St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20
UNDER VARIOUS G H !

An English society woman who, be-
ginning a stage career as an amateur.
has achieved a first rank as an emotion
al actress, is Lady Monckton, who is
especially identified with the part OF
Mrs. Ralston in 'Jim the Penman," in
which she played more than 200 times
at the Haymarket theater in London.
1t was, in fact, largely through her eft
forts that this play was put upon the
stage, and it was in consequence of her
interest in the success of the play that
she adopted the dramatic profession.
AS an amateur Lady Monckton had
played frequently for charity in such
parts as Lydia Languish in ''The
Rivals" and Kate Hardcastle IN 1.-THE
School for Scandal
Lady MOncktOn has an elegant home
in Montpelier square, Knightsbridge,
London, III which there is every evil
dence of the cultured taste of the own
err. She has a library well stocked with
standard works, to the reading of which
she devotes much time. After dramatic
literature she is especially fond of re-
cent English romance, although she ID
mitS that she has been unable to read
Robert Elsmere." In closing an ac-
count of a visit to her Frederick Dolman
says: '1n the play of her mobile feat
ures, in the changing glances of her
dark eyes. in the electric influence Of
her conversation, Lady Monckton is the
born actress; but in amer she is the
perSOnificatiOn of ingenious frankneSS,
Attired as she was in black silk, with
black lace trimmings, Lady MOncktOn'S
brightness and vivacity-which will
surely take many years to impair-put
completely out of ones thoughts the
Somber veStmentS, and n Is inclined
to think that, although it is as Mrs. Raj
stOn that she is familiar to ~play-goers,
her insight is not at fault in seeking
kinship with the spirit of comedy"
For the Sake of Example Merely.
Mile. Bilbesco, the young Roumaniau
woman who recently graduated in law
at Paris, is the only daughter Of a
wealthy banker. He always saw that
she had a fine mind and gave her the
education of a boy. employing for her
teachers the professors of the Bucharest
lyceums. She is a handsome girl of
three and twenty. looking more the
Greek than the R~oumanian. Her face
is singularly pale, her hair and eyes are
singularly dark and the facial line is
straight. Bushes mantle her face On
the slightest provocation and she would
not, she says, for the world attend the
law courts to plead. What she wants
to earn al honorable livelihood at the bar.
Nothing can be more dead than the lives
of girls in the homes of half or nearly
wholly ruined landholders at Bucharest.
The number of these is legion. The
girls have not yet shaken off the state
of inertia into which Turkish rule
plunged the women of Roumania. If
Mile. BilbeSco should ever plead, it will
be for women too poor to pay fees to adj
vOcateS. Mile. Bilbesco was admitted
to read her thesis in an ordinary dress.
She removed a Rubens hat in black
lace when she was reading, and was
dressed in a plain-cut black silk gown,
with Old-gOld gimp at the neck and
wrists. Her voice is melliduOuS, and
n could tell from it that she is a
musician. She has attended the classes
at the law school during every term for
six years. never missing a lesson. Her
mother was always with her. But the
male students, contrary to what was APP
pretended by the professors when she
asked leave to matriculate, were always
respectful in seeming to ignore her
presence among them.
WOmen's Advance in. Driving
Some of the conservative old folks Of
the United States are astonished al
times at the rapid strides which young
women are making in the art of driv-
ing. For many years, says the New
York Sun, it was considered that,
though a Young woman might be taught
to ride, she should never. under any
circumstances, be trusted to drive a
spirited horse. Seated in allow phaetOn
with a calloused pony,it was considered
entirely safe for her to ramble about
the country, whipping the beast with
the reins and talking to him after the
conventional and disconnected feminine
fashion. Nowadays fragile and delicate
looking young women are to be found
driving ~sixteen-hand horses in the sub
urbs and in all the fashionable water
ing places of America. They drive dog
carts. mail phaetOnS and many of the
other vehicles hitherto reserved for use
by men, and they drive with great skill
and cleverness. A girl seated on a high
oak dog cart driving two spirited horses
tandem at a brisk pace in Newport is a
common sight. There are enough
women still left in New York to makea
good showing, even during the heated
term.