CHIT CHAT.

Bush Advocate, Volume VI, Issue 424, 31 January 1891, Page 7

CHIT CHAT.

■Necklaces tiro not worn at present; the *< throat is left perfectly bare. The necklace is •arranged on the corsage by the dressmaker; • sometimes whole, sometimes taken to pieces. But the way in which to wear jewellery now is just in the moat incidental manner possible ; as •it happens to look well on the dress. A very rich American lady, whoso jewels are much valued in London, wears her pearls as a rope > round her waist, and very nice they look over a full soft black dress, such as is her usual costume. She has magnificent diamonds, but seldom wears them except on her shoes. Nine women out of ten, says a hygienist, stand incorrectly. They throw their weight • upon the heel of the foot, rather than upon tha ball, in walking and standing, with the result of making slender ones awkward and ileshy ones clumsy. The first thing for all women to learn who would bo graceful is to keep always . an active chest. 1 1 ono wishes to relax it must be fiom a lowor poiut. In walking the chest . should lead the body; that is, it should be thrown forward, tho abdomen drawn back, . and the weight thrown constantly upon the • balls of tho feet. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has closed the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin for the rehearsals of "Cleopatra," which are to take place morning and evening until Sth .October, when it is expected that tho first representation of M. Sardou's and Emil Moreau's drama will be . given. Whatever may be the success of the , play, the number of nights thsit it can occupy the stage aro limited, as Alme. Sarah Bernhardt starts for America on 9th January next. An • unprecedented demand for places has been already received by letters and telegrams. Sister Rose Gertrude, according to a DfOziel telegram, is really resigning. The reaßon given is that she recommended the dismissal of the • agent of the Board of Health and of a native overseer. Dr. Lutz resigned at the same time • as Sister Rose Gertrude, but his resignation was not accepted, as he is under a contract to serve the hospital. It is announced that Sister Rose Oortruae will be succeeded by two Sisters of Mercy from the Kahionlani House for Leper "Women. Miss Julia Brink, a medical writer of some note, has received from the British Medical Association of London £20 to defray the expense of publishing a physiological treatise on the nutrition of the muscles. Dr. Brink is the first woman to be thus honoured. Miss Amy Sherwin, the " Tasmanian Nightingale," is now engaged at the Savoy Theatre. Her portrait and a flattering notice appear in a recent issue of the Musical IForld. Mr. Mortimer Men pas has returned to India to complete the collection of pictures in the execution of which he was interrupted by the 3iot season. He will include Burmah in his tour. Miss Frances Willard, president of the National Christian Women's Temperance Union, anuounces that a movement is on foot to effect c combination of the union with the Salvation Army in one national body. Mr. Rudyard Kipling has broken down from overwork. Ho has beeu ordered to take a sea voyage, and sailed on board the P. and 0. eteamer Shannon for Naples. His illness will probably delay the publication of " The Book of the Forty-five Mornings." Cardinal Newmans autobiography is promised shortly, by Messrs. Longmans. It is 6o accompany correspondence arranged aud edited ai, tho late Cardinal's request by Miss AnneMozley. The book will be called "The betters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman during his Life in tho English Cuurch, with a Brief Autobiographical Memoir." Miss Frances Willard lives in Evanston, 111., a suburb of Chicago, in a pretty house called *'ReßtCottage." She is a woman who never laas a dollar, and everything in and about tho place is a gift. A short time ago her *'snuggery," where sho writes aud reads and dreams, was fitted up at an expense of KoOnol., friends in the Eas>t, West, and North-west contributing tho amount. The Queeu has been pleased to accept a copy of Mrs. Gardiner's book, the " Indian Housekeeper." Mrs. Gardiner had the copy beautifully bound in gold-embroidered terra-cotta velvet, with embossed gilt edge. Mrs. Gardiner received a very kind letter of acknowledgment from Sir Henry Ponsonby on behalf of Her Majesty. Minnie Palmer (says an American contemporary) has changed her mind, aud is to make hex debut in comic opera in " Suzette," Oscar Weil's adaptation of a Freuch opera by Latour. The Empress of Austria, who has never recovered the death of her son, has now a fresh affliction in, the death of her favourite sister, the Princes 9of Thurra and Taxis, who was a ■wiuow, "hau "known much trouble, and lived a very retired life. Mr. Gladstone has been reminded by an old friend that he promised to visit him in India, and there is some prospect that the G.O.M. ;may make the trip to Calcutta this winter. The Duchess of Aosta has the distinction of ■possessing the most elaborate mourning cloak ever made in Paris. It is of heavy lustreless eilk, trimmed with Sat bands of the richest ostrich plumes and costly dull jet.