WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5227, 6 April 1895, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The Princess of Wales and her two unmarried daughters are all every enthusiastic photographers, the cameraa going with, them in all directions.

Mrs Ostner, widow of the paymaster of the Erebus, who died recently in England at the age of eighty-five, was the last survivor of the women widowed by the loss of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition.

England boasts some hard-riding women who are quite aa brave, enduring and stoical on the hunting field as the men. At a recent hunt one fox ran thirty miies in three hours, and three women out of seven were in at the finish. .

Miss Marie Castilla, Bachelor of Medicine of the Melbourne University, has just been appointed permanent resident surgeon to the midwifery department of the Women's Hospital in Melbourne. Dr Castilla is Australian born, and took her degree two years ago.

Misß May Tohe, the charming young actress, haa for some months been Lady Francis Hope, although the marriage has been kept secret hitherto. In spite of her altered circumstances Misa May Yohe in ■till to be seen at the Avenue Theatre, as " The Lady Slavey."

Among the * co-eds " in the University of Pennsylvania in the recent biological examinations, three girls headed the list in anatomy, with averages of 100, 99, and 99 ; while the highest young man got 98£. In botany the same girl took 100, another girl 99, a man took 99, and the fourth, also a man, 95&.

The new church built at Crathie for the special worship in the Queen's household during the residence at Balmoral has a wonderful site, overlooking a beautiful stretch of the valley of the Dee, and is almost under the shadow of a group of hills above which towera the lofty peak of Lochuagar.

The Order of the Bleased Sacrament (U.S.A.) is richer by just ovar a million sterling through the final vow-taking of Sißter Drexel, the daughter of afabnlouily wealthy American banker. She ia thirtysix years of age, and prefers educating negro children to spending forty thousand pounds a year.

New York ia fond of novelty. The latest theatrical treat is described on the bills rb "Tragedy in Real Life!" Twelve young and beautiful separated wives all in widows' clothing ! The ladies in question treat the audience to nothing but songs relating to broken hearts and the inconstancy of man.

Miss Margaret Benson, Bister p£ the author of " Dodo," haa just published- a work on animals called "Subject to Vanity," illustrated by herself. She is very gifted and widely read, and is not only a linguist, but a clever painter. Her special pets are cats, and she has studied them and their strange reserves and curious whimsical habits minutely.

Madame Magnueson, who is visiting America for the purpose of raising funds to establish a high school for the girls, of Iceland, her native country, weara a black drees embroidered with gold, made after a fashion that her country women have been wearing for 900 years, the same gown often passing from one generation to another.

There have ' been in 1894 some notable deaths in the feminine ranks. Constance Fenimore Woolaon, Celia Thaxter, Emma Pursch-Madi, the singer; Mrs Mary Hemenway, the millionaire philanthropist of Boston; Laura Schiraer Mapleson, the singer ; Helen Shafer, president of Wellesley; Elizabeth Peabody; Eosina Yokes. the actress; Isabella Thackeray, the widow of the novelist; Christina Eoaetti, the poetess; and last, bat not least, Mrs Bloomer.

English Ladies have all admired the Duchess of York's pretty little cnrl in the middle of her forehead, and not a few women have imitated the notion, supposing it to be the mode. It ia not fashion, however, says a London paper, but necessity which omkeß Princeaa May wear her hair so. When a tiny toddling child of tender years, she one day stumbled and fell, and gaahed her brow in a manner which, notwithstanding Bkilful surgical treatment, has left a permanent mark; the cunning way in which her hair is dressed hideo tho ocar from the public gaze. _