HOBBIES OF WELL-KNOWN WOMEN.
Ht a are a few amusements indulged in by vn ; .i«known women. Some of them are ourio'v - Qimen Victoria, whist playing Queen of tbt .Belgians, ennjurintr , Duchess of Fife, iencinir . Duchess of Westminster, cricket Lady We "ick, bookbinding • O-uitesa Oowper, organ -playl!!,,' , Lady Zetland, photography ; Madame Nordlca, boxing; Mrs. Asquith, visiting gaols and prisons ; Lady Henry Somerset, driving and painting , Ellen Ter~y, photography , Olive Schreiner, k iie management of the dairy. WHAT SOME W^MEN COLLECT j Some women too, it seems, make rather singular collections. Ms. Vanderbilt has gathered together a numoer of thimbles and treasures, valuing especially one used by the Queen. Then there are Madame PatU's daggers and other pointed weapons, some of the smallest of whioh she uses for hairpins, and the astonishing variety of parasols— antique and UIIH9IH — delighted in by Mrs. Dorothy Tenuant - Stanley. Queen Margharit* of Italy takes pleasure i a storing up curious old folk -tales, written out in Uer. Deautuil slopiog Laud writing ; Christine Nilsson scrupclously saves all her hotel bills, and has already papered one room with them, while one pretty burlesque actress is said to have lined a cupboard with love-letters I
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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 161, 28 November 1896, Page 2
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196HOBBIES OF WELL-KNOWN WOMEN. Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 161, 28 November 1896, Page 2
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