WOMAN’S WORLD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10653, 14 May 1895, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

The Ohio law granting school suffrage to women has been declared constitutional by the Circuit Court of Columbus. The er-Empress Eugenie is occupying her leisure with the writing of her reminiscences since she ascended the throne of Prance. Three women have been nominated for school directors'by the Democrats of New Florence, Pa. They are the first women ever named for office in the county. Boston is having an exhibition of the portraits of women, of which it is announced that it will be “ e a strong in its artistic as it will be in its personal, historical, sartorial, genealogical, and patrician attributes.” According to Mr Cross, in hia memoir of his wife the reason she took the name of George Eliot was, as she explains it “ Because George was Mr Lewes’s Christian name, and Eliot was a good, mouth-fillmg, easily pronounced word.” Casimir - Porier’s mother disapproved entirely of her son’s resignation. Although over eighty years old, this brilliant Frenchwoman does not look sixty, and is a keener politician than many of the man prominent in. Franca to-day. To meet the increasing demand for women workers in the Church, the Church Pastoral Aid Society is about to open a training home for ladies at blackheath, England, where ladies under training at the home will work in the poorer parishes of the neighbourhood. Proken Thekla Griebel, a very talented young Danish lady, has written an opera, Sijon Karen, to which Herr Einar Christiansen, a well known Danish author, has written the text. The opera will probably shortly be produced at one of the Copenhagen theatres, and, it is assarted, augurs well for the young lady’s career as a composer. The French Academy has just assumed a novel and, perhaps, not an altogether useless, function. Is has accepted, under the will of Mdlio Ferou, a legacy that provides two annual prizes of the value of £2O each, to ba awarded to such meritorious domestic servants as may show the most satisfactory proofs of devotion and fidelity to their employers. Mrs Cleveland is as fond of flowers as was her predecessor in the White House, Mrs Harrison. Growing and blossoming plants are to bo found in every room, and the conservatory, under her interested care, has been much enlarged and beautified. Two rare growths in the floral world, a rose and a chrysanthemum, bear Mrs Cleveland’s name. The Fredrika-Bremer Society in Stockholm, which has in so many ways benefited Swedish ladies, has recently brought about an arrangement which • may prove a considerable boon to those for whose aid it is intended. It is a question of providing legal advice for women, and a lawyer will be at the society’s office certain hours on certain days every week. Lady Randolph Churchill has been staying since the death of her husband with her compatriot and relative by marriage, the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Mrs Lily Price-Haxneraly. Her health is reported to be severely shaken by her long anxiety and final sorrow, and she is contemplating a considerable stay on the Continent, probably near Paris, in consequence. Miss Meredith, the English artist, who has made such wonderful success in India aa a portrait painter, finds she must use adroit flattery to induce the ladies of zenanas to were their exquisite native costumes. Their request is invariably, " Paint mo fair.” A light complexion is a sign of many generations of indoor seclusion, and evidence, therefore, of high cast and pedigree. At the funeral services of Mrs Davis, of California, the wife of a well-known railroad man, the unusual spectacle was presented of a woman conducting the services. Mrs Sarah B. Cooper, founder of Hie Sau Francisco kindergaitens, delivered an address and read the burial services, according to the last request of the dead. Mrs Cooper paid an eloquent tribute to the

woman who had aided for years in her charitable work.

The Countess Ersilia Castani-Lovatelli, upon whom the degree of “ Doctor Philosophic Causa Honoris” has recently been conferred by the University of Halle, is the first woman to be thus distinguished by a German University. Prom her childhood she has been an earnest student, and, when scarcely over twenty she was left a widow, she devoted herself to study, and more especially to that of science, archeology, and literature. The Countess belonga to one of the oldest and most famous of Italian noble families.

The Queen’s life ah Osborne is very simple. Her Majesty being glad to dispense, as far as may be, with the outward ceremonies of the Eoyal state, excepting only the always faiiltleos bearing of those who are immediately about the Queen’s person, whether as guests or,as personal attendants. This simplicity of life extends even to Her Majesty’s dinner menus which consist of simple soup, fish, entree, relevo and rot, with a side-table of cold dishes, the cooking by no means taxing Her Majesty’s chef. Miss Susan B. Anthony has been reelected president of the National Woman Suffrage Association of America. She is seventy-five years old, an age wnen moat women are hobbling about with a cane and mourning over their rheumatism. She, on the contrary, is lithe, graceful and active, and ascribes her health to her regular habits. She has eschewed late suppers, rich food and overwork. After her day’s work she goes straight to her rooms, takes a bath, drinks a cup of hot milk and eats a biscuit. Then she sleeps nine hours and arises refreshed.

The late Lady Charlotte Sohroiber of London, of fan and porcelain - collecting fame, was a great patroness of the London cabman. They were indebted to her many years ago as the donor of the cabmen’s shelters, outside the Langham Hotel, of which shelters there are forty. Her constant solicitude for the welfare of the cabmen who used that shelter, took a practical form , in the knitting of and presenting to hundreds of other ‘‘cabbies ” a thick, substantial woolen muffler, a most comfortable addition to their outfit. Once a year she invited about 200 to a Substantial tea and entertainment, and she was, desidea, a warm supporter of the Cab Drivers’ Benevolent Association. At one time the late M. Worth, of Paris, was auite the most important man in Euco'S^VThe* the French never set cSTfpr a function until he had approved her eostume/idid Queens used to spend long hours in his consulting-room. We may look at hia life from two very different standpoints.;,, On the one hand, his was the Self-lSo>by-Stnilea sort of success ; hs, was inKuSlrious and obliging, and came to a forfcuSsi ljiecauso of hia strict intention to business On the other hand, igfc was the great a.ftiAs, who insisted that .(Sless should be something more than a '.mere wrapping—it should be sumptuous in and at the dam a time expressive, or %% least indicative of a personality. This was the secret that made Worth’s a name of power; ho knew that the dress and the dressed are not twain but one. Eat (adds a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette ) it is impossible for an ordinary man with ordinary words at wmmand to express satisfactorily the charm which made women recognise him as supreme. And every woman knows all about it without being told.