The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-05
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

Mrs. Hayes 0oeSnt wear low necks
even for full dress,
Gail Hamilton must feel asluneasy as
barber with the lockjaw.
Miss Won Hillern averages one hun.
dred and forty steps minute,
Matilde Fletcher is starting female
social science clubs in the land.
| Clara Doria, the well known soprano,
is reported engaged TO Boston lawyer.
| Janauschek's share of the profits for
| one week at a Philadelphia theater was
50, ,2C0.
Mrs. General Custer is Secretary OF
the Ladies' Art Association OF New
York.
| Miss Blanche Edwards has passed a
| successful examination in Paris for the
| BdcCdlQufedteS-L S-Lettres.
| Julia Moore, the "Sweet Singer OF
| Michigan" goes on the lecture platform
with flowing hair and tinsel crown on
her head.
Alice Oates cried like baby when
she found that somebody hadn't put a
new husband in her stocking,-[ Roches-
ter Democrat.
Miss May Alcott is meeting with good
fortune as an artist, in London. One OF
| Qer pdlntlHgN, uulS III tne DuuIey udI-
lery, was disposed of readily, at fair
price.
Fanny Kemble, once q bewitching
| beauty, is now si1Iy-tive years old, and
weighs nearly two hundred pounds
of her friends.
Miss Clara Jerome, daughter of Leon
ard Jerome, Esq. Of New York, will
| hnr ly ha iu1 to Eo RI of Wick.
low. Miss Jerome is one of the bells Of
| New York, and is represented as being
extremely pretty and accomplished.
Di Murska likes pets. She keeps in
her room an afeotionate mouse, two
Australian magpies, Scotch poodle,
and remarkably profane parrot. When
Ithis inventory was taken in Nevada her
bulldog was getting doctored in San
Francisco.
| Miss Grace BusselI, the young Aus.
tralian lady who showed, last year, such
bravery in saving several shipwrecked
people, and to whom was awarded the
Humane Society's medal, has just been
Igiven a gold watch and chain by the
British Board OF Trade.
Widow Oliver, at Washington, is 9
shining illustration of the value Of old
Sam. Weller's advice, "Samivel, my son,
beware of the viuders." One thousand
hushed her only about two weeks. In
fact, it ouly furnished her with retaining
fees for a lot oflawyers.
Miss Margaret Foley, the sculptress
who died lately at Merau, in the Aus.
trian Tyrol, was an excellent woman
and an artist Of much taste and con
science. 1t was in Boston that she be.
gan the cameo-cutting which led her af
forwards to higher work in Rome.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin, talking the other
day OF Madame Parepa and her hus
band, said that at one rehearsal the
great prlma donna came In late, anC
Rosa, who is strict director, stopped
the singers and said "Euphrosyne, this
is q very bad example for you to set the
gentlemen and Iadies of the company
You must not do that again" And Pa
repa obeyed.
Mile. Titiens' furniture and effects
severe competition, and at prices
amounting to more than their intrinsic
value. There were a large number 0
buyers present determined to possess
memeutoes OF the artistic. The grand
piano was bought for about $S50-whLch
was much smaller than would seem
possible to those unaccuStomed to Eu-
ropean figures.
Mrs. Martha e. Berry, the author o
"Bella, or the Cradle of Liberty" has
leased q large house on DoroneeteI
avenue, near Harbor View street, South
Boston, which she proposes to have
lifted up with all the comforts OF q
home, and In which she will receive in
sane or partially insane persons, and
try what kind treatment and careful al
| tan m tn inf wi do fnr hpN hnf
ply sicalIy and mentally.
Miss Lottie Sargent, of Boston, is the
possessor OF a phenomenal voice, being
: able to sing each OF the four parts Of d
quartette with equal ease. Her voice
mas been cultivated under the instruc
tion Of BosLon's best teachers, and Ia
considered one OF the most wonderful on
record. When she sings bass her hear
fers, who do not see her, find it uificulI
to believe that it is not man singing
Her high notes are also strong, clear
and sweet.
Mrs. Tilton continues to live with her
mother, having her two sons with her
They are unusually bright, clever lads
and their progress In school is very
gratifying to her. She has been giving
music.lessons to a lew pupils, and q
short time since hired a room In Henry
otresC, new Iork. Iof school. deI
heath, never very good, 10 SO broken
: that she gave up her school. She lives
In the greatest sscIusioD, an1 is desir
Gus Of avoiding all publicity
, Miss Edith Longfellow, daughter Of
the poet, who is to be married in Apple.
, ton Chapel, Cambridge, OH the 10Lh, &c
) Mt. Richard Ii. Dana, (tnird son OF Hon
, r. Ii. Dana, Jr., Is a young lady o.
twenty-five, OF medium height, rather
slight in form, and golden hair. Hel
afianced is a rising young lawyer o.
{ twenty-six, the third OF The name now
living. He ls rather tail, flue-lookine
and q Harvard man. His grand atnsr'l
ninetieth birthday was celebrated few
weeks ago. The young people have
, been together from their youth up
and their love has been mat
ter OF the most natural growth. Tnsrt
/ are TO be NO bridesmaids.