The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-07
CONCERNING WOMAN.

MES. BELKNAr, wife of General Belknap.
formerly Secretary of War, has left Paris and
gone to Florence for the balance OF the win
ter.
Mrs CHANBERLIS. the American beauty"
and the Prince OF Wales are out" and the
young lady M longer is conspicuous i. mis-
set.
Mss. J. W. MAcKAY has paid s. 900 for a
tiny example OF Gerome, the size OF which is
described as almost as big as a pocket hand
kercbiei."
Mas. GEORGE WILKEs and Miss Walker,
wife and daughter of the American Consul
General at Paris, have Joined the American
colony in Dresden.
SOPHIE BEUTER, who divides with Clara
Schumsnn the honor of being the FIRST fs.
male pianist, has received from the recently
deceased Russian, NJ. S~teiglitz, a for tame of
nearly 100000.
LADY HAsKETH. daughter of ex-senator
Sharon, has haG as her guest at somervil lie
Park, England. Mrs. Bolton, sister of Lady
Colin Campbell, who has been conspicuous
IN divorce courts OF late.
THE absurdity OF the woman theory of
Hamlet, writes a correspondent, did not
originate on the other side of the water. In
1881 Il. Vining published at o naha a small
volume in support of lis Theory Of Hamlet
a Woman"
THERE are 1900 widows in India from
three to five years OF age who will never
again be married. In that country as soon
as a child is born a match is made by the
parents. Ii the boy dies the girl becomes a
widow, n must wear mourning for her in
tended as long as she lives.
THE wife OF Pere Hyscinthe. in her letter
recently read before the sunus meeting of
the Society against the Abuse of Tobacco, in
Paris, attributes to this particular vice the
lowering of public and private conscience,
nihilism in Russia, aHd irreligion and de-.
population in France.
THE Queen of Holland walks daily on the
public streets. She dresses ia sonbre gar.
ments, and is accompanied By only one at
tendant, q lady. II is to be hoped that Her
Majesty and the lady do not occupy both the
crossings in getting from one side 30 the
other, as is dOue by royal American females
when they 90 out.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG is described as a
good-faced, MISUNDERSTANDING person, wear
ing a magnificent white shawl, upon which
are deliberately embroidered countless clus-
tiers of pinks aud violets. One OF the pc
cOliarIties OF the eX singer is her fouduess
for real point lace handkerchiefs. Of which
she has dozens OF the most Vslusbie kind.
MACY ANDERSON is TO make a tour OF
America a year from this winter. Contracts
with the theaters are now being made. A
curious feature of the project is that her
agent demands q loan OF $500 to -, 600 from
each local manager, to De paid out or the re-
oelp's. bnt partially secured against the
breaking OF the engagement By an insurance
policy OF the actress life.
4 CORRESPONDENT writes there is no pref
tier girl in this State than Miss Mary Tai
mage, eldest daughter OF the Brooklyn divine.
She is of q pale, classic. blond typo Of beauty,
petite IN stature. very vicacious in manner
and stylish in dress aud appearance besides
being q finished scholar aud a great ~favorite
IN young society. 1t is also alleged that she
possesses all the literary ia stes of her father"
THERE is an ancient fiction that no woman
shall look upon the British House OF Com.
mons while it is in session, aud it is reported
that many a titled wife has peered down
through the lattice-work surrounding the
sustaining rod of the chandeliers, rema lining
in this uncomfortable place for hours when
some special scene was expected among the
CommoneTs. At the present time wemen
are not allowed in the galleries OF the House,
but Sir G.. Barry, the architect of the new
Palace OF Westminster, had largely his own
way in designing the chamber, and, being a
gallant by both birth and education, be in.
geniously got around the old fiction by plac-
ing a carved wood screen IN front OF the
ladies' gallery. through which the fair ones
are technically supposed not to see, but Of
course they can all the sane. However, the
space Tor the ladies Is in the rear of the re-
plrters' gallery, right next t. the ceiling,
where the air is most impure. and shut OFF
by a partition from a view of the Speaker
and a great part of the Government benches.
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