WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4739, 2 September 1893, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

A young English woman has been appointed lecturer on fiuib growing before the Derbyshire County Council.

In Spain, women servants are said to be capricious, slatternly, and generally inferior. Men" eeivanti, if good, demand high wages. • . .

A girl in County Cavan has been in a treace for six months. She ließ molioalesa and corpse-like, taking no nourishment fgr weeks together.

A aiatsiva silver bracelet of Indian workmauehip and much value wag recently found on the collection plale of a Congregational Church in the Scotch, capital.

The first public appointment held by a woman in Ireland w&8 beßtowed recently on Miss Floury, 2K.D- She wbb made clinical assistant to the Richmond Asylum."

Sixty thousand Italian women, led by the flower, of the aristocracy of Borne, are petitioning the Chamber against divorce. They coneider it a religious offence.

Mrs Stannard, popularly known as "John Strange Winter," has beea elected a Fellow of the lioyal Society of Literature, an honour previously conferred upon but one woman, Mra Napier Biggins.

A curiouß and very objectionable crank i* one who h^e developad in Birmingham, England. He goes ttbouc with a long steel hat pi a and etab3 all fashionably dressed ladies whom he encounters.

Sisber Gertrude, a nun in the Loretto Convent at Dublin, has written a drama entitled Nemcsius. It is dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of the catacombs, and has beea performed at Loretto Abbey.

The Queen of the Belgians is very fond of music, a good pianist, and a parformer on the barp. She has composed one opera, called Wanda. The King hates music, and when the piano ia opeued he vanishes from the room.

On a wedding party arriving home in an Oxfordshire village, the bride discovered to her dismay that the ring had been placed on the wrong hand. The clergyman was sent for, and the matter put right before the wedding festivities were proceeded with.

Beethoven's ''Immortal B9lo?ed" was the CounteDS Theresa Braunschweig, to whom he was for a lonfy time secretly betrothed. The betrothal was not made public because the Countess feared the effect on her mother, who wbb intensely proud of her rank and family.

Two hundred and fifty Cluba, with a membership of 25,000, were represented at the Federation of Clubß this year ia the United States. As this number i 3 probably not a tenth of the total number of women's Clubs in America, the figures, it they could be secured, would be astonishing.

A certain English gentlewoman has a lavender distillery in Surrey. Lavender, like so many other old-fashioned things, is coming again into favour. August is the month of the lavender harvest. Boss drying is also carried on by this enterprising woman, whose investment ia quite a paying one.

Among the numerous presents showered on the Princess May was a msgnificent bed cover of geranium red satin enbroidered with lilies and roses worked in solid gold and silver. The design ia a reproduction of a quilt belonging to James 1., and was embroided by the associates of the Eojal School of Arfc Needlework.

Bricou, an Anarchist, and accomplice oE the notorious Eavachol, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude for hia share in the Paris explosion. Bricou'a sweetheart applied for permission to marry him, that eh© might share his captivity in New Caledonia, and the authorities permitted the marriage to take plaze.

The two women'a colleges of Newnbsm and Girton have sent a number or successful candidates to the Cambridge examinations this year. It is interesting to know that the college rooms of these to-be-wranglers are very ckinty. They are full of feminine work, liberally supplied with mirrors, and look more like boudoira than a study.

At Pau a small box, which had been in the possession of a priest who recently died there, and which was discovered under his bed, was found to contain the head of a woman with beautiful hair. The priest was in the habit of locking himself in his room, and contemplating for hours sojne object which, it is now supposed, was the woman's head. ...

The Maharanee of Mysore, who lias I lately died, was a remarkable w.oman. At i the age of ten she resolved to obtain the j best possible education. She insisted on joining her brother in, Mb studies, and mastered Sanskrit, Canarese, and Marathi, She could also paint, and was a fair musician. She -was the fourth wife of the Maharajah, and was for some time virtually the itiler ot Mysore.

The Duchess of Fife's second daughter was christened in the German Chapel Boyal. When the time came for handing the infant over to the Archbishop it was crying very loudly, but the Princess of Wales took it in her arms, and, soothing ib with whispers and kisses, managed to keep ii quiet. Princees May, who wa3 one of the sponsors, kissed the baby after the ceremony, which ia a Scotch gogd omen.

English women (says au American paper) are going quite as daft; over iPaderaweki as the silliest of their American sißters ever did. And with, the temperature up to lOOdeg, too ! One hot day they eucored the poor man with such zeal, and kept him trotting up and down the platform steps so constantly, that he at last sank upon the piano sbool, played a soothing nocturne as a gentle hint, and then departed, to be seen no more.