The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-14
PROMINENT WOMEN.
Short Sketches of Notabilities--A
Sculptor and School CON-
missioner.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck, OF Los
Angeles. Cal, has decided $500, 600
worth of property to found a home
for poor women and outcast children.
Mrs. Fawcett and Miss Phillipa Faw-
cett are coming to America to study
the women and schools.
Baroness Burdett-C outts laid the
memorial stone of q new wing OF the
Printers Almshouse in Wood Green q
fortnight ago.
Seven American girls were regis
tered among the Newman students
last month.
Miss Carrie l.. Horton, a pretty
apple-cheeked English girl, won D
first prize for q butter study OF Mare
chal Neil roses at the Cheshire Dairy
Show, and now the museum men
want to engage her to make butter
roses by the year at a salary of ever so
many thousands pounds sterling.
Miss Grace Dodge, ex-School Com
missioner and working girls friend,
always dresses in brown on the street.
In winter her attire Is a tailor-made
gown, short sealskin wrap and a little
brown bonnet with Quaker strings.
Her fresh young face, that cannot
bear more than the thirty" line
mark, seems in striking and pretty
contrast to the Occurrences of the rig.
Miss Dodge keeps a private secretary
to transact her literary business, such
as writing letters, keeping records and
replying to numerous invitations to
write for leading periodicals.
Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, Is q
little woman who has not a masculine
trait about her. 1t is forty years since
she began the life work which has
made her famous, but time has dealt
kindly with her. Her round face
beams with a constant smile, and her
bright, black eyes sparkle with good
humor. Her brown hair is brushed
smoothly back from her broad fore
head, and a black silk net holds it in
place. She is usually attired In q neat
costume of black silk and velvet, and
wears a wide lace scarf about her
throat.-ErchGn0e.
Mrs. Dolph, wife of the Oregon
Senator, is one of the pretty women
OF Washington, She is a brunette,
of fine figure, and handsome face. She
is a farmers daughter and was a diary-
maid in her youth.
Mrs. Ida j. Burgess, one of the
gifted figure painters of the Chicago
Society of Artists, is decorating the
ceiling in the ball room OF Mrs. Chief
Justice Fuller's Chicago house. The
style will be after Louis XIV, in gar
lands of roses fnterlacing each other,
the design radiating from the centre.
This is a new departure, ane the work
of the daring artist is being watched
with interest.
Miss Ray Frank is one of the few
Jewesses who in recent times have
preached in a synagogue. On the
Day of Atonement she spoke at Spo-
kane Falls, Wash, and SO interested
her hearers that they decided to
establish a permanent congregation
there.
Mrs. Brown, wife of Judge II. b.
Brown, the new Supreme Court JUS
tice, is a most beautiful woman, of
many accomplishments, and will I'M
doubtedly grace her position in
Washington society. She is distantly
related to the poet Whittier, and
nearly to the wife of ex-senator
Palmer, of Michigan. Mrs. Brown
and Mrs. Palmer have both long been
social leaders in Detroit.
Mrs. Mary Gould Eckhart passes
triumphantly that last test of practi-
cal capaclty-the ability to Keep a
hotel. This lady owns the largest ca
terer's business in the western division
of Chicago, manages 1t herself. and is
noted for the constant invention of
new designs in fayors and new dishes,
which become at one popular.
1t costs the English Government
50, 962, 900 annually to support Queen
Victoria and her family.
A large number of ladies of high
rank in Russia have joined the colony
started by the followers OF Tolstoi at
Vishnevolotzki, and live exactly like
the peasants about them, after Toll
stoi's methods.