LADIES’ CHIT CHAT.

Evening Star, Issue 3498, 9 May 1874, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADIES’ CHIT CHAT.

A marriage has been arraiuged between the son of the Duke of Gramont and the Princess de Beauvau, who will bring him 2,000,000 francs as dot. The young lady is only 18 years of age. The new ladies’ gloves for the evening reach to the elbow, and are buttoned up about half way. They are of very soft, kid, very pliant, in pale colours. Several ladies attending a Home Rule meeting at Dublin the other day for the first time since the commencement of the movement. They were loudly cheered on entering. There is something remarkable in this circumstance if we remember that the feeling in favor of Home Rale is universal among ladies. The other evening, the pleasure of a marriage party in the South Side, Edinburgh, was sadly marred by the intrusion of a messenger-at-arms, who appeared on the scene at the instance of a lady in the city, said to have a prior claim to the bridegroom. It is alleged that he had previously “ woo’d and won the heart of this lady, by courting and otherwise, and that he had been threatened with an action of damages in the event of his deserting his first love. Carrying out the threat the “truant lord ’ was, as already indicated, presented with a summons, concluding for £SOO damages, immediately after the performance of the wedding ceremony.. He fainted, it is said, on the the presentation of the unpleasant document; the state of the young wife may be more easily imagined then described ; and it was left to the marriage guests to restore the faithless swain to consciousness. The sequel to the case will doubtless, in due course, be revealed in the Court of Session. The decision of the Court of Session was given on February 27 in the celebrated Murthly marriage case, in which Margaret Wilson sought to have it declared that she was the lawful wife of the late Major Stewart, of Murthly, in virtue of a private marriage between them. Nine of the judges decided in favour of the plaintiff against four in favour of the defendent. • The officers of the English Royal Navy have subscribed to present tlhe Duchess of Edinburgh with a service of gold plate, consisting of 60 pieces : the ornamentation to be the Royal arms of England and Russia, interwoven with the monograms of the Duke and Duchess, with the presenation inscription on the centre-piece. .At a recent meeting of the New York Woman s Social Education Society, it was unanimously agreed that much of the trouble arising between mistresses and their servants was because of the incapacity of the mistresses. “In Boston, recently,” writes the New York World , “three ladies were elected to serve upon the school board ; but this aroused the self-assertion and presumed superiority of the tyrant man, and the other members of the board by a large majority refused to permit the ladies to act with them. They were admitted to be intelligent and experienced in school matters, but their sex constituted the overmastering objection. The Legislature of Massachusetts took up the case of the ladies, and submitted an enquiry to the Supreme Court of the State in these words:— * Under the constitution of this commonwealth can a woman be a member of a school committee ?’ The seven judges of the court—all eminent lawyers—have united in an opinion that there is nothing in the constitution of the commonwealth to prevent a woman from being a member of a school commission, and that the question proposed must be respectfully answered in the affirmative.” A MODERN “JEREMY DIDDLER” —HOW TO LIVE ON SIX SHILLINGS A WEEK. At the Derby Borough Police-court, a case of considerable interest was heard, in which a smart, gentlemanly-looking man, who gave the name of Edward Jones, aged thirty, was charged with having come to the town with the intention of committing. a felony.—Mr Hilton, chief constable, said on the day previous the prisoner had been apprehended, just before the sitting of the Court, on a charge of having stolen some silver ladles and spoons from an hotel at Chesterfield. It was ascertained that the ladles had been pledged at a Mr Holly’s pawnshop, Corumarket, Derby, and the pledge tickets sold by the prisoner. The prisoner was ordered to be handed over to the police authorities at Chesterfield, but from the facts that the chief constable had obtained, bethought it desirable to detain the prisoner at Derby. The prisoner arrived a few days ago at Mr Sim’s Clarendon Hotel, Litchurch, Derby, bringing with him a small leather bag. He lived on the best of everything, running up a bill of £1 7s. lid. When apprehended by Inspector Fearn, the following remarkable document was found upon him:—“ Receipt how to live on 6s. a week.—ln the first place you must be possessed of a good suit of clothes. Secondly, you must have confidence in yourself, otherwise called ‘ plenty of cheek.’ Thirdly, you must provide yourself with a leather bag, about 25., well stuffed with paper. When you arrive at any place where you Avish to stay for a few days, walk into

an hotel and ask if they have a bed at liberty for a few nights. If*‘Yes’is the answer, make yourself at home, walk into the room and order dinner; ask to be shown into your bedroom, as. you want a wash; come down again, leaving your bag up stairs, taking care to keep it locked up, that'they shall not' see what it contains. Take dinnerroast beef, fowl, fish, and pastry, chesse, &c., taking care to order half a pint of sherry; then they will think you know your way about, and have plenty of money. After dinner call for whisky hot and cigar, which is very nice. ~ Sit for an hour or two,- and then go out on business or a walk, as the case may be. Order tea for 0.30, with toast. After’ tea sit awhile, then ring for brandy hot. Then take a walk weather permitting. Come in again about nine, call for whisky hot, cigar, and slippers.. Pull, off your boots, and make yourself comfortable by the. fire. Have another whisky hot. Ring the bell for your candle, and inquire number of your room. Retire to bed about eleven 0 cluck, taking care to order breakfast for nine, with ham or eggs or a nice chop, &c. After breakfast take a walk, and so on as before.—P.S.: The bag is the main point. It may serve you for a week; it has served me for eight days; but you must watch Veil' the people whom you are with. You can always tell when they think you have staid long enough. Sometimes they will' ask if it is * convenient for you to settle your biU.’ If so, say, *Of course it is. 1 am just going to the post office for a letter. Get my bill made out, and I will settle it when I come buck.’ *Of course, take care not to return for your bag, and be careful to put your comb and brush into your pocket every mornas you cannot tell what m&y happen during the day, and you want to be off in a hurry; but, above all, keep a bold face on it. Then buy another bag, and proceed on your journey. You need never fear getting a night’s lodging if you possess a bag, and if you don’t happen to have one, don’t despair, but go straight in and ask for a bed ; they will not refuse. Order supper and breakfast, and such like. After breakfast you can say, * Can I have the bed to-night, as I don’t think I shall be able ' to do my business to-day?’. I have staid three days and nights when I haven’t had a bag—when I had but one halfpenny in the world to bless myself with. But then you will say, what are you going to do for a bag ?‘ Well, there are lots of bags at these hotels ; help yourself to one when you depart, and you are all right again. It is a month tonight since I had about one half-penny left and no and to-night, the 16th January, I have one half-penny in my pocket and a bag to be going with, living bke a fighting cock, and seeing all the towns in England.—Yours, <fec., E-J-” There was also a letter addressed to his wife in London, saying that he was still leading the same course of life, but that he intended to abandon it. In his pocket-book were the names of all the hotels and owners in England. Mr Hilton now charged him r with coming to Derby with the intention of committing a felony.—He was remanded for further inquiries to be made.