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Show THE GENTLER 6EX. Mrs. Gladstone has become a vicm president of the Children's Happy Even-IiigsTsociation. Even-IiigsTsociation. Mrs. Margaret E. Sangstor, the editor of Harpers Bazar, is a tall, well formed sroinim with pink cheeks and snow white hair. Mrs. Stanley baa been spoken of as a beauty, but it is tho keen intelligence that shines in her great eyes which wins her the greatest admiration. Mrs. Ida J. Burgess, a member of the C i-4... B I . . - 1 I .1 Chicago Society of Artists, lias received a commission to decorate tho ceiling of the music room in Chief Justice Fuller's house. Lilian Baird is the y.mmrest chess problem composer in the world, having been born at Tyuemoutli, England, in October, 1881, and learned the moves when only 5 years of age. Grace Denio Litchfield, the author of "Little Ho and She," is a sister of Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, who endowed tho Turnbull chair of literature in Johr.s Hopkins university, and who is herself writer. Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, is a little lit-tle woman who has not a masculine trait about her. She is usually attired in a neat costume of black silk and velvet, vel-vet, and wears a wide laco scurf about her throat. Lady Brooke distributes every year through her agency over 5,000 garments of good, useful, durable materials in the Kast End, London, real destitution being tho only qualification required in the recipient. Miss Ellen Terry, though not regularly beautiful, has a countenance of great charm, and really looks quite yonng. . Her neat figure, slouder and round, bnt not in the least f;st or get, is a main element ele-ment in her girlish appearance. Mrs. Emmons Blaine, nee McConnick, paid $1,700 for her new baby's bassinet and trousseau. Tho furniture of the toilet basket is ivory bound, with the family monogram variously inscribed it, silver, turquoise and small diamonds, |