The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-07
Interesting Paragraphs of
Notabilities in the
Social and Arts
tic World.
SKETCH OF LADY WILDE.
Pen Picture Of the Divine Sara
Archduke Henry's COurtship--
Providing for Two.

The Empress of Austria took a seat
one afternoon in a restaurant of Cairo
and ordered a cup of coffee. Her curl
osity being excited by the peculiar
color of the drink of a neighbor, she
asked the waiter what it was. That, .
said the man, lis absinthe. And il
little madame" touching her familiar
ly on the shoulder, would drink five
or six glasses of that a day, she would
become thicker and stronger than she
now is"
The largest collection of fans in the
world is said to be owned by Mrs.
Langtry. The Lily has a fan room
designed for her by Oscar Wilde, and
in this room she places all the fans
which are given to her and many
Others besides which she buys.
Queen Victoria still wears a hat,
that is, when she chooses. She APP
peared in one about a month ago in
one of her daily drives; said head
gear writes an American lady, be
ing a sort of drab-prown straw,
adorned with a feather which had
once been white, but which the
smoke and fog of London had just as
thoroughly demoralized as if it had
bobbed and nodded upon the head Of
the lowliest of the Queens subjects"
A photograph OF Baby Ruth will
not be printed in the newspapers with
the consent of Mrs. Cleveland.
Native Christian women in China
have formed q society TO discourage
the custom of comprising the feet in
childhood. l
The women of Chile are described as
most beautiful; they are small and
delicate, with fine, clear cut, straight
features and good mental abilities.
though their opportunities for educa-
lion are small. Their manners are
extremely gracious, dignified and
modest" Chile boasts a native woman
doctor; the tram cars are all con-
Quoted by women, and it is, moreover,
the only country in the world in
which women are possessed OF full
political rights. Every oma over
twenty-one years of age has a vote.
As usual. Belva Lockwood is in the
Presidential field.
Mrs. John Sherman has not had a
picture taken since her husband first
entered Congress.
There are nine per cent. more men
in Greece than women.
Nine. the Princess de Sagan, leader
of fashions and frivolities, who has
contributed more than any other wo-
man to the fortune of Worth, the man
milliner, has a villa at Trouville that
reproduces even to details the resi-
dence of a Persian millionaire. Every
thing within the house suggests the
land of the Shah, wen to the picture
of Nasr-ed-Din that hangs over the
fireplace. This maison Persane is the
favorite residence of the princess, who
entertains there with a lavish hand.
1t my give you a grain of comfort
tonight to confide your secret to a
friend, but reflect that when you
awake tomorrow morning the grain of
comfort will have changed in the dark
hours to a weight of leaden anxiety.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
has completed the biography of her
father. Professor Austin Phelps. 1t
will be published by the Scribners.
There is a town in California where
Young women are so scarce that there
is O. movement on foot to offer induce
ments to young lady settlers. 1t pro-
poses also to make it a misdemeanor
for any young woman to move away.
1t is said that Columbus, but for his
wife's aid, might never have conceived
the idea of discovering America. Had
he not discovered it, Mrs. Columbus
would have said:-'Christopher. l
told you So"
The Countess Leo Tolstoi is consid-
cred the good angel OF the starving
peasants in Russia. AS the result of
an appeal which she recently printed
in one of the Moscow papers, hundreds
of people, of all classes and conditions,
have called at her house in the ancient
Russian capital. prayed before the
holy pictures in the chief room, and
left their contributions for the starry
ing classes. Thousands OF rubies have
been collected daily by the good wom-
an and sent at once to her sons and
daughters, who have established pub
lie kitchens in the stricken districts.
The first money Carmencira ever
got for dancing was from a brigand,
who took her inn n day. She
carries a queerly twisted piece of iron
the robber chief gave her, and she
says it is her mascot.
Mrs. Hamko, Empress of Japan,
has some pretty advanced notions,
and likes almost everything American
or English. If she dared she would,
probably, doff the Japanese costume
entirely and have her dresses made
in New York or Paris.
Lady Wilde, who is perhaps the
most illustrious Irish woman of the
dav, has been known for many years
as n writer of remarkable power. In
1S47, when she was still Miss Jane
Francesca Elgee, she began writing
poems and political essays for the
Irish Nation. For some of her utter
ances the editor of the paper vas
arrested and tried. Miss Elgee mar
ried William Wilde in 1851. He
was a well-knowu oculist and au-
rist, u great traveller and a fa-
NOUS antiquarian and Celtish
scholar. They lived in Dublin, where
Mrs. Wilde became the leader and
centre of the salon which afterward
became so celebrated. In her draw
ing-room there have gathered illus
trious men and women from all parts
of the world. Since the death OF her
husband, in 1876 Lady Wilde has lived
much of her time in London, trans
ferring to her drawing-room in Oak
lev street the receptions that were SO
noted in Dublin. Here, on Saturday
afternoons, many bright men and
women Of different nationalities
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