Concerning Women.

White Ribbon, Volume 10, Issue 120, 15 May 1905, Page 10

Concerning Women.

Miss Susan B. Anthony celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday on Feb. 15th. * M rs Elizabeth P. Bliss lately celebrated her 100th birthday at Pueblo, Colorado. Mrs Bliss is described as “ a saintly woman, delightful in conversation, aleit in intellect, almost perfect in memory,” and is still vigorous in body. Mme Loubet, mother of the President of France, recently passed away at Narsanne in the same house in which she was born, reared, and married. She was in her ninety-third year and active almost up to the end. • Lady Marjorie Erskine has entered a children’s hospital as a child’s nurse, and will be known only as Nurse Erskine. A sister of the Duke of Sutherland entered a large London hospital, wishing to perform similar service, but had not health to continue. • Fraulein Johanna Nestorf, director of the museum of National Antiquities at Kiel, Germany, has been awarded the gold medal for scientific achievement by the Kaiser. • There are five women dentists in Bueuos Ayres. The Leipzig Board of Education has distributed among the mothers of pupils a leaflet describing a “ reform ” dress lor school and street wear. 1 he dress was exhibited in the school, and patterns were on sale at a few pence each. F'anny Crosby, the well-known blind hymn writer, has written over 0,000 hymns, besides many songs of the popular variety. She celebrated her 85th birthday on March 24th last. * In Denmark, at the University of Copenhagen, women have for many years past been allowed to take any degree except that in divinity. A Royal

Resolution ot Dec. 30th last, granted them this right also. Church suffrage was secured for women a feW years ago, and the government party in the Rigsdag, in January last, issued a manifesto saying, “ as regards municipal and political liberty and equality, ali should enjoy the same rights, irrespective of class, fortune, or sex.” Municipal and parliamentary suffrage are therefore expected at no distant date.