Woman's World.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 211, 5 November 1896, Page 4

Woman's World.

♦ Rod-haired women are clover, ofton brilliant. Princess Margaret of Connaught is the best cyclist in tho Royal family. Tho Tsarina of Russia has recently ordered a type-writor with gold typo ! bars and the frame inlaid with pearl. I A woman is not so grateful for ! affection as she is anxious to show others how much someone is devoted to her. Miss Cissy Loftus, the celebrated 1 girl-mimic, who has recently taken to ' story-writing is an exquisite performer ' on the piano. j Tho London lady stockbroker, Miss ' Amy E. Bell, showed unusual aptitude I for figures from early childhood, and her favourite occupation was studying the fluctuation of the money markets. j Miss Bell docs not advertise nor send I out circulars. I Dr E. Winifred Dickson has been elected Examiner in Midwifery and Gynrecology by the Royal College of I Surgeons, Ireland. Thus Ireland has again led. the way in the medical progress of women, but not without some opposition on the part of the younger 1 students of the the college. i MissC. H.Lippincott of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has for ten years carried ' on a successful flower-seed business ■ 1 extending all over the States and into ' I Canada as well. She was the pioneer women seed dealer in the country, and is at the head of what is said to be ' the largest exclusive flower-seed business in the United States. j I Tho young- Queen of Holland has already given promise of remarkable ! ability as a painter. Her principal i models are her own guards, aud almost every morning, dressed in a simple little frock of green tint which so well suits her bright complexion and fair j hair, she seats herself at one of the palace windows, where she has an j uninterrupted view of the sentries on I duty. The Queen made a number of in-

teresting sketches during her recent sojourn on the Eiviera. Her Majesty nevor stirs out without her sketchbook, which contains numerous interesting and precious reminiscences. ' In former years the Prince Consort always shared this pastime with the Queen, and her Majesty hna never lost her interest in either painting or in music, which he loved so well. | ' Twenty-six millions is the colossal fortune which Lucienne Premelic Hirsch, grandaughter of the late Baron Hirsch, will eventually inherit, and it will make her the richest woman ; in the world. She is fourteen years ] old, a lives in Brussels, where she is being educated. In her features she , resembles her mother, who was a ' Frenchwoman. In her expression and the general contour of her face the likeness to her father, who died some years ago, is striking. ; The first lady at the German Court is the Countess Waldesee, who was formerly Miss Lea, of New York. Her husband is nearly related to the Emperor, and she lives like a queen in the palace adjoining the late Von Moltke's. Though evnrvthing about . her is royal sho herself follows the moat severe simplicity. From her fine forehead her soft silvery hair is brushed smoothly back, and her complexion is as fresh as a girl's ; her face, with its beautifully chiselled features, is full of expression, and her figure and her ! carriage are legal. Yet, with all this simplicity, hers is a mosc magnetic presence. ! After the death of the Prince Consort _in 18G1, the Queen declined to hoar any longer of anything connected with the stage, and it was only with the utmost difficulty that some ten years ago the Princess Beatrice was able to induce her mother to permit the ornanisation of snme tableaux vivants at Osborne. This had tbo effect of paving the way to amateur theatricals, to which the Princess is inordinately fond, and from amateur theatricals to performances given by professionals was but another step. Now the Queen has again taken a decided liking to the drama.