Ladies' Gossip.

Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 860, 18 November 1893, Page 5

Ladies' Gossip.

Mrs Bancroft is staying at the little fishing village of Sherringham, near Cromer, where she is happily recovering from the efTeots of her recent cab accident. Lady Henry Somerset will be the editor of a "new weekly paper to be published by the British Women's Temperance Association, with the title of the " British Women's Signal," The Dowager Duchoas of Londonderry has recently been appointed a churchwarden of Maohynlleth. j *. The Paddington Vestry has instructed their surveyor to cause the inscription on tho tombstone of Mrs Siddons, in St Mary's burial ground, to be gilded, and to see that three ornamental baskets in terra-cotta are placed on the slab. Mme. Tel Seno, a Japanese lawyer, is said to be the only feminine member of the bar in the land of the Mikado. She was eduoated in England. In addition to actively following the duties of her profession, she takes a great and practical interest in the welfare of her sex, and has founded a training school for women. It is proposed, at the instance of the Women's Emancipation Union, to amend the Registration Bill by inserting new subsections deolaring that " the words ' person ' and ' persona ' throughout the Aot shall in every case be deemed to include women," and " for the purposes of this Act no woman shall by reason of tier marriage be deemed to be not a person." The " Athcrjicum "says]thatin consequence of the increased employment of Turkish ladies as schoolmistresses m girls' schools, the Porte has decreed the formation of a normal school for girls in the metropolis of Turkey. Mmo. JLiommons Sberrington and her daughters have just returned to Brussels, to take possession of their now house in one of the Brussels faubourgs. During the winter the talented sinner will teach in the New Royal College of Music at Manchester. Lady Gertrude Molyneux has forwarded to the Lord Mayor the sum of L 370 for the Victoria Relief lumtl, being the balance of the wedding gift of the girls of Great Britain and Ireland to the Duchess of York, and sent by the special desire of her Royal Highness. Mrs Banoroft rallied soon from her accident the other day, but the gifted actress has (according to the " Westminster Gazette") suffered more seriously perhaps than is generally imagined. The wound on her faoe made by the shattered glass of the cab, has left at least one soar which may be permanent. Lady Shelley has presented to the Bodleian Library an extensive collection of MSS. relating to Percy Byßshe Shelley and Mary Goodwin, consisting of letters written by them or addressed to them, as well as original MSS, of 'Shelley's poems, and the original diary kept by Mrs Shelley, together with a number of copies of the impression privately executed by the late Sir Peroy Shelley.

Her Majesjy has caused to be built a small house at lialmoral, olose to the castle, for Hatiz Abul ICarim, the Queen's niunshi and Indian secretary, who is a member of Her Majesty's " personal " household.

Recently tho Princess of Wales, accompanied by her daughters, landed at Gudvangen, and walked through the Ncerodal to Stalhoim. Tho valley thus traversed on foot is eight miles in length, and its narrowness and the great height of the precipitous mountains on eiica sido render it the grandest gorge in Norway. It terminates in an asoent of over 1000 feet by a well-made zig-zag road of sixteen bends, called Stallheimslcleven, from whioh two fine waterfalls, tho Stnlheimsfos and the Skivlefos, are alternately seen to right and loft. The Princess was co enchanted with the soenery of the Kutodal and the view obtained at Stalheim, that she expressed her intention of repeating tho excursion, and of passing the night at Stalheim, returning afterwards to Gudvangen.