The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-21
IN WOMAN'S WORLD.
Portraits of Beauties Who
Retained Their Bloom
Long Past Forty.
QUEEN vIcToRIA'S BRACELETS.
A Washington Girls Eccentric
accomplishment Moorish
Women at Home.

Many girls a boast of eccentric
accomplishments, but, according to
Kate Fields Washington, zone of the
most unusual is that of Miss Elliott,
daughter of Colonel Elliott, of the
United States Engineer Corps.
Colonel Elliott is one of the most
skillful engin GERS in the Government
service. He has no SOD, and his
daughter has been his constant COM
panion. She went about with him
continually when he was superintend-
ing Government work, studied his
plans, and, as a result, has developed
into a pretty good engineer herself.
She is interested in machinery, n
can discuss 1t more in diligently than
the average man. Recently a friend
of the Colonel's met the family on one
of the Sound steamers, where it Is
considered a great treat to be taken
down to see the engine room. The
gentleman thought it wonld give Miss
Elliott an unusual pleasure, and sug-
gested a visit below. When they
reached the engine room he tried to
explain the machinery, but stumbled.
Miss Elliott filled in the missing
knowledge, and soon the programme
was reversed, and the young lady was
showing off the engines to her aston
ished escort, while the engineer smiled
in wicked glee. Miss Elliott is a slen-
der little lady, whose appearance
gives no hint of her store OF technical
Information"
One of the most beautiful women in
England is the Countess Marchetta d.
AlIegri, who is, perhaps, better known
as Blanche Roosevelt. She is Ameri-
can born, married an Italian, and has
had the order of an officer of the
French Academy conferred upon
her.
Among Queen Victoria's most
cherished possessions are three brace
lets. In these are mounted thirty
three miniatures of her grandchildren,
taken in infancy or early youth. Each
picture is set in a narrow frame OF
gold, and the settings are adorned
with pearls and coral. One interest
ing portrait is that of the Queen hold
ing Prince Alexander of Battenberg.
A good story is told of the Rev.
Mary Traffern Whitney. who has re-
Gently accepted a call to the Second
Unitarian Church, of Somerville,
Mass. Her husband also is a clergy
man. and after preaching n day for
a society hich was without a shep-
hard. he was complimented upon his
sermon. DO you call this a good
sermon?n he replied. you should
hear NV wife" They decided that
they would hear his wife, and the re-
suit was a unanimous call tor her to
the vacant pulpit.
The portraits of beauties of the time
of Washington's Inauguration show
the highest feminine charms of wit.
feeling, heart and mindi in faces which
wore their bloom stanchly up to fifty.
Mrs. Jay, daughter OF Rufus King,
with her black hair and brilliant blue
eyes Mrs. Bayard, whose pictured
face it is impossible to see and not to
love; the faithful, frank wife of Alex
ander Hamilton, who could have kept
her gallant husband from his erring
ways had she been more of a woman
and less of a model. Many will re-
call Mime. Rudersorf. the singer,
when over forty, beautiful as an
image of rose and white Parian, and
Rose EyIllR6, WucLLei aiming tAO
tapestries of her snugly picturesque
rooms or in full sunlight. who defied
time more successfully than any
beauty who has ever trod the stage.
Fortune was none too kind to either
of these two women indesd it seems
as if those best defied a who were
constantly stirred up to the effort.
1t depends upon a woman herself
more than upon her advantages
whether she can retain her charms
and her youth up to three-score.
The Moorish Woman at Home.
The costumes of the ladies, when in
their own homes are SNOWY and bril-
liant. introduced by my friend,
Madame Ben-Aben, l had the entree
to several of these homes, and would
pass through the outer door or bar
rier to find the room where | was ex-
pected filed with women-friends OF
my hostess. Their slippers stood in
rows outside the hall door. and they
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