The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-06
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Why the SHltan objects to Paris
GOwns-Queen Victoria's
Superstition.

Long Island Sound, two hours ride
from New York.
Mrs. p. T. Barnum has gone to
England Her people live in Lam
cashire.
The Empress Carlotta has recov-
cred her reason. but her whole life
since the time, twenty-five years ago,
when her husband was shot, has been
blank. of which no memory fingers.
The Sultan has prohibited Turkish
ladies from going around the streets
of Constantinople in gorgeous Par
isian costumes. He has been warned
what Worth dresses and ducks OF
bonnets cost.
The Princess of Wales and the
Princesses Victoria and Maud are to
proceed to Copenhagen about the
middle of August, and they will be
the guests of the King and Queen of
/ Denmark for two months at the
Schloss of Fredensborg, where the
Emperor and Empress of Russia. the
King and Queen of the Hellenes, and
the Duchess Of Cumberland are also
expected.
Mrs. s. V. r. Cruger has added a
wing to her country house, in which
| there is to be a Roman room, with
fountains playing, water spiashing
from rockets, etc, and the floor is to
be covered with tiger skin. When in
this room Mrs. Cruger viii yes a
Roman costume-soft, flowing robes
caught up on the sides. and a jeweled
girdle. Mrs. Cruger has as her guest
Mrs. John Sherwood. a literary col
league and her great admirer, TO
whom she reads her manuscripts be-
fore launching them to the public.
Mrs. Cruger was Julia Storrowe, of an
Albany family with more brains than
backsheesh.
1t is said that Queen Victoria is a
firm believer in the old superstition
that anything made by a blind per-
son is sure to bring good luck. She
has had the cradle for the young Prin-
cess Battenberg made and furnished
throughout in the most elegant man
ner by blind men and women.
The Bernardine nuns who live in a
| small village on the shores OF the Bay
of Biscay, are devoted by their vows
to a life OF perpetual silence. One of
the diversions of their mute life is the
cultivation of flowers, and they es-
pecially excel in the raising of white
camellias of surprising beauty.
Mrs. Oscar Wilde and Lady Hab-
berton are two of the noted English
women who have adopted the divided
skirt as a part of their everyday at
tire.
Auntie Wa ON the Same Errand.
There is a young bride. fresh from
the South, who lives up in Mt. Vernon.
N. Y. She was quite ignorant of our
Northern social conditions until re-
Gently. She is better informed now.
1t CHANGED that she needed n SER
want, and as she had always been used
to colored girls, set out to find one. 1t
also CHANGED that she met a middle
aged colored woman in the street, and
after the custom of the South said to
her.
"Auntie, / want to get a bright
young colored girl to work for me.
Are there any in your family out of a
place, or do you know of any?p
"Auntie' looked at the bride with
cold and crushing hauteur and then
replied
''No, l know of no such a girl,
madam. | am looking for a white
girl myself.
The Necktie Fad.
The dear girls have developed a new
fad, on the sentimental order, and it
is one that is being warmly cou
aged by those who have pendants for
pretty neckties. The most these
youths have to do to add choicely to
their necktie stock is to compliment
judiciously the dainty new crepe and
silk gowns of their fair friends. The
pleased girls Immediately carry a
quarter of a yard of the dress stun to
a Observation-Disclosures the
| Anglicized ones call him-and have
made a scarf or tie, patterned after
the ones their admirers customarily
wear. They donate this tie, which is,
of course, different from that on the
store counters, STIMULATING firmly,
however, that it must never be worn
ON tho same occasion that the dress is
donned; that would be, to express 1t
in the girls own words, too great a
giveaway."-Table TAX.
Something New in Fans.
A novel and handsome fan. which
has attracted considerable attention
lately, belongs to the eontralto, Mrs.
W. A. Green of New York, and is the
result of a desire TO carry away with
her a souvenir entirely typical of the
country she is visiting.
The fan is of Australian manufac-
ture and is formed OF a full-siZed Tyre
birds tail. supported by four large
ostrich feathers in gray. These are
held in place by a silver cup, beauti-
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