JOTINGTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11282, 9 January 1915, Page 3

JOTINGTS.

Appearing at the Albert Hall in October last, was a Japanese prima donna, Madaxaa Miura, who is reputed to be a singer with a great future before her.

Lack Limerick, noted ae a brilliant ntusi-f fcian, haa made a great success of selling j Irish, shamrock for the benefit of the trcapaa j Queen Alexandra ordered them in profusion' for the Irish Guards, so that each mmi should have a bunch. J

Kansas City is to have a ten-storey office} building which will be for the exclusive use < of women. The building will be designed, by a woman architect and a woman eapi-jj talisfc will finance the undertaking. Women j will hold the positions as agents, janitors,; elevator operators, and porterß. ;

There has of late years been great uneasiness as to the activity of Mormon niissions. So powerful has been the success ot their missionaries that it is estimated that) from Europe alone, exclusive of England,, between 800 and 900 girls are sent hom* annually to Utah.

The richest little girl in America ia Mardan Ami Gavit. eight years of age, whose for-1 tune amounts to nearly three millions. Sh«] was the heiress of hor grandfather, T. Brady. She has not been saved fromg sorrow, for her mother died three years ago* She is always watched by detectives for fsw* of being kidnapped. " \

Mrs Edgeworth David says that when t*.' cently in London, good-looking women stationed af the street corners selling ffiifirfc-t jjvtte literature. But, invariably for tßsi most part disreputable-looking sandwich menj employed by the anti-suffragists stood besid«j them wearing a placard stating—" Women] don't want votes." And whenever a. woman! stopped to buv a suffragette paper the. men.] would exclaim, " 'Ear the other side, lydiOj

Miss Maud Sellers. Litt.D.. of Trinity!? College, Dublin, and Mary Bateson Fellow] of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1910-1911J waa the recipient last rear at York of thW honorary- freedom of the Merchant Adventurers' Company, being the first woman thus admitted f or four hm:dred years. She ha* recently calendared and transcribed the company's records, and has investigated tha' history of He company in Holland, and Germany. !

Thirty-three girls in a. straight line off descent" without the birth of a, boy was marked recently when a da-tighter was born; to Mr and Mrs Silas W. Jackaon, of Law-" renceburg, Indiana. This baby is the eleventh daughter" The record of the mother, grand-jd mother, and great-grandmother, _ none ofl| whom ever gave birth to a boy, is perkaiwH the only one of its kind in the world, gtffl& at lea*t.- that portion where vital are kept. ** 1 '

Few Queens of onr time have succeeded in inspiring so much affection outside their ' own conn try a? Carmen Svlva, who has uu-j dergone. an operation on her eyes. She Mgreat] v beloved in Rumania, but it is *»j "Carmen Sylva," the writer of so manjrj books, that she is best known to the worl'dS at large. Queen Elizabeth ham for yeara.j espoused the cause of the sightless, audfj about seven years ago she established s.'i " Citv for the Blind " in the neighbourhood, j of Bukharest. She iff now a widowed an*j dowager Queen, whose sympathies must be>i active" in the war now raging, she being ail German by birth. j

The Romans had an enthusiasm for precious stones amounting almost: to madness^ 1 Many instances of this love of gorgeousnes* oc-ur in Roman- history. Servilla, fh» mother of Brutus, received as s gift from .Tuliux Cre.snr a pearl valued at £50.000. Cleopatra's ear-rimrs alone were valued aft £lfil.ooo. Lolli Paulina, the wife of tIH Tvmperor Cslignla, adorned herself for an ordinarv betrothal feast with emeralds and! p«arl? 'worth nearly £350,000. This extraordinary extravagance is noted again ancft again, and we. find that nearly a quarter'*. of a million was given for a single pieow' of jewellery. 1