Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-29
Feminine Notes.


Mrs. Jennie June Crcly, who has been in
London for u part Of the summer, says that
Frances e. Willard and Lady Somerset are
now inseparablc and almost Interchangeable
The Countess Cecilia P~later-Zybeck, one of
the wealthiest women in Russia, has been
enrolled in the guild of master tailors OF
Warsaw. She is at the head of a cutters
school in that city. and does much to helr
the poor.
Nine. Magnusson of Iceland. who was a
familiar figure in New York drawing rooms
last winter, has been in Newport for this
last few weeks carrying on her effort to raise
funds for the school she hopes to endow on
her native island.
Rosa Bonheur is at work on a picture on a
large scale representing a fight between two
enraged horses. The finishing touches will
soon be given; then, as an English journal
remarks, will come the rivalry of the nations
as to which shall possess it.
iona Lie. the Norwegian novelist, whose
works are now attracting general attention,
prOclaims proudly that to his wife is due
much of his best work. Nine. Thomasine
Lie is an extremely intellectual woman, and
IS her husbands severest and most valued
critic.
The Berlin correspondent of the British
Medical Journal writes: There is a rumOr
that the professions of dentist and Of chemist
and druggist are to be opened to women.
Up 10 the IIGSeNl all ne lduy uGlllslS pIdC-
ticing in Germany have had an American
training.
In the possession of the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is a guinea which she treasures above
all her belongings. Her grandfather, who
was a gentleman Of slovenly outward appear
ances, was given it by a benevolent party,
who CHANGED to mistake him for a pauper.
Belle Boyd, known as the rebel spy"
is making a tour of the south. She Is de-
ycribed as being dramatic in her style, with
eyes expressing a daring disposition and with
an abundance Of light auburn hair, which
hangs over her brow. She is as piCuant AMI
vivacious at 81 as she was at sweet 16, when
she entered the service"
As an illustration of Sarah Rernhsrdt's Gb
~sorpt.on in her parts, it is told Of her that she
is never able to get through a performance
OF "Phsdre' without fainting at least once
of course while behind the scenes-and that
she sits in her dressingroom for an hour be-
fore the performance in silent meditation upon
the character she is about to play.
American members OF the famous Pioneer
club of London, one of the few London
woman's clubs, are DR.. Helen Dcnsmore and
Miss Willard. In this club, to- obliterate all
social distinction. the members ore known by
numbers, not Their names, Nine. G AMI,
for example, answering to the designation of
No. 40. The Writer'S club, also of London,
has a royal h!ghness for its presiding officer,
the Princess tuTlSl.du. me Si!utdtiOl MA
dame President" is out of order in that club.
One of the best kco Yn ind lstrial AIT workers
now in New York is Miss Myra Burr Edison
of bill poster fame. She, is a western girl,
with the proverbial western pluck and ambi-
ton. Her studies have been mainly carried
on at the Artist-Artisan school, under the
guidance of Walter Shirlaw and John Stimp-
son. She started, as do most freshmen in
industrial art, designing book covers. Excel
lent examples OF her skill in this line of
work appeared last winter in the exhibit OF
the Architectural league.
The duke of Marlborough is vastly inter
ested, it is said, in the progress Of the por-
trait of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. This is
being hurried by Harper Pennington, the Bal
timore painter, for the November portrait
show to be held in New York. In this Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt's very dark hair is
dressed high, and has thrust through it one
superb diamond ornament. Her features are
small, and so is her face, and her throat is
rather unusually long. Several strands of
pearls are wound round it in the painting, and
she is CARRIED in white silk, This is cut some
what low in the neck, and has a fall of lace
around it.
Miss Schultz is a young woman in Gotham
who has made a fine success for herself as a
Matchmaker. Her father followed that trade
and she learned it just by being with him
and observing his work. His health failed
and he had to give up his business, and it was
then suggested to her by her friends to take
up the business herself. She did so, making
a great success. She is now not only consid-
cred a good Matchmaker for a woman, but
stands as among the very best in New York.
She is an extremely pretty girl, a perfect
blonde, with rosy cheeks and blue eyes which
belong to good German blood. 1t was not
difficult for her to gain a large male patron
age, for men like to go there and watch her
at her work.