Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-09
PIE RSONALS FOR LADIES.

NINE. PArrI is said to be the easiest Of
all prlma dome to get along with pleas
antly.
Mrs. POTTER, with her Kyrle Bellew,
will probably lease and manage a thea
ter at Calcutta.
Miss LILLIAN RUssELL's admirers pre-
scented to her the other evening a s.. 600
star of diamonds.
TIE Empress of Austria is contem-
plating an Eastern voyage in her yacht
and tour through India.
QUEEN NATALIA, of Servia, continues
to be the cause of fierce debate and bit
ter feeling in the little kingdom.
AMELIA CARDIA, the first woman phv-
stefan of Portugal, appropriately dedi-
Gated her graduating thesis to her
| queen.
In Marie Wainright's 'FAmv Robsart"
| Sydney Booth appears. He is the son
OF Agnes and the late Junius Brutus
Booth.
| TIE mother Of Robert Louis Steven
son, the novelist, has at last become
| recOnClled.tO lis abandonment Ofthe law
| for literature.
WINNIE REAM HOME, the Sculptress, is
| petite. She has been compared to "a
plump brown sparrow futtering in the
! sunlight"
HE widow of the late Gov. Gearv, of
| Pennsylvania, has executed a striking
! likeness in oil Of her late husband, Gen.
John White Geary.
! Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON is over
| 20 years of age, but is as full of work
and as fond of literary labors as she was
| twenty years ago.
The Princess EngluIitchef addressed
an audience in the parlors OF the Old
South Congregational Church, Boston,
recently, upon the famine in Russia.
Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD is disguised
because the London critics say her
fastest book produces the effect of "a SER
les OF praiseworthy and laborious shad-
| ows"
Mrs. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT, who
usually gets remarkable prices for her
writing, has been using her greatest en-
| deavOrs to make success out of her re-
| cent play, "The ShOWman'S Daughter"
Her experience has cost her Just 3d.
900.
| MARGARET FULLER used to be account
ed very wise woman, and doubtless
she was, for Mrs. Sherwood credits her
with having once said: "Never talk
about yourself your diseases, your
dOmestlcs or your dresses. Talk about
| your friends interests, not your own"
Miss GOULD is taking much interest in
New York Presbytery work, and at a
! meeting held in her fathers house the
| other evening she subscribed literally.
| Cards were passed around for subscrip-
tons, and her father pleased her with
donation of $4,000.
DOWAGER Grand Duchess Alexandrine
of Mecklenburg has just celebrated her
9Oth birthday. She is a sister of the
Kaiser and the youngest child of Queen
Louisa of Prussia, Napoleon's fair enc
my. She is consequently aunt of the
present Emperor.
LADY MARY HOWARD, sister of the
Duke of Norfolk, is sister of Charity
! of ST. Vincent of st. Paul. Seeing her
teaching the homeless boys attending
this institution, and noting her gentle
and unpretentious ways visitor would
not take her to be sister Of the first
nobleman in England.
THE current year will be marked by
royal marriage anniversaries, all of
wnich will be duly celebrated by the
venerable couples. The Sd of May,
1892, will be the fftieth anniversary OF
| the nuptials of Duke Ernest H., Of
| Saxe-Coburg Gotha and the Princess
Alexandria of Baden; the 26th of the
same month will complete the half cen
fury of the union of King Christian IN.
of Denmark to Princess Louise of Hes
Sc Cassel; while October s will be the
golden welding day of the Grand Duke
! Charles Alexander of Sake Weimar and
| the Princess Sophie of Holland. The
year will also include four silver we'd
dings--those of Prince Charles of Spain,
the Count of Flanders, Prince Nicholas
of Nassau, and King e gorge of Greece.
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