The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-25
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Anecdotes in Paragraphs Of Nota'
bilities al Home and Abroad.

Mrs. Chauncey II. Depew is said to
be one of the most elegantly and cor
rectly dressed women in New York.
Beside filing most graciously her
prominent place in fashionable society,
and being a most devoted mother to
the little son OF whom the famous ora
tor is so fond, she devotes some time
to literature, and has often seen her
name in print. 4.
Mrs. Ole Bull and others employed
themselves during the intervals be-
tween the sessions of the late National
Council OF Women in Washington in
getting signatures to a pledge drawn
up by Miss Willard not TO wear the
bodies or feathers Of birds because OF
the great cruelty practiced by those
who obtain them. Over one hundred
and fifty women signed.
Emma Abbott's ashes are to be sur
mounted by an $50, 900 Gothic monu-
ment of Westerly granite, which is to
be erected in Oak Grove Cemetery at
Gloucester. 1t will also serve as a
tomb for the body of her husband,
Eugene Wetherell. The monument
will be 81 feet high and will resemble
the Prince Albert memorial at Lon
don.
The Countess of Antrim, the Queen s
new lady-in-waiting, who enters on
her duties this week, is q daughter OF
General the Hon. Charles Grey, and
her mother was extra bedchamber
woman to her Majesty. She Is very
tall and handsome, and 1t is difficult
to believe that she has a daughter OF
fourteen, and a son, Lord Dunluce,
who is thirteen. The Countess has
great musical talent-singing and
playing exquisitely--and is very
bright and amusing.
A woman once consulted a seer re-
garding a way to retain the affection
OF her husband, and this was the ad-
vice received:-"Get a raw piece OF
best sirloin steak, about half an inch
thick. Rub with a central slice from
a wild onion, salt and pepper. Toast
over O bright coal fire on a gridiron
which is handled only by yourself,
never by your servants; then put a
little sweet butter over the beef. Give
him half a pound Of this each morn
ing and do not speak while he eats 1t"
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is said to be
a liberal purchaser of rare books. She
has a passion for unique bindings,
and knows a genuine article from an
imitation. She has a very finely
bound and complete collection OF
Spanish authors, and a Barcelona
edition Q663) of Cervantes is included
among it. 1t is the only n OF this
edition in the United States.
An Indian woman, Miss Nancy Cor
nelius, a graduate of the Indian
school at Carlisle, Pa, has taken a
full course in the Hartford Training
School for Nurses, and has just re-
ceived her diploma. She is the first
Indian wonan to prepare herself for
nursing by a scientific training.
Rosa Bonheur paints but slowly
now. Her latest picture has been in
hand for owe two years. 1t is now
completed, and will be shown in Lon
don this week. 1t is called AFTER a
Storm in the Highlands"
Prince and Princess Henry of Bat
tenburg, who were with Queen Vic
toria at Grasse recently, wished one
day to enter the hotel by a private
entrance leading into the garden, but
a sentry of the Alphine Chasseurs,
no recognizingitheir Royal Highnesses
refused to lie. them pass. The Prince
in vain explained his station and it
was not until one OF the officials had
interviewed that the Prince and
Princess were allowed to enter.
'"The Princess of Wales, said Ward
McAllister the other day, ''is the
best dressed woma in the world. !
don't believe that she ever wears the
same dress twice, and she has her hair
dressed in Paris every day. She wears
false hair, you know, and she sends
her wigs over to Paris daily. While
wig is going across the channel to
France to be dressed the other is com.
ing to London"
The Empress of Japan has inspired
an eloquent tribute from Sir Edwin
Arnold. He writes of her: "a tru,
Japanese woman in that almost divine
self-abnegation, patience and dutiful
ness which are the III quaiitiel
of her gentle daughters of the land
she is a veritable mother OF the nation
never wearied of good works, and fore
most in encouraging all wise social re
forms.n
The Queen of Roumania, says
r oumanian paper, visited a needl
ia ctory. While watching the work
o ne OF the men asked her majesty 70
a single hair from her head. Tn
gu cen granted his request with
SIN lie. The man who was engaged il
cutting the eyes in the needles, place,
the hair under the needle of hi
machine, bored a hole in it, drew
fine silk thread through the hole, am
! then presented it to the astonishe,
queen.
The young Queen of Holland
wearing white mourning. This is
revival of an old custom. Mary
Queen of Scots, derived her name
"'Reine Blanche" after the death {
her first husband, from wearing whit
instead of black.