WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5115, 24 November 1894, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The physician in charge of the Woman's Hospital in Soo Chow, China, is an American woman.

Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett is laconically described in an article on women writers, as *' the mother of two sons and twenty-two novels."

"Marriage," says Cecil Bhodeß, "Bpoils a man's or a woman's career, because it destroys singleness of aim." He is consistent, at least, for he remains a bachelor, and will have nonebutunmarriedmen about him: When one of his subordinates marries, he is dismissed.

Lady Henry Somerset recently told a Boston reporter; "I feel that women here are making great progress, and the outlook is most promising ; yet we shall have full suffrage in England before you do, as already women have all votes except the parliamentary and that ifl in the near fntore."

As a memorial to the late Miss C. M. Tucker, (" A. L. O. E.,") the Christian Literature Society of India haa determined to raise a special f nnd of J5500 to republish her eighty-ceven works for Indian readers and to translate them into a much larger number of languages of India, with illustrations.

John Strange Winter thanks her husband, Mr Arthur Stannard, for the assistance he has given her on the literary hillside. "If my husband had not said my stories were good, I could never have continued them," she says, "my husband and Buskin were my helpers."

During the time Sir Robert Peel was Premier, his wife, Lady Jane Peel, was in the habit of pasting on a screen all the articles that appeared in the newspapers opposed to him. " There is nothing very singular in that," remarked Peel, quietly. "It is the duty of every good wife to ecreen her husband's faults."

Mrs Naylor-Leyland, nic Jennie Chamberlain, not long since an American belle, and now a favoured member of the Maryborough. House clique, set a bold example by recently taking the chair ab the luncheon of the Corwen Agricultural Show. She makes an excellent president, and takes great interest in her local Agricultural Society in Wales.

The "Ladies Chalet" is to be anew feature in London. They will provide, at various points of the metropolis in snug and picturesque little cottags buildings, the advantages of a lady's waiting-room in conjunction with a millinery shop, the latter being intended to assist in paying the expenses, which could not be covered by mere copper contributions.

The Queen of Greece enjoys the distinction of being the only petticoated " admiral" in Europe, having been appointed to the rank in the Muscovite fleet by her ooußin, the Cz*r. From her earliest childhood Queen Olga has been accustomed to the sea, a fact due in great measure to her father having been the Sailor-Prince of Russia and the High Admiral of the Empire.

As a girl Miss Braddonwaa so unsuccessful in her authorship that, 88 she herself Btateß, the postman's knock waß associated in her mind with the sharper sound of a rejected MS. dropping through the open letter-box. Her first book, "Three Times Dead"— now known as " The Trail of the Serpent 9 '— was published by a printer of Beverley, in Yorkshire, who paid her only £5 for the serial rights.

Eccentric no doubt, but a woman with an extraordinary amount of sympathy for those who are suffering around her is the French Duchess D'Uzes, the wealthiest woman in France, who every Friday puts on the dress of an ordinary nurse and visits a certain cancer hospital, where she takes the place of one of the regular attendants all day, putting herself entirely under the direction of the superintendents.

The straw-plaiting fad of English female royalty is having disastrous results— on their male relatives. The German Emperor has just received, aa a gift for which he must be sufficiently grateful, a straw hat "done" for him by his English grandmother's own queenly hands. But his lot is easy compared with that of Henry of Sattenberg, who is obliged to wear the one fashioned for him by the Princess Beatrice.

The young widowed DuoheEtsof Aosta has been summoned before a Bed of Jußtice, composed of members of her own family. The charges against her are, however, not grave. The court; simply requested her to show a little less enthusiasm for Bport in general, and, above all, to discard the bioyclette. An officer had refused to salute her as she roda by in the costume of the complete cyoliat. Hence the small scandal.

Madame Modjeaka is travelling this season in the most palatial hotel car that has ever been constructed. It was built for Mrs Langtry, bat used very little, owing to her failure to return to the States. The latter paid .£SBOO for it. It was built after plans which Mrs Langtry drew. Its ceiling is of robin-egg blue satin, the walk of tufted pluih of the same colour, and the floor inlaid in art designs of expensive woods.

A large number of Parisian ladies, discontented with the texture and length of their eye-lashes, are aubjeoting themselves to the tools of a quack, who makes it his business to supply their eye covers with fresh fringes by eewing fine, stiff threads in loops, and then cutting the edges. The original hairs have to be extracted in the. first place, but the pain experienced seems to be amply counter-balanced by the enhanced beauty resulting.

Mrs Thomas Hardy has always been a most able second in her husband's literary work. When ha had written his first novel, " Desperate Remedies," as an earnest proof of her faith in him, she copied out the entire manuscript with her own hand and sent it to the publisher. She has ever since remained his amanuenDis, doing much more than merely copying or writing at his dictation. It was she, more even than himself, who believed that literature should be his profession, and she has never abated her interest and enthusiasm in his work.

The Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava has written an introductory preface to llisa M. F. Billington's book, " Women in India," which is already in the press. It will be remembered that Mies Billingfcon spent last winter in India as special correspondent of The Daily Graphic concerning female wanto and progreaa in the Easfc, and also contributed regularly to the colnmnß of the Gentlewoman during her absence. The book, however, has been entirely re- written to allow of more exhaustive treatment of the many subjects ehe dealt with in her records mide npon the spot. It will bo copiously illustrated both from drowins* acd^the_anth,oreßß' flwnjpfe.ofcgfftpJWs