GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 11

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Miss 'Cora • Crockcr, i ; a ■deaf;, 'dumb,- -.arid of ''rige. ' is' attaining ' remarkable success -as a - weaver of (the ■ most delicate': fancy .'articles'; in »the: workshop'■ of the: Massachusetts Commission for the Wind in Cambridge. V; 'She surprised , her teachers by the : quickness . with?;whicKvshe; masterdd •tie' intricato' ' t machinery. .of. her loomj.and the deftness• with" which' she now weaves'(}aihty colour-designs. She is .said to '.be the: only, person-'thus; a.fßicte.d ; who '.has yet succeeded womeri. vfhb,work..with her are:.blind,;'.but.not. deaf', or 'dumb... They.can. already. ; ,earn_ a6but' £4' a, - month" each, . and' tho amount : is . constantly -growing. , •Mrs. . Hetty Green,.•- the. .richest- woman in ?? e . Beeu 'dping. a '.littleVshoppinE incognito in.Boston. .U.S.A. Tho net rosult •••"'•■a : tqir/ of: the shops was ', as a pin; she 'spent.m' * 0 ?, he r i;New -York : .home.was, .very shabbily gowned,/and V.. u ß r ?®Pßsi E ®tl;'. ; hy. .stop'assistants.' Wot anca; during her jtour -.did, she hail .a';,tram or .C°*,"r. , P". 6 ;. went '.-te,, a ; ' restaurant,, 'and, seated:, on-a ,higl} ; ,stool, enjoyed,'.in' the c'o'ni- 1 PW/. of ' -stenographers;"and■> tired > clerks,' 'a' BhUhng: luncheon,',' consisting of "soup, --toast ; piej and ; tca! •' \ \ Mis? -lilizabeth . Robins,- author-.of the ■ equal. Bulfrage -play, that .has. made. so'grdat • a stir m ,London, r has .now brought, out au: equal rights: novel. called- '!Thc.\Cpnvert." ' - -~ tfr^uvon Papp,,the,daughter of an! Hunth"o . widow , of, a great iand-o'wner, :;!havibg';m'2ti.with. • ■'! financial- re-' verses, turnedyto accounther.-.knowledge of motonng.She^-has-.;Beobme.,-Berlin's:; first inotor-caWnveiv •: She,:; passed' -a "severe police, test, and will-'.now. wear the'-regula-tion i: blue-; uniform: and V white .peaked' cap; of the Berlin motor-cab-drivers.