The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-06
WOMAN'S WORLD.
The Emperor's Mother-in-Law-A
Soldiers Daughter-The
Queens Health.

IDe Impress Oh ueThlany 10 a
daughter of the Duchess Adelheid. of
Schleswig = Holstein Au~gustenburg.
The latter, writes Eugene Field to the
| Chicago Netcs, is a singularly modest
and reserved parsonage, quite averse
to display and palaver. She is in the
habit of travelling about incogni to,
and this is incognito invariably of the
| strictest kind. Recently she went to
Vienna, and, as the Comtesse de
Wolfersdorf, hired apartments in a
| bourgeoise part of the city. The
landlord treated her as he might have
treated any elderly lady whose only
| visitors were her physician and a few
| solemn looking friends. One day. how
| ever. this landlord was stricken nearly
agbast when the Emperor OF Germany
who h~appenedto be in Vienua) whiried
up in front of the modest mansion,
and inquired after the Countess de
| Wolfersdorf. After this imposing
visitor had departed the landlord
scuttled up to his dodgers apartments.
..Do you know, Mime. la Comtesse,"
he inquired, breathlessly, who your
caller isg Why, it was the Emperor
of Germany
"Of course answered the old lady,
quietly; ''he happens to be my SON
in-law.n
The sister of this estimable woman
is the wife of DIR. Esmareh, an emf
nent surgeon, who is very chummy
with the Kaiser. 1t seems rather curl
Gus doesn't ito that an Emperor OF
Germany should have for his uncle a
professor of Kiel University
Madame Modjeska, who is now in
Poland, will make a tour of the United
States next season.
Mrs. Samuel j. Randall is living
very quietly in Washington on Capt.
toll Hill, her younger daughter being
her constant companion.
Accounts of the Queens health.
though satisfactory, still dwell on the
fact that she is not so active as last
year. Every year she does less and is
more fatigued, and it is said by those
about court that although in all es-
sentials she is strong and hale. she
feels and acknowledges regretfully
that she is able to do less each year.
Her Majesty, fortunately, avoided
taking cold this year, and this is in
her favor. She is now unable to take
walking exercise, and is more apt TO
get chilled when driving.
Mary Gould Eckhart is proprietor
and owner of the largest catering es-
tablishment in the west division OF
Chicago. She has a faculty of getting
uD designs in the shape of favors and
individual forms of entrees, side dishes
and desserts, taking her models from
the small furnishing goods, such as
purses. fans, match safes, gloves, hats,
muffs and jewels worn by the people
who frequent her shop.
Princess Maud, of Wales, masquer-
AIDED lately at Wiesbaden, Hamburg,
Wilbad and Ems as plain Miss Wolf
at times and again as Miss Welsh, and
none of the lion hunters penetrated
her disguise. She was c~haperoned by
a quiet, retiring, elderly lady, who
was supposed to be her aunt, but in
fact was an important lady OF the
court sent to attend the Princess.
Both the ladies dressed very plainly,
and were not troubled with attention.
Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver has an
ivy plant growing in her drawing
room that once trailed its branches
over the grave of Thackeray. An
other souvenir in her pretty salon is
a painting of the "Oid Curiosity
Shop done on a piece Of wood taken
from the main door.
Mile. Bonheur's love and loving
study of animals have given her
strange control over them. 1t is now
several years since she gave to the
Jardin DIES Plants a beautiful lion and
lioness, which to this day recognize
her If she approaches their cage and
thrust their heads against the bars for
the touch of her sympathetic little
fingers.
Miss Rachel Sherman, the Generals
daughter, is so well posted in politics
that she is an invaluable assistant to
her father in supplying him with
names and dates that have grown
dim in his mind.
The Duchess of Marlborough, like
all dainty women, is extremely fond
of sweet odors, but, unlike the "
age dainty woman, considers not at
all the expenses attendant upon graf
flying her caprice. Her perfume is
bought in quantities and delivered
at the mano of Woodstock in gallon
jars.
Some of the greatest male travellers
of recent years having failed to enter
Thibet, a lady is now about to make
the attempt. Miss Taylor, of the
Chinese Inland Mission, is on the
borders of that country. with a view
to going, if possible, to- Lhasa.