Mostly About Women.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 603, 24 January 1891, Page 4

Mostly About Women.

Lady Roseberry held on to the religion of her tathers, and was buried with Jewish rites. Miss Ada. Garner, eldest daughter of Arthur Garner, has BUCceßefully matriculated in Melbourne. There is in Sydney a lady undertaker. She dresses not in funereal hues, but in most oheerful tints. How curious it is that a woman who never knows her own age can tell you at once the age of all her female acquaintances. Those who ought to know say that Madame Burton and Miss Oolborne-Baber, off the stage, are not on speaking terms. Mr Isambert, a Queensland politician, thinks that women should work in the fields as well as in factories. Isambert is a German. The two sisters of Lord Hopetoun, Governor of Yiotoria, are said to be sandy-haired damsels who excel at the singing of plantation ditties. It is proposed to start a women's weekly paper for New Zealand at the popular price of threepence. It is to attempt the difficult role of being serious without being heavy. Vandalism is at work in the Centennial Park, Sydney. The most beautiful undraped figures are the chief sufferers. Whence a philosopher infers that the van- . dais are females. Maggie Flanagan, aged 13, set fire to the Oxford Hotel, Maryborough, Queensland, the other day, because she disliked one of the boarders, and desired to give him a foretaste of the hereafter ! Gladstone recently wrote a letter to Madame Patti, to the effect that English songs coming from her Italian lips, were sweeter than gulden syrup. The •Grand Old Man didn't use those exact words, but he got there all the same. Mrs Miller, wife of the Governor of North Dakota, dropped into the office of a newspaper at Drysden, N. T., recently, and sec a couple of stickfuls of matter, as a reminder of the old days when she was a compositor in that office and the Governor was 'making up' to her. Two American lady doctors have started a nursery in Washington, where mothers of every nation and every rank are taught how to feed and wash babies and how to put them to sleep. No doubt this institution will fill a long-felt want, but we are surprised that in a progressive country like America the promoters of such a scheme were not sufficiently far seeing and in sympathy with the spirit of the times as to teach the husbands to ' do these things. It happened at a recent meeting of persons in favour of extending, the franchise to women. A lady speaker addressed the assemblage, warmed to the subject, and, growing enthusiastic in her endeavour to establish woman's rights, exclaimed in stentorian tones—' And now let us strip for the fray 1' At which, 'tis said, the reporters attached to a Melbourne morning daily immediately left the building. The police raided a thieves' haunt in Melbourne the other day, and got into rather a tight place in consequence. There were seven ladies in an upstaira room, and the only tactics these interesting females could think of was to throw their clothes out of the window. The officers burst the door in, and then they began to realise the full dimensions of the problem, but though they felt rather embarrassed they faced it boldly and eventually pulled through. How they managed it has been officially kept dark. The woman referred to in the Observer of 10th inst., under the heading ' Medical Scandal at Napier,' has succumbed under her shocking teeatment, and the case is callously disposed of by the News in the following paragraph :— ' The unfortunate Mrs Hobbs, of Takapau, who was taken from the Waipukurau hospital, charged with lunacy, and ordered to the Napier hospital by Dr. Hitchings who alleged she was suffering from fever, is dead.' Who says the ladies are not inventive ? The writer was astounded the other day to discover that the Wellington fair ones use bullets, pieces of lead and duck shot to weigh down their promenade dresses. This is on account of the fury with which the wind blows at the street-corners. Truly, necessity is the mother of invention. The result is that the ladies can stroll along contentedly, even in the eye of a 20 knot gale, or through the vortex of the fiercest dust whirlwind. A visitor to the city is at once observed by all on account of the trouble she invariably gets into when the zephyrs of Wellington blow ; but before she is there a week, her dress is loaded with buck-shot or rifle bullets, and she smiles masterfully at the wildest vagaries of rude Boreas. Facts are stranger than fiction, If a revolution broke out, no need to melt down church roof lead for bulletsit would only be needful to rip the ladies' dresses.

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