The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-06
THE WORLD OF WOMEN.
Sketches Of the Lives of Prominent
Ones OF the Day-Their
Ambition and Work.

Ex-Empress Eugenie declines to help
any more of Napoleon Thirds rela-
tives. She thinks she has been TO
good to them, and she is not able to
help them much now.
Nine. Adam. the noted woman
editor and author, is graceful and
fascinating at ffty-four. She has a
large fortune and an immense capacity
for work. She dresses simply and in
the best of taste.
Mrs. Edison is quite a fine musician,
and she and her stepchildren con-
stantly practice together. says Alice
Lanigan, in a sketch of Mrs. Thomas
A. Edison, in the January Ladies
Home Journal. Her home life Is a
very simple and quiet one. Mrs.
Edison has her housekeeping-to
which she gives her personal super
vision-her music, and her social
duties, as well as intercourse with her
husband and children occupy her
time. Her connection with her hus-
bands work is shown by the close
manner in which she follows his in
ventions, step by step, and in IN
terest with which she appreciates their
discovery, improvements and COM
pletion. In appearance she is very
youthful and charming. Her com
plexion is olive. her mouth firm, teeth
good, and eyes a shade darker than
the hair, which is brown, abundant
and wavy, and is worm parted over
her forehead in a peculiarly becoming
way. She dresses handsomely and
well, and looks what she is-the
simple, quiet wife of a great n
successful
Queen Victoria is said TO believe
that the House of Orleans is unlucky,
and does not wish their bad luck TO
overcloud her family. She has also,
says a correspondent, a clear view OF
the necessity of not being ON bad
terms through the fault of her own
house with the French Republic. The
Prince of Wales told the Comte de
Paris that a marriage between Prince
Albert Victor and the Princess Helene
is not to be thought OF. -Boston 1fdU-
eiLeT.
Langtry's Cleopatra is spoken of as
"a prismatic, scintillant m@lstrom OF
spectacles."
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins, of Sui
livan, Maine, has had nineteen years
Of sea life, and has sailed to every part
of the globe.
Lady Caithness, Duchesse de Pomar,
has applied to the French authorities
for permission to erect a statue oil
Mary Queen of Scots on a site ada
cent to her house in Paris.
The plaster cast OF the life size
statue OF the Princess of Wales has
been finished by Prince Victor OF
Hohenlohe, who is said TO have made
a striking likeness. She is presented
in the doctors cap and gown that be-
long to her Dublin musical degree,
and the artist has deity worked into
a wreath at the base the rose, sham
rock, thistle and leek and Indian
lotus.
Countess Won Waldersee, formerly
an American lady well known In
Philadelphia and New York. pre-
sented Minister Phelps recently with
q colored crayon OF General Won
Moltke.
Mrs. J. G. Blaine, Jr., will halt in
| her preparations for the stage to q
certain extent and devote a good deal
of time during the next five months
to writing for the newspapers.
Amelie Rives Chanler has com
| pleted another novel, of which Rich
ard Henry Stoddard, who has seer
the manuscript, says, sententiously,
he thinks the pruning knife Will have
TO be used before the book is pub
lished.
Can it be possible that Miss Willard
is growing sentimental? 1t is saiC
- H. hoe crw~aufn1 that III.
woman's building at the Worlds Fai
be made in form of a woman's heart
1t is now in order for Miss Willard {,
map out the difference in shape be
tween the male and female heart.