| Show NOTABLE WOMEN I torestinc Paragraphs About Royal Ladles AbroadOther Personal Items The empress of Russia in commemora ion of the French exhibition in Moscow has received a splendid artistic gift in the s lape of an egg enameled silver In the e gg which may be opened lies a small ouquet of violets made of brilliants held t gather with a ribbon of the same stones The egg is suspended by a ribbon of rose namel so finely made that it resembles one of silk The empress of Austria has ordered that 50000 rose trees should be planted round he statute of Heine to be erected on her roperty at Corfu on a rook over 2000 foot bove the level of the sea The Princess Louise and Mrs Harrison L are the only women who have ever been allowed to set toot within the cloistors of the monastery of Santa Barbara in Cali fornia and even after their visits the ground was reconsecrated with no end of farting and prayer One of tho best friends of tho jewelers was the Princess de Metternich when she was young and the leader of European fashionable life She not only ownod a matchless collection of precious stones with which her robes of state were made to scintillate with brilliant light but she wan In the habit of having many of them reset every season so as to make them harmonize with the changes of style and the exigencies exigen-cies of fashion The Queen of Holland who is only ten years of age has a little farm near the royal palace on which everything has been planted and cultivated by herself In a small drawing room she entertains her numerous dolls and in a small kitchen she makes dainty tarts Mme Melba with whom the young Duke dOrleans is infatuated possesses among her many jewels a diamond and pearl bracelet which was given to her by Queen Victoria some months ago as a token of her admiration for the prima donnas clear and sweet voice Anne Maria Mazzini of Milan will bo a candidate for a seat in the Italian parliament parlia-ment and if being a clever woman a party loader and the bearer of an honored name like Mazzini are not points in her favor it would be hard to find claims that would in fluence a romantic Italian constituency Rosa Bonheur in her old age is to rive the world her pictorial idea of the last of the wild Indians of America How correct it will bo may be inferred from the fact that she made all her studies from the Wild West show while that combination was in Paris MISCELLANEOUS A pen picture of Mile Vacaresco who is causing the throne of Roumania to totter runs She is short of stature Her waist is far from being small Her face is oval the complexion dark the mouth small and pretty the nose regular the eyes large and black and her hair rich and has the color of ebony She is fairly goodlooking and her ago is twentyfour Mme Patti will appear in Dublin this winter for the first time in five years Great preparations are on tho way for her welcome Miss Alice C Fletcher who is making allotments of lands to the Nez Percuz In dians in Idaho travels in the saddle and lives in a tent Women seldom give a tip to a waiter In a restaurant but they have a poor opinion of a man who omits one A new occupation for women is that of wedding superintendent The athletic girl must have a tramping suit of corduroy Crime is exceedingly rare among the women of Scotland Woman is supplanting the male hotel clerk |
