St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-05
WOMEN WE HEAR ABOUT.

Mrs. Sharon's jewel casket holds some
rare black pearls.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Cruger writes
her notes OH paper the color of pale
gold.
Mrs. W. Seward Webb is a very de-
lightful entertainer who can never do
enough for her guests.
Blue seems to be Mrs. Grover Cleve-
lands favorlte color although not the
| most becoming one she wears.
At one of Mrs. Phelps Stokes recent
dinners rOse-shaded electric lights
played an important part in the decOra-
tiOnS.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid's boudoir is all in
white and gold, with panels of satin
cloth and a manteI of onyx, inlaid with
gilt.
Mrs. Henry Clews' bath room Is a
grotto of onyx, walls, floor, ceiling, pa
sin and tub all being made Of the scufp-
tured stone.
The Empress Frederick of Germany
will visit her daughter, the Duchess Of
Sparta, in Athens early in March. Upon
her return. a month or so later, she will
go to the Schloss in Homburg, her prin-
cipal residence since the death of her
husband.
Miss Maud Lorillard's trosseau will be
one of the most elaborate of the many
elaborate ones seen in New York for
long time.
Mrs. John Mackey possesses the big
gest sapphire in the world. She pur-
chased it from Russian impoverished
prince for S150.000.
Among some of Mrs. Pierpont Nor
gan's late purchases is "a low boy"-a
polished piece of old mahogany, which
has curYing, spindled legs and broad
drawers with brass handles.
When Mrs. Andrew Carnegie is at
her home in the Scottish Highlands,
Cluny castle, she presents each guest
with a dainty blackhorn spoon, which
bears the name "Cluny" on IL tiny silver
plate.
Mrs. Depew Is in many respects quite
the opposite to her Witty husband. She
has serious face, big black eyes, long,
straight features and low, sweet voice.
Her fayorite c0lors are garnet and
mauve.
One of the finest ball rooms in New
York city is that in the residence of
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, Washington ave-
hue. 1t is all in white and gold, with
CupidS land birds and flowers for decora-
ton of walls and ceiling.
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Is a good
friend of Marshall z. Wilder, and her
husband gives him an annual salary of
So. 900. in return for which the little
humorist gives occasional entertain
ments i'll different children's hospitals.
Marion Crawford is evidently utiliz-
ing his social opportunities during his
present American visit for study of
American women, and i'll the next issue
of the Ladies' Home Journal he will
give the results OF his observations and
describe The American Woman" as
she appears to him after an absence of
ten years; in what respects she has
changed, and whether she has improved
in her dress, manners and tendencies.
Miss Rhoda Broughton has just mar
rowly escaped inheriting share of
large fortune. The estate of the late
Henry Thomas Coghlan, of England,
valued at over s3,OOO,0 900, is now in liti-
CATION. No will has been found, and
the next of kin are a brother, sister
and cousin. Miss Rhoda Broughton
is first cousin once removed, and the
law does not recognize the lesser degree
of relationship until the higher is ex-
hausted. The next Of kin at present
entitled to the estate claim through Mr..
Coghian's mother. who was Brough-
ton.