The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-16
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Sketches of Notabilities-The Mayor
of Argonia, Kan.

Mrs. Anna &. Fall n ner nuSDanC
are lawyers at Boston, and have petit
toned the State Legislature to change
the law forbidding contracts between
man and wife. As the law now stands
the couple cannot be law partners,
and they desire to tackle their clients
in company.
Mrs. John w. Mackay's house warm.
ing in her new London residence was
n of the most brilliant events of the
West End season. Minister Lincoln,
a crowd of distinguished diplomats
and a big slice of Debrett and Burke
were in attendance, admiring the
magnificent mansion and its appoint
ments, discussing society scandals and
slipping tea which had cost $3.50 a
pound.
Mrs. Members. wife OF the captain
of the sailing ship Johanna, is a
heroine in Germany. On April 8 last
the Johanna left Port Lewis for the
Island of Mauritius. Two days later
yellow fever developed. One man
after the other ~succumbed until only
the pilot and captain remained well.
Soon the captain was seized with the
disease. and Mrs. Members in conse-
quence took command and navigated
the vessel safely into port.
Miss Maria Louise Shepard, the
eldest daughter of Colonel and Mrs.
Elliott T. Shepard, and grand-daugh-
ter of the late William II. Vanderbilt.
and William Jay Schieffelin, the son
of William H. Schieffelin, were mar
ried recently in the Fifth ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church, New
York. 1t is estimated that at the
lowest computation the presents made
to the young couple are worth fully
$500, 900. not including the gift OF the
brides father, which is yet a family
secret.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper is the in
spiration of the Golden Gate Kinder
garten Association. In the last re-
port she states that 5000 little chill
dren have been enrolled in San
Francisco since 1880 and 800, 900
spent on the little ones in whom lies
the hope of the world. One of the
schools is controlled by Miss Mar
wedel, whose classes are made up
entirely of the stray children and
waits between two and ten year
picked out of the cutters and alleys
of San Francisco.
The new Countess Devonne, nee
Audenreid, whose marriage in Wash
ington recently was the social event
of the season there. is very young and
beautiful. She is not yet twenty
years old and is about five feet in
height. She has a very slight and
graceful figure, with blue eyes and
wavy, golden hair, and she is very
~vivacious and witty.
Mrs. Salter, the Mayor of Argonia,
Kan, is administering the affairs of
that town for the second official term.
She is said to have attended to her
public and social duties, to have per-
formed all her household work, in
Guiding washing, ironing and cooking
for q family of five, and to have in
creased her family from five to six. all
in one year.. She is a demonstrating
little thing, and her managers were
evidently afraid that her personal APP
pearance might not be all that a dis
eliminating world demands, for a
bevy of women took her off in one
corner and adjusted her drapery,
picked out her ~frizzes. and generally
looked it over before she mounted the
platform. The poor little Mayor was
badly frightened, reading in a voice a
little above a husky whisper a short
sketch of the situation in her town
Mrs. Lowman, the Mayor of Oska-
loosa, was present at the same con
vention. She is very pretty, woman
Unlocking woman, appearing much
too young for the mother of a twenty
two year old son, who accompanied
her.--SGn Francisco Ecaminer.
Miss Anna Parnell. the Irish lead
er's sister, is almost, il not quite, as
well posted in the politics of the most
distressful country as is her distin-
guished brother. She is a slender and
very delicate little woman, nervous,
highstrung and of an apparently cold
tenn permanent. No one, to look at the
fragile little creature, would think
her capable of the continuous hard
work she has performed in her
brothers cause for months at a time.
She dresses very quietly, and is
usually found buried in a pile of
papers.