Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-26
AN IRISH BEAUTY
 l Her Brilliant Career in English Soci.

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 From the Irish Weekly Times1
 The late Lady Combermere, who died re- certly in London, was one of the dozen Irish gentlewomen who had SO much weight in English society 80 or 40 years ago. She was the beautiful Miss Gibbings, daughter of an Irish physician of great wealth residing in Dublin, and it was doubtless the dazzling military record of Field Marshal Viseount Combermere which touched the heart of the winsome beauty. She became his third wife when he was well on to 80, and 80 we'll did she succeed that he lived to his 94th year. ssI kept my lord alive with old sherryi" was La- dy Combermere's own concise description of her system.
 Lady Combermere could never be induced to make @ second marriage. When her mourning was over she began to entertain largely and her house in London was one of the most notable for many years. She dstested the country with all it's works and ways. Her house was gaily and rather fantastically fur nished with abundance of gliding, looking glass, artificial flowers and oolored lamps. She was very fond of assembling her friends at elaborate luncheon parties, when the blinds were always drawn down and the candles covered with rose oolored shades, "because it is so much more becoming to all our com- plexioHs." Smartness, splendor, show and
 
 talents and accomplishments scarcely less. ''Win you come and meet a few clever peo- plef' was her favorite ferm of invitation, and however clever the guests might be 1t was pretty certain that they would not out shine their hostess. She had a truly Irish wit, excellent in repartee, loved good story and was an expert in all the thrusts and pas es of social sword play.
 One of her ladyship's detestatians was @ railway train. She always travelled herself in her own carriage whenever the distance was under 100 miles, riding In @ family coach of ancient tpye, driven at 6 remarks- bly deliberate jog trot. "John, you know s'Well, drive me at that pace," was her gra- phis code of instruction to a new coachman. If ever 1t was necessary for her to travel she always chose Sunday for her journey, be- cause there was less chance of being run into by an excursion train.
 She died of extreme old age, but possessed of all her faculties.
 DISEASE IN TRUNKS. Two Families Infected After Thirty Years.
 From the Journal of Surgery.l Thirty. five yesrs ago an opulent family lived in one of our most beautiful suburbs. 1 Two lovely children graced the happy house. l hold. But scarlet fever closed their eyes in death. The grief-strieken mother gathered ] up little slips, slippers and toys, with two golden tresses, and reverently laid them away l in trunk as sad but priceless mementoes of her lost darlings. War came with it's tragic vioissitudes and death time and again threw its shadow over the hearthstone. Finally the place passed into strangers hands. Last year two families took 1t as a summer resi- dence. The children, six in number, with childish curiosity, began to explore the se- cret recesses of the grand old house. In 8 closet was found the forgotten trunk. A touch dissolved the time-corroded clasp, and one by one the sacred relics were removed, until Q faded newspaper was found which told the pathetic story. Half spelling out the meaning, they took 1t to their mother, who chided their curiosity and tenderly re- placed the treasures. Five days after this occurrence two of the children were seized with scarlet fever, and forty-eight hours later the other four were attacked. Two | cases were grave, the others mild. All re- | covered. Was the disease contracted from the trunki think so, because there was no other sscertainable source of infection. Moral Silks, woolen and hair, being good fomites, should not be put away in air tight trunks as mementoes of friends dying with infectious diseases, because they may become, at some remote period, the start ing point of wide spreading and disss- trous epidemic, Q calamity which was avert ed in this instance only by complete isola- ton.