The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-05
NEWSPAPER Noroalerv.
Gossip Concerning the Fair sex--Per ona
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ing fortune selling Dutch cheese.
An Ohio young lady's name is Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. Her friends call her
"Prockie."
Mrs. Langtry's fortune is said to exceed
$500, 600 Her father was only worth about
$3.50 when he died the other day
Frances Hodgson Burnett has yellow hair,
cut short, large blue eyes, fair complexion,
and a plump and we'll proportional figure
Perhaps the best paid woman writer In
this country Is Mrs Southworth, who re-
ceives an income Of $1,000 a year from The
New York Ledger. Mary E. Bryan, one Of
the new writers from the south, earns an in
come of $1,000 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 flutterings when they read
that the poets daughter, Mrs DR., Eddy, &C.
cupies position in Harvard college
Miss Rapp, queen of the Harmony or
Economy society, located on the Ohio river,
near Allegheny City, is over 80 years old,
and in an excellent state Of preservation
The community was founded by George
Rapp in 1904. 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
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able and graceful writer.
The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
who is now 81 years old, makes her home at
Ell Mora, suburb of Elizabeth, N. J. She
lives in a pretty 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 great deal of writ
ing. It 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, is 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 1865 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 number of pre-
milms, 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 Thurber, whose name has SO often
appeared in the papers in connection with
the American opera scheme, is a woman
with whom chat is always entertaining.
She talks in 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
music, and at one time before hex marriage
she sang in the choir of a well known church.
Her children, of whom she has several very
bright ones, arc taught music under the
direction of 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, blow to Mrs.
Thurber, but her buoyant disposition soon re-
covered from it and today she is very en-
thusiastic about the Conservatory of Music
over whose fortunes she presides.
"a curious feature Of fashionable life
today,n said Irene Alderman, the actress,
lately, 'is the mania of every woman
to do something" The phrase "fash-
ionable butterfly" has as utterly gone
out as "bucks' and "dandy." The first
step in this direction was the char
tiles, and those are now 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 a
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 Harpers Weekly. These ladies must
not be classed with the amateurs and debu-
tantes who play their pretty games at elo-
cution, in private theatTicals, 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
books at their own expense Their aim is far
more serious They place themselves before
that tribunal which measures values, and
when they are successful they pocket their
checks just like other people.
Probably no woman in the world is the
subject of more frequent and more absurd
stories than Mrs. John w. Macka-, the wife
of the California millionaire. A favorlte
warn is to the effect that she once kept a
miners boarding house in Virginia City, and
that her future husband was one of the
boarders. As matter Of fact, Mrs. Mackay
never kept boarding house either at the
place nen1 ion4d or elsewhere, and never met
Mr.. Maclsay at ;.ll until he had acquired the
greater part of his wealth and was living at
the best hotels of the country. Moreover,
Mrs. Mackay comes from an exceedingly
GOOD family. Her father was Col Hunger
ford. an officer in the United States army
during both the Mexican war and the rebel
lion AT the end of the war be was person
ally complimented by President Lincoln and
received a medal at his hands. Mrs Mackay
was educated at st. Catharine's academy, al
Renicia. Cal, and her first husband was DR..
Edmund Bryant, of Brooklyn She was
widowed at 10 and met Mr.. Mackay shortly
afterward at her fathers house. The mattel
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