The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-09
THE WORLD OF WOMEN.
Interesting Paragraphs About No
tabilities-Belleyue's Nurses.

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Mrs. Stanley has not once been i'll
during her stay in America. She is
very fond of fresh air and keeps the
temperature Of her oom at SO. Every
day she takes a long walk. She
thinks that American women are
more hospitabIe than the women OF
London and the cities Of the British
Isles, but s'the English girl is better
when you get acquainted with her.
She is a little stiff aud distant at nrst,
but improves after she has thawed
OUT
If the tender care of a loving daugh-
ter could saw a mans life. Leonard
Jerome would not die. for Lady Kan
dolph Churchill isattending him with
an untiring care, which is worth more
than a dozen doctors and nurses.
Miss Georgiana Burns, an actress,
thought that the Scottish Leader had
injured her reputation by criticising
her performance in a rather red-hot
fashion and wanted 81, 900 damages.
But the court was against her and
said that the right of public criticism
was one which could not be ignored
because an actress did not happen to
be as clever as she was good looking.
Isabella H., ex-Queen OF spain, is a
fat and waddling old lady OF circus
like girth, who seems to have forgot
ten all the vanities of the world and
to be devoted to works of charity, the
appreciation OF Partisan dinners and
the needs of a good partner at the
whist table.
Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore. has
a bath in her home lined with Next
can onyx that cost 5000.
The eighteenth anniversary exer-
cises of the Bellevue Training School
for Nurses in New York were held last
week, with a graduating class of
twenty young women. There are
sixty-two nurses in the school, the
full number that can be accommo-
dated in the home. The graduates of
this school are holding important po-
sitions in London, Holland, Italy,
China and Japan, a. well as in u
ownfcountry. At this time twenty
two are superintendent of training
schools, six are assistant superintend-
ents, nine are matrons of hospitals,
and eight are head nurses in other
hospitals. One member OF the gradu-
ating class is going to Turkey to take
charge of a hospital there. Another
graduate will probably go TO Japan to
teach the native women how to care
for their sick.
Queen Victoria, as she increases in
years, shows a disposition to make
youth and good looks a requirement
in the ladies-in-waiting aud
other women about her. She
prefers a comedy appearance and a
fresh face to the wrinkles that years
impose and for that reason insists
that the women officials of her royal
household shall be young.
1t is chic to have a special jewel, as
Mrs. Cleveland has the coral, Mrs.
w. X. Vanderbilt the pearl, Mrs.
Langtry the turquoise, Mrs. Frances
Burnett the cold moonstone and
Agnes Huntington the sapphire.
The Princess of Wales has given or
ders that nothing need be submitted
for her inspection, or that of her
daughters, in which birds are used as
trimming.
There are in existence at present
eleven orders for women, The oldest
is the Austrian Star Cross Order,
instituted by the wife of Fer
dinand II. The Shah of Per-
STA instituted a lady's order in
1873, and the Sultan of Turkey one
in 1880. Spain claims the distinction
of having the largest number of orders,
but Spain cannot compare with Prus-
STA as regards combinations and CLASH
fications.
The Oldest banker in the world is a
woman-Deborah Powers, aged nine
ty-nine, senior partner of the bank of
ID. Powers & Sons, Lanslngberg. Her
business shrewdness is quite equal
now to that of her earlier years, and
she has also established and maintains
the Deborah Powers Home for Old
Ladies.
One of Queen Victoria's grand.
daughters will probably sit on a
throne soon. 1t is stated that King
Charles of Roumania is about to abdi-
cate in favor OF his elder brothers son,
Prince Ferdinand. And the latter is
engaged to marry Princess NJ airy, the
Duke of Edinburg's eldest daughter.