Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-22
ABOUT WOMEN.

The daughters of the Prince of Wales
have taken to cycling and run into each
other just as everyday wheelers do.
Empress Eugene is not going to Scot
land this year, so she has declined Queen
Victoria's offer Of Abergeldie Castle.
So far Miss Anna Gould has been en-
gagged to three princes, one count, one
banker and one actor. Money makes
the gossips gable.
The wife of j. M. Barrie, the novelist,
was n London actress, but it is said she
was always, as she is now, a most quiet,
modest and well-bred lady.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is still al
lowed q revenue from "Uncle Toms
Cabin" from her publishers, although
the copyright expired some time ago.
Bernhard has been photographed
over a thousand times. Her first picture
was taken in 1867 and she is shown in
crinoline and with an innocent, childish
face.
When Mrs. j. w. Mackay wants to
impress her European friends with her
own Importance she invites them TO
dinner and sets them in front of a
$4,000 silver service.
They do say that the most famous
jewel in New York society belongs to
Mrs. John Jacob Astor 1t is a superb
combination Of gems, arranged in the
shape of stomaCher, and contains 100
stones, each the size of pea. 1t was
Mr.. Astor's wedding gift to his bride
and cost 100000.
There is young society bud of the
-Four Hundred who wears a number s
shoe. Mrs. Hermann Oelrchs, who
wears ID with very high heels, is said
to have tho prettiest foot Of any woman
in New York. Mrs. John Boodgood
wears cork in the heel of her shoe an
inch thick, to make her taller.
The advanced end of the century
women who regard Nine. Sarah Grand,
of "lleavenly Twins" fame, as one of
their disciples, will be disappointed to
learn that she is anything but moral
list. On the contrary, she is woman
of so-called liberal ideas, and would
never suggest, much less enforce, an
unfamiliar moral code:
Mrs. Cleveland's friends say she is
much concerned about her increasing
weight. Since the the birth of Baby
Esther she has been steadily gaining,
and now weighs $50 pounds. She has a
decidedly double chin, and, while she
still preserves the same womanly ex-
preston, there is too much of the matron
IN her appearance for admirers of the
aesthetic.
There have been number of serious
accidents to women bicyclsts lately.
Mrs. Clement Q. Moore, u fashionable
New York woman, has been seriously
hurt and will be able to ride no more
this season. Indeed, it is doubtful il
she will over ride again. The fright
from falling has had the usual effect,
and her past courage is now overcome
by timidity.
Mrs. Kendal's methods of housekecp-
ing are worth hearing. In every room
of her house hangs pencil and slate.
I'Once a day she makes a tour of the
entire house. Wherever she finds any.
thing wrong She writes her complaints
and orders on the slate assigned to tine
particular room at fault. The house
maid follows IN her mistress wake, and
if she has any replies to make, she writes
| them also.
Sibyl SanderRon, the American singer
who has lived 50 long abroad, is to de.
light American music lovers this winter
She speaks French ''commc unc Paris.
ienne." This is an almost impossible
accomplishment for foreigner. II is
said in Paris that it is her lack Of accent
more than her singing which has
cndeared this capricious artist to the
French public.