The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-26
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

she thinks she could love. ..i
Emma Abbotts parents both told her
she'dsnever make a singer. az.
Victoria refuses to permit high-necked
dresses to be worn at Court. .. .r .
Emma Thursby has a petite figure, ex-
pressIVe face, and modest mien. ..
Princess Louise, Marchloness OF
Lorne, is, it is reported, a firm believer
in spirltualism.
Eunice White, widow of Peleg White,
died at Macedon, N. Y, on Saturday,
at the age OF one haudred and two.
Lillian Ashworth, John Brighps pret-
ty niece, a large landholder and leading
woman sunragist, Is to be married.
Jean Ingelow has resumed her work
as an autnor, alter a long interruption
occasioned by the sickness and death of
her mother. OH.
Mrs. George S. jackson, of Boston is,
following the good example set by
Eugene when Empress OF the French,
in collecting money for the redemption
OF articles pawned by the working peo-
pie OF the city. - ..
The Queen, to the intense disgust,
doubtless, of her loyal subjects who deal
in the roast beef Of Old England, has
tasted of a sample joint Of American
beef, and declared unequiVocally her
appreciation thereof. t.U g.
Mrs. 4. &. Doremus, not long before
her death, having kept street car
waiting some little time by her painful :
ly slow walking to it from the crossing,
with a bow that included all the pas
sengers, apologized to them on entering
tor their detention on her account.
| Mice Won niIIar, Ilrad ono
miles in twenty-eight hours, but before
you call it an extraordinary ieat, please
figure out the distance made by the ay-
| erage woman who starts out shopping
and visiting ats A. NJ. and reaches home
al 7P. NJ.
Mile. Fechter, daughter of Charles
Fechter, the romantic actor, has made
her debut in "Mignon" at the Opera
Comique. AS an actress Miss Fechter
was eminently successful; as singer it
must be said that she has but little
voice, and that uniformed.
Mrs. Celia ThaXter is writing a novel,
the incidents of which are to be taken
from her own romantic life at the Isle of
Shoals, where her father was the light
keeper Tor many years, and where she
married one of the first men who came
to the island for shooting and fishing.
Miss Thompson, the pretty young En-
glish artist who painted "Balaklava'
and the Roll Call" and gained great
praise thereby, Is about to be married.
The bridegroom is Major Butler, of the
British army. The young lady does not
intend to give up art, but will continue
her painting and studying.
Maria Christina of Savoy, Queen OF
Naples, is to be beatified, and Cardinal
Rlario Siorza, the Archbishop OF Naples,
nas been charged with collecting the
necessary evidence in the good lady's
case. He will also sustain her claims to
the honor of beatltication before the
court at the Vatican in due form.
| Mrs. Cespedes, widow OF the late Gu.
ban President, publishes card, in
which she declines to permit the use OF
her name to be used in connection with
a dramatic performance advertised to
be given in Boston in aid OF the Cuban
Relief Fund. Other influential Cuban
nave followed the lady's example.
| Miss Mitchell, teacher of the First
Grammar Grade, Washington School,
Pittsburg, has established a system OF
discussion upon the news and topics of
the day among her scholars. The pupils
support paper called the Bulletin,
which is issued from black board, anu
which contains synopsis OF the Pitts
burg papers OF that day, only more ably
ediLed.
Miss Kate Field appeared at the St.
James,, London, on Wednesday last in
her own comedietta, entitled "Extrem es
Meet" and achieved d marked success.
The dialogue is polished and witty. The
plot is slight, but amusing. Miss Fields
acting was natural and unatfected-in-
deed The Globe, Standard and Examiner
speak Of the play and the leading lady
in words OF high praise. We can
scarcely believe Ii, but the critics say so.
Mrs. Burnett, the author of "That
Lass o. Lowrie's" (shortiy to be pub.
lished by Scribner, Armstrong 81 Co.,
is a native of England, who removed to
this country when child and settled
in Knoxville, Tenn. She is still but "a
young and blooming girl, though mar.
ried and the mother o. two boys. Her
husband Is skillful oculist-himself q
writer-Who is now establishing himself
professionally in Washington. The
lady's irienas regard her as the coming
woman.
Miss Annie Thackeray has the rare
glfts Of a subtle simplicity Of method, an
absolute and complete mastery OF cer-
| tain phases OF fem nine character, a
sufficient sympathy with the masculine
loruer of things, under certain of its mos
obvious aspects, to make her heroes toll
erable to her male readers, and singu-
Ilarly amiable and cheerful habit OF
thought and feeling. To the presence In
her v ork of these peculiaritles is doubt
less owing the dreadful label some
wicked wit has affixed to the school she
has founded it is called, not altogether
inaptly, the "Passionate-Brompto
Mary Athers, daughter OF bank cash.
ier in Porterville, Pa, advertised for a
husband. John r ohnson, of Rutland,
VT, responded, and three months later
they were married. Her parents deter
mined to make the best Of the freak, and
Johnson was given employment in the
bank. This was five years ago. The
young pair lived happily together until
few Gays ago. Then a woman and two
little boys, claiming to be the wife and
children OF johnson, arrived in Porter
vile. Miss Athers, who had previouslg
lhad no reason to believe that she was
not legally Mrs. johnson, committed
lsuicide. johnson has run away.