The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-12
THE FAIR SEX.
Newspaper Comments Concerning Woman
and Her Work-Personal Mention.


Newspaper Comments Concerning Woman
and Her Work-Persoual Mention.
Nine. Meissonier, whose death is
announced, was a sister of Steinheil, the
painter of religious subjects. She was
much given to works of charity.
Mrs. Kendall, the great English actress,
is the inventor and patentee of a lamp
and candle shade, from the sales of which
she derives n handsome profit. It is
called the ''Egdam own name re-
versed.
A manager of woman's exchange re-
ports that during the past year she has
given advice to 51S women. Some law
yers have not been more busy. and few,
probably, We're obliged to solve cases in
equal variety.
Queen Victoria is very fond of straw
hats. She recently had a photograph
taken of herself as she sat at breakfast
surrounded by her family. On her head
was a most remarkable straw hat, the
most striking object in the picture.
The sister of Keats, the poet, is living
in Madrid, Spain, and is in good health.
She is employed in an attempt to obtain
| fortune which belonged to her grand
| father. She evidently is more optimistic
and trusting than her famous brother.
Certain French women are founding
scientific review, La Revue Scientitique
des. Femmes. The directing committee
is already formed. A lady who is a
physician to the suitan's seraglio is cor
responding member. What amusing let
ters she could write We're she not bound
to assume grave air in her communica-
tionsl The editor is Nine. Renoz. Bel
gian. 's nc =
Judge Thurman's daughter, who lives
at Richmond Hill, Long Island, built
her own house and had it made to suit
her own ideas. The entire lower floor,
except the kitchen, is one immense room,
which is divided into smaller ones by
large screens. These screens may be
rolled aside or used for partition pur-
poses at the wish of the owner. The
house stands high and commands fine
view of the village of Jamaica and the
surrounding country.
The Princess of Wales and other ladies
of the great London world are setting the
fashion of displaying fortune in dia-
monds upon their persons on every pos
sible occasion. ''1t is surely blunder,"
says an English writer, ''that our prin-
cess should have lent her countenance to
custom worthy only Of the wives and
daughters of gloriied pork packers, petro-
leum dealers, proprietors of corners in
cotton, and other millionairesses from the
other side of the Atlantic. One newt
able result will be a great demand for
paste. Society was false enough already,
one would have imagined, without this
direct encouragement from the highest
quarters.
When Miss Ethel Ingalls, wrote her re-
cent article about the pretty girls in
Washington society she made an import
ant omission. She herself is as pretty, if
not one of the prettiest girls in Washing
ton, and since she has undertaken news
paper work she is regarded with interest
wherever she goes. She has a slender,
girlish figure. slightly above the medium
height, and is graceful. Her eyes are
soft brown, with a sweet innocent ex-
preston; her complexion is like rose
leaf, and, together with the coils and
pretty fringe of golden brown hair, makes
an exquisite bit of coloring. AS saw
her recently in simple house dress of
white embroidered muslin, with a lchina
silk sash tied round her waist, she pre-
sented picture of almost infantine love-
illness. She is very young, not more than
IS or 10 at the most, and left school only
last year. The past season was her first
in society.
The awful death of Nine. Pavlakoff,
one of the most charming among all
that bevy of charming Russian ladies
who sometimes gladden. the winters OF
Paris, has created terrible SHOCK
among the circles SO lately embellished
by her presence. The unhappy lady left
Paris but short time ago ON a summer
tour to Germany. While stepping from
the door of her hotel at Berlin to gain her
carriage she let fall one of her bracelets
close to the pavement. Stopping to pick
it up she observed laughingly that 'one
of the horses belonging to the next car
riage had kissed her." Next day the
unfortunate lady was taken i'll with that
most horrible disease, glanders, and in q
few more days breathed her last, in spite
of the attendance of the first physicians
of Berlin and every resource to be OBJ
tanned by wealth or by the ceaseless vigi
lance of friends.