WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5256, 11 May 1895, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The Ohio law granting school suffrage to women has been declared constitutional by the Cironit Court of Columbus.

The ex-Empreßß Eugenie is occupying her leisure with the writing of her reminiscences since she ascended the throne of France.

' Three women have been nominated for school directors by the Democrats of New Florenoe, Pa. They are the first women ever named for office in the county.

Boaton is having an exhibition of the portraits of women, of which it is announced that it will be "as strong in ita artistic as it will be in its personal, historical, sartorial, genealogical, and patrician attributes."

According to Mr Croßs, in his memoir of his wife the reason she took the name of George Eliot was, as she explains it " Because George waa Mr Lewes's Christian name, and Eliot waa a good, month-filling, easily pronounced word."

Caßimir - Perier'a mother disapproved entirely of her son'a resignation. Although over eighty yeara old, this brilliant Frenchwoman does not look sixty, and ia a keener politician than ratty of the men prominent in France to-day.

To meet the increasing demand for. women workers in the.Ohurcb, the Church Paatoral Aid Society io about to open a training home for ladies at blackheath, England, where ladies und«r training at tho home will work in the poorer parishes of the neighbourhood.

Froken Thekla Griebel, a very talented young Dacigh lady, haa written an opera, Sl:ji>n Karen, to which Herr Einar Christiansen, a well known Banish author, has written the text. The opera will probably shortly be produced st one of the Copenhagen theatres, and, it ia asserted, augurs well for the young lady's career as a composer.

The French Academy has just assumed a novel and, perhaps, not an altogether useleas, function. It haa accepted, under tho will of Mdlle Perou, a legacy that provides two annual prizes of tho value of .£2O each, to be awarded to such meritorious domestic servants aa may sliow the most satisfactory proofs of devotion and fidelity to their employers.

Mrs Cleveland is as fond of flowers as waa her predecessor in the Whito House, Mra Harrison. Growing anl blossoming plants are to be found in ev»ry room, and the conservatory, under har interested care, haa been much enlarge! and beautified. Two rare growths in the floral world, a roae and a chrysanthemum, bear Mrs Cleveland's name.

The Fredrika-Bremer Society in Stockholm, which has in ao many vays benefited Swedish ladieß, has recently brought about an arrangement which any prove a considerable boon to those foi whose aid it is intended. It is a question of providing legal advice for women, and ~t lawyer will be at the society's office cert&in hours on certain days every weok.

Lady Eandolph Churchill las been staying since the death of her husband with her compatriot and relative by marriage, the Duchess cf Marlborough, formerly Mra Lily Price-Hameraly. Her health is reported to be severely shaken by her Jong anxiety and final sorrow, and ehe ia contemplating a considerable stay on the Continent, probably near Paris, in consequence.

Miss Meredith, tho English artist, who has made such wonderful sucoess in India ajj a portrait painter, finds she muat use

adroit flattery to induce the ladies of zenauas to were their exquisite native costumes. Their request is invariably, " Paint mo fair." A light complexion is a sign of many generations of indoor seclusion, aDd evidence, therefore, of high cast and pedigree..

At the funeral services of Mrs Davis, of California, the wife of a well-known railroad mau, the unueual spectacle was presented of a woman conducting the services. Mra Sarah B. Cooper, founder of the San Francisco kindergartans, delivered an address and read the burial services, according to the last request of the dead. Mra Cooper paid an eloquent tribute to the woman who had aided for yeara in her charitable work.

The Countesa Ersilia Caofcani-Lovfttelli, npon whom the degree of " Doctor Philosophise Cauaa Honoris " baa recsntly been conferred by tbo TJniveraity of Halle, is tho first woman to be thus distinguished by a German University; From her childhood ahe has boen an earneat student, and, when ecarcely over twenty Bhe waa left a widow, ahe devoted herself to study, and more especially to that of science, archaeology, and literature. The Countess belongs to one of the oldest and most famoua of Italian noble families.

The Queen's life at Osborne iB very simple, Her Majesty being glad to <siapeuae, as far aa may be, with the outward ceremonies of the Eoyal state, excepting only the always faultlesß bearing of thoae who are immediately about the Queeri'e person, whether as guests or .aa personal attendants. Thia simplicity of life extends even to Her Majesty's dinner; mentis which consist of simple Boup,' neb,, entrie, relcvd and r6t, with a. aide-table of cold dishes, tho cooking by no means taxing Her Majeßty'B chef.

Miaa Susan B. Anthony haa beon reelected president of tha National Woman Suffrage Association of America. She is eeventy-five years old, an ago wnen mesb women are hobbling about with a cane and mourning over their rheumatism. She, on the contrary, is lithe, graceful and active, and ascribes her health to her regular habits. She has eschewed lato suppers, rich food and overwork. After her day's work sho goes straight to her rooms, takeo a bath, drinks a cup of hot milk and eats a biscuit. Then Bhe sleeps nine hours and arises refreshed.

... The late Lady Charlotte Schreiber of London, of fan and porcelain - collecting fame, was a great patroness of the London cabman. They wero indebted to her many years ago as the donor of the cabmen's shelters, outside the Lanffham Hotel, of which shelters there are forty. Her constant solicitude for the welfare of the cabmen who uaed that shelter, took a practical form in tho knitting of and presenting to hundreds of other "cabbies " a thick, substantial woolen muffler, a moßt comfortable addition to their outfit. Once a year she invited about 200 to a substantial tea and entertainment, and she waa, deaides, a warm supporter of the Cab Drivers' Benevolent Association.

At one time the late M. Worth, of Paris, waa quite tho most important mau in Europe. Tbe Empress of the French never set out for a function of State until he had approved her costume, and Queens uaed to spend long hours in his consulting-room. Wo may look at his life from two very different standpoints. On the one hand, hia waß the Self-help-by-Smilea sort of success ; he was industrious and obliging, and came to a fortune because of his etrir-b attention to businesa. On the othor hand, he was the great ariiet, who insisted, that dress should be somethiug more than a mere wrapping — it should be Bumptuoua in etvle, and at the seme timo expressive, or at leoßt indicative of a personality. Thiß was the secret that made Worth's a name of power ; ha knew that the dreua aud the dressed ara not twain but one. Bat (adds a writer in tho Pall Mall Gazette) it ia impossible for an ordinary man with ordinary words at command to express satiafactorily the charm which made women recognise him as supreme. And every woman knows all about it without being told.