The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13
THE FAIR SEX.
Newspaper Comments Generating Woman
and Her Work-Personal Mention.

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Newspaper Comments Concerning Womas
| and Her Work-Pcrsonai Mention.
Mime. Meissonier, whose death 4
announced. was sister Of Steinheil, tn,
painter of religious subjects. She wa
much given to works Of charity.
Mrs. Kendall. the great English actress
Is the inventor and patentee Of lamr
and candle shade, from the sales Of which
she derives a handsome profit. Il d
called the "Egdam"-her own name re.
versed.
A manager Of o woman's exchange 70.
ports that during the past year she has
given advice to 51S women. Some law.
yers have rot been more busy, and few.
probably. were obliged to solve cases in
equal variety.
Queen Victoria Il very fond Of straw
hats. Shc recently had q photograph
taken of herself as che 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. Il living
In Madrid, Spain, and is in good health.
She is employed in an attempt to obtain
from the English court of chancery a
fortune which belonged to her grand
father. She evidently is more optimistic
and trusting than her famous brother.
Certain French women are founding a
scientific review, La Revue Scientifiaue
des Femmes. The directing committee
is already formed. A lady who is a
physician to the suttan's seraglio is a cor
responding member. What amusing let
ters she could write were she not bound
to assume grave air in her communica-
tons! The editor is Nine. Renoz, Bel
gian.
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. SIT is surely blunder,"
says an English writer, that our prin-
cess should have lent her countenance to
a custom worthy only Of the wives and
daughters of glorified 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 az 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 slender,
girlish figure, slightly above the medium
height, and is graceful. Her eyes are
soft brown, with a sweet innocent" " /
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 l saw
her recently in simple house dress of |
white embroidered muslin, with china |
silk sash tied round her waist. she pre-
sented picture of almost infantine love-
liness. She is very young, not more than
10 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 q terrible shock
among the circles so lately embellished
BY her presence. The unhappy lady left
Paris but short time ago on 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
Il up she observed laughingly that lone
If the horses belonging to the next car
rage had kissed her." Next day the
lady was taken i'll with that
most horrible disease, CHAMBERS, and in a
lew more days breathed her last, in spite
# the attendance Of the first physicians
# Berlin and every resource to be OBJ
aimed by wealth or by the oeaseless vigil
ance of friends.