Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-17
Feminine Notes.


Sarah Chalmers Of the Professional
Woman's league expects soon to appear be-
fore the public as a reader Of negro dialect.
Sara Bcrnhardt claims to have refused
$500 600 for short series OF performances
IN Germany. Yet she is said to be far from
wealthy.
The new bishop of Louion's wife Is in
many respects a more famous parsonage In
English literary upper circles than her dis
tinguished husband. Her histories OF France
and England have given her high standing
os an author.
Mrs. +. Miles, who died at prookville, Pa,
several days ago, had wonderful power over
animals, and readily made pets OF wild
deer bears, catamounts, foxes, snakes and
| fishes She Yves a native OF ireland, and
came TO this country in 1874.
Newman girls all the world over will be
mourning the prospective retirement of Miss
Helen Gladstone from her position in connec-
tion with the college. Miss Gladstone has
been working over fifteen years at Cam
bridge, and leaves so as to be able to spend
more time with her parents in their old
age.
At the Schubert festival to be given in
Vienna In commemOration Of the composer g
Tooth birthday. one of the performers will be
Miss Caroline Gicsslei-Schubert Of London q
pianiste She is a grandniece of Schubert,
and has the name OF being an excellent inter
prefer of her ilustrious relatives music.
Mrs. Emma Forsythe, an American woman
who owns 100000 acres of land in the South
Sea islands, Is n most energetic woman, EN-
ployng several hundred natives, as well as
many Europeans, on her plantation. She
was left widow at is. with scarcely enough
money to exist, but she has since amassed
a large fortune.
Mrs. Frances Edgerton of San Francisco
is the latest aspirant to histronic honors
She was married, about thirty-fve years ago
to the distinguished orator and lawyer, Henry
EdSerton, but subsequently was divorced from
him. She is still handsome and quite well
off, SO it is not personal need that causes
her to turn her fece toward the drama as a
vocation.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, with several of her
classmates, Is to make present Of beautl-
full stained glass window to Wells college.
where she was formerly a student The
shape is half circle. Mrs. Cleveland, as
sisted by John Lafarge, has designed the
window, selecting as the main feature large
figure Of young woman. She wishes the
window to be a memorial of herself.
Princess Ii the wife of Ii Hung Chang,
is so years old, but is said to look twenty
years younger Her feet have been fash
icned to such smallness that she cannot walk,
and has to be carried about in a chair-c
magnificent one, of cOurse-yet she owns
1000 pairs of shoes. Her husbands wealth
enables her to have nearly 900 silk dresses,
winter.
Boston is the Mecca of clubs and club
women and scarcely a club meets without
a distinguished guest or essayist, for IL is
a fashion of the eastern clubs to hear fire.
quently from outsiders and scholars on their
topics. Miss Agnes Repplier, the dstin-
gushed essayist. is now the lion of the hour
in Boston, and has been entertained by the
Haverhill Scmeville, Dorchester, Lowell
| and other clubs.
unique Christmas gift was one sent to
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake president OF the
| New York Woman Suffrage association, by
| the veteran woman suffrage worker, Mrs
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 1t was a little fiat
| tin ball. covered with sage green silk on one
| side, and a delicate lavender on the other
! 1t was filed with pins, and, the accompany
| ing letter said. stuffed with the makers own
| soft, white hair.
| Miss Anna Dorsey, pioneer of Catholic lit
erature in this country, has just died at her
home in Washington city, at the age of SO
years She was the daughter of Rev.
William McKenney chaplain in the United
| States navy. She was educated in George
| town and years ago became a convert to
| Catholicism, devoting much OF her time to
| Catholic literature. Her talents in that di-
! reotion were acknowledged by personal
! letter from Pope Plus TX and from Pope Leo
| XIII.
| A New York writer gives the following
| description OF q costume worn by Mrs. Viii
liam c. Whitney at the opera: THE waist
seemed to be literally covered with diamonds
| and emeralds, tiara of diamonds and
emeralds rested on her coiffure. About her
neck was a solid band of diamonds, from
which were suspended pendants of dla-
monds, falling over her shoulders. In the
center of the corsage was diamond star;
on either side were other diamond clusters
and Suspended from the right shoulder and
falling over the waist was single string
OF diamonds of immense size. l don't re-
member If she wore anything else"