The Jersey City news., 1892-02-04
Interesting Paragraphs of
Prominent Ones in Pro-
feSSiona1 and Social
Life.
ACTRESSES WHO FAVOR RED HAIR.
Senator Oates Romantic Love Story
Fanny Davenport's Advice
to W0uld-be Actresses.

music lovers at the Shubert con-
cert on Tuesday evening, has bright
future before her in her professional
career. She has a rich contralto voice
with a wonderful range, taking high b
easily. Indeed, until recent years she
sang soprano parts entirely. She showed
her ability in this regard in the charming
song of Nevin's, which she gave as an
encore. The lady is young in years and
very beautiful, with hair which outshines
gold. She has charming natural man
ner which has won for her as many warm
friends as her voice has won admirers.
They predict great operatic future for
her. She is at present studying with Mr..
F. E. Bristol. of New York City, and is
the solo contralto of the New York
Cathedral She is Norwegian bv birth.
Modjeska is scholarly aud studious
woman, an expert collector of works of
the EliZabethan age and linguist.
cosmopolitan as n copversatioualist
Mrs. Noble, wife of Secretary Noble,
gave dinner In Washington tine other
afternoon to Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, Miss Susan b. Anthony. Mrs Lucy
Stone Blackwell and Mrs. Isabella
BeeCueT uOOkST, duC tue SunIdso OauSo
WAS given II good shove forward.
Queen Victoria's favorite retreat, it is
said, is the private garden OF Osborne
Castle. on the Isle of Wight She is less
exposed there to the restraints of high
place, and the espionage of servants than
in her other residences.
The Queen of Holland is very particu-
lar about her letter paper. 1t is all pure
white and very thick. with crowns and
armorial blazonry of gold, scarlet and
blue. The simpler sorts have only her
name, surmounted by crown.
The German Empress presented, on
Christmas Day, each Of the Berlin Sis
ters of Mercy belonging to the homes
with hymn book and a Bible, and in
each of the Bibles her Majesty has writ
ten a text and her name.
Mrs. Robert Garrett gave a reception
in Baltimore Wednesday evening, at
which free birds were seen fitting about
among the palms and other plants used
in decoration.
Pang Yum, credited with being the
richest Chinaman east of San Francisco,
has become the husband of Miss Ada
Norton, a recent graduate of the High
School in indianapolis, where Yum is also
in business, ana described as the hand
some and accomplished daughter of
wealthy citizen of Indiana's capital.
II girl goes on the stage she should be
prepared to begin on small salary.
writes Fannie Davenport In an article on
"Women's Chances on the Stage" in the
February Ladies' Home Journal My
fathers first salary was ten dollars
week. l was more fortunate, since my
first earning was thirty dollars week.
Money should never be allow to measure
success in this, of all professions. There
is no successful woman on the stage to-
day. mean successful In the best sense
OF that worldwide adopted the profession
with the dollar mark in her mind before
her art If this little article is read by
one girl who has an idea of becoming an
ACTRESS simply because she thinks she
anything else, let me say to you in all
sincerity:-Stay away from the stage.
When received fifty dollars week as
first soubrette, | thought the sa(ry a
very large one. But when l came to pay
board, washing, dress for stage and
street, had only but trifle left for my
saving fund. The salaries of actresses
look large, because the public hears only
about the salaries and nothing about the
expenses"
The Archduchess Stephanie, widow of
the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Aus
tria, who is now reported to be engaged
to marry Prince Miguel of Braganza. is
said to have led somewhat unhappy life
at Vienna tor these last two years. Her
conduct. on the one hand. has not been
such as to win the hearty commentator
of the Kaiser, and his refusal to let her
take her ten-year-old daughter about
with her to the Tyrol and elsewhere has
irritated her greatly. She will, therefore,
welcome the chance to escape permanent
ly from Vienna.
Mrs Kendal's hair is a reddish blond by
day and as smooth as she Is herself, says
DqInlop's Stage Ne,os. Kate Claxton's
hair is chestnut red. Maria Burrough
has soft. dark brown hair. aud Annie
Russell pale blond hair just the length
Of her shoulders. Fanny Davenport's
hair looks pretty at night, but in day
light it looks a harsh yellow. Clara Nor
ris, they say. has scanty red hair. but she
always uses n wig. Modjeska has very
dark hair. but she uses blonde wig.
Julia Marlowe's hair is a rich brown,
Grace Filkin's Reubens red. Mrs. Les
lie Carter's hair Is a little beyond auburn.
with enough of 1t. too. Isabelle Coe has
wavy, brown hair and Sarah Bern hardt's
hair is short crinkle of red. May Yohe
has dark, brown hair, and Lillian Rus
sells golden hair-all her own-is as soft
as silk. Rose Coghlan has brown hair.
Isabelle UIquhart has dark brown hair in
great quantities. George Drew's hair is
dyed blonde. and, SO they whisper. is
Ada Rehau's. Della Fox has short
hair, dyed yellow. Marie Jansen's
hair is dark brown. Nellie Nc
Henry has soft, Drown hair, Dut likes
blonde wigs on the stage. Minnie Mad
dern has an abundance of beautiful red
hair. Maggie Mitchell's hair is a crinkly
reddish brown. Lotta's hair is bright
red, and she never crosses the field ii the
bull is within mile. Helen Dauvray's
hair is sleek, black and heavy. John
stone Benefits hair is lightish brown,
with an inclination to curl If it WASN'T
Nine. PATHS life at Craig-y-Nos, which
she is wont to call "un grand divertsse-
ment," would scarcely satisfy New
York schoolgirl SO far as excitement and
pleasure are concerned. Surrounded by
a few girls and trusted old friends,
she spends the quiet days in simple
At eight O'Clock she rises,
writes her letters and transacts the bus-
ness of her scales and trills her aras until
a short walk in the grounds brings the
twelve o'clock dejeuner, where she meets
her guests for the first time in the day.
After this there is the long drive. and the
hostess on her return shuts herself up for
books she admires so much. Dinner is at
fuvorite game OF billiards. At half past
ten the song bird retires and the day is
done, to be followed by succession of
DAYS precisely like it. This is PATHS
recreation. When at work the regimen
is strict indeed. both in food, rest and
social pleasure. The great diva follows
the old Greek saying, Choose what you
will have and pay the price" She is the
only Adeina, but factory girl discounts
her in social relaxation.