Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — FEMININE FANCIES. [ARTICLE]

FEMININE FANCIES.

Mbs. J. C. Ayer is entertaining very handsomely in Paris. Lady Brooke was magnificent in white and silver at ihe recent state ball at Buckingham palace. The Duchess of Westminster is the fortunate .possessor of the Nassau diamond, which is valued at £33,000. 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 Harrison continues her devotion to china painting, and has many beautiful specimens of her work in the executive mansion. Mrs. Oscar Wilde and Lady Hubbertpn 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 garden, and occasionally varies the monotony of existence by making a barrel of soft soap. Mrs. Flower, who has been honored by an election to the Chicago school board, is a Brooklyn woman and a sister of Dr. Elliott Cottes, the theosophist. She was educated at the Packer institute in Brooklyn, and taught for several years in 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. McCosh will be honored by having her name borne by the infirmary building soon to be erected at Princeton college. She is said so have greatly endeared herself to the student* by the many little attentions has bestowed, upon such of them as have been taken sick at Princeton.