Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-01-15

The Woman's Canning and Preserv-
ing Company is new Chicago venture
whose cannibaiistic title does it grave
injustice.
Ia Australia there are many women's
clubs. The principal dentists have
women assistants. and a woman has be.
gun business as a house decorator
Three European nations have women
at the head Of their governments to-day
England, Spain. and Holland. OF
these, Spain and Holland are under
regencies.
Women are working so generously
and wisely all over the South for the
higher education of women that North.
ern colleges must look to their ways OF
suffer in the comparison.
Although, no doubt, the writing of
plays is nothing more than an amuse.
ment to Mrs Charles Avery. it could, il
necessary, supply her with not only the
necessities of life. but a goodly share of
lis luxuries as we'll.
Mrs. John Curtis. of New York, has
organized Peoples Orchestra. {"
which numbers so or go performers. The
fees for admission are nominal, and
most of its graduates are filling good
positions as teachers or members of
bands and orchestras in New York.
Mrs. Douglas Gordon, Mrs Henry
Winter Davis, and Miss Mary Garrett,
who were mainly instrumental in secur-
ing the sum of money which is to open
the Medical School of Johns Hopkins
tInlUaFSlfu y ff l.
TO raise the half million endowment
fund which is necessary to the practical
success of the new scheme.
Queen Emma. OF Holland, who will
be regent during the minority of
Princess Wilhelmina, has greatly en-
deared herself to the Dutch people by
her domestic qualities. She has been
most attentive nurse to her husband,
and is a singularly wise and devoted
mother. She has also bestowed much
attention upon politics, and is we'll fitted
to fill the position she will soon assume
Mrs. Harriet Crocker Alexander.
daughter of the late Charles Crocker,
of Calf ~nia, the railroad millionaire,
has ms gift of a new building
to Princeton University. 1t will lie
the finest, most costly, and best
equipped building of its kind belonging
to any college in the country. The
new hall will be a memorial to the
Alexander family, Is Of whom have
been graduated from Princeton.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson advises middle
aged and elderly women to play at ball
for half an hour every day. French
women of leisure use a daily gymnaslic
drill with parallel bars and wooden
horses, ropes and ladders, and for that
reason Mrs. Anderson thinks they are
much less subject to Indigestion, rheu-
matsm, vertigo, and other ills of adj
vancing age than are English or Ameri-
can matrons in easy circumstances
In France, in the postoffice aud tele-
graph service, about 5000 women are
engaged, with salaries from S160 to $500
a year and pensions after 30 years serv-
ice. Many women work i'm railroad
offices for from 5000 to $240 a year.
About $4,000 women are teachers in
public schools. and almost as many
more are religious teachers, beside
those In private schools
Lady doctors, according TO a recent
Russian decree, may now practice
freely in all parts Of the empire, and
will wear a certain decorat ion denot-
ing their profession. They acquire the
special right of practicing in all in
stitutions, gymnasia, and schools for
young ladies, and in all benevolent
establishments and hospitals for women.
They may also practice in hospitals, dis
pensaries, and ambulances belonging to
the Zemstvos, and are exempt from the
obligation imposed by law upon their
male colleagues of attending as experts
in criminal trials
Lady Florence Dixie is one of the
most talked of women in the United
Kingdom. She has head like hand
some boy, with short, wavy hair, full
of threads of gold. Her features are
bold. eyes fine, nose a little heavy,
mouth attractive and decided Her
complexion is brilliant, as of woman
who lives much out of doors AS all
the world knows. Lady Dixie uses
crosssaddle. Her habit is black, the
short, divided skirt partially covering
high riding boots of a natty description.
In doors she has equally the courage Of
her dress reform convictions A very
usual costume with her Is a white
flannel blouse or shirt, with Tartan
kits just covering the knees. and long
Tartan stockings.