WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Madame Melba has made up hor -mind to visit Melbourne in July or .August, and expresses herself as longing -'to see her native place again. .

Madame Albani, when in Sydney, was the guest of Lord and Lady Hampden. ! She had the honour of receiving a cablegram, from the Queen expressing her gratification at the prima donna's safe arrival in Australia.

It is a rare thing for a lady to have a "stick collecting" hobby, but this is one of Lady Arthur Grosvenor's, and she buys quaint- or rare Bticks f or her collection in all sorts of queer places. She recently purchased several with most runpronounceable names from Demerara.

Miss J. Donald, a native of Carlisle, has been honoured recently by the Geological Society, which has awardedher the balance of the Murchison Fund. She has given no fewer than five papers before the Society, chiefly upon gasteropoda. Miss Donald, who represented women geologists at the Chicago World's Fair Congress, draws all "lier specimen illustrations for the lithographer herself.

I PrincesSißeatriceof Battenberg is greatly | interested in thesubject of lace making and lace. She has a collection of specimens worth a king's ransom, and by way of ornament cares less for jewels than the beautiful -spun and woven webs which.she loves to wear. She has a voluminous scrap book with ivory covers, in which she pastes patterns of lace, with accompanying notes in-her own royal writing.

British women are by no means idle. "During the past year no less than 206 women-were included in the total number, .2813, of matriculated students at the University of Edinburgh. Of thisnumber 191 women were-enrolled in *the Faoulfcy-of Arts, 4in the Faculty of Science, 6 in the Faculty of Medicine, and 5 in tho Faoulty of Music. The number of women attending extra-academical lectures, with a view in medicine in the University, •was -74.

When the Queen wishes to be photo(graphed she tells her secretary to communicate with the firm of photographers she prefers, appointing a day upon which their chief representative is to arrive at •the castle. At Windsor a studio is used which was originally set up by the Prinoe Consort. Her Majesty is one of the most patient and considerate Bitters ever .known, and often betrays ' a pleasing ■ r feminine curiosity in regard to the various

The Duchess of Marlborough knows the name of every servant on the Blenheim Estate, and takes a deep interest in the circumstances of her husband's dependents. Manytimes has she received confidences from those -with whom Bhe has been brought in contact, and has given advice and practical help in numerous cases. It is said thatshe is very popular with the ohildren of the neighbourhood, who run to her when she walks by the cottages and are not the least in awe of her.

The.£rstwoman:residentphyßician in a general hospital was a Jewess, Dr Joseph-; me Wllter. The first woman dentist of' Germany was a Jewess, Dr . Fanny Sternfeldt. The fifth training school for nurses •established' in America was founded by a Jewess, Mrs Alma Hendricks, of New York. The largest scholarship ever bestowed on an art student was given by a Jewess, Mrs J. H. . Lazarus, of New York. Mrs Tennant (May Abraham) was the first woman factory inspector in .London, and the latest projected movement in New York, to empower trained nurses to become inspectors of tenement districts, has been started by a ! Jewess.

The Humane Society's medal has seldom j been awarded a woman for a* braver deed' than that 'which was performed by a Miss Emma Hutton, of Yorkshire, last December. Miss Hutton's tiny niece, a child of

rour years of age,.inadvertently fell into a well, and her aunt, who is only eighteen years old, immediately jumped in to save the -little one. The well, a fairly deep one, contained nearly five feet of icy-cold water, and in this Miss Hutton.sfcood nearly ud to her neck for quite two hours, her tiny; niece being perched upon her shoulders.' The child suffered nothing, but Miss Hutton wa3 insensible for thirteen hours after being rescued.

It is said that thelrish language is dying? out. Ten years ago' 64,000 people spoke? nothing but pure Irish. In 1891 there were ' 38,000. In 1881 there were 886,000 who j could speak Irish and English, and last * year'tliere-were^i_ljr642,ooo. •