The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-06
WOMEN.
county.

Woman is the nervous part of humanity
man the muscular.-Hdlle.
The wraps adopted by young American
girls abroad are of masculine cut and tailor
finish.
Nothing more hideous can be conceived
than the boffant tournures of crinoline
which the French modistes are bringing in
vogue
According to an English writer, lady,
a dinner party, to be precisely correct.
should be made up of five ladies and seven
gentlemen.
The empress of Austria lately asked
whether visit from her would be well re
ceived by the pope during her journey
incognito through Italy. The pope re
quested the nuncio at Vienna TO ascertain
if the visit had any political scope, or was
a simple act of devotion. If the latter,
cordial affirmative reply was to be given.
A young man who had married a bad
tempered woman was one day provoked
to correct her. The lady complained to
her father who, knowing her character,
followed the example of her husband, and
boxing her ears, said: There now go and
tell the fellow that | am even with him, he
has beaten my daughter and have boxed
his wife's ears"
A pretty story about the Princess Eu-
genie, sister of the king of Sweden: She
recently sold her diamonds to raise finds
to complete hospital in which she is in
terested. When visiting this hospital, after
its completion, suffering inmate wept
tears of gratitude as she stood by his side.
and the Princess exclaimed, ''Ahi now
see my diamonds again"
Miss Dudu Fletcher, the gifted auth
Dress of |'Kismet," is one of the characters
in the American quarter at Rome, and en-
joys an unenviable position, being liked
and pitied at the same time. Since her
unfortunate affair with Lord Wentworth
who acted so shamefully, she has grown
much older, and the loss of her luxuriant
hair changes her appearance greatly.
Mrs. Browne. mother of the late .sArte-
mus Ward . is a fine looking old lady of
some 20 years. and possesses charming
conversational powers. She resides in a
pretty cottage, in Waterford Me, where
she enjoys the calls of her numerous
friends, to whom she exhibits collection
of autographs of hundreds Of persons from
all of the states, and also many foreign
lands, who have at some time been her
guests.
Clara S. Foltz, 1.-The learned lady attor-
ney" of San Francisco, was recently at the
United States circuit court in Oregon. Ac-
cording to a western contemporary, when
Judge Deadly "espied the distinguished
lady seated in the room he Immediately
rose and. taking her by the hand, escorted
her to seat beside him on the bench, and
after the adjournment of court he intro
duced her to every lawyer present.
Lulu Yelling. the youthful pianist, is
one of the musical prodigies of the age
She was born in Pottsville, September 10,
1868, and from her earliest youth evinced
great love for music and took her first
lesson on the piano at the age of five. In
1873 she made her first appearance as a
public performer and was overwhelmed
with praises. Her repertoire includes the
music of Bach, Mozart. Mendelssohn,
Thalberg Taubert, Scarlotti and other
well known composers, all of which she
plays without notes.
Mrs Paran Stevens, one of the pest
known of American women, occupies a
spacious brown stone front on Fifth ave
nue., between Twenty seventh and Twenty
eighth streets, New York-a house so
crowded with rare paintings and statuary,
and objects of art of all kinds as to de-
note not only vast wealth, but a highly
cultured taste. Mrs. Stevens converses,
indeed, very fluently about art, as she does
about most subjects, whether they concern
politics, religion or science. She is not
only a well-bred, but she is very brilliant
woman.
Mrs. Sarah Ray, a washerwomen of
Leadville, who has made a fortune of
81 600, 900, has had an eventful life. She
was the first white woman who ever dared
to set foot in Leadville, and as such helped
found the city. She dug in the mines,
secured the plains as scout, and last, but
not least. took in Washing from the Lead
vile miners, and to-day has a snug little
fortune that pays her an income of $780,,
600 year. She is now a woman of about
30 weighing some 140 pounds and is rug
ged and spry. She has daughter that
she is educating in the east who is Q hand
some and ladylike girl of Is.
Mr.. Ashmead Bartlett was not the first