Milford chronicle., 1888-08-10

ON nediqrees 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. Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
who is now 81 years old, makes her home at
Fl Mora, a suburb Of Elizabeth, n. J. She
lives in pretty red cottage surrounded by
trees on the outside, aud filed 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 los pounds and carries roses
on both checks.
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 a 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 namo has so often
appeared in the papers in connection with
the American opera scheme, is woman
with whom a 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
NAV as we'll possess his soul in patience.
Mrs. Thurber is passionately devoted to
music, and at one time before her marriage
she sang in the choir Of a 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 herhouse 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 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 Ackerman, the actress,
lately. sis the mania Of every woman
to do something" The phrase 'fash-
ionable butterfly has as utterly gone
out as "buclsn and dandy The first
step in this direction was the char
tiles, and those are now "common.n 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 a.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 a short
story in Harper'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
books at their own expense. Their aim is far
more serious. They place themselves before
that tribunal which measures values, and
whom 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. Mackay, the wife
Of the California millionaire. A favol1te
yarn 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 Maclzay
never kept boarding house either at the
place mentioned or elsewhere, and never met
Mr. NIackay at all until he had acquired the
greater part of his wealth and was living at
the best hotels of the country Moreover,
Mrs Maclay 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 rebol- |
lion. At the end of the war he was person !
ally complimented by President Lincoln and
received medal at his hands. Mrs Mackay
was educated at St. Catharine's academy, at |
Benicia, CAL, and her first husband was DR.. |
Edmund Bryant, of Brooklyn. She was
widowed at 10 and met EIr. Maclay shortly |
afterward at her fathers house. The match |
was love match, and the union has always |
been peculiarly happy ono. Her daughter |
by the first marriage, as is well known, re- |
Gently married Prince Colonna, of Italy, and |
her sister some time ago married Count Tel |
Of Rome. Mrs. Mackay has two or
three sons, and she is staying abroad chiefly |
on account Of their education.