FEMININE CHIT-CHAT.

Evening Post, Volume XLV, Issue 94, 22 April 1893, Page 1 (Supplement)

FEMININE CHIT-CHAT.

As poor Queen "Carmen Sylva" has been laid aside so long through work and worry of her own making, it is hoped that Her Majesty will recruit her heulth by staying out of the way a littlo longer, 60 that the newly-marrica couple may make a start in Bucharest without tho embarrassments which might be caused by the Queen's presence on the scene. The Royal invalid is a good, gifted, generous, and highly-estimable woman ; but the may also be described as feather-brained, and utterly destitute of tho valuable quality termed common-sense. In several rospecta she has been a soro trial to her husband and ajjourco of annoyance to his people ; perhaps all the more so because " Carmen Sylva's " faults aro virtues carried to the extreme, and therefore very difficult to blame without causing her to feel like a persecuted martyr. The wonderful Parisiennc, who is supposed to excel us all in matters of dress, always has neat boots and gloves, if we are to believe all we hear. Of course she has, if sho can afford it, like any trim-and-tight English woman. I know this, though, that she can wear some frightfully shabby, slipshod things in the privacy of her own town homo or country garden. Those faultless boots and immaculate gloves grow old, like everything else, and the Parixiennc who belongs* to the thrifty majority, and not the Fquandering minority, will knock them out privately, reserving fresher, daintier properties for representative moments, when the audience is present. The average Englishwoman runs up a higher boot bill, I am pretty sure. . Mrs. Grover Cleveland, the enormously wealthy Miss Gould, and some of the Vanderbilt ladies, are said to be interested in an American scheme for the insurauce of women's lives. It eeems thut women have very considerable difficulty'in insuring their lives in America, and this is claimed as an injustice. There is a rumour that the women's insurance company will open in London, but it would seem to be a risky speculation. Tho highest actuarial science has proved that a higher premium should be charged on a women's chance of life, and there never has been an}' difficulty in insuring a woman's life in Euglund, in some of the oldest established and safest companies, the increased premium being about £2 10s. per £1,000.