The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-01
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

ture sale in Paris.
Laura D. Fair has dropped out Of
stocks and keeps lodgings.
Katy Mayhew has a new play, said to
be good one, entitled "M'iiss."
Nelson's rarest diamond is said to
weigh lhirty-one carats.
Nine. Rudersdorff. the singer, will
summer at her home in Berlin.
The wife Of the Chinese Ambassador
In London is called "rotterlng Lily"
Mrs. Presley, of Cullman, Ala, COM
mitted suicide from grief, at losing an
infant.
Miss Bessie Darling hopes to get Tom
Taylor 10 write her new play for next
| fall and winter.
Kellogg and Cary open their English
opera engagement in San Francisco
| next September.
Miss Margaret Foley, the American
sculptor in Rome. has made "a very ex-
cellent bust Of Theodore Parker.
| Miss Virginia Townsend, the writer,
is reading historical essays of her own
inditing 10 large audiences Of women in
Milwaukee,.
| Mrs. Muloch Craik still wears the
|
ago, with its body gathered at the shou-
ders to APPOINT at the waist. When asked
TO slug, she complies readily, and gives
an olu-time ballad with simple accom-
paniment.
| Ann Taylor never had sick day in
her life. She was never out OF the vii
lage HolbrooK, Eng. IN which she was
born. She lelL daughter eighty years
Old. She herself was one hundred and
TWO years old.
Adelaide Nelson has sold her New
YORK boulevard lots, which cost her
w, 900 in the palmy days Of the Tweed
regime, for merely nominal sum. Tax
paying and special assessments long ago
made Them burden TO her.
Elizabeth Z. Clapham is the name of
the young woman,@a daughter of Scot
tlsh advocate, who wrote Mr.. Sankey's
famous hymn, "The Ninety and Nlne. !"
| Ii was written on the spur or the mo-
ment tor the ChillreRs Hour, paper
published by her cousin in Edlnbulg &.
Mrs. Gladstone, wife of the Ex-
Premier of Great Britain, will read a
paper on IN ursing" at the Congress OF
Domestic Economy at Birmingham
about the end OF July. Perhaps her
husband can give q few hints on The art
| VI nursing u WdE-leVefs
Olive Logan tells how English wome n
overpower their bumptious servants
with cold, stony stare. A single look
| quells the 6oldest presumption, and the
menlal shrlvels back into her origin al
inslgnihcance, never more 10 venture
from the miserable crevice which the
Lord has assigned her.
Mrs. Cecilia Gibson, OF Hoboken, N, j.,
Is a truly fond and gentle mother. she
| once tied rope about her eldest chilu's 8
! neck, then threw it over stout brass
chandelier In the room aud drew the
girl up till her toes scarcely touched the
hoor. She was straHgllng, wnen one OF
The women living iho the building came
III and withheld Mrs. Gibson's arm in
time TO prevent a murder.
The Queen of England has declined to
assist Inc movement Of the printers OF
Portsmouth, Eng, for monument to
Charles Dickens In his native town. 1t
il is suggested that the Queen may not
have forgotten that when Mr.. Dickens
was asked to apper before the Court
with his amateur company he declined
to present himself as an actor wnere he
could not be received as a gentleman.
Mrs. Catherine A. Warfield, we'll
known as the author of the "Household
of BouVerie," died at her home in Ken
| lucky May "a. Her death resulted i'm
mediately from an operation Tor tumor.
The "Household of BOuverie" appeared
about twenty years ago, and was fol-
lowed by many other novels, none OF
| which, however, attained the celebrity
of the first. "Ferne Fleming" and its
sequel, "The Cardinals Daughter" her
latest productions, were published only
| few months ago.
| Miss Harper, the Vice Regent from
| Maryland OF the Mount Vernon Associ.
alton, is strikingy handsome woman.
She is granddaughter OF Charles Car.
roll, of Carrollton, and a niece of three
famous American beauties who went
abroad and married English noblemen-
one the Duke of Leeds, another the Mar
quis of Wellesley, and third Lord Staf-
lord. Miss Harper lives in Baltimore,
opposite the Cathedral, and her house is
crowded with everything rare and beau
tiful; adorned with brIc-a.brac of the
choicest kind, and furnished by articles
valuable on account OF their associa-
tions-assoc Citations SO full OF memories 8
that you can sit and listen by the hour
in any room in her house TO the most
delig httul histories of this chair, that
bed, Of. table, d picture, or dressing
table.