Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-06-02
FAIR SEX.
FlatterIng Words of the Paragraphists.
fIsfts of Readable Gossip.

F1atterIng Words Of the Paragraphists.
Bits of Readable Gossip.
Lady Colin Campbell has become a journal
istic ait critic.
Rosa Bonheur now goes about searching
for studies In q cutaway coat and trousers.
The Princess of Wales and her associates
are setting the fashion of wearing as much
jewelry as possible.
Queen Victoria Travelled through Europe
with so much luggage that 1t took an hour to
transfer it-from tile trnin to the boat at
Flushing.
Mrs. D.L King, the wife of David Leiccs-
ter King, attorney and counselor ct law at
Akron, o.. Is one OF tho fow descendants of
George Washington's only sister, she being
BetsSW ashington's great granddaughter.
Mle. N. Ramirez Cortcz, of Paris, who Is
at present In San Francisco, is lneal de
scsndans OF fernando Cortez, the famous
s4,isqrse-r OF &exico She is about % years
@Enge, slender and small Of stature, with Jet
Back hair and regular features
A Boston woman fifteen years ago touched
her tongue to some lyo and burned tho upper
side Of it. Since that tImo she has been
troubled with ulcers, and recently it became
necessary for tho physicians to cut her tongue
out. The operation was successfully per-
formed, and two weeks later she was able to
talk and mnko herself easily understood.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes great deal Of
her poetry while aitting In a rocking chair
With pad of paper In her lap. Very often,
too. her black cat perches itself on tho bncl,
Of the chair and gazcs gravely down ut Its
mistress while her work Is progressing
Two nights before Queen Victoria left Flor.
ence deputation Of Florentines called upon
her and presented her with an album con.
tanning photographs Of the city and its points
Of interest. The queen telegrnphed to Eug-
land to have speech of thanks prepared
which she will deliver extemporaneously by
letter.
Mrs. Ernestine Schnfrner, of New York,
spends the greater part of her time and
money in behalf of prisoners whom she be-
lieves are wrongfully accused She visits the
police courts, and where she sees man or
woman who her judgmnt tells her Is the
victim of circumstantial evidence she fur
nishes bail, and at her own expense secures
the services of q lawyer. So far Mrs SchafR-
ners intuitions seem to be correct, and she
bias always Won the cases Of her proteges,
and hcs never lost dollar by going their
bail
Irince Bismarck wife is said to BIO a typical
"hansfrau," with never thought above petty
domestic details. The crown princes wife is
Of the samo nature. In their eyes it is little
short OF infamous for the empress to read
philosophy, advocate tho higher education OF
women, and talle an intelligent interest In
the affairs of tho empire and of tho world.
Yet her breadth of intellect and force OF
character have never prevented the empress
tronrbeing model wife md model mother.
Miss Elizabeth Strong, Of San Francisco,
is tho Rosa Bonheur of american painters.
At present she has studio IN Paris, in the
sixth story of house in the Rue DIES STUNTS
Pcrcs, near the Seine. 1t was once occupied
by Paul Dclaroche, and although delight
full place, after you llavo once scaled its dizzy
heights, is not particularly adapted to the
wants Of ON animal painter. Miss Strong
hoes most Of her painting in the open air in
tho lovely country around Paris. She will
send two paintings TO tho next salon, both OF
dogs
Miss Ella Russell writes from st. Peters
burg to l. F., Of Tho World, London, to re
sennt oil Of her triunphs and magnificent
psrsents-diamonds, flowers 800 bouquets,
It seems sllo sang from November till March
in Warsaw flfty-five tines in ten diHercn,
operas, and received diamond bracelet
diamond ring, and album, and-a solid silver
and gold tea service for twelve persons! On
March 25, she says, she made her debut In
ST. Petersburg In "Traviata" with Masini
She has since sung ten times, ard was the
last time presented with a horseshoe formed
of tea rose buds, in tho center of which there
was suspended small blue velvet box con
tanning another rose, but composed Of dia
monde