Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-03-29
BEAUTY IN MANY FORMS.
Striking Specimens of Lovely Women am
Sparkling Gems in Washington Society.


Sparkling Gems in Washington Society.
Many women of many minds. many
gems of many kinds. might be truly
written of TIC Washington ladies this
winter, and their adornments. SAYS a
letter to the New York Herald,
Senator Palmer's wife prefers laces
to jewels, and bought while in Europe
make and design, enough to last
hundred years" she says, and each of
her evening dresses has quantity of
fine lace on it,, most of it being point
duchesse. She has precious jewels
also.
The wife of Senator Jones, of Ne
vada, has penchant for pearls, and
therefore, whenever her husband or
relatives make her present, her lik-
ing for pearls is consulted. On her
last birthday her husband gave her
necklace of quite large solitaire pearls,
with a pendant in the shape of an oys-
ter shell, made of diamonds, with a
large. single, very pure pearl affixed
where such are usually found in oyster
shells. She has worn necklace and
pendant recently.
Senator Stanford's wife has the
largest collection of diamonds pos
sessed by any lady now in Washing
ton, having four sets which belonged
to the late Queen Isabella of Spain,
which were purchased by Mrs. STAN
ford in Paris when the effects of Queen
Isabella were sold One of these sets
has yellow diamonds, another stones
of blush tint, while third is of the
purest white. One of her pendants of
very large diamonds is fully three
inches long and of proportionate
| width.
The largest single diamonds, set in
earrings, worn this winter in Wash
| ington, are those of Mrs. Langhorne,
nee Ogle, of Virginia, whose husband
is a naval officer. These earrings
have diamonds as large as tilberts and
very lustrous, and are said to have
cost $4,000 The same lady has now
a $4,000 diamond necklace lately
| bought for her by her husband. In
the necklace are 80 old mine diamonds
and the central stone alone is worth
$1,000
Mrs. Payne, the wife of Senator
Payne, of Ohio, and mother of Mrs.
Whitney, wife of the secretary of the
navy, wears on the third finger of each
hand large solitaire sapphire in a
ring. She says that each Of the fam
lily wears sapphires in memory of one
of her sons who is dead, whose favor
tie stone it was. Mrs. Payne also has
a brooch of beautiful and very rare
crystals bought in Smyrna. They are
not pure white, but are very clear.
Mrs. Whitney has very choice dia-
mond ornaments, one being a comb,
another necklace of three strings of
| large solitaires, from which falls
| pendant of diamonds and rubies. She
prefers to wear white dresses, and has
variety of them, both for morning
and evening wear. If you see her in
her own sitting-room, most likely she
will have on negligee of some white,
soft silk, or wool material trimmed
with lace. Most of her evening gowns
| glitter with gold, cut steel, crystal or
pearl head pendants and passemen-
terles, always used, he wever, with dis
erection, there being just enough to
tighten up white, gray or fancy, col
Ored frock.
| The wife of Mai. Powell, the direct
or of the bureau of ethnology, wears a
brooch and earrings composed of very
! large turquoises, which her husband
collected in Mexico.
| Mrs. Bugher. the daughter of Mr..
Washington Nc Lean, wears q neck
lace with danglers of rare design,
| bought in Russia, in which are set
every precious stone except diamonds.
In this connection, one who knows
| well the wife of ox-ConGressman Flow
er, of New York, and her sister, Mrs
Schley, recalls that they have the finest
Opals in this country, hitch were col
lected for them in Mexico, and were
set in diamonds by leading New
| York manufacturer same who set
with diamonds the large and curious
oval-shaped pink stone which the
| Chinese minister wears nearly in the
center of his forehead, and the name
| of which no one here knows.
Pretty girls have rarely been SO
numerous i'll Washington society as
now. Pretty as a picture is Miss
| Willard, Mrs. Cleveland's schoolmate,
who was her guest for ten days; Miss
| Ethel Ingalls,, daughter of the presi-
dent of the Senate, who resembles
| Miss Willard and is a debutante; Miss
| Endicott, daughter of the secretary of
war; Miss Lucy Corkhill, Justice Mil
i ler's granddaughter, who is also very
| intellectual rosebud, and Miss Her
bert, daughter of Representative Her.
| bert, of Alabama. Each of these
girls has perfect complexion ofroses
and lilies. and golden or golden
| brown curly hair.