The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-08
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Anecdotes in Paragraphs Of Not
ables- Lady Dutferin's
"Reminiscences.

"reminiscences.
Tolsioi's second daughter. Moscha,
is a yer to her fathers teach
ing, and dressed as a peasant girl,
she labors in the fields and cares for
the poor.
Mrs. SPOTS, of Mount Carmel, Pa,
is the mother of triplets. This is a
case where three spots count for more
than an ace.
Mrs. Lucy Drexel has a dozen
volumes of letters written by ancient
Mayor of New York.
A Browning primer is Forthcoming.
Browning is to be made so easy that
it may be read by any one. MISS
Mary M. Wilson is the writer, COLI
piler, editor and If n may say SO,
the author.
Lady Balgarine, who has been
doing the slums of Boston, SAYS they
are not so bad as those OF London,
and that there is an entire absence OF
that expression of utter hopelassness
which characterizes the London out
cast.
Lady Dufferin's book of reminis-
cences contains this incident: During
one of their tours through canada
she and her husband were met by
some Irish emigrants. One woman
was almost mad with enthusiasm, and
wanted to kiss Lord Dufferin's hand:
but he protested, saying he could noG
allow a lady to do SO. 'Then may L
kiss your face?" she asked. The
Governor General got out OF his EN-
barrassing position by saying Lady
Dufferin does not allow that.
Bernhardt is a dress reformer, and
her ultra notions seem TO be in-
pressed upon the other women OF her
company, only one of whom a
dared to display to a Chicago audi
ence her taper waist confined IN a
whalebone. The queen of tragedy
has been a grandmother three years.
Historians differ concerning her age,
but a good authority places 1t at nifty
four. How she manages to lose thirty
years whenever she steps behind the
footlights is a mystery.
An equivocal compliment Is per-
picking a young man OF Halloween,
Me. A fascinating girl, to whom he
has been paying considerable atten-
ton has named a pet calf after him.
Several ladies of Tacoma have Or
gained a rainy day club. The object
is to induce the members. on rainy
DAYS. to wear skirts which do not ex-
tend below the ankles.
When Mrs. Jefferson Davis began
to assist her husband, soon after they
were married, by acting as his a1nan-
uensis, her handwriting was too girlisl
to please him, and she determined to
initiate his handwriting. With trac-
ing paper she copied and recopied his
manuscript until by practice she
could produce his writing in FAC
smile.
The fact that large attention is be-
ing given to women and women.s
work by the managers of the Worlds
Fair has called forth feminine appro-
baton from all civilized countries,
and may prove a considerable eIe-
ment in furthering the success OF the
enterprise.
The infant daughter of Emma Ne
yada is credited with saying, in reply
TO a query as to her occupations:-
Sometimes l play with my dolly, but
usually l mediate over mammals
career"
A vice which Sometimes is a Virtue.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox calls vanity
woman's most excellent vice and
among many other true words say
this: las "a wife, l think the woman
devoid of vanity is not a success. She
is far more liable to be Jealous than Is
her sister, who is tinctured with thai
much abused quality. The wife who
possesses a pretty good opinion OF her
personal charms and her worth, is a
much more comfortable being Tor q
man to dwell with. She is more apt
to be liberal and generous minded,
believing it impossible that her hus-
band could forget her for any other
woman; and a nan will keep true to
that sort of a woman, where he WILDE
driven to Inconsistency by the IN VINO
is forever Jealous of his slightest at
tention to another. The woman with
out any vanity is the n who as a
ousv, believing all other women to be
more attractive than herself"
Presence of Mind.
Some queer situations have arisen
since the enforcement of the rule COM
polling male passengers TO smoke on
the front platforms of cars. Two
ladies sat in the real end Of a Detroit
car the other day talking i'll a tone
plainly audible to their long-suffering
fellow passengers. The car was full.
SAYS the Free Press, and we'll satu-
rated with the fumes of tobacco
smoke which had somehow sneaked
in through the crevices of the closed
front door. The di~sagreeable smell,
as of burning rags. caused one of the
| ladies to remark:
Isn't it mean that men should act
| so?n
1T is, indeed" conceded her com
panion.
THANK heaven, / married a mar
who has will power enough to con
troll his habits. He would no more
smoke in public than fly. OF course
it is owing to my excellent teaching,
or l suppose he would be a good deal
like the rest and she settled back in
her seat with the most c~omplacent all
imaginable. Hardly had she done so,
however, before the front door opened
and a chilly blast of air ushered in u
middle-aged mar who carried between
his teeth the lighted remains of q
cigar. He was about TO pass on out,
bat the complacent lady caught his
attention. and, removing the stub, he
exclaimed
My. Marthy, where are you
going?n
He was her husband, but with ad.