The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-29
WOMEN'S WORLD.
Sketches Of Notabilities-Athletlc
M0thers-in-LaW.


Athletic young ladies are coming to
the front again. and muscular devel-
opment is quite the rage among fash
ionable girls. This has a very threat
ening aspect. A future generation of
powerful mothers-in-faw is a some-
thing which cannot be sneered at.
See Full, a beautiful Japanese
lady, the wife of a New York mer-
chant, died Tuesday. She was an
elegant and educated woman of great
refinement, and was only thirty-three
years old. There are now only two
other married japanese women living
in that city.
Kageama Hidde is the japanese
Louise Michel (but, it is asserted,
without the French agitator's fanati-
cism). who is gradually getting to-
gether a party that is likely to revolu-
tionize things, social and political,
in the Mikado's empire. She is
twenty-seven years old, and is repre-
sented as pretty and gentle.
Mrs. Astor possesses dignity of man
ner tempered with a sweet and serious
courtesy. She carries herself calmly,
is self poised and serene as the even
ing star, vet without a trace of cold
ness. She greets her guests with a
quantity attractive if rather queenly
little bend of the head, then a clear,
direct cordial look of kindly recogni-
ton, supplemented by a plain friendly
American hand shake. and the right
word to the right person in the right
place.
Emma Abbott wears in her coffin a
part Of the handsome veil she used to
wear in her performances of Juliet.
This veil she boughtin Paris, and she
was wont to call it her mascot, because
fortune favored her from the moment
it came into her possession. At her
death half of it was cut up into SOU
venirs for the members of her troupe.
Mrs. Francis Scott Key is the latest
aspirant for histrionic honor. She
comes of a fine old Maryland family
and is handsome enough to star, even
If she could not act. But she has
shown great talent, has a beautifully
pure and flexible voice, and dresses to
perfection.
1t is not generally known that
James Russell Lowell has a sister who
has gained some literary fame, and
whose scholarship and gifts entitle
her to wide recognition. Mary Trail
Spence Lowell was born in 1910. and
is nine years the senior of her dis
tinguished brother. In 1881 she mar
ried Mr.. Samuel r. Putnam, and since
that time her home has been in Bos-
ton, where she lives in her house on
Beacon street. Mrs. Putnam is noted
as a linguist, and has written some
very able papers on Polish and Hun
garian literature, and in 1861 she pub
lished a book called Records of AN
Obscure Man, Soon after she pub
lished a dramatic poem called 1.-The
Tragedy of Errors and Tragedy of
Success and on the death of her
father. the Rev. DIR. Charles Lowell,
Mrs. Putnam wrote the memorial of
his life. Ne Orleans IimeS-D Demo
c9at.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, widow
Of the late Vice President, will read a
paper before the National Council of
Women, which is to meet in Washing
ton on February %.
Mime. Modjeska is publishing a mar
rative of her tour in England and
America in a Cracow newspaper.
Mrs. Emily Todd Helm, aunt of Mr..
Robert Lincoln, and widow OF a Con-
federate general, has been reappointed
for her third term as postmistress at
Elizabethtown, Ky.