The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-16
FEMININE PANCIES.
Items OF Interest For and About the
Ladies.

Mrs. Ann Simpson has been appointed
Surveyor of Roads for parish in Eng
land.
Annie Rutherford Scott, niece of the
great Sir Walter, has just died in En-
gland.
Maggie Benson, better known through
out the country as "Baby Benson" is
critically ill at Newport, r. l.
Two women attorneys have been ad-
mitted to the United States Courts at
Toledo.
Mrs. Charles Dickens, the widow of
the eminent novelist, is lying danger
ously ill.
Mrs. Ex-President Polk is a sprightly
and well preserved dame, and resides in
Jefferson, Ind.
DR.. Mary Safford-Blake is now one of
the faculty of the Boston University
Medical Schools.
Mrs. Julia Ward-Howe has been giving
a reading with Nine. Ristori, in Rome,
for the benefit of a charitable institution.
Mrs. Anna Perkins and Mrs. Sarah Os-
borne have been appointed overseers of
the poor in the Parish Of Chiffon, En-
gland.
A writer in Southern periodical calls
Mrs. Stowe "the American Mrs. Jellyby,"
and "Uncle Tom" the "preposterous old
darkey."
Miss Louise W. King, of Augusta, Me-,
has willed the bulk of her property to
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals.
Princess Louise has accepted the dedi-
cation of a narrative poem, entitled
From the Cradle to the Grave" written
by Mrs. A. NJ Burgess.
Princess Mary, one of the ruggedest
scions of British royalty, has expressed
her intention of becoming patroness of
the National Health Society.
The ladies of Monticello want the
Town Council to pass an ordinance COM
pelling the saloon-keepers to remove all
blinds and screens from their windows.
A wealthy Boston woman has started
two kitchen gardens, in which young
girls are to be taught housework by
means of miniature furniture and uten-
sils.
Mrs. Lucy Hooper says that Marie,
Duchess of Edinburgh, is very intelligent
and highly accomplished, and would be
very pretty if her chin were not too
short.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
having reared all her children, is about
to re-enter the ministry. She was the
first woman ordained to preach in this
country.
The Empress of Austria is one of the
most beautiful and youthful-looking
women in Europe, and at her silver we'd
ding seemed more like bride than a
grandma.
Nine. Bestajeod, a regularly authorized
Russian doctor, courageously visited pro-
fessionally two thousand women at their
homes in the plague infected district Of
Wetlianka.
One hundred ladies of Lowell recently
marched in body to the Town Hall and
appeared before the Board of Aldermen,
to protest against the issuing of licenses
for selling liquor.
The grandmother of Lady Rosebery
left to her IL 900 to buy bracelet and
sapphire locket set with diamonds. She
left legacies also to great Humber Of
benevolent institutions.
Mary Clemmer has followed all the
Vice Presidents down along through to
date, and she says that Hamlin succeeded
in impressing her the most fayorably of
any Of the whole crowd.
Miss Virginia French, young lady of
New Orleans, wrote such pretty poem
for the Picayune some time ago that a
young Tennesseean fell in love with it
and her, went to New Orleans, and be.
fore long made her his wife.
Sarah Bernhardt seems to be eager for
all sorts of fame. To her renown as
actress, painter, sculptor and aeronaut,
she now seeks to add that of an art critic.
A review of the Salon of 1879 from her
pen is shortly to appear in Paris
journal.
While in Paris Princess Beatrice went
out with Miss Cadogan for two hours of
shopping and sightseeing. 1t is related
as remarkable fact that one English
shopman who recognized her as the
daughter of Queen Victoria had the
good sense to keep the secret until she
had left.
The Princess Louise is occupying her.
self at present in designing and inlaying
mantelpiece Of different sorts of wood.
She goes out very little now. The
Governor-General appears at church and
elsewhere accompanied only by members
of his suite, or by the Misses Montalba,
who are now visiting their friend the
Princess.
'Poor Carlotta," who continues hope
lessly insane, amuses herself by painting
pictures and writing letters to sovereigns.
Her confidential servant is a Mexican.
She constantly thinks she is at the Mexi-
can Court, and addresses her conversation
to imaginary people. Her toilet is elabor-
ate and elegant, and she has an income
of $3.50, 900 year.
Queen Victoria has left golden opin-
ions behind her in Italy. She talked
with ease and kindness to the poor wash
erwomen by the lake, and the olivewood
workers in their shop; she stopped her
carriage and spoke pleasantly to- the
peasant boys, who dofied their caps as
She passed, and she took great delight in
the lovely scenery about her. She has
returned to England in vigorous health.