The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-11
.WoMAN'S WORLD.
Mrs. John SherwOod's Medallion
A Crown seyen Feet Long
American Writers.

There are only two women in Amer
lea on whom the insignia of Officer
de academic has been conferred, ant
Mrs. John Sherwood is one of them
The decoration, which she YEA a
every entertainment with justifiabie
pride, is n small silver medallion
bearing an olive branch twiued will
laurel and pendent from q purple
ribbon. This, with a voluminou'
certificate, was presented by tbs
French Minister of Public Instruction
in recognition of the literary pur'
suits OF the distinguished lady.-Er'
change.
Helen Jay says:-"A contented wife
is apt to have a contented husband.
The Princess Louise of Wales and
her husband, the Duke OF Fife, are
distant cousins.
If s'woman's glory is her hair, then
Miss Laura Burns, of Martinsyilie,
Ind, Is specially blessed, for she is
said to be the only female in the
United States whose natural hair has
attained a length of seven feet. 1t is
very heavy, and of a light brown
color. Miss Burns is five feet three
inches tall, and when she stands her
hair trails nearly two feet behind her.
Mrs. Butler Fanny Kenblel is liv-
ing with her daughter. Mrs. Leigh, in
Surrey, England. She is quite feeble,
having completed her eighty-first year
last month.
Miss Blanche Willis Howard, the
novelist, would seem to be a very
sensible sort of person on general
principles. At her home in Stuttgart
she receives and chaperones young
ladies studying music, languages and
the like, and one of them says OF
her:-"She is a practical manager,
housekeeper and accountant. She
teaches us cooking and economy,
which IL does not expect from a
poet. Besides all this she is a half
doctor. She takes excellent care OF
the health of the girls and tries to
make them reasonable in caring for
themselves. She also teaches us that
we won't have half so many ills if we
don't think and talk about them.
She insists upon exercise tina n
we can take almost, but our exercise
is re~creative, and part of it is swim
ming in a delightful warm swimming
bath, which we continue all winter. y
Berlin Letter.
Rhoda Broughton, the novelist, is
gray haired, bright-eyed, profoundly
intelligent looking, and lives with her
sister in one of the most picturesque
old houses in Oxford. Her age is fifty,
and she has been novel writing for
twenty-three years, during which
period she has turned out only ten
novels.
In the rural parts of Scotland the
Young women go barefooted most OF
the year. On Sunday these buxom
damsels may be seen proceeding to
church with their shoes in hand and
their stockings hung properly over
their arms. When they reach the
churchyard they sit down on the grass,
and with more ease than modesty pro-
coed to don their hosen and shoon, for
it would be regarded as quite inn
proper to enter the kirk without these
articles of attire properly disposed.
The favorite wife of the Shah OF
Persia is AniZeh Dooulet, a bright
and intelligent woman who for thirty
years has been the first lady of the
kingdom. She has never meddled in
politics, and has pleased her husband
so well that now at fifty she reigns
supreme at Court.
Miss Hermine Richardson, who has
been called the "Belle of Roxbury,n is
one of Boston's pretty women. She is
a brunette of tall and graceful figure,
with an exquisitely modelled face,
large brown eyes, and a profusion OIL
brown curly hair.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the
American Minister to the Republic of
France, is regarded in Paris as an
ideal diplomatic. Her house is stump
tuous, her hospitality, both official
and personal, unbounded, her dress.
ing costly and in perfect taste, hel
manners simple, kindly and elegant,
and her French irreproachable.
Mrs. Elizabeth b. Custer is in APP
pearanee a slender little woman, deli,
cate to fragility. who looks as if she
could not have endured for q day the
life of privation and hardship which
she chose TO share with her gallant
husband for years. Her face is full o.
expression, and her have q
Southern warth and softness. She
dresses with much elegance, though
always in black, and is socially
great favorite .-Hafper'S Bdz0f.
Jean 1ngelow is sixty, but her
cheeks are as rosy and round as 3
girls. She writes but little now anC
lives in an old stone house in kensing
ton, England
Mime. Adam.
There are few occasions in Parii
more interesting than the reception
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