The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-25
THE WORLD OF WOMAN.
Anecdotes in Paragraphs of
Celebrities and Their
Hobbies.
MRS. FAWCETT ON ENGLISH GIRLS
Housework as a Cure for Nervous
ness-Faith Cure VS..
False Teeth.

The London Pail Mall Gazette re-
peats the rumor that Mary Anderson
will soon return to the stage. Mary
and her husband have of late been re-
siding at Oban, ArgyIeshire, Scotland.
Queen Sophie of Sweden was cured
of a disorder by doing house
work. The doctors all agree that
homework 10 a healthier occupation
than quarreling with servants.
Mr.. and Mr.. Gladstone are said to
be almost inseparabie and a delight
full example of fresh, vigorous and
happy aid age. Mrs. Gladstone was
Miss Catharin Glynne and became
Mrs. Gladstone in her twenty-ninth
year. She prefers old fashions to new
ones, always dresses in black, res a
cap over her handsome and abun dant
gray hair, loves flowers and bare
floors and understands the art of re-
tanning her temper under the most
vexatious circumstances.
A Dexter, Me-, woman became SO
in atuated with the Christian Scien-
fist theory that she laid away her
false teeth, thinking her natural ones
would grow again.
Miss Pullman receives a salary of
81, 900 a year from her father for pam
ing Pullman cars.
An Augusta (Ga.) newspaper speaks
of IAN independent western girl" as
slender, graceful, with eyes lit with
azure fire and a shapely head poised
on the neck aspiring as the Alex
andrian shaft that lifted Pharos Uo
light the sea; commanding as the
tower of ivory that looketh toward
Damascus"
Mrs. Fawcett calls attention, says
the Ladies Pictorial, to the extra
ordinary physical development of
English girls. She says, ''The mum
Der of magniicently developed girls
is notably on the increase" They are
a head and shoulders taller than their
mothers and g~randmothers, and it is
q notable fact that this has taken
place simultaneously with that i'm
provement in their intellectual train
ing which Sir James Crichton Browne
and other pessimists deplore.
Princess Marguerite Beatrice.
youngest daughter of the late En-
peror of Germany, is tall and strong,
with a mass of fair hair, very pale
eyes and very prominent lips. The
frigidity of her face reminds one of
England and her robust figure of Ger
many. She is the favorite sister of
William II, a domesticated woman,
knows how to sew and to embroider
and does not like dancing. 1t is even
said that she writes verses as melan-
choly as the German sky and as foggy
| as the Thames.
The little Queen of Holland has had
a uniform made for her, as the EN-
peror William has appointed her Col
onel of the Second Regiment of West
phalian Infantry.
Clara Schumaun, the widow OF the
composer. is said to be in falling
health. Robert Schumann fell in
love with her when she was but thir-
teen years of age. She was already
on the concert stage, and, with her
maiden name of Clara Week, had
mann was a lawyers clerk, but
studied music with his inamorata's
father, and after seven years of court
after his marriage that his wife sue
SOOoCd IA AilooNlAlS llA W dUlCA1pU
musical composition. Since his death
his widow has de voted herself to in
terpreting his works.
Miss Frances E. Willard makes the
statement that in 1876 there were but
t~hirtY-six associations open to women
in this country, and now that there
are more than 400.
Mr.. Harrison r. Thornton and his
bride, of Virginia, are to pass their
honeymoon, and many other moons,
doubtless, at Kinegan, in the Arctic
Circle, where the young man has es-
tablished a post for missionary work
among the Alaskans. Kinegan is at
the most western extremity of the
Cape Prince of Wales, the cape being
that ice bonnd spur of the great
Alaskan peninsula which reaches out
SO far as almost to touch the shores or
Asiatic Siberia, and the place where
the Western Union Company, in pre-
Atlantic cable days, expected to make
a station and thence carry it's lines
into Siberia. Only one mail a year
reaches Kinegan, and it is on the same
parallel of latitude that just passes
the north coast of Iceland.
stories of a Clever Dog.
Persons who are accustomed to note
the wonderful sagacity often SO
prominent IN canine friends are
doubtless aware that any knowledge
of which a poacher's dog is ignorant
is not deemed worth the while of any
dog to know. An instance of the
cleverness OF a greyhound transpired
a short time since, the veracity of
which may be depended upon.