The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-23
About Women.

About Women.
Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, is
said to have ''the most beautiful eyes in the
world"
Miss Mary L. Booth, Editor Of Harper's Ba-
var is suffering from painful, and prolonged
attack of infammatory rheumatism COM
biued with a pleuritic affection.
The Postnistress of Xenia, Ohio, draws net
salary Of $4,000.
Miss Molle Allen, of Napa, California, q
maiden of twelve or thirteen, has killed more
game with her small telescope rifle than any
two hunters in that region this winter. She
made $50 on squirrels tails last summer, get
ting only cents apiece At shooting match
last year she took 80 many prizes that her
bearded opponents ruled her out of the ring.
The Woman's Medical College of Pennsyl-
vania, which was the first of its kind estab-
lished, has so prospered as to render necessary
a new and much larger building for the carry
ing on of its work. This new building, OF
which Mr.. Addison Hutton is the architect, Is
rapidly approaching completion. 1t is sltua-
ted directly east of the college quarters, which
will be heuceforth occupied wholly by the Wo-
mans Hospital-the two institutions having
been heretofore sheltered under one roof. The
new edifice is of three stories, with front of
liz nv a depth of so feet-aDd with lecture
room accommodation for class of $40 stu
dents. The outfit of the college is said to be
very complete. A department for the thorough
instruction of women desiring to become
practitioners of pharmacy has been added to the
college. 1t is under the. direct supervision of
the Professor of Matera Medca and Tberapeu-
ties, and OF his assistant, young lady who has
Received a thorough training in the establish
meut of one of the best-known pharmacists in
Philadelphia. The medicines needed in the
Woman's Hospital will be furnished from the
laboratory of this department. Provision has
also been made for the thorough practical edu-
cation of woman for dentistry.
Mr.. Conway gives an account of new lee
turer in London, Mrs. Annie Besant, who,
from being the wife of High Church clergy
man. has become radical writer and speaker.
Her husband separated from her for this rea-
son. She has the highest culture, and is ac.
quainted not only with the various European
languages but wit h the bearings of their litera-
ture on the subjects on which she is part'cu-
larly interested. She is what may fairly DO
described as beautiful, being less than thirty
years of age, and with the soft, clear eyes, rich
brown hair. delicate oval face and refined
features which make the best type of English
beauty She is rather under the average size,
and dresses with a taste which can only be
ascribed to the influence of education in Paris
acting upon mind naturally endowed with
noe artistic sense. She stood on the platform
hol, s., ~ aLirt and black
velvet basque, with white lace ruffie around
the neck. There is no gesticulation, and yet
an occasional slight bending forward of the
form, or an unconscious movement of the
shapely head, or of the mouth-the flashing or
the sparkling of the eyes az the telling arrow
Of logic or wit speeds from the arch lips
do more effective work than all those gestures
which are the natural accomplishments of
mere defamation. Although she is in SYM
patty with the movement for the snfranchise-
ment of her sex, her main work is that of a
religious free-thinker and republican reformer.
Madame Catacazy, wife of the former Rus
sian Minister to this country, denies the re-
port that she has separated from her husband.
She says that his enemies will soon learn that
his temporary withdrawal from political life
mas no IuOIe ltupdlitu ucr uuSuduu cucIBicS
than it has shaken his wifes devotion.
Louisa NJ. Alcott recently received letter
from good old lady in Amsterdam, who wrote
in quaint broken English to thank 'the Lady
Louisa" for the pleasure she had received In
reading her books.
Carl Schurz has always been his wife's hero,
writes Mary Clemmer from Washington. A
little girl in Hamburg, she worshiped the pic
tured image of the Rsvolutionist whom she
had never seen. After leaving school she Wis.,
tied Londcn, and friend said: 'You must
come to my house this evening and see the
wonderful Carl Schurz." The maiden came,
and in a remote corner worshiped from afar the
young lion of the occasion. The friend said to
CARL "There is little Hamburg girl here who
adores you as a far-off hero You must know
her." HE was introduced" said the sweet
voice, ''and what do you think he said of me?
When my friend asked: What do you think of
her. why, all he thought was, she seems
good, healthy girl He didn't admire me at
all-not then" He must have managed to do
80 pretty soon after, however, for they were
married within year, before he was twenty
one or she seventeen.
There is Mrs. WhyborD, in England, aged
100 years. Without attempting to say why. we
think it very plain that she was not born to