The morning call., 1890-05-11
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
A Russian COuntess-Decline and
Fall of the EARRING.

TsHE Countess Norrakow has been telling
1S us things about Siberia this spring that
MN are vastly more Interesting than the
tales OF the st. Petersburg Court told
US by Russian Princess last season, writes
Eliza Putnam Heaton from New York TO
The CALL. The Countess is not herself a Rus
sian. She was Canadian girl and married a Rus
Sian noble whose experience 10 exile more than
bears out all that KEENAN, has been saying. The
Count Norraikow was q lad of II or Is, uncOn-
nected with the plots and gulltless of any levo-
lutlonary knowledge, when one night lie was
dining with Polish Countess, a fIieud OF the
family. Suddenly there came voice at the
door. open In the name of the Gar" 1t was
gendaImes and their leader laid his hand on
asked his offense. "Go quietly, my boy"
SAID the Countess, your friends Will not
forget you" He went 10 the 2, tTopaylovsky
fortress and In few months 10 Siberia. There
he remained over i've years and never knew for
what he had been arrested. Influence at court
released him. and then lie took the oath of the
Nlhlllsts, anxious 10 know something of body
Tor a supposed sharing OF whose secrets he had
suffered. A second time lie was exiled without
having committed an overt ACT, and after TWO
more Years as Il political exile IN Siberia power
ful fliends second time obtained his pardon.
Applying for Six months leave OF absence 10
travel he failed TO turn 10 Russia, and is iu
consequence prescribed. Shak en- in health, his
fortune conf Gated, he and his wife are still In
constant communication by means Of The under
ground railroad with the liberal element In Rus
sia, aud lie SUPPLIES her with Information which
uSiilB ID an enucdFOE 10 increase Inc INFER
est felt in ibis country in the exile system.
The Countess was reading some letters JUST
received from Paris, to Which city they had been
forwarded Ifom 81. Petersburg, 10 group OF lis
teners the other evening. The letters were full OF
forebodings OF calamities TO come. Friends had
been arrested and nelghbors. Perhaps" said
one writer, before this reaches you l too shall
be on my way across the boIderh The impress
sion received was that of general apprehension,
unrest, Il looking forward TO trouDlous times.
The Countess, who is doing good deal OF Arit-
Ing on Russian subjects, IS a very prepossessiDg
woman, Win nne eyes aud short curly dark hair.
Sne enleIlalns well ana usually has good takers
al her receptions
There is certain pleasure in watching the
decline and fall of the earring IL l had written
Looking Backward L should have Inserted
somewhere a Renaissance OF the last woman
who bored holes in her flesh TO permit the fasten.
ing OF an ornament. The attempt TO revive the
Creole, or hanging earring, has utterly failed.
The falDtest suggestions OF weight attached to
The ear now dIspeaseS most we'll bred women.
Occasionally you see face OF such a shape that
hanging earrings are tcmptingly becoming. Net
tie Hooper, the pretty daughter OF Lucy Hooper,
The Paris correspondent, wore large Creole ear
rings set with small prarls at recent reception
aud they accented her piquancy, but the hanging
EARRING, as rule, Is an Accumulation. Even the
stud earring Is less Worn. Fine jewels are less
often set In earrings, and many which have thus
been used are going back 10 lie jewelers. to be
reset as pendants or IN brooches. Ii Is not
usual Thing now to see debuIante whose ears
have been pierced, and matrOns Olten use varl-
Gus Little aitilces 10 conceal the traces OF The
needle.
To this has it grown. 1t was single rooms last
year aud the year before. The girl bachelor
iuurshes like the green bay tree. Tts Dorothy
apartment With parlor In common aiI4 bed
room apiece for three or four chums mas
banded into flats where the cosiest housekeeping
10 carried on; two girls 10 Fat and pretty tea
things OF old Satsuma picked up delightfully."-
cheap at auction sales. Some OF them ike II,
some yearn for masculine shoes and oyeTcoats
TO PICK w and put away.
81 don't like TO play at Mrs. IS" said q pro-
fessional entertainer the other evening "Her
plano is covered with bric-a-brac and out OF
tune" A cloth on a plano duils the resonance
and too many trltilng ornaments distract the
players MUD.
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