The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-23
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Mrs. Abby Sage-Richardson has be-
come revivalist.
Rose Eytinge has bought summer
Iresldence at Orange, n. }.
| Mary Clemmer AYERS that Sec. Devens
has well cut nose.
Miss Cary owns a regal white silk
| trimmed with actual silver.
Mrs. Boucicault is going around the
world, but not in eighty days.
BssipofPs best concert frock is a yell
low combined with black velvet,
Mrs. Brooks, the butter sculptress,
has taken her artistic statuary On oil
TO Chicago.
| Anna Dickinson had such good luck in
shutting up the critics that she closed
the theater.
Miss Durand, New Jersey lady, is
soon to be the wife of EX-GoYernor
WarmoLh, of Louisiana.
Queen Victoria has erected a monu-
mental cross at Frogmore In honor Of
her Trend, the late Lady Augusta STAN
ley.
Laura D. Fairs assets were stock va
ued at $500, and she sighs, "Ophir the time
when they were pledged for ", ,6OO."
| Miss Won Hillern's latest walk in
Boston was fifty miles in twelve hours.
She woke up next morning to find her.
self hailed in one paper as "the queen Of
| tramps."
Mrs. Key, wife of Postmaster General
Key, has a placid face and dark hair
plainly dressed. Her gowns are exceed
| ingly simple, anu she wears very few
| ornaments.
| Elelka Gerster Is the name of a young
woman of twenty-five, who Is singing al
Berlin, and wnom the Berlin folks de-
clare to be equal to Jenny Lind and
Madame Sontag.
Mrs. Pauline, who recently died at
| ElnanoW1tZ, Austria, at the advanced
age OF one hundred and eight years. al
| ways enjoyed good health, and was never
known to take medicine.
Nine. Essipotf attracted but slim
audiences in Montreal, and the Gazette
of that city accounts there for by saying
"that the lady's name was not even
known" in the Canadian metropolis.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has, begun to
| 60 into Washington society for the hrst
time since her tather's death. At a
recent reception she wore dark velvet
and her hat had scarf of pale yellow.
Princess Frederika, daughter OF the
|
to be married to the Duke of Con.
naught, iu spite of reports to the con-
trary. Sue is very lovely young wo.
man, not pretty, but OF a sweet nature
and very accomplished.
Signora Blscaccianti, the prima donna
once SO warmly admired in this country,
is very i'll and almost destitute in Rome.
She was born in Boston, of an Italian
father and an American mother, and
doubtless has many friends here who
would be glad to do something for her
relief. .
| Mrs. Senior, Thomas Hughes sister,
who died lately. was Government Iu-
spector of W Work-h0uses aud Work-house
| Schools. She is described as a lovely
| lady, gentle, quiet, graceful, as well as
efficient. She greatly admired America,
and her friends hoped TO see her here
this year.
| Miss Ransome the artist who painted
Gen. Th0mas' portrait, has an order to
paint all the Presidents and their wives
for Floridian, VINO at his death will
leave them to some State institution.
The portraits will be copied from the
best originals, and the artist will re-
ceiye s10,0 900 for the whole. ..'
Princess Charlotte, eldest daughter
of the Crown Prince and Prln cess of
Germany, and therefore granddaughter
of Queen Victoria, was betrolhed at
| Berlin on Sunday, the 1st of April. The
Daily Telegraph correspondent says
that it will be matter OF satisfaction to
know that her marriage with Prince
Bernhardt will be one Of mutual inclina-
tiOn.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson has attract ed
| nf ho
tion, which says of her: "Where she errs
is in failing to perceive that not only
have the times ana the manners changed
since she began her career as a public
speaker, but that In trying to become an
actress and playwright, she places her.
self before an entirely new public, in a
new atmosphere, and under new condi-
tions."
| DR.. Fanny Berlinblau, Russian lady,
| has been appointed resident physician
Of the New England Hospital for w omen
and Children. She has accommodated
her name to the American tongue by ab-
breviating it to DR.. BerliR, by which ap-
pellation she will be known here, as she
was among her fellow students in Zur-
ich, Switzerland, in whose university
she studied and received her degree OF
| doctor Of medicine.
Miss Winnie Howells, the fourteen
Iyear-old daughter OF the editor of The
Atlantic, is poet as well as her father;
her first publication, a sonnet, will soon
appear. Her aunt, Miss Annie Howells,
VINO Is also clever writer, Is about TO
| be married to NJ. Achille Frechette, a
French canadian la wyer now connected
with the Government at Ottawa. Mr..
| Howells' eldest sister is said TO have
also excellent literary taste, and has