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Observer, Volume 4, Issue 102, 26 August 1882, Page 378

THE LADIES

By " Stbi-IjA."

iThe Boulevard parasol is flat in Japanese fashion, and has many narrow ribs. : Birds and butterflies, cut out of cardboard and delicately painted in water-colouvs in accurate imitation of life, adorn the velvet men u 'cards.

.At the 'most fashionable weddings the bridesmaids are generally small children ; the older the bride, the younger are the child-bridesmaids. Miss Belle Braden, the only feminine railroad officer in America, has been elected treasurer of the Waynesburg and Washington' Railroad, in Pennsylvania, find is acting-paymaster. ■ , '■ Mrs Langtry's provincial tour appears to have been a great success, for not only have the theatres been crowded whenever she performed, but everywhere the • people have treated her to quite an ovation. When she appears at the footlights she is greeted with the most vociferous ajmlause, and called upon to make speeches like a popular . politician ; already poets and publishers have laid their works, bound in the best morocco, at her feet, and she is literally inundated with showers of congratulatory epistles. This lavish approval appears to have had a stimulating effect on Mrs Langtry. Home papers say her acting has wonderfully improved, and she bids .fuir to make a genuine reputation as an actress. As soon as her tour through the English provinces is ended she goes to America, after ,vlnch rt is rumoured, she will visit Australia when her many admirers in the Antipodes wiii have an opportunity of doing homage to the beautiful and accomplished actress. The Czar's Palace at Peterhof, where the Imperial^ family are now staying, is less strictly "guarded than Gratchma, and a correspondent of the Paris Figaro was recently able to stroll about \the park unchallenged, although eyed suspiciously (by the Cossack sentries posted at every few yarcb=. U?'he palace is a low, plain building, tinted yellow a,nd white, and stands on a height overlooking tho small town, the sea and Cror.istadt in the distance. The grounds reach to the sea-shore, In are prettily laid out with fountains, statues „ but a deadly stillness reigns everywhere, and c place seems deserted. The neighbouring asants, says the journalist, are taciturn, and | )ly to all questions, " How should I know ?" While recently travelling in the south of France, r i-3 Long, the mother of the M.P. for Wiltshire,, as in many places, mistaken for the Empress usrenie, and in consequence received very sincere Ap^ less for her attendant to J& *■ ""^ j svho at stations and hotels "" "* kjeception that the traveller &j»fra > jfij? I such an attraction in TSTew ffiS| ' i&i!'* ' *■ rec^ ons hi s acquisition as HHIs £«%»./ k successes °£ I" 3 life, the HUffis Scs^S. Thumb and Jenny land. 3gtisßftEsr jN to & reet Jumbo reminded MlipiONy^ «5* \ fathering oi exactly thirty M»i§jl||OP& tJS went down to the harbour jgMEfflM|g|Kjs|j|j •, six weeks are already half "* 3 paid to hear Jenny Lind

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