WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6120, 5 March 1898, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The cradle presented by the Queen to the Duke of York's baby was madeiorthe Princess Royal in 1840, and all the Queen's babies slept in it, The sheets are (of fine' Irish linen, edged with Valenciennes lace, and the blankets are of the warmest and lightest Spanish wool. Mrs Lynn Linton is a very good friend to a large circle of girl admirers, who have found out that the lady's severity exists onlyjupon paper. Perhaps no one was ever quite so sympathetic to the troubles, ambitions, even to the little follies and frivolities of girls, as this writer who so justly detests modern faults and censures modern foibles. • Queen Louise of Denmark is the oldest occupant of a throne with the single exception of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg, who is her senior by some six weeks. These are the only two octogenarian sovereigns. Next in age after Queen Louise comes her husband, who is seven months younger, and then the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar and Queen Victoria. The Countess of Aberdeen is about to form a Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada, The Countess has herself addressed two or three meetings in connection with this purpose, and has received from the nurses themselves a striking evidence of sympathy. The object of the Order is not only to improve the status of the nurses, but also to eecure their greater prof essional efficiency. The " J Pens Club " is the latest club in London. It has been organised by the lady Btudents of the English School of Journalism. It is not to be too exclusive, and the "commodious premises" that have been taken in Chandos Street are intended to supply light refreshments, at moderate charges, and a comfortable rendezvous not only for the lady Btudents, .but for other ladies "engaged in any oL the professions." Medical'opinion in London is dead-against the new American corset, which has been described as intended to transform the ordinary figure into one that measures twenty inches round the waist, forty inches round the chest, and forty-eight or fifty inches round the hips. The significance of these figures is realised when one compares them with those of a normal standard. The measurements of a woman of good height, taken in the same order,, should .be twenty-six, thirty-four andf orty inches. Miss Clara Brett Martin, the fin-nod t^Tf lady lawyer, who haß been admitted recently to the Ontario Bar,ias been made & junior partner in the legal firm of ShUlon, Walbridge and Martin, Toronto. She intends to specialise on the laws relatingto woman, her citizenship, her estates, her children, and her individual responsibilities. Curiously enough her first case was concerned, not with her sex, but with commercial law. She argued it very capitally before Judge Marson, and won it. She is described as an earnest and attractive young woman, her most striking characteristic being her indomitable perseverance. The British Medical Jturnal contains a very salutary warning that should appeal particularly to women. It cites the case of a serious accident through the use of a comb for the hair made of nitro-cellulose compound, which is closely allied to guncotton, made to imitate tortoiseshelL The comb came too neara-candle, and although, it did not -actually Teach it, it burnt with, suddenness and badly injured the wearer. Actual contact with a spark or fire is not necessary it appears, to cause these things to ignite. A lady correspondent, who was tempted by reference to inflammable combs, to try if one she was wearing had tbisquality, had a .somewhat terrifying experience. She placed the comb on an iron tray, and to the extreme end momentarily applied a lighted taper. "In three seconds * there rose a column of fire over two. feet in height and quite five inches in diameter, which continued ten seconds or more, and threw out a tremendous heat, quite appreciable at a distance of tea ieet."