Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — FEMININE FANCIES. [ARTICLE]

FEMININE FANCIES.

Mrs. J. C. Ayer is entertaining very handsomely in Paris. Lady Brooke was magnificent in white and silver at ;he recent state ball at Buckingham palace. The Duchess of Westminster is the fortunate possessor of the Nassau diamond, which is valued at £85,000. Mrs. Mackay’s famous portrait by Meissonier, which was once said to have been destroyed, hangs in her house in Carlton House terrace. Mrs. President Marrl continues her devotion to china painting, and hus many beautiful specimens of her work in the execute mansion. Mrs. Oscar Wilde and Lady Hubberton are two of the noted Englishwomen who have adopted the divided skirt as a part of their everyday attire. Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt has a fine figure, which she carries with much stateliness. Her eyes are dark blue and her hair is a ruddy, bronze brown. Mrs. Phebe Brown, of Lowell, Mass., eighty-eight years old, spins three skeins of fine yarn a day, lends a band in the housework, keeps the weeds out of the gar den, and occasionally varies the monotony of existence by making a barrel of soft soap. Mrs. Flower, who has been honored hy an election to the Chicago school board, is a Brooklyn woman and a sister of Dr. Elliott Coues, the theosophist. She was educated at the Packer institute in Brooklyn, and taught for several years iu the schools of Madison, Wis. Lady Caithness, Mme. Blavatsky’s successor in Paris as high priestess of theosophy, has a fortune of several million dollars. She is extravagantly fond of diamonds, and appears at receptions loaded down with precious stones. Her most valuable ornament is a large diamond cross. The wife of Dr. MeCosh will be honored by having her name borne by the infirmary building soon to be erected at Princeton college. She is said to have greatly endeared herself to the students by the many little attentions she has bestowed upon such of them as have been taken sick at Princeton.