GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 November 1907, Page 3

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dr. Elizabeth Blaokwel], the earliest woman physician, now oighty-six and a half years old, was taking a pleasure trip through Scotland this summer with her adopted daughter, when she met with a bad fall, down a flight of stairs and was found insensible at the bottom. Such an accident was likely to have serious consequences for a woman of her age,-and her friends at once sent for a trained nurse. But Dr. Blackwell, who had luckily broken no bones, scouted the aid-of a nurse,-emphatically refused to be "made an invalid of, ' and on the second day came down to meals as usual. She has since returned to her homo at Hastings,' England.

'Ann Shreeve, Who lately died in England at the age of 89, had been 51 years to a day in the service of the' Countess of Shrewsbury. The-obituary announcement said she had been for 51 years the "friend and faithful servant of the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury." Lady! Shrewsbury seems to have had no trouble in keeping her servants. A maid who entered her service when the countess was a:girl of fourteen stayed'with her till the infirmities' of old age forced her to rest. Her cook also has spent a lifetime in her service. The Paris "Gaulois" has been making a selection of jprbverbs about women from tho literature of various countries. Some are mosir unkind. ' Ono'of the least offensive of the Spanish maxims is: "Women and mules obey better when'caressed than coerced." An article in the "Chautauquan" on "Some Characteristics of John Wesley," by Carl H. 'Grabo, quotes from Wesley's journal a passago that casts a curious sidelight on the ideas of the time. Ho.writes: "I talked with one who, by tho. advice of his pastor, had very calmly and deliberately beaten his wifo with a large stick till shb was black and blue, almost from head to foot. And he insisted it was his duty so to do becausb sho was surly and ill-natured;- and that ho was full of faith all the.time he was doing it, and he had. been so over since." ■..'■■' • * •' . A new uso of .the long-distance telephone is reported to havo been made by a young woman in Heading. Sho secured an operatic engagement by singing a sample number into a telephone to a manager m Philadelphia. -' '■. . The popular, English novelist, Miss Botham Edwards, lately celebrated her "literary jubilee, "' and her admirers gave hor 200 guineas J and a Chippendale silver inkstand. , Ex-Quoon Liliuokalani of, Hawaii is to be ] married again, tin's time to Pririco Ari Pal of Tahiti. A now women's newspaper has been started in St. Petersburg, called "Tho Women's Union." It is published by the Russian Union of Defenders of Women's Rights, and is edited by its secretary, Mrs. Tchokoff. Tho new periodical is welcomed by the progressive papers of Russia. ' Edward Grieg, tho great Scandanavian composer, whose death is regarded as a national hereavemont, inherited his musical talent from his mother. She was a woman of wide musical culture, a pianist and vocalist of ability, and sho taught her boy tho rudiments of tho art. A patriotic daughter of Norway, she instilled tho intense national Bpirit that characterised his work. Four Chinese girls, the first ever sent to America by the Chinese government to bo educated, arrived there lately, under tho escort of Taotai Wan King Cluing, vice-director of tho Liankiang Vice-Royalty Foroign Office. In tho party were Taotai Wan's wife, his two nieces, and Yung Kwai, first secretary of tho Chinese legation, The four girls are to bo placed in Wollbsley College. After graduation they will reut'rn to China and enter tho imperial government's educational department. . Dr. Martha Sheldon,, an American cirl, is Tpdical missionary in Tibet, tho "Forbidu..,i Hand." '