Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-13
Feminine NOtes.

Lady Habberton, the inventor of the divided
skirt, is advising female servants to wear
knickerbockers.
Sarah Bernhard has turned philanthropist
and presented the Jardin des Plantes in Paris
with two orangoutangs. The Incompatible
Sarah chrlstened them Paul and Virginia.
Mrs. Fl. c. Cosgrove of Joplin, Mo. has or
gained a lead mining company. All the Off
GERS and stockholders are women. The labor
is done by men. One of the mines bsing OPP
Grated by the company is called THE New
Woman" 4..,.
DR.. Bart J. Maycock prepared a paper for
the Homeopathic Medical society Of the state
Of New York, which recently convened in
New York City. The evil influences on the
nervous system of the bustling life of business
men and women was condemned. The bicycle
- doing great good for nervous, overworked
people. q
Nine. Marchosi recently celebrated at Paris
the fortieth anniversary of her career as a
teacher. Her first activities began with a
Vienna conservatory. On the death of her
daughter she left for Paris, which she has
made her home. Nine. Marchesi has turned
ont a large number of finished singers, among
whom were many Americans.
Miss Alice Balfour, the sister of Mr.. Arthur
j. Balfour, is to give us a book on the tour
which she made in South Africa. 1t will be
named Twelve Hundred Miles in an Ok
Wagon" and will have, illustrations from Miso
Balfour's own drawings. Miss Balfour and
her party journeyed from Cape Town to Sails
bury, thence to the coast at Beira, and home
by Zanzibar.
1t will be news to most people that Nine.
Calve was first considered a contralto. This
fact is disclosed in an interview which the
distinguished prima donna recently had with
Marc Blumenburg, in the course of which she
also stated that her father was French and
her mother Spanish, and that, despite the
biographers, she never was at the Paris con-
servatoire.
Interesting stories are being told of the
mother Of the minister to France. Whitelaw
Reid. Just previous to her death, at the ad-
| vanced age of 81 years, she took a lively in
terest in national affairs. A pretty incident
is related that at an entertainment given in
her honor a few years ago she was led up to
a sofa draped with the American flag, but de-
clined to sit upon II, declaring the flag was
made for nobler purposes.
The very next debutante OF Importance at
the Grand opera at Paris is a Boston woman,
Frances Wood, a pupil of Charles r. Adams,
who. IL there is any truth In report, has come
back to America for the arrangement of that
last inevitable detail necessary for a debut
on the Paris stage, where so many American
I girls have already made successes, and where
it is a tradition that the debutante pays in
one way or another for her first appearance.
Princess Hohenlohe, wife OF the chancellor,
has at last received permission from the Rus
sian government to hold for life the estates
in Russia that came to her from her brother,
Prince Peter of Sayn-Wittgenstein. The Rus
sian law insists that all aliens shall either
live upon the land they own in Russia or sell
1t. Alexander III would make no concessions
to the Hohenlohes, and a part Of the estates
was sold at a sacrifice, but Nicholas ii has
proved more tractable.
Lillian Russells bicycle, a dainty machine
with gold crossbar and sky-blue tires, has
been on exhibition in the window OF a bicycle
store in Boston, likewise the fair rider. when
she takes her constitutional on the wheel.
II must be admitted by her most enthusi-
astic admirers that the short skirt with
leggings, which Is her riding costume, does
not diminlsh-au contraire,-the effect OF
embonpolnt which has caused so much un-
happiness to the prima donna and her dress
makers, and which she has striven 50 hero
ically to reduce.
Miss Zellia Citti is the musical name Of a
pretty woman In New York who, from a
very small and single handed start in life,
has built up an extensive business. She
employs a number OF experienced needle
women In the manufacture OF ensigns, Jacks,
burgess and signal flags for yachts. Some
five years ago. in a manner purely accidental.
she made a nag for a yacht, the neatness OF
which attracted attention and led to other
orders. Her fame as a flag maker spread
widely and rapidly. and she opened a little
shop on South street with a small assistant,
which has grown into a big one, and she
has a score OF hands engaged the whole
year around.