The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-02
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Notabilities at Home and Abroad
A Wonderful Woman.

Despite her late hour for retiring to
bed she is an early riser.
The Comtesse de Miranda (Christine
Nilsson, is still in Paris, where she has
been laid up, owing to an accident
which happened TO her as IA was
getting into a railway carriage at the
Care de Lyon some weeks ago to start
for Switzerland.
Miss Nordhoff, daughter of Charles
Nordhoff, of Washington, has finally,
in spite of many obstacles, succeeded
in mastering the bookbinder's trade.
Her first efforts were made in Eng
land. but she found she could not be
admitted to the craft, because she did
not belong to a trades union. She
found the same trouble in America
upon her return, but her continued
perseverance won her success.
Queen Emma Of Holland, who will
be Regent during the minority Of the
Princess Wilhelmina, has greatly en-
deared herself to the Dutch people by
her domestic qualities, She has been
q most attentive nurse to her hus-
band, and is a singularly wise and de
voted mother. She has also bestowed
much attention on politics, and is we'll
fitted to fill the position she will soon
assume.
Mrs. Shaw, the famous whistler, is
still in st. Petersburg, making herself
famous and rich. She has set the
Gar ''whistling to keep his courage
up"
Archduchess Maria Dorothea is one
of the beauties of the Austrian impe-
rial family. She is above the medium
height, with dark hair and eyes and a
fresh complexion. She is noted for
her charities and for her skill in piano
playing.
Somebody has referred to Lydia
Thompson as "a wonderful woman"
The idea is a good one. Lydia defies
time, discounts antiquity, and is
younger now than when she was ca
vorting around like a spring lamb
way back before war times.
Coordination is no failure in the
Missouri University. The st. Joseph
MeacS reports forty marriage engage
ments between the male and female
students.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer. President
of the New York Sorosis. is a iona
of great personal beauty, tall, slight
and with large, dark eyes, and the
literary finish of her speeches is said
to be really notable.
Mary Kyle Dallas thinks her sex
has made a grand stride toward per-
feet independence, by dining at
restaurants without male escorts.
Our grandmothers would have been
insulted for attempting such a thing"
says Mrs. Dallas.
Mrs. Elizabeth b. Custer is in APP
pearance "a slender little woman, del
icate to fragility, who looks as if she
could not have endured for a day the
life of privation and hardship which
she chose to share with her gallant
husband for years.
Mrs. Senator ingalls, is a fresh,
youthful looking roman with a hand
some face and gracious and charming
manners. She is a clever talker and has
the air of a woman who has mingled
much i'm society and thoroughly I'M
derstands its requirements. In her
general style she is the direct opposite
OF her distinguished husband, being
fair, plump and rosy, and possessing
none of the acerbity which has rem
dered the Senator a terror TO his enc
mics in Congress for so many years.
The ingalls, children, as a rule, resem-
BILE their father. -ChicGQo Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Emma E. Forsythe is an Amer
can woman who goes by the name of
the White Queen. Her realm is an
island in the Southern Pacific called
New Britain. whose chief industry is
the sale of mother of pearl. Mrs. For
sythe was left a widow at the 9 of
eighteen, and with very little money.
She now owns $50, 900 acres of fertile
land, two steamers that ply between
the island and the port, and she is
preparing to close a contract for the
building of four more vessels for the
island trade.
Faces With Lanterns Behind Them.
There is nothing more catching
than a face with a lantern behind it,
shining clear through, writes DIR.
TalInage in the Ladies' Home Journal.
/ have no admiration for a face with
a dry smile, meaning no more than
the grin of a false face. But a smile
written by the hand of God, as an in
dex or table of contents to whole vol
umes of good feelihg within, is a
benediction. You say:-"My face is
hard and lacking in mobility and my
benignant feelings are not observable
III tic ldcidA pIOpOfblOHS. dO HOt
believe you. Freshness and g~eniality
of soul are so subtle and ~pervading
that they will, at some eye or mouth
corner, leak out. Set behind your
face a feeling of gratitude to
God and kindliness toward man and
you will every day preach a sermon
long as the streets you walk, a sermon
with as many heads as the number OF
people you meet and differing from
other Ii in the fact that the
longer it is the better.
The RustIiUg Skirt.
A couple of elderly men were en-
gagged in conversation in front of &
leading hotel the other day when &
fashionably dressed woman who, from
the several small articles In her hands,
evidently had been shopping, APP
preached. Suddenly stopping in the
midst OF his talk, the taller of the tive
men bent his head down as if tt
catch some sound.
What's the matter" quickly in
quired his companion. Are yoI
sickgn
~ Gil Ill ~