Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-08
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NewSfNf6h NJ OHiclN.
Gossip Concerning the Fair sex-Pers onai
Notes and Items.
A young woman near Troy, n Y, is max
ing fortune selling Dutch cheese.
An Ohio young lady's name is Emancipa
ton reclamation Her friends call her
"Pruckie"
Mrs. Langtry's fortune is said to exceed
100000. Her father was only worth about
$50 when he died the other day.
Frances Hodgson Burnett has yellow hair,
cut short, large blue eyes, fair complexion,
and plump and well proportioned figure.
Perhaps the best paid woman writer in
this country is Mrs. Southworth. who re-
ceives an income of 1000 a year from The
New York Ledger. Mary z Bryan, one Of
the new writers from the south, earns an in
come Of 5000 by her pen.
Old silver haired beaux who were won't in
the years agone to sigh over the love ditties
of n. P. Willis will experience a return of
their old heart futtcrings when they read
that the poets daughter, Mrs DR.. Eddy, oc-
cupies position in Harvard college.
Miss Rapp, queen of the Harmony or
Economy society, located on the Ohio river,
near Allegheny City, is over 30 years old,
and in an excellent state of preservation.
The community was founded by George
Rapp in 1884 There are said to be surviv-
ing forty of the original members of the
society.
The general manager of The San Francisco
Breeder and SPORTSMAN is Miss A. L. Will
son. of Cynthiana, Ky. She is reputed to be
one of the best informed women in America
on pedigrees and the history of trotting
horses. Very few men, indeed, are so well
posted on turf matters, and she is besides an
able and graceful writer.
The Rev. Anteinette Brown Blackwell,
who is now 81 years old, makes her home at
FL Mora. a suburb Of Elizabeth, n j. She
lives i'm pre- ty red cottage surrounded by
trees on the outside, and filled with rugs. old
furniture and books on the inside Mrs.
Blackwell spends the most Of her time in her
study, where she does a great deal of writ
ing. 1t was her pen, it is said, that built
this attractive little home in New Jersey.
The case of Emma Bonn, who was brutally
assaulted six years ago in Christian county,
Ills, i still fresh in the public recollection
In consequence of her injuries she lay at
deaths door for several years, and the SYM
pathy of the whole country went out to her
in her patient suffering. Now comes the
pleasing news that she has fully regained her
health, weighs l65 pounds and carries roses
on both cheeks
Mrs. Hannah Nelson is the manager of a
successful dairy school in Denmark She
Travelled extensively, learning how to make
the finest kind Of cheese peculiar to each
country. She now has hundreds of pupils,
including counts and barons from all over
Europe She has taken a number of pre-
miums, and at her silver wedding she was
presented with silver cup by the Royal
Danish Agricultural society as an acknowl-
edgment of her share in the progress Of Dan
ish dairying.
Mrs ThIrber, whose name has so often
appeared in the papers in connection with
the American opera scheme, is a woman
with whom q chat is always entertaining.
She talks in a low voice. leaning her cheek
ON one hand, and until she has quite got
through with what she has to say her listener
may as well possess his SOUL in patience.
Mrs Thurber is passionately devoted to
she sang in the choir OF well known church.
Her children, of whom she has several very
bright ones, are taught music under the
direction of a pianist of some celebrity
whose exclusive services Mrs. Thurber has
retained and who lives in her house The fail
ure of the American or National opera
scheme was, naturally enough, a blow to Mrs
Thurber. but her buoyant disposition soon re-
covered from 1t and today she is very en-
thusiastic about the Conservatory of Music
Dver whose fortunes she presides
"a curious feature of fashionable life
soday,n ssid Irene Ackerman, the actress,
lately, sis the mania Of every woman
to do something" The phrase ''fash-
ionable butterfly has as utterly gone
out as "bucksn and dandy The first
step in this direction was the char
titles, and those are Eow common" A
woman, to get away from the background,
must do something special Young Mrs.
Pierre Lorillard is accredited with novel.
Mrs. Poultney Bigelow has taken to story
writing. Mrs Robert Goelet exhibited .
portrait Of child with the Society of Ameri-
can Artists. Young Mrs. Havemeyer has
Just published her first literary sketch. Mrs.
Zoe Dana Underhill has recently had short
story in Harpe:s Weekly. These ladies must
not be classed with the amateurs and debu-
tantes who play their pretty games at elo-
cution, in private theatricals, in art and
music, nor with those maturer ladies who
read solid papers at the Causeries de Lundi,
and before their respective Dante and Shake
speare societies. Nor are they to be COM
pared with those who write and publish
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more serious. They place themselves before
that tribunal which measures values, and
when they are successful they pocket their
checks just like other people
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