The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-01
WORLD.
Sketches Of Notabilities-Liszt's
FOndneSs for Pretty Girls.

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Notwithstanding the many changes
in fashions, the prettiest thing in
dress goods is the pretty girl, just the
same.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris arrived in
New York on the Cunard steamship
Aurania, on Monday, with her three
children, Vivian, Rose and Lionel.
Mrs. Sartoris went at once to the
home of her mother, Mrs. Grant, in
Sixty. sixth street. She will remain
here for a month or two and then re-
turn to her home in England.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt is tall
and slender, with pretty, blonde hair,
and she is said by her friends to have
a heart of gold. The greater part OF
her life is spent in doing good, which
she does so quietly and unostenta-
tiously that the outside world knows
little about it.
Edith Kingdom, who is now Mrs.
George Gould, is prettier, roster and
more bewitchingly attractive than
ever, and is the chief charm of the
palatial home she adorns.
The women typewriters and stenog-
raphers of New York have decided to
form a union. Ten years ago women
were not employed in this capacity,
while today 5000 women are employed
as s~tenographers and typewriters in
New York and Brooklyn. The move
ment has been started by some OF the
better paid workers. 1t is said that
the average wages now are less than
IS a week. Positions hat were once
ETIl1 h. v,on OF COX an tpnAlr arn nnlu
occupied by women at $40, while there
are many women working for 50 and
even 50 a week.
Mrs. Abram s. Hewitt, the wife Of
one ex-Mayor of New York, and the
sister OF another, was the only daugh-
ter Of Peter Cooper. She is amiabie,
gracious and charitable in the best
sense of that much abused word. She
has been a beauty, and her kind, dark
eyes and gentle face and manner still
convey an impression of pronounced
good looks. Mrs. Hewitt is fond of
society and entertains largely.
When List was in a good numor he
was in the habit of kissing all the
pretty pupils in his class, writes
Etelka Illotsky in The Ladies Home
Journal. l remember on II oeca-
sion a very lovely young girl came to
the lesson wearing a hat that had a
rather extraordinary wide brim.
List noticed the hat at once, and 60
ing up to her kissed her gaily, but
with some little difficulty, owing to
the projecting brim of the hat. Then
he said, half seriously: MY dear you
will nave to get another hat; one with
rather less brim to it.n
Prince Napoleon was a great favor
tie with the fair sex. 1t is said that
King Humhert smiled when the
Prince first made known his intention
70 marry the Princess Clothiide, who
was known as a perfect man hater
and one of the most bashful of
women. Give me only five minutes
with her, " said the Prince in answer
to Humbert's boast that his sister
wonld not listen to his entreaties. The
five minutes were granted to the hand
some Napoleon. True to his word,
the Prince won the Princess in the
specified time. Two weeks later the
engagement was publicly announced.
A Hamburg bachelor who died re-
Gently got even with a woman who
Tilted him by leaving her a legacy of
12, 900 marks and the following letter:
Madam, Some thirty years ago l
was a suItor for your hand in mar
riage. You refused INV offer, and as q
consequence my days have been pass
ed in peace and quietness. Now l
requite your goodne ss."
The nan whose wife goes with him
to the Office on pay dav, takes his
money, and doles out to him his lunch
money every morning will be inter
ested to learn that the wife of a Cabi-
net officer says that ''every wife
should have an allowance to be used
at her own discretion