The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-29
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Queens Life Not Always a Happy
0ne-Mrs. sheldon's African
Trip.

Lady Constance Campbell has been
married to Thomas Emmott. the Ian
cashire cotton spinner. But she does
not become plain Mrs. Emmott" by
doing so. As the daughter of the
Duke of Argyle she will maintain her
title and be Lady Constance Emmott
to the end Of the chapter.
Ellen Terry refuses to take up lb-
sens plays and declares she prefers to
live Familiarity katharine" and limo
gen." sPortia" and Beatrice than
with Ibsen's foolish women"
Miss Helen Gladstone, 'The Grand
Old Mans daughter, is one of the
most noteworthy women in England.
In looks she resembles her father,
whose vitality she possesses to a
marked degree. She is always laugh
ing, Joking, telling stories and invar-
iably keeps the dinner table in a roar.
She is quite an original parsonage, be-
ing utterly regardless of dress, yet she
is frank, sympathetic and kindly and
is very attractive to most people.
Mrs, French Sheldon back
from Darkest Africa a physical
wreck and in future will leave follow
ing in Stanley's footsteps to somebody
who wears a moustache and can
swear at the natives.
The Queen of China is greatly to be
pitied. At least, so say the Chinese
correspondents. AS the very young
wife OF her boy husband, she is en-
titled to a very large slice of royal
good times. But the Empress Dow
Gger is a strong minded lady and rules
with an iron hand. She is a woinan
of powerful physique, strikinglyh and
some, and has so firm and strong a
disposition that all other wills must
bend to hers. When the Emperor
inadvertently does something to dis
please her he is made to regret il, and
as for his poor little wife, she has
nothing to say at all. She isn't eve
allowed to have a good time, as she
might have if she were left alone.
The marriage license clerk in Wash
in gton reports that seldom is he asked
to issue a license on Friday. He attri-
butes this to a very generally res
pected superstition as to i'll luck that
attends any enterprise begun on Fri
day.
Mrs. Mackay has fallen a victim to
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is no longer plain Mrs. Mackay,
known all the world over without in
itials or prefix; she is now Mrs. Hun
gerford-Mackay," at which English
people smile.
Mrs. Leland Stanford's trust deed
giving 500, 900 to endow five kinder
gartens in San Francisco, has just
been filed. AS the income will be
five per cent. each school will get
81, 900 a year. These schools are said
TO nave already had an appreciate
effect in reducing the number of
''hoodlumsn who infest the streets of
San Francisco and in lettering the
condition of the tenement house dis
tricts.
The wife Of DIR. McCosh will be
honored by having her name borne
by the infirmary building soon to be
erected at Princeton College. She is
said to have endeared herself to the
students by the many little attentions
which she has bestowed upon such
of them as have been taken sick at
Princeton.
In a hitherto unpublished letter,
written after the death of her sister
Emily, Charlotte Bronte wrote:
Labor must be my only eure-not
sympathy. Labor is the only radical
cure for rooted SORROW"
Miss Browning, the sister of the
poet, has a wonderful memory, and it
is upon this that Mrs. Sutherland
Orr, Robert Browning's latest bio
grapher, has relied for information
concerning his childhood and youth,
and it never failed her.