The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10

her in this country, aad they accompany
her in her travels on the road.
One of Isabella Urquhart's hobbies is
swimming. She is passionately fond of be-
ing in the water. On fine, warm days she
DatroniZes the swimming baths in the CITY.
During the summer she used TO go down to
Long Branch or Manhattan Beach every
afternoon, and became a very expert swim
mer
One of the oldest of hobbies is that of
Sallie jay White of the Boston Herald staff
She keeps all the stubs OF her lead pencils As
soon as the pencil gets too short to use she
throws it into a drawer When the drawer
gets full the stubs are carefully packed away
in boxes. She has the stub of the pencil
with which she wrote her first article. and
has now several big boxes full of stubs,
which number way up in the thousands.
Anna Katherine Green, the writer of
detective novels, is a collector of pencil
stubs. She is very systematic about her
collection. The pencils she has used for
each work are packed away separately and
labeled. One package is marked, 'The
Leavenworth Case" She has separate
package for each work she has written,
even to her latest volume of poems.
Mrs. Eliza j. Nicholson, the proprietor of
the New Orleans PicGyuhe, has fancy for
collecting inkStands She says she has
every inkstand in which she has ever dipped
closets. Some are of handsome cut glass,
some are gold or silver stOppered. Then
there are leather covered Ones ordinary
common stone ones, and many varying in
value from penny TO $40.
Georgia Cayvan, the leading lady at the
Lyceum theater, has an odd mania for col
lectiug fancy pins. When she visits dry
goods store or jewelers. store she always
has hard time to pass the pin counter
without making a purchase. Her pretty
b0udoir is covered with pretty pins. She
uses them for decoration on the walls, cell
Jugs and everywhere she can. Altogether,
she has fourteen plncashions which
stand on her dressing table, The cushions
are of all shapes and sizes, and every
imaginable pin can be found in her room.
She has a number of very valuable pins and
pins of no value at all-curiously twisted
pins and the ordinary. common, everyday
straight pin-pins of gold, silver, platinum,
and pins with pearls, diamonds and other
precious stones set in them; lace pins, hat
pins, flower pins and pins for the hair.
Some of her pins were made in the time of
good Queen Bess. These she values very
highly. She has The greatest collection of
pins of any woman in America.
An odd collection of autographs is owned
by Mrs. Smith of Stratford-on-Avou. She
is the granddaughter of Mary Wormley,
who was the custodian of the Shakespeare
cottage for many years. Mrs. Smith has
got all distinguished visitors to the cottage
to give her their autographs, and in her
collection there are many signatures of
noted Americans.
Pauline Hall is bicyclist. She used to
be fond of horseback riding, but now her
hobby is her bicycle She has a beautiful
machine, and is one of the most expert and
powerful bicyclsts in the city. She is very
fond of reading all about the doings in the
bicycle world, and patronizes many of the
bicycle races. She can talk bicycle" as
well as the best professional
Mrs. jeanette Thurber mas two hobbies
one on the subject of music. This hobby
she takes up in the winter. During the
summer she devotes her energies to her log
cabin home in the Catskills. She is one OF
the moving spirits of the Onteora Club.
This club owns 200 acres of land in the
mountains. Cottages of logs and stained
shingles are built by the club members.
The interiors are furnished cozily
Dora Wheeler, the artist, is a member of
this club, and is q worker in it, too. Her
cottage is named Pennyroyal, because she
says it cost her but a penny. Miss jean
nette Wilder, editor of the Critic, who is
another member, has named her home
"Cloud Cabin" Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge's
retreat is "Yarrow." Mrs. Thurber lives in
Lotus Land" and Mrs. Griswold, the au-
thor, and Miss Hamilton French of the
Harper staff, share cottage named ewing
aud Wing"