The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-22
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.
Mrs. Haweis is the authoress of ney
book on the art of dress.

book on the art of dress.
C.P. Spencer has taken editorial charge
of the Chapel Hill (N.C Ledger.
Mrs. Elizabeth Charlotte Peat, the last
surviving niece of Sir Walter Scott, has
just died at the age of sixty-eight.
Paulina Kantz, an Alsatian girl, was
recently sent to prison for three months
for speaking disrespectfully of photo
graph of the Grand Duke of Baden.
Miss A. E. Fazakerley, London lady,
owns steam yacht, the Violet, in which,
with three female companions, she is
making an extended tour through the
north of Europe.
Mrs. Thompson, wife of the Secretary,
is so ill that her husband has almost
given up his intention to remove her to
their Indiana home. He hopes to be
able to take her to the mountains of Vir-
ginia.
Miss Maud Crosland, beautiful and
romantic girl at Victoria, Texas, sang
before party of friends the song "See
that my graves kept green" and then
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brains out with a revolver.
Mrs. Isaac Bell, Jr., formerly Miss
Bennett, and Mrs. Arthur Paget, former
ly Miss Minnie Stevens, have sons few
weeks old. Mr.. Bennett gave his nephew
100000 in United States bonds, and the
Prince of Wales stood sponsor at the
christening of the youthful Paget.
Mrs. Edmihston, of Clinton, ILL.,, awoke
in the night and saw several men hand
ing her daughter out of a window. The
mother screamed, whereupon the men
dropped their burden and ran away. The
girl says that she was being stolen, but
she fails to explain why she made no re-
sistance, and it is thought the affair was
an elopement.
Dagmar of Denmark, Czarevna of Rus
sia, is visiting her parents in Copenhagen,
with her children. She has now four
little ones--the Grand Duke Nicholas,
honorary colonel of the regiment of Mos
kowa; the Grand Duke George, honorary
colonel Of the regiment of Irkutsk; the
Princess Xenia, and the Grand Duke
Michael, who is only six months old.
Lady Mary Campbell, the younger of
the two daughters who accompanied the
Duke of Argyll to America, has been
particularly admired by those happy
youths who had an opportunity of hov-
cring about the edges of the travelling
party. The young lady is extremely
graceful and has the prettiest of soft
brown eyes, and the brightest of brown
hair, with charming features and ex-
preston.
Miss Bowden did not deem it prudent
to reject William Flater's offer of mar
riage on the spot, because they were rid
ing on lonely road near Omaha, and he
said that he would kill her if she refused
to 90 straightway with him to a clergy
man; but as soon as they reached the city
she called out for help, and man took
her away from her impetuous lover. Fla
ter chased and shot her, the bullet going
through her body, but not making NOR
tai wound.
Frances, Countess Waldegrave, who
has for long time occupied prominent
place in London society, and who has
done much to bring together the fashion
able and artistic worlds, has just died at
her famous home of "Strawberry Hill"
She was the daughter of John Braham,
the singer, and was four times married.
Her first husband was Mr.. J. J. Waldo
grave; she subsequently married in 1910
the seventh Earl Waldegrave, who died
in 1916; in 1S47 she was married to Mr..
G. G. Vernon Harcourt, who died in
1861, and in 1868 she became the wife of
the present Lord Carlingford.
The Princess Clotilde, the sister of the
King of Italy, wife of Prince Jerome Ma.
poleon, and mother of the Bonapartist
heir, Prince Victor, has been since hel
marriage more devout than she was as 8
girl, and she was always distinguished by
her intense religious feeling. The lady
who acts as her companion and reader
used to say to the young bride: "Altesse
what shall | read?" "Anything," an
swered the Princess; and as often as no
when the reader had settled down to he
work she found that the listener hac
slipped away to the small oratory adjoin
ing her morning-room. The marriage, i
is said, was brought about by Cavou
and was part of the price paid by Ital!
for the French alliance.
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