The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-01-12
ersOnalS About Ladies,

three.
Mrs, Senator Conover is bcwitching-
ly beautiful.
lydia Thompson refuses to hit
foot till after Easter.
Mrs. Swisshelm favors SUIT for
school girls almost like boys, with
six handy pockets.
Miss Lie Franc, Il down East pedcs-
triennc, takes an alcohol bath at her
fifteenth mile.
Miss Fanny Davenport says her
nose is not disfgured, but is just as
nice as ever it was.
Maggie Mitchell is forty and mott
or of two children she clears - ,2W'
a week and is worth $'U0,0CO.
Callotti Patti is i'll from the effects
of a surgical operation. Her physl-
clans are confident of her recovery
Mis-. Butler, wife Of the South Caro-
lima Senator, is the daughter of Ex-
Governor Pickcns, of that State.
Miss Mary Breckenridge, a daughter
of the late Gen. John c. Breckenridge,
was married in New York on Thurs
day to Mr.. Arson Malthy.
Grace Greenwood wants to help
nut down another rebellion, but the
country has not forgotten that when
the last war was going on she and
Swisshclm stood back.
Mrs. Yeagcr, y widow of seventy
three years, last week walked from
Perry Township, Penn, to Reading
and back, a distance of thlrty-four
miles, within twenty four hours.
Nine. Patti and Signor Nicollni
have been re-cngased by the man.
acement of La Scala to sing "Aida'
ten times during the carnival season.
The amount to he paid these artists is
l0O,000f.
Mrs. Hayes, at the Ellis reception
in New York, wore a handsome white
silk, with ovcrdrcss of white ribbed
silk, trimmed with heavy fringe.
Save rich gold locket, she wore no
ornaments.
Rose Eytinge is doing "Cleopatra"
for the Chicagoans. Antony was
hardly more infatuated with the orig
inal serpent of old Nile than are the
male dwellers by the shore of Lake
Michigan.
Mile. Nilsson, having finished her
performances at Moscow, has gone
to St. Petersburg. But with the
court away and the superior excite
ment of the war, Italian opera is al
most deserted in Russia.
The Duchess of Hamilton, daugh
ter of the Princess Mary of Baden, is
in Rome seeking a dissolution of her
marriage with the hereditary Prince
of Monaco. Her demand is based
upon the ground that she was COM
pelled to that marriage through yio-
leDce and fear.
Olive Logan writes. at is really
the fact that jaunty English girls are
now raising the hat by way of ac'
knowledgiDg a bow, the same as the
gentlemen do. The hat used is the
little round felt Oxford, which looks
we'll enough on top of a pretty yonre
face, but is a powerfully hard-looking
affair on the poll of a woman who
ranks in that large and increasing
army of has beens.'"
Miss Kate Field has had a large
piece of good fortune IN the publica
ton of articles in The London Times
and in the proposals. of that journa
to receive and print other matter
from her pen. A third comediett;
written by hen has been accepted fo
the stage, and DR.. Westland Marstol
has been writing for her a play il
which she will take the leading char
acter.
Jennie June says that Christina
mince- pies require to be made by
person of large, liberal heart an
mind, who is in sympathy with tn
season, and appreciates all the sign
fcance and infinite possibilities of til
dish she is compromising. No care
less hand should be allowed to touc
a single one of the ingredients, ft
upon their perfect preservation an
equal distribution depend the harmc
ny of the whole.