The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-21
THE FAIR SEX.


| Newspaper Chat Concerning the Daugh.
ters of Eve-Personai Gossip.
Queen Victoria will present fine
painting of herself to Prince Bismarck
as souvenir of her visit to Berlin.
The fact that Sarah Bernhardt has in
her possession 800 unread plays illus
trates one of the sad features of contem-
porary life.
Mrs. Alice Shaw, the American whis-
tier. recently whistled for the Prince of
Wales benefit, and was personally COM
| plimented by him for her unusual fa-
cility in an unusual feminine art
Julia Ward Howe and Queen Victoria
are exactly the same age. They both
celebrated their sixty ninth birthday re-
Gently. The former achieved greatness;
the latter had greatness thrust upon her.
Queen Victoria is quite well posted on
current literature. Every new book of
any prominence is at once sent to her.
| If she Is attracted by its title it is read to
her by some maid of honor in waiting.
During the morning the queen always
listens to several columns of The London
Times. She has great liking for news
papers.
The splendid monument to Maria The
resa, lately dedicated at Vienna, is by far
the finest and most costly work of the
kind in the empire. The illustrious en-
press is represented in sitting posture,
her right arm extended and her left
hand grasping the scepter. At the four
corners are equestrian figures of her four
great generals, Daun, Laudon, Traun and
khevenhueller. The inscriptions are
simple; on the front, Maria Theresa"
and on the back, Erected by Francis
Joseph I, 1885,"
There was a curly haired, baby faced.
blonde young damsel, Ellen Hutchinson,
who came to New York city from an in
| terror hamlet to try her luck as a re-
porter for the press. A few years have
passed since then, and now her name
appears on the title page OF the ten oo-
tavo volumes Of the erudite work enti-
tied "a Library of American Ltera-
ture." The ponderosity of the work has
not crushed her merriment. Her eyes
| sparkle as brightly and she trips as
lightly as of yore. We have learned in
these times that it is not necessary for a
literary woman to cease to belong to the
fair and gentle sex.
Before her death Lady Marian Afford
left memoranda for her daughters guild
ance in arranging for her funeral. Among
other things, she wrote: II think that in
this short life too much is given to signs
of grief for the departed into happiness.
| should prefer no mourning for myself.
but should not like to shock any ones
prejudices on rhis account, and would
| only set an example as restricting the
matter to the smallest compass. think
poor; it is expensive and tawdry, and
nasty the moment it ceases to be fresh,
and, therefore, would wish you to set
the example by not wearing it for me-.
| Consequently, no Grape was worn at
Lady Affords funeral.
Somebody suggested to Mrs. Cleveland
that it must be unpleasant for her never
to pick up a newspaper without finding
some account of her own doings. "Oh,
it does not strike me in that way" she
replied. ''If the editors think that people
like to read about me, that is fiattering,
and it is always done SO politely. you
know. The president one day said that he
believed he would have to let somebody go
through the papers that was to see, and
clip out all the articles in which l was
mentioned-just as they do with juries.
l believe, when trials are going on. He
! hasn't done it yet, however, and possibly
he remembered what had once told him
about schoolmate of mine. Her father
found that she was in the habit of read
ing particularly all the accounts of mar
riages, elopements and other sentimental
things in the family paper, SO he clipped
out all the matters of that kind before
she got at the sheet. OF course her Gu
riosity was acutely aroused by such ex-
row another copy of the same paper
from neighbor, spread out the cut one
over it, and read through the holes"
The queen of Servia the other day was
visiting a museum in Vienna and per-
sisted in taking her umbrella into the
| galleries with her. This the man at the
door, who did not know her majesty, in
sisted in not allowing her to do, where
upon the queen got excited, and told the
man who she was The official refused
to believe her, and her majesty, who is
not distinguished for the smoothness of
her temper. lost it entirely, and gave the
man sharp blow across the face. On
this he cried out for assistance, and, per-
haps for the first time in our century, a
queen was arrested. The amusement of
everybody concerned. when they discov-
cred that the lady Of the umbrella was
indeed the beautiful queen of Servia, can
well be imagined. Her majesty, how
ever, took the thing in good tempered
way, and admitting she was very much
ashamed Of herself for her exhibition of
temper, insisted upon shaking hands
with the guard Of the cloak room, and
after making him a handsome donation,
proceeded with her lady in waiting tri-
umphantly round the galleries. umbrella
in hand.