The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-06
DOINGS OF WOMEN FAIR.
The Difficult Problem
Senator Lamar Had to
Solve After His Wife
Went House
keeping.
MANNERS AND BRAINS.
The Value of a Good Address and
knowledge of Social
Courtesy.

49, TIM-
A Boston publisher employs a mum
Der of young women, and, knowing
the nibbling proclivities OF the aver
age young woman, he has catered to
it royalty. In the office he has placed
a barrel of rosy red apples that, like
the widows cruise of oil in the biblical
story, is continually replenished'
This continual free lunch is a great
success, and the publisher is looked
upon as a man of original and pro-
gressive ideas by his fair b~eneieiarees,
who MUNICH and are happy. Quite a
scheme, that.
Mrs. Adlai Stevenson Is a petite,
fragile appearing woman OF cultured
mind. She is the daughter OF a col
lege president, and was reared III
literary atmosphere.
At a charity bazaar in vienna an
Englishman offered $500 for a single
kiss from the Marchioness Pallavic-
cini. He got it and planked down a
81, 900 Bank of England note 10 pay
pay for it.
The costliest dresses in the worio are
worn Dy the WOmeif VI cuAoo
A West Philadelphia man has naineu
his horse Nail, because his vile can
drive it.
Lillian Russell has purchased a v
story home in the very seleco new
York neighborhood OF seventy
seventh street and West End avenue.
According to Washington ietter iu
the Boston Transcript, Mrs. Carlisle
" lNoA,, hnr tlSh4n ME
counselor and helper. she IS des-
cribed as neither. young norhandsome'
but as a very agreeable woman, VINO
always knows what Is pest lof JOHN
Griffith Carlisle"
When Senator Lamar who has just
married a Young wife, was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by Mr.. Cleve-
land. his wife spent a week house
hunting. and finally found what
seemed to be a suitable residence for
a Cabinet officer. She drove to the
Senate. of which Mr.. Lamar was still
a member. to tell her husband the
news of her discovery. His first ques-
ton was: 'What is the rent dear?'
..Seventy-fve hundred a year." The
Senator lapsed into deep thought and
the Young wife said, rather nervously:
DO YOU think it 1extravagantg' "It
is not that" returned Lamar, slowly
81 was wondefinglGMhat Ishould do
with the other $500 OF my salary
Princess MAY of Teck still wears
black for her lost iance, the Duke OF
Clarence.
Fashionable assemblies in the
French Capital sometimes include as
many as thirty titled American wom-
g To not a few of them the titles
came very high.
Ada Ellen Bayly, better known as
Edna Lyall, has devoted the proceeds
Of Donovan to the purchase OF a
peal of three. bells, which have been
christened "Donovan.n ''Gladys" and
s.Dotn and presented by her to her
brother-in-Iaw's church, st. SavIor's,
Eastbourne.
Mrs. Oliphant does all her work at
night. Her whole life is organized
with a view to this habit, and she de-
clares that it is the only way in which
a mistress of a house can work quietly
and without interruption. Though
her hair is snow white, she is a power
full, young looking woman for her
years.
The late Mrs. Harrison was accus-
toned to treat self-supporting women
with special consideration. A young
lady who was employed as a type
writer by the President frequently
assisted at her receptions. and to a
visitor who thanked the first lady in
the land for thus generously recog-
nizing a business woman Mrs. Harrl-
son replied that the young lady In
question was worthy of all the honor
she could bestow upon her, and that
there was no aso why a business
woman was not the equal OF any
other,