The Tattler

Mrs. Whitelaw Reid is devoted to psych(K physical culture. Mrs. Parnell is busily engaged inwriting the üfe of Charles Stewart Parnell, her deceased husband. Miss Kate Irwin Wheelock of Wisconsin has a peculiar vocation, as by profession she is a teacher of whist. Mrs. Kenneth McLeod of Elk, Sanilac county, Mich., has been 30 years a maid, 40 a wife aud 40 a widow, and is still hearty and eau sing Gaelic songs and repeat Bible verses. Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement Waters, the author of inany admirable woi-ks on art, is a resident of Boston. She is somewhat past middle age, of stately figure and is a favorite in society. Horace Greeley Perry is the remarkable name of a young woman who boasts of being the only woman editor in the state oí Minnesota. She is also the youngest editor, beine only 21 years of age. Miss Elizabeth Banks, who was once prívate secretary to the British minister of Peru, is going to try to persuade the woman wae earner that domestio service ia preferable to shop and factory work. Mrs. Winnaretta Singer, daughter of the sewing machine man, who was recently divorced from Prince Wilfred Scey Montbeliard, bas just been married to another prince, Edmond Melchor de Polignac. The two wealthiest heiresses of America are the Rockefeller sisters, Alta and Edith, the unmarried daughters of the Standard Oil king. Thtse young women, should their father die tomorrow, would each have an inheritance of $35,000,000. Lady DufE-Gordon had a most unique pet in the form of a lavge green snake. So thoroughly had the creature been tamed and trained that it would wind itself round her ladyship's waist and rest its beautifully striped head upon her sboulder. The Countess of Warwick, better known as Lady Brooke, is as niuch admired on the hunting field as in a ballroom. ïall and slight, the fair huntress looks almost her best in a long tailed, doublé breasted coat, showing a suspicion of white or color at the waist and on the lapels. The thoroughly English appearance oí Lady Henry Somerset gives little hint oí her French ancestry. Yet her great-grandmother, Mme. d'Etang, was one of the maids of honor of Marie Antoinette and the Chevalier d'Etang was a devoted adherent of the unfortunate queen. Miss Helen Kicolay, daughter of the Lincolu biographer, is one of the cleverest amateur artists, and her delicate little landscapes are always well hung and honored at picture exhibitions. Miss Nicolay is also au invaluable assistaut to her father and uelped wlth the seven times read proofs of the Lincoln biography.