The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-20
OF WOMEN FAIR.
Mrs. Langtry's Latest Whim
is to Have Her Dog Carry
Her Monogram On
His Back.
BRET HARTE'S CHARMING DAUGHTERS.
Writers Who Are Attractive In
Dress as Well as Personality
"The Town of Mothers"

Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde, who is a
capable as well as a charming woman,
goes in for all feminine fads OF a newly
fiedged belle and wears her Paris
gowns with as keen satisfaction as
though she had no other thought in
her head than how to adorn her beau
| tiful person. Amelie Rives Chanler
is always beautifully gowned. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, though just q mite
eccentric, never gets sc far over the
line as to leave the truly beautiful.
Blanche Roosevelt, who is a wonder
fully pretty woman, is always correct
ly attired in gowns just suiting her
blond style to perfection. Mrs.
Humphrey Ward, Miss Charlotte NJ.
Yonge, Mrs. Burton Harrison and
many others are living examples that
brains are not Incompatible with
style.
Mrs. Edison is said to prefer the
light of ordinary candles to That of
the finest incandescent lights.
The Queen of the Belgians, who
has already achieved great celebrity
as one of the most accomplished anna
teur %conjurors of the day, and who is
noted for her skill in driving spirited
teams of four horses harnessed to her
phaeuon, has now taken up photogra-
ply and pursues studies in that art
with the utmost diligence. One of the
most eminent Brussels photographers
goes twice a week to her lovely country
seat at Ciergnon to give her lessons.
Her husband, the King, has a whole
some dread of the camera in general
and of the Kodak in particular, but
has been induced to give a sitting to
the Queen who obtained an excellent
photograph of him.
Bret Harte, the writer, is the father
of two charmingly pretty girls.
Jassamine, the elder, has just made a
successful debut in literature. She is
a tall, distinguished looking girl, with
a strongly marked personality. She
wears her light hair short and it curls
daintily, making a shining halo around
her pretty face. In her dress is her in
dividuality particularly shown, as her
gowns are all made after the same
model, a long clinging bell skirt
which she allows to sweep the ground
and a full blouse waist made with a
low round neck. Such is the costume
she wears continually, altering
it, not ave for the street, when, how
ever, the addition of a sailor hat be-
comes necessary.
Mrs. Martha Annie Rex, the aged
negress, who recently went all the
way from West Africa to see Queen
Victoria, had put aside her small saw
ings for Fifty years to accomplish the
trip. She Is seventy-six years old,
and of thirteen children who in
their youth were all sold into slavery
in the United States. What became
of her brothers and sisters she never
heard, but her father, long since dead,
managed to buy his own and her
liberty. and they both went to
Liberia, the free State in Africa.
As another proof of woman's ina
bility to keep a secret, says the
Yo73EefS Statesman, we notice that
while a a covers his ~suspenders a
woman wears hers openly.
Whenever she suspects that her
husband has been imbibing too freely
a woman uptown makes him repeat
the sentence, ''She sells sea shells"
The Duchess of Hamilton, who has
been nursing her brother, the late
Duke of Manchester, for SO long, and
with so much devotion, has achieved
fame not only as one of the most per-
feet eQuestriennes Of Great Britain,
but also as a singularly successful
daiTywoman. She manages and owns
a beautiful dairy farm at Great Glen
ham, in Suffolk, where she not only
turns out vast quantities of dairy pro
duce for the London market, but also
maintains a school where pupils are
initiated into the mysteries of dairy
farming. Several great ladies have
recently followed her example and
started similar establishments. among
the number being Lady Ossington,
WHO has started a dairy farm and
school near Kilmarnock, in Scotland.
Mrs. Langtry, who is nothing if not
original, appeared at Sir Augustus
Harris's garden party with a French
poodle that, in addition to being
shaved in the orthodox manner, had
the monogram L. L. cut out in its hair
on its back.
Queen Victoria has not worn corsets
for many years. Princess Beatrice
follows her mother in this respect and
has also discarded the corset.
The town of Leonburg, in Wurtem-
burg, is known as the '"Town of
Mothers" for there the mothers of
Schiller and Kepler lived. On the
walk of the old castle where the
magma charter of Wurtemburg liber-
ties was signed by Ulrich, the well
beloved. tablets have been placed in
honor ofthe mothers OF the poet and
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