WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5279, 8 June 1895, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The American lovo of diamonds is being carried so far that some rich society women even sew the gems on their shoes and stcckings.

Lady Harberton augges's that female servants are the women of all ofcbois to wear knickerbockers, aa such a costume facilitates movement.

Countess Ranfzan wss one of tho twentyeight gurs.s at the luncheon given by Bismarck on March 25. The presence of a woman at the political gathering ia a novelty in Germany

There are about twenty women in the States occupying pulpits. It is said that they have a larger proportion of men among their congregations than the men preachers in their neighbourhood.

Mrs Lola Vircj.it, of Indianapolis, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Indiana Farmers' Alliance, and has been authorised to superintend the publication of an official paper to be called tlie Farm Record.

There are only two women in Great Britain who are entitled to add " L.L. D " to their names, and they are both Belfast girls. Miss Frances H. Gray is the latest to be so honoured by the Boyal University of Ireland.

Every year Worth sent to the Emprefs Eugenic a large bouquet of Parma violets tied with a mauve ribbon on whioh was h<s name embroidered in gold. This was in memory of her patronage at the time when ber whim could make or ruin a Paris tradesman.

The doctor who pulled the old Ameer of Afghanistan through h's late illness is a young woman of Ayrshire, Scotland, Miss L. Hamilton, M.D., who took her medic.l degree three years ago in Brussels, and practised in Calcutta before she went to Afghanistan.

Mrs Kate Gannet Wells says that " men are quite as nagging as women, and would be more so if they had to wear women's clothes. When men are said to be disagreeable to their wives it is often because the latter are too weak, and do not sss9rt their rights at first."

The Deceasod Wife's Sister Bill is again knocking at the gates of the English Parliament. lis promoters are not discouraged and mean to strive until they attain their end. It is significant that in Canada, with the Queen's sanction, marriage with a dec 2a sad wife's sister is legal.

Mary Cowden Clarke, the compiler of the well-known 'Concordance to Shakspeare' is atill ; alive. Sho was born in the same year as Mr Gladstone, and bas been living for nearly thirty yearß at the Villa Norvillo, at Genoa. It was to Mrs Clarke that Douglas Jerrold said : " On your first arrival in Faradiee you must expect a kiss from Shakspeare — even though your husband should happen to be there."

Princess Helene, of Orleans, may,, after all, be married at Sto we House, Bucks. The Princess is regarded as one of the loveliest women in Europe. She possesses a wealth of golden-brown hair, with dark blue eyes, and long black eyelashes. She ie very tall and a Bplendid figure. Her affianced husband, the Duke of Aoata, a nephew of the King of Italy, is also described as being remarkably nandsome.

Mra Margaret Deland, author of "John Ward, Preacher," is a great favourite in Boston. Her home ia a cosy house in one of the oldest but most pleasant streets in the city, where a glimpse of the blue waters of the Charles River may be obtained from a bay window over the front door. She devotes the entire morning to writing. Whether a volume of poems or anew novel is to be announced is not whispered in literary circles.

Ladies in India do a great deal of excellent target shooting with miniature rifles. The ladies shoot fitting on small footstools, with the elbows resting on the knees, and the mest expert appear to be thesi connected with the Poona Gymkhana, where there is a miniature rifle range. It is recorded that in the Diana match of the Indian Bifle Ass.ciation, the winner, Mies Bromley, of Poona, won with a score of 66 out of a possible 70, seven shots at 50yds (two in bull's-eye) and seven at lOOyJs (four in bull's-eye).

Forward womanhood has lest one of its mesr. energetic pioneers by the death of Lu-sa Otto, who died the other day at Leipzig. She firs, came to tho front es a writer on the revolutionary movement of 1848, aud married August Peters, a revolutionist, who spent some years in prison. Madame Otto-Peters founded the Leipzig Society for the Independence of Woman. She wrote many romances, pamphlets, founded a journal, "New Paths," and waß the recognised exponent of the " woman question " in Germany.

The death o. Princess Wilhelmiaa Montlearfc one of the greatest philanthropis'.s in Austria, recalls a romantic episode of the forties. The dec.sssd pri_c?ss was of Irish descent, daughter of a c.rtaiu Fitzgerald, who, being implicated iv the Irish troubles, fled to the' Continent in 1840. His wife, (says the Chronicle correspondent), with her two children, followed him to Vienna. She did not, however, meet her husband again, and with her son. died in great distress. Wilhelmina was left, at ten years old, penniless and unknown, in a forei.n country, of whose language she wss totally ignorant. At tbi3 criticil juncture Baroness Effinger Wildegg became a sseond mother to the poor pirl, and when she waa seventeen Prince Montleert fell in. love

with her, and married her five years later. The husband died in 1887.

America is the land where tha star of the fortune-making woman shines most brightly. Harriet Beecher Stowe made .£40,000 by writing one book. Then there i 8 Madame Modjeska, who is worth £20,000 ; and Annie Louise Cary, who, asked by her husband as to the amount of her fortune, replied with a blush that she had a mere £20.000. It is judged that Mrs Langtry's gainß in America during her tours have been nearly £30,000; while Mies Mary Andois.n is worth more than that sum, and has it well invested too. According to a recently-published account, one of the greateat female money-makers in the world is Lydia von Finkehtein, a native of Palestine. She is twenty-sight years old, and her s l .udy has been of the Holy Land, of which she knows every inch. Her bupiners ia to lecture, and every time she lectures £25 float sarenely into her treasury.