WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10301, 4 November 1911, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

The women painters of Sydney havo become important enough to hold im annual exhibition of their own. The one just opened by Lady Dennmn is the second they have had. Art-work of all kinds is eagerly taken up by the women of New South Wales. Cambridge nnd Oxford have long been regarded us the citadels of conservatism. Fortunately (ho sister institutions are. less narrow. The Convocation of London University, by a vote of 247 to 26, has passed a. resolution in favour of woman suffrage, and appointed a deputation to lay thoir views before the I'runo Minister. The forty-ninth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington was celebrated in Lexington, Missouri, by the unveiling of the Epworth and Frances E. Willard memorial windows in the Chapel of Central College for Women—a chapel which, when entirely finished and furnished, will bo one of the finest in America. Those two windows are each 22ft high. Of the four women who taught in tin first Ragged School in Sydney, Miss Sophie Corrie 13 tho only one still living. Hor interest in the work 13 as keen as ever, and she is looking forward to meeting once again Sir John Kirk, director of the Ragged Schools in England, by whom sho was entertained when visiting tho Old Country three years ago. Among royal authors must be ranked the j accomplished cx-Queeu Amolie of Portugal. I For yearn she published anonymously novels j which are Raid to possess real merit, using | the pen-name " Chilosß." It will be remembered that she studied medicine and became a qualified M.T). Sho was also a famous swimmer, nnd on two occasions resoued persons from drowning 1 . Vera Miwol Gammon is tho name of the littlo blind deaf mute who is often spoken of as tho Helen Keller cf Minresota. She v.as less than four when she became blind, and less than a year afterwards she lost her hearing. When placed in tho State School for tho Doaf in Minnesota she was believed to bo without average intelligence. Her teacher is Miss Blanche Hanson. At the celebration of tho five-hundredth anniversary of tho foundation of the University of St Andrews, two women received the honorary detrreo of LL.IX, Miss Louisa I. Lunisdeii, one, of the three " Girton pioneers," first headmistress of St. Leonard's School, St Andrews, and first warden of University Hall, Si Andrews, and Mrs Henry Sidgewick, late head of Xownham College, Cambridge. Miss Margaret Baskervilio has the unique honour of bnnp; Melbourne's only woman sculptor. Sho ha.) just received ;v commission to execute' in bionze the memorial to tho lato Sir Thomas Bent, which will bo a stR-tuo, on a pedestal of granite 12ft high. Tim statue it.snlf will be Oft in heipht, and Uie fotn! r.osc will be ffiOO. At the women's Inhibition Mi"? Bask-;rvillt> exhibited a figure —" Tho Athlete " —winch revealed power, and promise cf greater things to conic. Tho lan!, years of Eroehel were devoted to the Iniiniiur of women, in whoso hands, ho doclared, " the hope of tho future lies," and he held that the kindergarten should become " the mother school," where young women 'should havo their pewrrs developed and orrraniscd, and whore full traininsr could be (riven in every branch of woman's work as well an in tho care and education of children. Wholi ho died his talontod niece, Henrietta Schrador-Brayrnflnn, who had lived and worked with him, carried on the f.:ood work ho had bcjrim, and under hor fruidnnoo tlui first ..lYiywlor.'i Frcebe] llaus was opened in Berlin in 187-1. Kor the first lime in the historv of Dublin Universitv (founded by Queen Elizabeth} a woman student — Olive M'Cormock—has been awarded n mathematical scholarship. Miss M'CoriiKiclc obtained second place. She is :i RufTrajrisl. AVcrnen havo also ranked lnVli in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos this year. Miss Eleanor Beatrice Harvey has been cln-orj'M.l as Wrangler, and women have n<ri'in beaten men in tho Mrdiseval and Modern L'tinruac"3 Tripos. Eight men obtained fivit clar.R honours, and twelve women (si.-; of Girton and six of Newvdiam) have been pieced in the dvt class. One of the most notable features this year has been the remarkabln growth ol (he study of Natural Science amonir women.