WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5961, 28 August 1897, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Young ladies act as sideswomen in 4; church at Carthage, United Stateß, and. since their advent the attendancc-j has largely increased. The Queen of Greece is passionately f ond of flowers, and causes great masses o_? blossoms to be distributed twice a week in the various hospitals at Athens. She is Baid tobe indefatigable in her daily task of relitw* ing suffering. The legal profession in England has not* so far, suffered much from feminine usurpation, although Miss Orme has a good, practice as a conveyancer. In America, however, the Courts of twenty-four Statesadmit women to the Bar. The Dowager Duchess of Athol, who died at Dunkeld a few weeks before Jubilee Day, had been an esteemed personal friend, of the Queen for tbe last fifty-five years, and had been in Her Majesty's household, first as Mistress of the Robes in 1862, and then as Lady of the Bedchamber Bince 1854. The Duchess was in her eighty-fourth year. The Baroness Burdett-Ooutt^ who haa just celebrated her eighty-third birthday, enjoys the distinction of being the only woman whom the Queen has raised to tha peerage on her own merits. Other peeresses have been made, but only in compliment to their husbands, as for instance the wives of tho late Mr W. H. Smith and Lord Beaconsfield. Princess Victoria of Wales now acts aa secretary to her mother, to whom she is absolutely devoted. Every letter addressed to the Princess of Wales passes through her daughter's hands. Like the Queen, her grandmother, Princess Victoria is a very good business woman ; in her boudoir is a large plain desk, containing fifty pigeon-holes, full of carefully docketed notes and papers. » The young girl who will eventually inherit the enormous fortune of Baron Hirsch will be the greatest heiress in the world. Lucienne Hirsch is now fourteen years of age, and is being quietly educated at Brussels under the tutelage of a sister of Baron Hirsch. Mdme Halime Montefioro Levi, who is herself possessed of immense wealth, and is chatelaine ot several castles in Belgium. A pretty romance is told of the life of Christine Nilsson, the once celebrated singer. In childhood she wandered, a poor, barefooted little girl, on the Swedish Hills. Future greatness was probably never thought of, even in her wildest dreams. It was by accident that her wonderful talent, was discovered, and that she was given the opportunity to perfect herself in her art, become one of tho greatest songstresses the world has ever known, and return to her native land later in life as the wife of the Spanish Ambassador to Sweden, Count de la Miranda. The Duchess of Albany is very domesticated ; all her tastes are feminine and oldfashioned. She spends much of her time, doing plain needlework and fino embroidery. Until her little son was handed over to the royal tailors everything he wore was mado by liis mother. The Duchess is said to be tho Queen's favourite daughter-iu. law ; the two royal ladies hold much the same views on the delicate question of widowhood. Tho Duchess wore her woods for eight years, and even now she is vory rarely seen with any touch of bright colour about her costume. The daily life of Rosa Bonheur, the great auiinal painter, is simple in the extreme. She rises early, and strolls in the grounds with her dogs, or drives her pony-cart through the Forest of Fontainebleau. Towards nine o'clock she takes breakfast quite simply, and afterwards smokes a oigarette as she runs through the daily paper. She resumes work at one o'clock, and at fivo goes out for a walk. Her<dinner is as simple as her breakfast, and she finishes the day by reading. The books she prefers are on travel, hunting, or historical works. Don't worry. Don't worry about something that you think may happen tomorrow, because you may die to-night, and to-morrow will find you beyond the reaoh of worry. Don't worry over a thing that happened yesterday, because yesterday is a hundred years away. If you don't believe it, just try to reach after it and bring ifc back. Don't worry about anything that is happening to-day, because to-day will only last fifteen or twenty minutes. Don't worry about things you can't help, because worry one makes them worse. Don't worry about about things you can help, because then there's no need to worry. Don't worry at all. If you want to be penitent now and then, it won't hurt you a bit to go into tho sackcloth and. ashes business a little. It will do you good. But, worry, worry, worry, fret, fret, fret— why, there's neither sorrow, penitence, strength, penance, reformation, hope, nor resolution in it. It's merely worry.