St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-14
THE REPREssED % SEX.

- Mrs. Christina Bardner, of Lewiston,
ILL.,, who has reached the age of 100, has
erected her own monument in the GEM
etery. At her centennial birthday
party the list of her descendants in
cluded 353 personals children. 80
grandchildren, 218 great-grandchildren
and "a Observation-Disclosures.
Everybody of prominence seems to be
in London just now. At one OF Nine.
Blavatsky'S circles ten days ago there
were Annie Katherine Green, author OF
ant, Jenness- Miller, Mrs. Edmund Rus
sell and Mrs. Frank Leslie. The theat-
rical world is represented by the Daily
company, Fanny Davenport, Margaret
Mather, Minnie Palmer and Sadie Mar
tinot.
Mrs. Sidney Rosenfeld, an English
girl by birth, and extremely beautiful
as we'll as gifted, was taught butter
making by relative of the Duchess OF
.nFife's dairy tutor. In Y0nkers she has
had repeated offers of 81 pound for
her creamery, hand-churned rolls.
Mrs. Compton. who has the chair of
English literature in the South Side
High school, said to her class not long
ago: 1--WE might abolish all creedS and
religious exercises if only truth could
be established, wershiped and prac-
ticed. We could then have better
world and higher morality than now
exist"
The low-cnt vestso much worn under
cut-aways and blazers by the So-called
''swagger" girl is designed like waist
and finished like a mans vest. being
sleeveless and cut low in front, with a
step collar. Figured pique, duck, linen.
Marseilles and regular tailor's vesting
ale used as often as woolen cloth or
dress material. Sometimes the veSting
is used only in front and silesia forms
the back. Small pearl buttons, held OH
eyelet rings, close the mannlsh little
waist.
And now, after her social conquests n
two continents, the Duchess of MARI
borough is spoken and written about in
private letters as the bold, beautiful
huntresS. With the party and pack she
follows the hounds and tramps through
woods and swamp, clad IN knee-det p
hunting suit of gray cloth, with top
boots Of Unframed leather reaching to
her skirts; Russian satchel slung over
her shoulder, rifle in her hands and
felt hat, ornamented with a pheasant's
wing, pulled down over her eyes. The
lovely duchess, who is fair and fat, If
not forty, has been intensely worried
about her size. From some unknown
cause she has been expanding I'D all
directions. and it was to limit the extent
of her loneliness that she took up first
systematic course of fasting and pack
| ing and finally season OF overland eX-
/ erciSe. A campers outfit is carried and
when too far to reach the hunting box
| her grace the duchess spends the night
under tent. In recent letter she
writes that she has never been III better
trim.
i If it be true that the engagement be-
| tween the courageous Journalist and
clever artist really existed before Mr..
Stanley started upon his African expe-
/ dition nothing in fiction could exceed
| the pathos and romance of the situation.
| Several times Miss Dorothy Tenant
learned through the press of his death.
and as no letters were exchanged this
was her only medium Of Information.
Even in their work there was strange
sympathy, for while the hero was ex-
| plorlng the dark continent of Africa
the heroine was endeavOring to throw
some light upon the gloom and sorrow
of London's dark spots. In ministeflng
to the creature comforts of the lewly
and forsaken, she found models for her
street araEs, which she painted with
tenderness and force born of genius.
pity and desire to let in the light of
civilization at home as her lover was
doing to dispel the degradation of igner-
ance abroad, Their wedding will be
the event Of July. Miss Tenant, as
everybody knows, is gifted artist. and
also graceful writer, some OF her pen
pictures of the gray lives of London
! being compared with pages of Dickens.
She is lady of thirty. singularly sweet
| in manner and disposition.