Cleanings.

White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1 September 1895, Page 4

Cleanings.

More than half the working girls of Berlin, are members of the society for the benefit and protection o* working girls. The Good Templar organisation was the first temperance society to admit women on terms of equality. This it did in IS6I. 44 The best that any mortal hath is that which every mortal shares.” The great Polyglot Petition contains seven million signatures, attached in fifty languages. Madame Antoinette Sterling was present at all the great Convention meetings. “ Her voice was never in better condition.” At a recent London concert the whole programme was made up from selections from the [Compositions of women.

The Woman's Signal says, “Mrs Sheppard, of New Zealand, has been heard with pleasure and profit on London platforms.” At the great farewell Convention meeting in Execter Hall, 30 women delegates from all parts of the world, spoke in the course of one hour. Nearly 200 women have taken Meuical Diploma entitling them to enter their names on the British Register of duly qualified Medical Practitioners. Rudyard Kipling derives his strange Christian name from a reservoir in Staffordstill called Rudyard Lake, on the banks which Mr Kipling’s father proposed to the mother of the poet and novelist of our day A Miss Fairclough conducts a “ School of Cookery with the Use of Electricity,” in London. Within two weeks fourteen bodies of murdered infants were found in London. Miss Winifred Dickson, an Irish lady, is the only woman fellow' of the Royal College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom. Two Ulster women have the L.L.8., and one the L.L.D. degree of the Royal University of Ireland. Two medical women with degrees are practising medicine in Belfast. The “ Woman’s Commentary on the Bible ” is to be issued under the superintendency of Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A lady writer suggests that women should take up house-painting and decorating. Russia has introduced female tram conductors. A woman auctioneer has made her appearance London.