The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-15
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Mrs. Oates was married at fifteen.
Rgv. Ada c. Bowles is pastor OF a
chu Gu az EastOn, Pa.
Fanny Davenport is laid up by stage.
fail at Detroit OpeTa-hause.
Mrs. L. Maria Child calls Whittier
"Afy morning and my evening star"
Misses Kellogg and Cary don't COIN
eiue in their ideas OF car ventilation.
Lydia Thompson closed her tour in
seventeen weeks instead of thirty, as
intended.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is busily
engaged on her new noVei, "Our Folks
at POganus."
Matilda Hoffman, who is buried in
Trinity Churcn-yard, WAS Washington
lrVlng's only love.
Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith has as
sumed the pastorate of an independent
Church at Canast stota, N. Y.
Widow Van Cott has gone to try her
hand at the arduuus WORK of converting
the sinners Of Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Antoinette Sterling, one of the
most popular concert singer in London,
-is the daughter of New YORK farmer.
Mrs. E. S. Horton, of Washington, has
sdramatizet 'SMadcNp Violet" anu 1t is
ITO be put upon the stage in few
months.
Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale this month
celebrates her elgnty-niuth birthday
sac writes good-by to her journalistic
lriends in the. December Cooley.
Miss Louisa Clayhorn has deter
mined to puild non sectafian chapel at
FairmounU Park. where clergymen oi
all denominations can be heard by Sun.
day visitors.
Mis-. Charles Kean has just received
a little more than $500 for the use of the
prompt-bOok OIL "lne Winter's Tale" as
executed and arranged by the late
Charles Kean.
Miss Mary Anderson is going to
France next year, there to study her art.
Tne young lady Is credited with great
enthusiasm, and healthy reuliz ttion OF
the fact that she is still very young in
her profession.
Miss Rose Eytinge has succeeded in
attracting the pubic to see "Cleopalra"
III spite of "Marc Antony" Her per-
lormance ls an exceptionally fine one,
and the Broadway Theater is in luck
New York Sun.
Mrs. Swisshelm says if girls were
dressed as sensible as boys are dressea d
they could pursue their studies al
school just as steadily aud effectively.
ln other words, she thinks it is the dress
that makes the man.
Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the artist,
is to have large drawing in the Janu.
AIRY number of Scribner to illustrate a
Christmas ballad by Boyesen, 1t is ex.
pected that hereafter Mrs. Foote VIII be
frequent contributor to the magazine,
as formerly.
DR.. James Barry, who died in the
English army in 1865, was an army
surgeon tor fifty years, an inveterate
smoker, and or so testy a temperament
that he was always in trouble, and once
fought duel. He was an unusually
skllllul and bold surgeon. Dr.. Barry
was woman; fact discovered and
officially announced The day ,alter her
death.
Mary Anderson is not very stagv
name for an actress yet we must re-
spect young star, VINO is willing to
meet the bullets of II million critics, un-
armed by any touching nom de plume.
Almost any other young lady would
have changed her name to Mile. Marie
L'Anderson, or else have invented a
suitable stage title ending in ora, me or
ine.- Art journal.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS will
doubtless be very pleased woman
when she reads in the London Academy
that leach page OF Tue Story of AVIS
is thoughLtulIy and artistically written !:
nor is there, We belieYe, a single para.
graph that does not contain WltLin Itse {
Il lesson of its own. The picture OF Avis
Is grand conception, marvelously
executed. 1t would be use .ess to give
here the plot of book which is so Ger
tain oil a worldwide circulation"
Miss Grace Vernon Bussell is a young
English lady, only sixteen years old in
d. ed, whose name ought to be known
and nonored wherever the word "cour-
age" is understood. Hearing of boat
being capSized, Miss Bussell rode on
horseback down steep Cliff at full
speed to tue scene of the disaster, She
rode her horse into the sea, and sue
ceeded in reaching the boat, accompan-
led by her servant, and, wIIh as many
women and cnlldreu ciInging to her ana
herse as possible, she made ior tue shore
and placed them III safety. The Il Iyal
humane Society has awarded the brave
girl SILVER medallion, with a bronze
medallion 10 her seryaNt, who saved a
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