The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-17
WOMAN'S WORK.
Sketches of NotabiIities-Nrs. Har-
risOn's Housekeeping.

TlS0l ) HOuSthttpibS.
One of the least crowded and best
paid professions for women is that of
the trained cook, who, in a becoming
cap and apron, goes out TO private
houses to prepare company luncheons,
company breakfasts and dinners
Mrs. Harrison has been called the
best housekeeper that the White
House has known since President Ar
thurs day. She has lately had a large
linen closet built in the space behind
the elevator, where bedding, towels
and table-linen are kept in sweet
freshness. The initials u. 81 are
worked on every article, in white linen
floss. The supply of table linen has
been greatly increased since Mrs. Har-
rison cane to the White House.
Mrs. w. H. Vanderbilt has begun
the erection of a mission building in
New York city TO cost $3.50, 600.
Lady Stanley, wife of the Governor
General of Canada, is an affectionate
and motherly woman. Conspicuous
in her private sitting are photo
graphs of her nine children, most of
whom are dead. Often, as she walks
on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, in
they say, she stops the
nursery maids, kisses the babies in
baby carriages, and talks to the
youngsters in the peculiar dialect
which they are confidently believed
to understand so much better than
straight Addisonian English.
One of the handsomest women in
New York is Miss Marie de Barril,
niece of ex-PeTuvian Minister Ber-
rada. She is a delicate type of the
purest Spanish womanhood, is re-
fined, dresses well, as good as gold
and has a barrel of money.
Mrs. Caroline lie COnte of Column
bia, S. c., has been appointed State
Librarian.
Women are to be admitted to mem
bership in the Authors Club. to be
established in London by Walter
Besant.
Miss Collier and Miss Hauzllk, from
the Deaconesses' Home, Chicago, have
been sent to China, the first deaconess
missionaries to that empire.
There is a club in New York called
the kindly Club" Each woman
takes a pledge on entering never to
speak an evil word of any one.
Miss Helen Gould often devotes a
day to hospital visiting. Not long
ago she made "A tour of the day u
series. She was accompanied by a
friend, whom she wished TO interest in
these charities. After one of Miss
Gould's visits" said the matron of
one creche, 1--WE always receive from
Ilr. -, a..ACfon4ia Tal0n nf hnp in
terest-a package of clothing or a
basket of fruit. Dolls, books, aprons,
dresses and blankets were her last
contribution" Miss Gould always
dresses very quietly. Upon the day
in question she wore a lavender gray
dress.
Miss Aimee Rapin is an armless
Swiss artist, who is beginning to
achieve fame. She paints with her
toes.
The Sultan of Turkey has conferred
the Order of the Shekfat upon Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, but the Grand Vizier,
in handing the decoration to her. told
her that she mustn't use it too i'm
periously when she placed it upon the
table as a hint to Whitelaw that she
didn't like the smell of his cigar and
wished him I go out into the wood
shed to finish it.
The Illinois Women's Alliance have
recently petitioned the city fathers Of
Chicago to construct three bathing
houses in crowded portions of the
city, and that laundry facilities be at
tached to enable working women and
those in small apartments to do their
weekly washing on payment of a small
sum.
Most people think that men are
o courageous than women said
DR.. s. ID. Black, of New York. ''but
the dentist knows that it is not true.
As a rule a man will groan and
swear when a dentist tries TO fill his
teeth, squirming and gripping the
arms of the chair, and making a big
row about it. And the heavier the
man the bigger coward he is. I've
seen a strapping big athlete sit down
to have a tooth pulled, and almost
faint while | was looking at it. On
the other hand, a light, little Bit of a
woman will calmly close her eyes,
lean her head back in the chair, and
submit to tortures that would make
the Sphynx into insensibility.
No, sir; a woman can stand a dozen
times the pain a man will undergo
According to recent measurements,
the average size OF the Wellesley Col
lege girls waist is 24.2 inches. In spite
Of the fact that the doctors consider
this too small for health, the college
girls are remarkably we'll, and capable
of giving the college ''yell" with a
vigor that would do credit to their
Harvard or Princeton brothers.
The Romance of a Car Strap.
There is TO bea wedding in the West
End soon which will be the seouel To