The Busybody

Mrs. Seoretary Carlisle's turnout is sald to be the fiuest in Washington. Louise Micbel fonght in the streets at the hjad of the populace daring the Paris commune. Miss Carrie LaDe Chapman says that more than half of the wonnen who own property in Dakota aregraduatesof easu'ni colleges. Mrs. Paran Stevens when in New York is always at home to her friends on Sunday evening, and very frequently Mrs. DunlapHopkins gives a musicale on that day. When Mrs. Clara Davies, chaperon of the Welsh siuging girls, got home after twioe crossiitg tbe ocean, Septimus Bickley kindly presen ted her with acork lifesaving jacket. The "Princesa Alva" is a title by which Mrs. W, K. Vanderbilt is called among her intimates. She has a style and dignity which may briefly be described as "feDchig." Mrs. Theodore Seward, president of the Orange Woman's club, is a clever woman who can write an essay, deliver a speech or do the iine hundred and one things expected of the president of the club. Mrs. Greenhalge, wife of the newly elected governor of Massachusetts, isahighly educated woman of domestictastes. Much ef her time is given to the care of a little crippled son, to whom she is devoted. Miss Ethel Arnold, sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward, is an uncommonly brilliant talker, and it bas long been supposed that she could, if she would, write remarltable books. She is about to prove wbaD she can do in this line. Mrs. Jolm J. Atkins of í?hiladSlpMa is the possessor of the pen which Eobert Raikes of England used 113 years ago iu inscribing the names of the cbüdreu wbo attended the first Sunday school, which was founded by him in Gloucester. Mrs. George Gould and family are to winter at Lakewood. Miss Anna Gould is now a member of George Gould's bousehold. This young naaiden considered her sister Helen's ideas in the matter of chaperoimge rather too oid fashioned and sédate. Mrs. Wilson, the wife of Coneressmaii Wilson, is almost unknown in Washiugton society. She lives almost entirely at her West Virginia home, going to Washington only once ortwice a year for short visits, and then declining all invitations. ïhe youngest living child of a Revolutionary soldier is now believed to be Mrs. Lucinda J. Valentine of Brooklyn. She is a daughter of Jabez Rockwell, who was one of tho héroes of Valley Forge. Mrs. Valentina is 76, and is the youngest of three sisters. Mrs. Cleveland has had only one photograph taken for several years, and only about half a dozen prints were made from it. To a publisher who asked leave to reproduce it she replied that since her marjriage she had had no picture that was not public property, and she wished to keep this for her owu.