WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5056, 15 September 1894, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Mrs Oliphant is one of the half-dozen lady novelists who, on an average, can make .£IOOO for a atory. Eoaa Bonheur tho French animal painter was a dressmaker's apprentice whoa she was a girl of fifteen yeara. A patent, as follows, was resontly applied for "No. 6161.— Eliza Dalton, Big Hill, near Marulan, New South Wales— An improved lubricating axle-cap, axle, and the like." • For the first time in the history of Cornell Univereity (U.S.) the Stewart L. Woodford prizs in oratory has been won by a woman. The fortunate wiener i3 Miss Harriet Connor, of lowa. The only sister of Thomao , Carlyle is living near Toronto, Canada. This is Mrs Janet Carlyle Banning, the -widow of Eoberfc Hanning, who came to Canada And became a railroad man after having failed in business in England. Mdlle de Lamartine, the niece of the great author, has recently died in Paris at the age of sixty-three. She was her uncle's companion and comfort during the last years of his life, when he was struggling with poverty, and after his wife's death in 1863 she cared for him alone until his death isi 1869. Mies Katharine L. Sharp, the librarian of Armour Institute* Chicago, has in charge the department of library science in that institute, and has been so successful both, in material and training that seven out of the ten students of the past year have already secured positions for next year in various libraries. ; Says Mr Howells in his latest book : "The higher education is part of the social ideal which we have derived from the paat from Europe. It is part of the provision for the life of leisure, the life of the aristocrat, ..which nobody of our generation leads, except women. Our women really have some use for the education of a gentleman, but our men have none." Miss Mabel Hay Barrows, of Kadcliffe, 13 preparing to open a college settlement on the confines of South Cove, one of the very worst of the Boston elums. Several other college girls are interested with her, but she is the prime mover in the work, and it is being carried on largely through her earnestness and enthusiasm. Miss Barrows ia the daughter of the Rev Samuel J. Barrows, the editor of the Christian Register. Hitherto in France Joan of Arc has been almost the only woman to mount upon a marble pedestal, bub the privilege is being extended. At Vitres a statue is being raised to Madame da Sevigne, and as Valenciennes a similar honour is in store for Mdlle Duchenoie. Apropos of these facts, a French writer observes : " Woman being, even in marble, so much more decorative than ourselves, one can only rejoice over the advent of feminine statueß." Mies Ada Johnson, the young Newnham girl who beat all the men in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, has had no special advantages to fit her to yim the high place she has gained. She was a studeut of an ordinary grade school, but even as a child she displayed a taste for mathematics, and after leaving school she continued her studies, now by herself, now with a teacher. She has been at Newnham for two years, and is a rosy, merry girl, fond of dancing and tennie, and bearing none of the outer marks c£ a blue stocking. The Empress Eugenie lately took Prince Napoleon with her to Windsor to introduce him to the Queen ao her heir. This is no insignificant fact, for the Ex-Empress iB a very rich woman, the late Emperor having invested largely in Englieh stocks, wisely foreseeing the evil day which was to come. Besides this the art treasures and jewellery belonging to the Empress are of immense value, and her lace alone is worth a quarter of a million, the wedding veil (which is of tho very finest old Point d'Alencjon) having cost at the brilliant time of her wedding the enormous sum of 250,000^. That clever story teller, John Oliver Hobbeß, (Mrs Craigie,) has developed a okill in play writing, and haa accepted an order from Miss Ada Rehan to dramatise for her übb the successful Btory "Some Emotions and a Moral." Miss Terry followed the example of Miso Eehan without knowing it, only to find the field pre-empted. Disappointed in this ahe begged Mrs Craiffie to work out some other theme, and the play now running at Daly'a Theatre, London, "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting," in which, with Miss Terrios, Miss Terry is achieving another triumph, is the result. Great interest; baa been created in medical circles, in Berlin by the cane of a girl of twenty-one, who was engaged as a clerk at the Central Telephone Office. A few months ago the young woman, who had up to that time enjoyed excellent health, .while at her work was suddenly struck with, paralysis. The patient, when. obe could spent, explained that as she was in tho act of working the new Kurbel apparatus, and connecting the lines, Bhe received a shock which rendered her senseless. A scientific authority compares the case with the paralysis generally following upon a person boing struck with lightning. I wonder (writes a correspondent ia Woman) whether yon have heard of a uriiqun Itmebeoti vla^li r.-a 1 lately given in How York tuhoXi'a-do?cv. literary women P In the centre of the table was a mound of pink roses and ivy, above whioh waß perched a white owl* with a pearl-handled

pen in its beak. Beside each plate was a little darkbluesilketocking.Btuffedwithrosa leaves, and out of the, top peeped two pink roses and a buach of white quills. The name-carda had a little water - colour sketch of an ink-stand and pen in one corner, and a row of books in the other, on the backs of which werothe titles of works by the special lady in question. A remarkable petition for divorce came before the Melbourne Divorce Court, on August 28. It appears that the petitioner (Martha Grace Nevea) was postered by the attentions of John Steveneon, aged twenty-four, a farmer, and coneented to go through the ceremony of marriage with him on condition that he would then go away and leave her unmolested. They were accordingly married at a registry office ia September, 1891, and parted at tho door. A month later Stevenson was Benfcto the Beecbworth Lunatic Asylum, where he has remained under treatment ever since, and is reported to be hopelesaly inoano. Mr Justice Hodges granted a decree of nullity of marriage; The total number of signatures received to the Womeu'B Sufferage Appeal (aays the Gcnilavoman) ia 248,674. Of theHO, 50,913 are from Scotland ; 6830 from Ireland ; 51,136 from London ; the remainder are distributed throughout England and Walea. The signatures include the heads of nearly all the colleges for women, and a large proportion of the headmistresses of High and other public schools for girls, and of women seiving on the Boards of Guardians and School Boards. The leading women in the medical profession have eignod, and a number of the most eminent in literature and art, besides many cf wide social influence, and lending works in the many movements for the general well-being. - An interesting discusßion has lately been carried en iu toma Paris journals about the effect of fiowera on the throat. Madame Christine M1630n, in an interesting letter, states that Borne one once threw to an opera-singer, whom she knew intimately, a bouquet of tuberosef. Charmed with the flowers, the soprano burried her face in them to iobala their peri'ume. Three minutes later, she discovered that she had completely lcmt her voice, and could not possibly return to the stage. A physician was hastily summoned, who pronounced the case to bs temporary paralyeiß of the vocal chords caused by the powerful odour of the tuberoses. Madame Calve writes on the came subject that the only flowers Bhe dsres inhale are roßes and violets. She, lika Madame NHssck's friend, has a perfect horror of tuberoses, and instantly hands over bouquets, which contain that flower, to the chorus-giris, never allowing them to penetrate into her own dressing- room.