The Jersey City news., 1891-06-04
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Anecdotes Of Notabilities in Para
graphs.

Mrs. Cleveland is noted for the neat
and expeditions way in which she can
literally shake a line at a reception.
At Nashville she was timed, and it
was found that she had shaken hands
with between fifty and sixty minute,
on the average.
Ellen Terry, describing stage fright,
says:-"You feel as If centipede. all
whose feet had been carefully iced,
had begun to run about in the roots
OF your hair.
If Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland do not go
10 Marion this season it will be be-
cause they want to escape the poster
ing to which they were subjected by
inquisitive reporters last year, when
Grover couldn't have new tassel put
upon his nightcap without having
particulars of its shape and size pub
lished in the Boston papers.
Ii on entering fashionable draw
ing-room faint, spicy, fragrant odor
Is perceived, look around for some
odd swinging vessel and know that it
Is an incense burner. and the per-
fumed air is charged from its depths.
Most OF the incense used in drawing
room Is the Chinese sort, which comes
ia sticks. Some housekeepers, how
ever. affect the Algerian, the real,
churchy sort, and one almost looks, on
catching its altar flavor, for robed
acolytes and chanting priests. The
Chinese undoubtedly is to be preferred
for pure worldly use. as its aroma is
not so distinctively religious Any
incense-burning in private houses,
ST IMPLY for effect, must be set down as
a caprice in questionable taste.
Sarah Bernhardt does not seem to
have a correct idea as to the resources
of Australia. She has shipped TO that
conntrv for her use while touring
there, eighty-one cases of champagne,
two kegs of brandy and a package of
whiskey.
The salutatorian at Hampton Insti-
tute this year is an Indian girl, who,
under the title, THE Woman of the
Pretty Hand" gives a vivid picture
of Indian wretchedness and wrong, a
personal reminiscence of the Custer
massacre.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
is engaged on the biography OF her
father, the late Prof. Austin Phelps.
Another new society of women of a
practical kind, perhaps of more bene-
fit TO humanity than suffrage clubs,
is one to be established for teaching
women how to cut children's clothes,
not only the little muslin frocks now
so simply made, but coats, jackets and
dresses. Many mothers have happy
intuitions, which teach them all the
pretty arts of the kingdom of child
hood, but they lack the technical
skill which makes the labor of love
easy and swift in accomplishment.
The projected society proposes to
take in as boarders all who are anxious
to learn, and to train them under ex-
perienced hands.
A Washington lady has organized a
club Of six women, who call themselves
the Society for the Encouragement of
After Dinner Toasts and Speeches.
They meet once a month at the home
of member, and, in elegant toilets,
discuss an elaborate repast. Then
any woman called upon must rise and
talk, for at least five minutes, upon
some interesting topic, or respond to
any toast proposed. No preparatio
is permitted, the intention being to
cultivate the art OF impromptu and
graceful speaking in response, con-
troversy or acknowledgment. No
men are present, the entire pro-
gramme being carried out by the
women for their own entertainment
and cultivation.
The young Chinese Emperor has
celebrated the completion OF his twen-
tieth year by picking out new wife.
Precedent allows a man of his rank
seven of these companions, and this
acquisition is only the second. His
mother examined the many candidates
for the honor, and selected ten there
from, out of which number Hwangti
made the final choice. This maiden
is the daughter of mandarin of the
yellow button, and is said to have the
smallest foot in Pekin. To be an EN-.
peror's wife in China is not considered
very enviable lot, as after marriage
she is never permitted to see any o.
her old friends again.