The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-02
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Madame Albani's Experience at a
Royal Russian Wedding
A Bright Typewriter.

Julia Marlowe receives through the
mail an average of n offer of mar
riage a day in every town where she
plays. All Miss Marlowe asks of a
town is a good engagement, and yet
she rejects all these offers to get one.
Lady Macdonald, the widow of the
Canadian Premier, gave up wine
drinking suddenly on Christmas
! Day, 1867. Some one at dinner with
her that day challenged, in a banter
ing way, her ability to give up her
glass of sherry at dinner. She 'swore
of" on the spot, and has not since
drank wine.
OF the 92S students at Boston Uni
versity, 256 are women
Mrs. William H. Crane has. been
the treasurer of her husbands theat-
rical company since 1876.
or the many curious customs which
mark Brittany as an especially inter
esting field for the traveller is the one
relating to marriage. At the close OF
the wedding ceremony the bride
groom gives the bride o box on the
a saying:-'That is how it feels
when you make me vexed," after
which he kisses her, adding:-'And
thus when you treat me we'll"
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe began Greek
at seventy, and now at seventy-two
she has just read the play of Sophocles
in the original.
Dickens favorite daughter, Mamie,
is soon to contribute a series or
papers on her father to one OF Ii
magazines.
She was smart enough to be some
thing better than q typewriter, but
that was what she was, n she ap-
piled for a situation in a certain we'll
known cynical bachelors Office. But
| don't want to get married. young
woman" he urged, trying to get rid
of her. Neither do l." she replied.
That's why | wanted to get in an
office with a man like YOU" And
now the gossips say that he actually
goes around to the office where she
finally got a good place and walks
home with her three evenings a week,
with prospects OF taking the other
four.-DetroSt Free Press.
In a letter written to n of her
friends Mime. Albani relates some ofthe
extraordinary experiences while sing
ing at the royal marriage in Russa.
1.-The singers" she says, even to
Mime. Patti and myself, were looked
upon and treated as servants. 1t was
a most novel and, in truth, mortify-
ing experience. We were placed in a
sort of balcony which was erected
above the banquetting hall, and as
each of our turns came to sing we
went to a little opening looking down
to the merrymakers and sang through
it. What amused me especially was
this:-All the.time we were singing and
irving to make our notes most etfec-
tive the chatter of knives. forks and
dishes by the walters, and the
laughter and conversation OF the
wedding guests still went on.
To add to our discontinue, sew
eral times when we were engaged in
our most impressive passages, there
would be a flourish of trumDets, and
some dignitary would get up to pro-
pose a toast or make a speech, quite
regardless OF the singers, On one of
these trying occasions Nine. Patti
was interrupted in her solo by a blare
of trumpets in the hall below, pre-
paratory to the delivery of another
toast. You may easily imagine the
Diva's Indignation. She was simply
furious, and it was with the utmost
difficulty that we could dissuade her
from leaving the balcony before the
programme was Finished"
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr made her first
essay in authorship after the death of
her husband and three. sons FROM the
yellow fever in Galveston in 1887.
Handy Bags To Have.
Double bags for soiled linen are
yery handy in a bedroom and take
,orx, IittIa cnooa haipp mazda tO HANG
fiat against the wall. The bags,
shaped like a huge rectangular pocket,
are made out of q doubled piece of
stout cretonne. tire two parts, back
and front, having a deep slit or aper-
ture, through which peeps out the
sateen lining OF some cheerful hue,
like the panel or petition added in
side to form two receptacies. Through
the deep heading is inserted a wooden
rod, and against this firm line are
sewn at the back rings, to be suspend
ed to the corresponding number of
nails or hooks.
A quaint device which furnishes a
good wooden weddingn present is
the spoon p~in-cushion.n 1t is made
in this way: Two large wooden spoons
are crossed together with fancy ribbon
and hung to the wall with fly bows; in
each bowl is displayed a silk pin
cushion.
Newspaper racks in wickerwork are
prettily decorated with two ribbons
in contrasting tints, on which are
painted daisies, buttercups, etc.
Wider ribbons, similarly adorned,
serve for sachets, curtain holders, etc.
On an uncommon table in
claret cloth is delineated a border of
- nth o,rka,r, mir, oo oor,rpl,f
down with wool or filoselle in striking
tints.