Middletown transcript., 1892-06-09
FADs OF SOME WOMEN
In SOME CASES THEY ARE CURI-
OUS ONES.

We all have our fads, our saper-
stitions, too, women and men.
Fads are all right.
A fad Is o persons recreation usnal-
~; and perhaps Professor Munster
burg, the wonderful young German
who is coming over to Harvard Uni-
yersity next October to sit In the
chair Of" psychological sxpsrimenta-
tlon," will be able TO tell a Why Ne.
each privately Keep pet superstition.
It was said the other day that half
the literary women in Boston havs
mania for spiritualism, but wont con-
fess it.
A smart person sets up his own fad.
The crowd usually run together In
common pursuit Of the rad that is the
fashion il isa pink tsa, Or it i
coaching; or it ID living whist. or it
is skirt-dancing. or il Is society cir-
Gus performances. Or it il slumming.
One Of The busiest lawyers 10 Bos-
ton spends bis spare time with . mi-
croscope and drop Of dirty pond
wafer, and says be should have been
crazy long before this time but for
this fad.
Charles Egbert Craddock is de-
voted to fancy work, and 90 Is Mrs.
A. D. T. Whitney. Louisa Alcott
used to pride herself on getting up
stunning programs for evening enter-
tainments and considered tableanx
her strong point. Mrs. Margaret De-
land takes 10 carving chimney pieces
and Mrs. Celia Thaxter to poppy
gardening.
Miss Ellen Terry's hobby is one
with practical aspect. At her
charming home in South Ksnsington
she keeps huge work-baskes full Of
odds and ends Of things for the poor.
When her friends 90 to see her they
mast take their. choice of knitting,
crocheting or sewing and uss their
needless like 50 many Penelopes when
they talk.
Mrs. Bernard Beere, " England's
Tosca," as she is usually called, has
strange fancy Cor mechanical toys,
dancing dolls and money boxes. A,
horseshoe which she picked up once
upon . time at Sandringham hangs
over her boudoir door.
Modjeska's is cigarette smoking, Q
habit she learned in her girlhood.
She wanted to be with her brothers,
but the smoke Of their cigars made
her cough, 50 to get accustomed to 1t
she herself learned to smoke.
She thinks the fact that she smokes
package or 80 of cigarettes every
week should not be regarded - q
heinous ofFense.
/ do smoke, but am not smok-
er. My clothes never suggest the
smell Of tobacco. my breath 10 not
tainted, and there 10 not o trace of
nicotine on my fingers. I do not shop
or gossip; I ana neither candy-sater,
. tea.drinker, nor q wine-drinker. I
require something to quiet my nerves,
and think have chosen the least
injurious Of all stimulants."
Nine. Christine Nilsson has . hobby
for collecting fans.
Most of her fans have been given
her by eminent people. The finest
one she has, was presented to her by
the sahib Of Moroi; it is made Of
gold. gems and feathers. Another,
which was given to her by q Russian
Prince, is an exact copy Of the Quesn
of Dudes famous fan. It.is made Of
white silk, and sticks of ivory and
gold. the whole being covered with
rubies, diamonds, pearls and emsr-
aids.
The Empress Eugenie once gave
Nilsson q fan which formerly belong
ed to Nine. Dubarry, and was paint
cd by Boucher /; another fan in the
fair songster's collection was present.
ed by the city of Venice. It il Of
silver filigree and point lace. Still
another once belonged to Marie
Antoinette and wss used by her in
prison. Altogether NiIsson's collsc-
tion of fans is valued at 800, ,00O.---
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