GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 282, 22 August 1908, Page 11

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

When Lord Curzon.of Kedlest-on unveiled, a portrait Inedallion of the late Mrs; Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) in the General Library': of .: University / College, Gower Street (London), where 'she was a student : from(l889 to 1902, ' in"' his •. synipathetio and touching speech he', said that few could look back~"upon tho career of Pearl Craigie without deep ' emotion. It was so brilliant, so crowded, and she had such ail intdrise and vivid personality,; which pervaded her writings, 'irradiated her "talk,. and informed her life. Sorrow she knew, but faced it .with courage and without repining. "There is only one obligation in life, and that is courage," was one of her sayings. In the.list of thoso who.had;subscribed to her memorial wero many names of mark both in England and America.. ' ■■ 1 ••

So'many rumours have been "spread concerning Mlle. : Anna Fallieres,. daughter of the French President (says "M.A.P."), that she has come to be regarded in Franco as the/most mysterious and inscrutable member, of the Presidential household.-Consider-able time and energy have been wasted by the romance-loving French' in selecting a suitable husband for Mile. Fallieres, but as their match-making projects failed timo and again, they imagined she intended never to, marry, and rashly decided that she had.already, been crossed in love:' according to' one report, she was to take tho veil. All the. rumours about Mile. Fallieres have lent additional, interest to the announcement of her engagement to M. Jean Lanes,' Secre-taire-General to the French President. Sbo is kind-hearted, devotes a largje part of her timo to charity, and is thoroughly domesticated, possessing all those qualities that go to tho making of an ideal French wife, than whom there is no higher type of wifehood in tha world. . , ,

Miss Marie Shedlock, whose reputation for telling stories to. children is world-wide, is at present' winning new laurels in England where (says on exchange), under the auspices of soveral educational bodies, she is engaged in telling stories to tho school children. She is also "giving lectures to elementary teachors, so that those who havo a dormant gift for this most delightful : art may develop their talent. Before going to England shp'spent four years in America in the Bamo way, with tho result, that thero are now'many women who can instruct children in this charming fashion. The advantago of teaching children by means of story-telling must appeal to all who have not forgotten their own childhood with its eternal request, "Tell me a story, mother."

A temporary homo for children'has been established in Paris by a Swedish woman, Madamo Andersson, who personally conducts it. Hero children are cared for while their parents, are, out of work or unable to support tbem owing to illness. The parents are supposed to contribute 'a little towards their keep, if possible, though the home is mainly supported by rich patrons. When the parents are able to keep them again the children return to them, or if they aro not able to maintain them they are apprenticed to trades or are given situations,