WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5092, 27 October 1894, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The most adventurous journey said to have ever been taken by a woman was recently completed by Mrs Littledale, who, with her husband, started from Constantinople and crossed Asia to Shanghai. " Whistling for half an hour after meale is/ sayß Mrs Alice Shaw, the lady whistler, " the best possible aid to digestion. Try it, weak - ohested, Blenderthroated sisters mine, and profit by my experience." > Mdme Bidi-Badya-Kouldbouiarow, the first Mohammedan woman to pass tha examinations and receive a diploma as doctor of medicine, haß been appointed by the Russian Government as principal medical officer of the town of Kassiman. Fanny Crosby, the blind Methodist hymn-writer, is now- seventy years of age. She has written about 3000 Sunday School hymns. She waa born at South East, New York, in 1823, and loßt her eight when six weeks old through the ignorant application of a warm poultice to her eyes. The Empress of Russia possesses an automatic Bcenb fountain capable of diffusing no fewer than twenty - seven different perfumes. All that is necessary to do is to move a lever opposite the name of the scent required, after the manner of some of our automatic awaetoiaat machines, press a button, and forth comes a spray of the selected perfume. A curious opening, according to The London Globe, has been found for the artistic gifts of women. In the great hospitals, water-colour sketches are taken of rare forms of disease, and in this somewhat gruesome class of work women, it seems, have succeeded. At Guy's Hospital a woman haß just been appointed for such service for six months, the post having previously been filled by her husband, who is temporarily incapacitated. i ■ """"""^ * ; "It may be (remarks the London World) that our modern girls are a little too much addicted to athleticism, to the worship of cricket and lawn tennis, of cycline, sculling, and punting % yet their fondness for vigorous exercise, their eagerness to accompany the guns, to breast the steep hillside and join the shooting luncheon, to wield the rod and play a salmon— such tastes, if not enjoyed to excess, are surely, from the physiological side alone, a certain gain, ensuring robustness and abundant health. The Queen's store of Indian shawls i 8 getting Bmaller every year, although like the widow's cruse the supply haa never eeemed to fail. The fact is that after the Mutiny tribute was laid upon certain princes and chiefs in India to their Sovereign Lady of divers costly stuffs, and for a lmaiber <>f y Oftra shawl.. &•>., «i»Ti ».* lOjuLwiy. but of Idta years, owing to tuo deaths of some of tho tributary potentates, and the suppression of others, the stock haa much deolined. W»lßtfm jttfioi^^

kept in eandal-wood wardrobes at Windsor under the ohts of the Queen's fitßt wardrobe woman. A ladies' club bearing the Dame of the Victoria Club, wan opened at Berlin on Sept. 1 in the Latte Vereia buildings, 89, Koniggratzer Straßse. It is to be conducted on the same principles as the Alexandria Club in London, and trill be a place where ladies can enjoy a week's rest, and where they can meet and exchange intercourse. There is a hall for lectures, in which the various women's societies can hold meetings. Mrs Vanderbilt, wife of William H. lives in a very modest way, and, it is said, nine-tenths of her enorm6uß inoome is given to the poor. She employs agents who are constantly engaged in looking np the caies of those who apply to her for aid, and a worthy applicant is always generously assisted. Most of her money goes for the payment of rent for poor families, and last winter a thousand persons owed the shelter of their roof to Mrs Vaaderbilt. The only woman Garbage Inspector of Chicago, Mrs Paul, is said to be a pronounced success in her recently-acquired office. She actually " inspects," exploring highways and byways, and does not hesitate to watch the "dumps" receiving their refuse loads, which is certainly carrying her sense of duty to an extreme limit. Mrs Paul is independent of petty politicians, as her salary is not paid by the city, but by the women of the Municipal Order League, at whose instance the authorities have given her power to act. Octavia Bates (remarks a New York paper) Bays, writing of the ravages of the corset, that when a group of doctors come together to dine they always toast "The Women— Our Chief Financial Support," and Miss Bates evidently thinks it would foe well for the dcotors to go a Btep further and toast the corset, since she finds that ninety-five feminine diseases are directly traceable to its use. It is unjust to crowd every evil upon the corset, for as much harm comes from tight neckbands, heavy, dragging skirts, and other woes of our false system of dreßs. A love for nursing seems inherent in the Queen's daughters. Princess Alice of Hesse was a splendid nurse, the Empress Frederick ran her very close in the Franco-German War, and Princess Christian has been, and ever will be, a positive enthusiast on the subject of hospital nursing, as we know so well. Princess Beatrice, too, when her little daughter's accident caused such anxiety, proved herself scarcely less proficient. The Queen herself at one time had no taste for nursing, and it is told that, owing entirely to her influence, the Duchess of Teck gave up her most cherished wish in her maiden days— that of becoming a professional nurse. Amongst the many celebrities at the recent Cowes Begatta was Miss Maud Button, daughter of the late Sir Eiohard Button. She is owner of the craok Herre-shoff-built one-rater Morwena, which has already won many viotories on the Clyde. Miss Button steered her yacht to victory thirty times last year, and her prizes are now represented in the aggregate by a splendid diamond orescent. She expects this year to eclipse her achievements of 1893, . Her father was the English yachtsman who endeavoured to recapture the America Cup. This was in 1885, when his Genesta was beaten by the Puritan. He died on February 25, 1891, and left his daughter a considerable fortune. Miss Sutton is ft most attractive young lady, and, aa may be imagined) a moat capable sailor. Here is a touching little story told of the first bolero corset cover ever made ; a pink lawn, by the way, and trimmed with the coarsest of cotton lace. A Busaian lady, by name Pruscona Stanoff, had gone to Paris to seek fame and fortune in the field of letters, and found only misery. She had i got to the end of everything, the pot had not even boiled for days, as tha French say with grim pathos, and at last inspired by the phantoms of hunger, she shut herself up in her room and designed the bolero undeuwaist out of old newspapers. This she reproduced immediately in the pink lawn and' cotton lace— she out off her long black hair to get the money for materials and armed with the first bolero corset cover ever dreamed of, probably, she want to the Bon Marohe* and sold it as a model for fifty dollars.