The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-05-25
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Sketches of Notabilities in Para
graphs-A Royal Photographer.

Mrs. Clarie Taylor of Peru, Ind,
has started for France with the heart,
hands and feet of her mother, who
died some time g and requested thai
these parts be removed and taken to
her native country for interment.
Miss Winnie Davis will unvell the
jefferson Davis monument erected by
the Ladies' Confederate Monument
Association of Mississippi on June ..
Such is the crushing and crowding
at a royal drawing Vol that 1t would
be an absolute advantage for ladies TO
60 for presentation in tights and
listers. At the recent ceremonial
held by the Princess of Wales, the
crush was aimostas bad as at a theatre
pit entrance on boxing night, and the
wreck of gorgeously pretty costumes
brought tears into the eyes of their
wearers and promised big profits to
their dressmakers.
Miss Julia Marlowe is said to have
the most wonderful faculty of memoir
izing of any woman on the stage and
she finds that this faculty has been in
tensifed by her recent illness.
Fanny Davenport has a charming
summer home at hillside, in an old
house that lies at the foot of the
mountains in Pennsylvania. The
house is a model of domestic comfort
and is surrounded by trees nearly a
century old.
Sarah Bernhardt recently went into
a New York book store and ordered a
complete set OF Ibsen's books to be
bound for her in the handsomest
morocco binding. The actress is a
-. .I,,fr1r - II@a. oIfhnnpia chn
says that she would rather read his
plays than see them on the stage.
In Lady Barter Mrs. Langtry
wears the largest sleeves ever seen in
a dress. The gown which bears them
is o polonaise dress with a petticoat
of pearl-g-ay satin, with scroll work
done in gold and fawn color. The
polonaise is of fawn silk trimmed
lightly with gold passementerie. The
sleeve are fashioned on the leg of NUT
ton pattern and are immense above
the elbow.
Zia Bey, the Turkish Ambassador at
Vienna, has established his harem
in that city and has his five wives and a
long retinue of servants to look after.
The first woman to be appointed as
a master in chancery is Miss Stella NJ.
Gallon, of Vermillion county, Ill, and
she is smart and good looking enough
to make any lawyer feel anxious for
her to get his head in ~chancery."
Carmencita, the Spanish dancer,
has salted down $4,000 since she
came to this country.
Mrs. Margaret K. Sangster, the edi-
tor of Hdrper'S BazaT, is a tall, well
formed woman with pink cheeks and
white hair; she is a hard worker,
but there is no trace in her pleasant
countenance of the worry that N
times comes from literary work.
The Princess of Wales, who is an
experienced photographer, has sent
a large selection of her best produc-
tions to the great International Elk
hibition, to be opened next month in
Vienna, under the patronage of a
fashionable club of amateur photo
graDhers, presided over by the Arch
duchess Maria Theresa. Under or
binary circumstances the Princess
would have as competitors the Grand
Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany. and the
Archdu chess Maria Theresa herself;
but il has been arranged that the
nu merous royal exhibitors shall all
b e hoTs eoncourS.