St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-14
CHIT-CHAT FOR LADIES.


list, is studying medicine in Paris.
1t is very plain American girl who, when
abroad, does not rank as a professional beau
| ty.
Mrs Parnell has been living with friends
in New York since she gave up the ''Iron
sides" estate.
Miss Woolsey, better known as "Susan
Coolidge" has rented her cottage on Rhode
Island avenue, Newport, to Mrs. Delaney
Kane, of New York.
Holland, it is said, has only one poet, who
is also awoman. Thisis Miss Stratenus, who
is now visiting London, and who is described
as charming both as poet and as a woman.
The late Mrs. Elizabeth S. Graham, of
Baltimore, bequeathed $4,000 to local reli-
gious associations, and S., 900 to the Presby-
terrain Board of Foreign Missions.
The Boston Traveller says that Mrs. John
A.sAndrew, widow of the war Governor of
Massachusetts, and her daughters, have not
signed the petition for woman suffrage, be-
cause they will not beg for what is theirs by
right.
Fanny Davenport boasts of having reduced
her weight from $50 to 1873 pounds by rigid
system which includes twelve-mile walk
daily, no sugar in any form, no vegetables
but raw tomatoes, no bread but dry toast and
few crackers, and claret for drink
Minister Lowen's wife is photographed by
London correspondent as fine looking
lady, of middle age-''not the thin, puuny,
a off,
proportions, with an agreeable smile and
pleasant voice for everybody"
London Queen says that no lady's maid
worth having would wear a cap and apron.
An English paper says that no poet has
yet worn the garter. This win surprise the
admirers of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The name of new serial is GA Woman's
Sacrifice" She refrained from telling
friend how much her new sealskin sacque
cost.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain is losing her
love for Paris. She thinks Republican soci-
ETY. does not treat her with sufficient distinc-
ton.
Another American artistic, Miss Susan B.
Dodson, is now conspicuous in Paris for her
exhibition of her painting, ''The Signing of
the Declarations
Nine. Nixon, the singer, recently sailed
for Europe. 1t is not known what the fair
vocalist did with the young Texan who re-
Gently married her and took her off the stage.
NJ. Gounod having ascertained that Mrs.
Black, the original, ''Maid of Athens,n was
living in poverty in London suburb, took
Byron's poem and composed song, the pro-
ceeds of which are to be sent to Mrs Black.
Lady'Dudley, sister Of the even more fam
GUS Lady Mansfield, has the fortune to be
considered the handsomest woman in Lon
don, and the misfortune to have weak
minded, half-crazy husband, to whom never
theless, she is devoted, and is often seen
driving with him in a turnouethat is unsur-
passed in Hyde Park.
Miss Hardness, the Boston yiolinist, has
just finished triumphal tour through Schle
sia where she bore the stage name Arma
Senkrah. She goes next to the provinces Of
East Prussia.
George Eliot wrote between 1859 and 1880
a series of letters to q friend in Algiers.
These unpublished "reminiscences have been
handed to James Darmesteter and are being
printed in the Paris Debates.
Countess Kissier has given dinner to as
sist in bringing out daughter of Mrs Bon
ANA Mackay, and with queer idea of fur
nishing something that should be strictly
American as part of the entertainment
twenty banioists were hired to play and sing
such nationalities as t'Yankee Doodle'' and
''Dixie Land"
Before her late bereavement all of sud-
den the Queen took to letter-writing, send
ing autograph epistles to all sorts of people,
including the Khedive, who received a letter
of coincidence on the death Of his mother.
Victoria's little book was not the wholly sue
cessful, but she means to be known as a
woman of letters.
Mrs. Butterworth, an American sculptress
in London, is critically i'll.
Nine. Nilsson was entertained at dinner
recently, as the Boston Beacon tells, by Ly-
dig Suydam, rich bachelor friend whose
devotion to the fair singer has led to many
matrimonial jokes. She calls him papa and
kisses him when she leaves him. This
made Mr. Peter Marie jealous, and he de-
clared to Nine. Nilsson that he, too was an
old bachelor very fond of her, etc. "AhI"
said she, "mais vous etes Marie" So she
would not kiss him.
Mrs. Goodale and her two daughters, the
''sky Farm" poets, have taken cottage for
the summer at Rending, Conn.,, Mrs. Good
ale's early home.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, who is to read
q poem at the Wendell Phillips memorial
meeting in fremont Temple, Boston, Friday
of this week, is a grand-niece of the late
Charlotte Cushman.
Nine. Patti tossed her head and her eyes
sparkled as she talked to an interviewer in
New York yesterday thus ''Marquis de
Caux is not my husband. We were divorced,
consequently there could be no reconcilia-
ton. There is not the slightest iota Of truth
in the rumor. The idea that he and I were
to be reunited! A year after the Marquis
and were divorced I married Signor Nico-
lini. Does the public expect me to have two
husbands? Am 1 to desert the Signor and
go back to the man I left years ago and who
no longer bears any legal relation to me?
Such nonsenser'
The Pe1'tIs of Editors.
Mr.. Kinsella died Of overwork-not so
much in recent years as from the tolls of
years that preceded. We are in our bust
nesses and occupations very apt to appreci-
ate our own fatigues. Every avocation