Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-04-22
TOWN TOPICS.
Whist is the popular society game

| w nlSU is the popular Society Sdme-
Miss Zimmerman was a Thursday
visitor to the city-by-the-sea.
Mrs. Alvin Risley has returned from
Philadelphia where she has been visiting
| friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. ParmeIee, of Rich
mond Hill, Long Island, are visiting Dr.
and Mrs. North.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hammel have
rented Mrs. Wagners cottage for the
| Summer
Hon. and Mrs. W. |. Newell spent
several days here the past week at their
Shore road home.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l.. Race have
cards out for Geographical Dinner on
Thursday April Both.
Not many social entertainments in
town this week. The big eats are
about over for this season.
At the Dog Show in Philadelphia last
week Mr., A. ]. DreXel showed his pair of
French bull dogs valued at 81, 800.
"There swims no goose so gray but,
soon or late,
She finds some honest gander for a
mate Pope.
The Authors club met at the home of
| Mrs. Ewalt Richman Hates on Monday.
| The continue ton of the reading of
| Hiawatha occupied the afternoon, after
| which refreshments were served to those
| present.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough
are passing quiet time at Blenheim.
| They have for guests the Dukes three
sisters. The Duchess is greatly liked by
! the tenants on the estate. She visits
them and makes friends wherever she
goes.
A letter addressed 'to the handsom-
est woman in town" has nearly upset
Massachusetts village, and lots of the
young ladies no longer speak to each
other as they pass by. Who would
get one similarly addressed and sent
to Pleasantvile?
A woman dressed in bloomers came
over from Atlantic City on Sunday and
made holy show OF herself up the
Shore road. The old girl had long since
passed the beauty point. so she succeeded
in attracting public attention by her
boisterous remarks and unladylike
behavior.
A wife in Brooklyn, n Y. has just been
granted a divorce from her husband on
statutory grounds. 1t was in evidence
that thirteen other women had assisted
her husband in breaking his marriage
vows. All hands will probably regard
thirteen as an lnlucky number.
Princess Maud of Wales had bad fall
from her wheel short time ago and
when a Young gentleman assisted her to
arise not knowing who she was became
very attentive and was almost paralyzed
later to hear her order the cabman to
drive to Marlborough House" and to
learn that the lady was none other than
a member of the Royal family.
Andrew Carnegie of Pittsburg, Pa. has
authorized the trustees of the Carnegie
Art gallery to offer $4,000 for the best
| two oil paintings by American artists.
| The trustees announce prize of 50, 600
| for the best painting in oil produced in
the year 1896 by an American artist,
wherever resident, and first shown in
| the Carnegie Art galleries at an exhibi-
ton to be held for five weeks, beginning
Tuesday, Nov. 3 next. A prize of$3, 900
will be given for the painting in oil ad-
judged to be next in artistic value.
According to Mrs DR.. Evans, wife OF
the president of Hedding college, at
Abingdon, Ills, women first wore trou-
sers and men subsequently adopted them.
Mrs. Evans said that for 20 years she
has been making a careful study of the
subject. 'The coming woman" she
| said, twill not be slave to dress and
fashion. She will be properly dressed
and Christian woman. The fact is that
| trousers were purely feminine invention
| for her own special wearing and man
was actually reproached by his contem-
poraries for copying feminine fashions
when he first began to adopt trousers
for his attire"
The Borough Council.
The adjourned meeting of the Borough
Council met at the Council room Monday
evening April 20, and was called to