The evening world., 1890-06-30
THE WAYS OF N FAIR.


The Westminster Hotel At present shelters
Miss Geraldine Ulmar, the pretty American
soprano, who has been In london for the
last three years. singing At the Savoy and
Re ting periodically engaged by Dame
Rumor 70 marry Sir Arthur Sullivan. No
daintier Lady Sullivan could be found than
the winsome creature who was seen At the
Madison Square Garden last night clad in n
wonderful robe of green and gold and
white. But Miss Ulmar seems to be de-
voted to her profession. She II just pay
ing a flying visit 20 America to rest
herself and to say some pretty things
about her native land. She will return to
London in August to sing at the Lyric
Theatre in Audran's comic opera La
Cigale. " There Ia q possibility OF her return
to America in 1891. Miss Ulmar is prettier
than ever and decidedly younger Sine de-
clares that she IL still American to the back
bone. Her accent, however, is certainly
English.
Mrs. Harrison is having the deed Of her
Cape May Point cottage put in a fiat OAK
frame which she will decorate with bits OF
still life from the sea.
Golden hair wash has had a setback.
Jobbers offer IL at 20 cents a pint, former
price s5. Verify, all things have but .
time.
Extracts Of beef mutton and game are
for sale in the delicatessen shops for making
soup. sauce, bouillon and g~ravles.
The prettiest. girlest girl among the Belle
vue trained nurses In Miss Clare Spence, q
plump, graceful. little woman, with mis-
chievous eyes. brown hair that grows in
spiral curls, and . manner as irreSistibly
sunny az n Summers dav. This ministering
beauty comes from Canada, and when she
goes nome there will be several hearts in
Bellevue sadly in need OF balm.
A sensation in English educational circles
has been caused by the publication OF the
mathematical tripos at Cambridge Univer-
aity. The success Of the female students
has been phenomenal. The highest educa-
tional honor yet won by women has been
gained by Miss Phillippa Fawcett, aged
twenty-five, who Ia bracketed superior to
tho senior wranRler. Previous to this the
first place was occupied by Miss Ramsay.
who was senior wranRler in the classical
tripos in 1887, and second by Miss Scott,
who was eighth mathematical wrangler In
1880. In addition to Miss Fawcetts won-
derful achievement. two ladies' figure In the
Hat of wranglers. ten are senior optimes,
and four are junior optimes. No women
failed to pass, but six men failed completely.
Miss Fawcett Ia a daughter Of the late Prot.
Fawcett, the blind philosopher and states
man. who was Postmaster-General IN Mr..
Gladstone's Government. She Ia described
az a charming, hiEh-spirited, nervous young
woman.
Tho Cayese girl natures early and gene
rally marries at the age Of fourteen or ff-
teen. From sixteen to nineteen she is in her
prime. At twenty she 10 beginning
to become a shade passe. At thirty
she Is an old woman and at forty she Ia a
withered crone. A lady from - the States
who by some freak OF fortune had CHANGED
to stray into these forgotten waters ZONE
years ago. was chaperoned by q married
woman Of thirteen.
Miss Ella Ewing. living near Rainbow.
Mo-. eighteen years old. Is now 7 feet 4
inches high, weighs 225 pounds. wears n
No. Is shoe, which OF course she has to
have made to order. and her shoemaker had
to order a special last The girls parents
are of about the usual size. the father being
possibly n little taller than the ayerag 20 man.
A midsummer novelty Ia Greek net. which
has meshes three-eiGhths OF an inch across.
1t has q pattern OF stripes or Hprigs, or Is
finished with a border and Is made over silk
Of either q ~harmonlzing or contrasting
color. When the dress has a train the not is
used only for the front and the train Is Of
silk.
As sleeves grow longer gloves are shorter.
The rule is that no part OF the arm shall be
exposed, and the glove must extend up I'M
der the sleeve. Suede and Saxony gloves
are much worn INT have a delicate stitching
OF the same color. Wide embroidery on the
backs of gloves is altogether passe.
II was bad enough when the masculine
girl assumed the shirt and jacket. writes
Bah, but now when she takes of her Jacket,
switches 1t over one arm and walks in her
shirt, she needs a good. strong dose OF the
truth, and that Is. it's neither decent nor
gentlemAnly. has proven one thing,
she has her shirts made in the received
fashions, that IL, clio ed in the back, with
the proper yoke, and buttoned all the way
down the front. All the men who object to
wAsherwomen making ribbons OF their
shirts are adopting this plan. because the
lady of the lather doesn't drag them over All
ironing-boArd three sizes too large for them
aud tear them in that way. The shirt
wearing girl would like to impress you with
the fact that she is economical. but she
isn'L II she had been made straight in,
stead OF curved, she might have worn 9
shirt 9 day, but nature having rounded her
out. her shirtfront breaks, and unless she
wishes to become an awful object, she de-
mAnds two shirts a dav, and her laundry
bill is something Awfnl.
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