St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-14
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.

GElla Wheeler Wilcox dances almost as
we'll as she writes.
Miss Helen Gould's boudolr is pretty
room in pink and white.
Mrs. Kemp's beautiful Moorish music
room might be bit of the Alhambra.
One of Mrs. Jordan L. Motifs very
particular friends is Nine. Albini-Eye.
Mrs. HickS-L Lord has massive gold
punch bowl with her monogram IN dla-
monds.
Mrs. de Forest has silver vinaig:ette
so tiny that it fits into the palm beneath
her glove.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt's dinners are
described as French affairs with an
English flavor.
Mrs. Ogden Goelet's two chldren-a
boy and a girl-are always simply but
charmingiy dressed.
Little Miss Ruth Cleveland is said to
he very friendly with strangers and not
to object 10 carCSses.
Mrs. Paran Stevens silver is all
handsome enough to be placed i'll
case iii the Metropolitan museum.
The Western Michigan diocese has
decided that hereafter, at all veStry
meetings women may vote for veSIry-
men.
Mrs. John Mackay possesses the big
gest sapphire in the world. She paid
$4,000 for it to all impoverished Rus
sian prince.
Mrs. Edward Cooper goes in for the
gorgeous in the way Of coat OF arms.
Her writing paper as most Of her other
possessions fairly glow with it.
Mrs. LindIey Hoffman Chaplin is fine
elocutionist, and when she was abroad,
before her marriage, she made quite Il
name for herself in literary circles.
Mrs. Sharon has more exquisite tea
gowns than any lady in New York. she
receives her friends from to q ana Is
daily attired in aditferent"W0rk or ART.
The cottage in Hampshire. England,
where Jane Austin wrote the books that
made her famous. is still standing, and
has been but little altered since her day.
Miss Alice Hartman has most fetch
ing costume fashioned Of white gauZe
with an opaleSCent stripe, with which
she wears a Spanish jacket of black
velvet.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has pas
sion for altar of roses. The kind she
uses costs $50 an ounce, one drop or
which is Il veritable Denedction to the
senses.
The Empress of Austria does her own
cooking, OF at least SuperintenGS 1t, and
in an emergency could prepare any
dish. She has solved the servant girl
problem.
New York has woman dentist. and
her name is Neymans. The New YORK
papers are announcing her with good
deal of self-gratitication as something
very new. Boston has had one Tor
wear OF more, Miss Reynolds.
Literary secrets are not long whether
they belong TO men or women. And so
it comes out that the writer Of the clever
social skits it IIarper's Bazaar, Mrs.
Wouter Van Twiiler's at Homes" IS
Miss Lille Hamilton French, Of the
World staff.
Mrs. Adett, a German woman, who
spent fourteen weeks among the poor
est class of factory hands, has pub
liShed book on their condition. which
reveals such an abyss of misery and I'M
morality that the government Is to Gre
ate a commission to inquire into the al
legged abuses.
Five hundred hands are at work on
the bridal veil of the Princess Marga-
rethe of Prussia. The veil is made of
500 different pieces, all the work being
done with the needle, and the pieces,
each of which requires ten days for
completion, are to be joined by the most
skilIful iacemakers in a pattern which
will appear as the work Of the same
hand.
It's reported that Mrs. Harriet Beech
err Stowe is critically i'll. Her biography
is to appear this month, and it will con-
tain love letter from the late Prof.
Stowe to his wife, in which he says:
There is no woman like you in this
wide world. Who else has so much tall
ent, with so little conceit; so much rep
utation, with SO little atfectation; SO
much literature, with so little nonsense
! so much enterprise, with so little ex-
travagance; so much tongue, with Sc
little scod; SO much sweetness, with SC
little softness; so much of so many
things, and so little of so many things"'