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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4313, 23 March 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

Madame Sarah Grand's advice to ladies; -“If- you hear a man .speak of himself as a 'mere man’ ask him what he .wants." The honour of being the first foreign lady student .to, receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Berlin University has fallen to an. American student. Miss Caroline Stewart. A Toronto paper suggests that a cheap way to bring American capital into Canada would be to create a few dukeei. ..who - would 1 capture the daughters of American millionaires. Putting aside cases of exceptional ability, says Mr Choate, the American Ambassador, the difference between students who win prizes :and those who do not is a difference not of brains, but of grit. "Can th is England of ours be called tree," asked,Mr Goulson Kemahan. at the London Institution,' "when the literary. adviser has to . steal; home by the wrong route in order lor escape the manuscript fiend?" American girls, . tbants to the outdoor life they lead, and the games they play (says a E©w York, correspondent), are now approaching what used €o be called the English style of beauty, especially as regards their - complexion. _ ■ The comparative .sobriety of German workmen, in spite of'the fact that they consume a copious proportion of malt liquor, is ' attributed to - the low percentage -of alcohol in German beer compared with that from British breweries. Cowdenbeath, a Scottish village, has a trablichouse on tho Gothenburg system. The company have acquired & property for £7voo. All the profits aoomintr from tho business beyond 5 per cent, will be devoted to purposes, of public utility.