Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was always as
conservative as Queen Victoria in the mat
ter of headgear, and had worn the same
| shape for more than twenty years.
Mrs. William Mckinley is a woman OF
| quiet tastes in dress. Dark blue, of almost
the Salvation army tint, is her favorite
color. She is also fond of dove, gray and a
soft chestnut brown.
Mrs. Cleveland looks especially we'll in
fiat sailor shapes, and wears such hats al
most exclusively in warm weather. In win
| ter she likes big black picture hats, adorned
with many Dlumes.
Miss Martha Morton has proved herself
one of the most successful of American
women playwrights. She uses a chess board
as a stage ground plan and makes the chess
men take the place of the personages and
pieces OF furniture.
Lady Aberdeen, wife of the governor gen.
eral Of Canada, will deliver the convocation
Grafton at Chicago university at the COM
mencement of the next term. This is prob
ably the first time a woman has been asked
to perform this ceremony.
Miss Lucy B. Ames and Miss Louise j.
Cuddy of the New York School of Applied
Design have done the lettering and orna-
mentation on the beautiful parchment tes-
timonial to be sent to Princess Christian,
who has been the distinguished patroness
of the school.
Little Miss Paula Salt, an Austrian girl
10 years of age, Is now the most wonderful
pianist in the world. The people of Vienna
say that she is not only a wonderful per-
former, but her compositions esemble those
of Schumann. AS Brahms has adopted her
as a protege she is sure to become famous.
Nine. Dieulafoy, wife of the famous ex-
plorer and orientalist, is one of the very
few women permitted by the French gov
eminent to wear masculine dress. Nine.
Dieulafoy accompanied her husband to the
Orient clad in boys attire for convenience,
and retained the garb when she returned
to civilization.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland has decided that
Miss Grace Lincoln Temple will have entire
charge of the interior decorations OF her
new home at Princeton. As previously noted
Miss Temple did interior decorations In the
woman's building at Atlanta. and her paint
ing adorns the walls Of many New York and
Washington homes.
Miss Elizabeth Nourse. who is known to
a wide circle OF Washingtonians, will shortly
leave Paris for Tunis. She expects to re-
main there some time, making character
sketches OF Arab life. and those who have
seen her pictures when they have been ex-
hibited feel confident that her ability will
command success in this. as in other fields
in which she has worked.
Al imperial decree has settled the ques-
ton OF procedure In favor OF Crown Princess
Stephanie OF Austria, who now comes next
the empress, and who, whenever she Is alb
sent from any court function, may nominate
her own representative. For seven years
there has been much feeling about who
should be given this posltion-the crown
princess, the A~rchduchess Maria Theresa
THE wife OF the late Archduke Carl Lud-
wlg), or Archduchess Maria Josephena (wife
of the heir presumptive, the Archduke otto)
Mrs. Russell Sage says that a book en-
titled Fifty Years of Mrs. Wizards Work,
from 1921 to 1872" Is soon to be brought out.
The names OF nearly 1000 graduates will
appear in it as a testimony to what Mrs.
Willard did in the Troy Female Seminary
for Women at a time when to make and
mend" wss considered woman's chief duty.
Mrs. Sage states that Mount Holyoke and
Miss Catharine Beecher's school, though the
former Is spoken OF as "the pioneer In the
higher education OF women" we're OF much
later origin than the Emma Willard semi
nary.