1t will be
fairer to view when care shall have given
length to the upper lip.
The following is an extract from a recent
letter of Mr.. Booth to a friend in Chicago:
There frequently appear in print references
Originally started perhaps by gentlemen who
have managed my engagements) to my delicate
health, and all that sort of bosh. Now, as you
know, 1 have no wish to be regarded as an in.
teresting invalid My health is excellent, aud
believe am capable of doing more hard ,oorE
than any actor know or have ever heard Of In
the tragedy line. wish the twaddle might be
stopped"
Miss Thompson's famous painting, The Roll
Call, though it has advertised grandIy, has
been of very little direct value. She sold 1t,
before it became famous, for $500 Afterward,
she sold the copyright for 100000, hoping there
by to make up for her first bad bargain. The
picture had, in the mean time, been resold to
the queen for $500. The question of copyrght
was then brought into court where IL has been
decided not to belong to her, because she omit
ted to expressly reserve her right In the sale.
The pur haser did reserve his right to engrave
when lie sold it to the queen, but the question
is yet to be decided whether the right really
passed to him, as the case is appealed.
A short time after the marriage Of the
duchess of Edinburgh, 1 was in Worth's with
lady friend who was selecting some dresses.
Mr. uh0 hos 81 1E
any kind under 1000 francs, was advising her
to trim with imitation lace dress for which
she was to pay $3.50 In gold She said she
could not think Of wearing an imitation.
swat a moment" said Worth, and he came
forward with one of his women walters, show
ing an exquisite morning dress just completed
for the duchess. 1t was pale shade of pink
gros-grain, trimmed intricately with imitation
of Valencennes; the price was 1900 francs.
The humble republican was Dot moved BY the
example OF the "Grande Duchess Marie," and
would not take lesson of imperial economy
letter in Indianapolis Sentinel.
if each leg were as elastic as an iron rod. It
was great pleasure to see her pegging aloug,
q thing of beauty, like one of the drawings of Q
chimera by an old master. II is rot by any
means every woman who looks well in this .
singular costume, or who can put it on with
Just tnat lsSt tOuch OF art th2t cOnceAls art.
IL needs certain piquancy In the wearer,
and 1 may say archness and prettines that
all wemen-may Heaven forgive me-do not
have. Everybody knows that there is in
the woman painted by Ghirabdajo, not with
standing ridiculous rigidity of outline and
scaDtiness of apparel, certain sweetness Of
face and purity of form which enchant even
this faithess generation. Let no one suppose
that am ridiculiDg this costume or the woman
who wears it worthily. On the contrary, I am
trying to discover, upon principles of arr, in
what its quaint beauty consists. [ suppose
that it is pre-Raphaelite. / only know that
it attracts one in the street as the quaint hg-
ures of Giotto do IN the frescoes, and that one
is tempted to follow it and see the wearer of IL
10 motion-a new sort of angel, drawn in an
gular lines, astrsy in the world. Few, very
few, attain TO the high art of tying themselves
back in an artistic aud at the same time strk-
ing manner lt would be well II it were taught
IN our schools of design, 1t is not a matter of
no importance. One can gain or loose q repl-
tation by IL. 1 heard a lady say the other day:
THE Duchess OF Manchester has the reputa-
tion of being the best tied-back woman in
England"
Art, Music and the Drama.