The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-28
LILLIAN RUSSELL'S HOME
A Little Bijou Which Dis
plays the Popular Comic
Opera Singers Good
Taste.
The C0U3T5Hlp o. ROBERT BROWNING
How Women Bear Pain-What
American Girls Find to ADJ
mire in Foreign Dip
lOmats.
THE G0u3T5Hlp o. ROBERT BR0WNIAG

Miss Lillian Russell is not nowaday 9
content with merely going on the stage
and t'doing" her part. Her taste In mat
tiers of dress extends to everything con-
nected with an operate production. she
is quick to perceive wherein a change for
the better can be made in some blt OF
scenery, some bit of garment, some
grouping of performers. Thus her SER
vices are valuable at rehearsals, which
she attends regularly. These. with even
ing and matinee performances, leave her
but little time for home life. which, to a
certain extent. is jealously guarded
against intruders.
Her bijou-like residence in the vicin 1ty
of the New York Casino is on Tuesdays a
resort of artists, with a sprinkling of So
ciety women who admire the popular
singer. Miss Russell herself is never
tired of singing any ballad or song that
she knows, whether it be in French, Eng
lish or German. She never refuses,
either at her house or when visiting
friends. to ''sing something" Entreaties
are unnecessary. Affectatlon u posing
are foreign to her nature. =,
She knows what will become her, and
she wears that alone-the whole secret OF
dressing well. Her boudoir naturally
bears evidence of this same good taste,
and is "a dream of white ana gold" that
would delight James Mcneil Whistler.
Dainty and we'll selected treasures have
accum ulated in it, aud nothing jars upon
the harmony.
OF course Miss Russell has many dia-
monds., and of course she has q dog. Her
birth-month stone is the turquoise, and II
she has a fad it is that OF collecting tur-
quoises. She is said to nave the nnest
collection in America, a claim once put
forth by Mrs. Langtry. Her dog, b
Ko," is thought to be the smallest Japan-
ese spaniel in this country and claims re-
lationship with one possessed by Courte-
nav Thorpe of Miss Roslna Vokes' COM
pany.-Philadelphia Press.
Robert Browning's Courtship.
AS we all know, it was Mr.. Kenyon who
first introduced Robert Browning to his
future wife; and the story, as told by
Mrs. Orr, is most romantic. The poet
was about thirJy-two years OF age at this
time, in the fullness Of his powers. She
was supposed to be u confirmed invalid,
confined to her W room and to her
couch, seeing no one, living her own spir-
itual life, Indeed, bnt looking for none
otner, when MIR. Kenyon first brought
Mr.. browning to her fathers house. Miss
Bnrrett'S reputation WAS well eStaDllSneu
by this time. Lady Geraldine's Court
ship was already published, in which
che author had written of Browning
among other poets as of some pomegran-
ale, which, if cut deep down the middle,
shows u heart within blood-tinctured, of
a veined h%umanity;" and one can well be-
lieye thai this present meeting must have
been but a phase in an old and long exist
ing sympathy between kindred spirits.
Very soon afterwards the poets became
engaged, and they were married III the
autumn of the year 1e46.
Who does not know the story OF this
marriage OF true souls? Has mol Mrs.
Browning herself spoken of it in words
indelible and never to be quoted with out
sympathy by all women? while he from
his own fireside has struck chord after
chord of manly feeling than which his
life contains nothing deeper or more
true.
The sonnets from the Portuguese were
written by Elizabeth Barrett to Mr..
Browning before her marriage, although
she never even showed them to him till
some years after They Were man and wife.
They were sonnets such as no Portuguese
ever wrote before, or ever will write
again. There is a quality In them which
is beyond words, that echo which belongs
to the highest human expression of feel
ing, But such a love to such O woman
comes with it's own testsment.-Anne
Ihdckerdy Richie in Hdqpe9's Magazine
for May.
Women and Pain.
A writer in the F%ortnightly ReUieW has
taken great pains to collect a number of
facts as evidence that women endure pain
with much greater courage than men,