Connecticut western news., 1889-12-18
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 Apropos of doctors the London medical journals make mention of the fact that several of the so-called weaker sex have passed successful examina- tions of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the English Apothe- carries Hall, and are qualified dis penscrs. Of these graduates, Miss Emeline Cook has been appointed dis penser of the Children's Hospital at Brighton; Miss Martha Moore is as- signed to take charge of Dr. Bar nardo's East End Medical Mission, and Miss Bowen is permanently es- abolished at the Ear and Throat Hos- pital in Great Charles street. Surely this is woman's age, and the good natured world is making room for her at the head.
 Every guest chamber is provided with a night lamp, or as fashion has decreed, should be. Some of the de- signs are exceedingly pretty and quite inexpensive. The metal lamps, better known as nursery lanterns, are tri- faced ,and show an owl, a cats face and the head of water spaniel, with mock jewels in the eyes through which the light streams. There are classic shapes with dragon faces, griffin hand dies and high chimneys of colored glass, illustrative of the German rena- issance, while the lanterns of black cned iron, with prism crystals, that swing from slender rods are copied after the sixteenth century lamps that burnt in the lofty cathedrals before the entrance of some sacred tabernacle.
 Women who are accustomed to travelling now carry robes and blankets on the cars precisely as they do on the steamships. They unstrap them and use them during the daytime to throw over their skirts whenever they feel like putting their feet on the seats in front of them in the parlor and sleep ing cars. Thus equipped it matters not how far their skirts may work up above their shoes-the blankets cover them from the knees down. Of course they explain that they carry the robes to save themselves from colds. On the other hand, the colored porters of the same car keep the temperature at 90 degrees, and would consider them- selves incompetent if whiff of fresh air should steal into car in their charge.
 Mrs. Marcy Henderson of New York, who is of the opinion that colored table decorations have been overdone, gave what she was pleased to term a white dinner Wednesday evening. The china was of the purest white Royal Derby. White silver and cut crystal candelabra, vases and violet bowls held respectively white wax candles with silver shades, snowy lilies and silvery bonbons tied with moire ribbon, which also fastened the nap kins. White violets floated in the finger bowls and the bouquets for the ladies and gentlemen were composed of white orchids. White soups. fish and meats preserved the unity of color; the vcge- tables and dark viands were smothcred i'll cream gravies and celery sauce; the white grapes and pale fruits were tied with white ribbons; the caramel and chocolate buildings were sprinkled with preserved orange blossoms, and the sweet biscuits had snow-white frostings,
 Miss Margaret Emma Ditto, whose "One Little Injun Boy" made her famous, and whose short stories have made her wealthy, lives ill charming house at Wellesley, Mass. The house, which she planned, built and furnished herself, is gray stone cottage, one and q half stories high, with a gable roof and turret gallery. All the floors are of hard wood, the rooms are ventilated by large, open tireplaces, and by means of sliding doors the par lors, library and dining-room can be thrown into great hall. One charm of the pretty home is it's abundance of cushioned seats built in the corridors, ingle hooks and window -sills. Miss Ditto is a woman of unusual height, well proportioned, excellent health and fine bearing. Her brown hair, which is just tinged with gray, is worn parted down the middle in the simple old fashion and coiled ill knot at the neck. She is gracious and cordial in manner, her voice is extremely pleas ant. and she has reached that degree of success where she can write or dream, according to the mood in which she is in.
 Mrs. Robert w. Chapin, of New York, who has contributed $40, ,OOO as an endowment fund for training probability bring about revolution in the nursery. The new enterprise is to be run in connection with the Babies Hospital, and her friends have pledged to supply whatever sum may be needed to carrv on the work. It is the inten- ton of the founder to limit the num- Der of pupils in order to secure a su- pcrior grade of excellence, and before graduation it will be necessary for the student to possess some attainments or efficiency other than that called for in the course of study.
 The young woman must show in various ways her fitness and ability to reach the child's heart. She must be gentle in manner and pleasing in ap- pearance; she must understand the ways and means of reaching the child something of the spirit of the Froebel system-and she must be at once songbook, story-book and compendium of familiar science. When the course