ABOUT WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 9889, 28 December 1895, Page 4

ABOUT WOMEN.

It is hardly possible, says the Pictorial,' to realise that the Queen has a great-grandchild who is almost of marriageable age. We hear so little of the eldest daughter of the Empress Frederick that she seems to be the least known momber of the Royal Family, and it is small wonder, there- ( fore, that her daughfer has been growing up unnoticed, so to say, by English people. | Yet the Princess Feodoro of Saxe-Meiningen . is Her Majesty's first great-grandchild, and j may confer upon her illustrious forbear the ; diguity of great • great • grandmotherhood j within a year or two. She is a pretty girl with great musical abilities, and, as it is probable that she will be betrothed next year, Queen Victoria may yet see a fourth generation of her descendants. "In France she was robbed by' highwaymen ; while witnessing the battle between.! tne Japs and Chinese in Gasan she was shot in the arm; a cyclist rau over her in California, and a five weeks' stay in the hospital was the result; while on another occasion, through a bad fall, she was compelled to ride 175 miles with a broken* arm." Tbja is the bare outline, borrowed from the ' Morning Leader,' of the experiences of Miss Annie Londonderry, who: left Boston in June, 1894, having undertaken to return to that city with 5,000 dollars without having obtained them by begging. To achieve this end she rode 28,000 miles on a bicycle in "orthodox knickers." Kitty of Coleraine is not in it with Annie Londonderry. The University of St. Andrews is building a hall -of residence for its women students on the lines of Girton and Newnham at Cambridge aud the Oxford halls for women. Miss Louisa Innes Lumsden (classical honors, Girton, aud first head-mistress of St. Leonards School, St. Andrew'*.) has been appointed warden. There will De fifteen scholarships, all tenable for three years, ranging in value from £4O to £ls, open Id competition amongst the women students of the university. Mrs Sarah Beck has been appointed matron of the Central Police Station at Wellington, where quarters have been provided for her.

The "revolt of daughters" appears to be a Chinese institution, and to meet the case the Prefect of Kwang Chau-fu has issued an edict suppressing ladies' clubs. The edict says:—" Women's club 3 are hereby prohibited. It i 3 a well-known fact that in the districts herein named a great part of the female population has a horror of matrimony, in comequence, whereof our yovng persons who arc married do remain from their husbaudi a whole your at a time, passing their existence with paie.its, ftmile friends, or ic club 3. Should the man demand his wife back by force she kills herself, and this causes grumbling against him from the parents and friends of the deceased. So that a man must often live without his wife. I, therefore, order these clubs to be closed, aud that the married woman go back to her husband within the space of' one month. Contumacious wives will be taken back to. their husbands by the policeman.'' In the matter of ordained women America leads. The denominations in which lliey abound are the Baptist, Congregational, Uuiversalist, Unitarian, and Methodist. According to recent statistic* they number 1,235. In IS9I there were 720, eo that within the last four yenrs there has been a marked increase. MARRIAGE AND LEARNING. A writer iu an American review has undertaken to deal with the interesting question of the chances a woman who has been through an American college course has of getting married. It appears that the rate por cent, of marriages among thcs6 learned ladies is far lower than that among ordinary girh. The reasons suggested hv this gtate of thinga aro various. From the woman's point of view one reason is that so tiiftny of the "collega giiU" are employed as teachers in girls' rchools; und that this career gives them bat few opportunities for anything bub work. Anothor reason is that they eet themselves up a higher standard of marriage, and having usually careers of their own, and being fairly well able to maintain themselves, will not marry unless they meet with the ideal mau. Thm, to look at the subject from the standpiint ;of the hapless man, it is said that many of the baser sex dislike intellectual women. Girls who have been through a college course have no illusions about their male fellow-students. They may all have taktn up the same studies, and have passed ths same examinations; the girl niay_ have beaten the man in classics, mathematics, or science, and so has no illusions a3 to his depth of knowledge, or the overwhelming power of his intellect. The learned ladies have become fastidious, and declare that though they are just aa anxious as their everyday sisters to look up to man, they fiud it very hard to discover a man of a sufficient mental altitude who is suitable in other respects. Herein is tho justification of the old tag " a little learning is a dangerous thing." The really learned women have other pursuitsandotherconsolalionsthan marriage. AN UP-TO-DATE RESTAURANT. San Francisco certainly leads in pushing advanced ideas to the front (says the ' San Francisco Chronicle.') It has had its bloomer balls, bloomer marriages, and now a bloomer restaurant has been opened in business centre of the city. It is the first of its kind known in the world, but the style may soon become fashionable. The restaurant is at 411 California street, near Sansome, and though only jnst opened it has sprung into a lucrative business place in a day. The idea was novel, and whether the trial would succumb.to a severe frost was risk of the proprietor of the new venture. The "Bloomer Cafe" is the name of the place, and four active stout waiter girls, attired in the latest style bloomers, are the main attraction, though the place is new and neat and the bill of fare tempting. The costume of the four up-to-date waitresses is very much on the zouave plan, especially the waist. Still ifr ia a modest costume, and the girls have seemingly got used to it. They flit backward and forward attending to their duties, but if closely eyed two or three of them get together and a giggling laugh results as they walk hurriedly to the kitchen. Mr Bmlay, the manager, explaining the new scheme, said: "I was going to open a new coffee, lunch, and dining room, and I tried to think of something to bring business to the place quickly, as it often takes a long time to build up a trade. I saw so many people looking at lady bicyclists in bloomers passed along the street that the idea struck me. I secured the waitresses through an employment agency. A large number refused to don the bloomers though I pay for them myself. Finally, I seoured four excellent girls, and the place opened. The girls were quite shy at first, but to-day (the 15th October) they have been so very busy that they had no time to think of anything but work. ' I will increase the four very soon. The girls are very much pleased with their new attire. They say they can work ever so much more rapidly and easily than with skirts, and do not get so tired. They are very lady-like, and no attempt at rudeness towards them has been made, and, of course, none would be allowed. The girls find the new costumes very handy in cleaning up also. They can get round to mnoh better advantage."