The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-10
WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Seventeen Year-0ld Blind Girls
Improvements.

Improvements.
Miss Aston, a blind girl, not yet
seventeen, has m~atriculated at the
Melbourne University. She has been
blind from infancy, but is uncom-
monty bright and intelligent, as well
as pretty. Among other subjects, she
passed in French, Latin, arithmetic,
and algebra. As may be imagined,
special arrangements had to be ma de
for her examination. She was ac-
companied by an assistant teacher
from the school for the blind, where
| she was educated for eight years. The
assistant transcribed her answers,
written in Braille, into the ordinary
characters. Miss Aston is, in addition
to he. own requirements, an excellent
musician, and is said to be deeply
anxious to earn her own living.
A writer in a ladies' journal has a
word OF encouragement for girls who
lament having red hair. The Cathe-
rines who made Russia great had red
hair, so had Maria Theresa, who saved
Austria, and made il the empire that
it is; so had Anne of Austria, who
ruled France for so long; so had
Elizabeth of England and Catherine
Borgia. as we'll as Marie Antoinette,
whose blonde tresses had in them a
CLINT of gold.
the most popular Lord Lieutenant OF
Ireland in recent years, is very prom
inent in good works, devotion to
.x,l,toA ..rIo rRt1xr naffcn1 "a hraaK-
down of health some time back and
necessitated foreign travel. The
Countess is home again, but looks
very delicate still. She is. however,
taking up her role again, Last week,
when visiting a children's hospital in
Glasgow and taking part in the func-
ton which vas the reason for gather
ing together the friends and we'll
wishers of the institution, Lady Aber-
deem, after an eloquent speech, visited
the suffering children in the hospital
ward, giving a spray OF white lila TO
each. and tender. sympathetic words
also. Professor Drummond escorted
Lady Aberdeen, and in his turn pre-
sented a copy of his charming book
let. PAX Vobiscum," companion of
THE Greatest Things in the World"
1t is an unwritten law that clergy
mems wives pocket the matrimonial
fees of their husbands office. The
wife OF a prominent rector who is much
in demand to tie the knot in society
cicles, confesses to having a reserve
fund made up entirely of bridegroom
generosity. The fees range from 81
to $50, $2J, $15 and $40 being very
common sums offered. Exceptional
fees are by no rare, and $3.50, or
even $500 has not been considered too
much by an occasional very wealthy
and very-much-in-love young husband.
Mrs. Mary Lowell is a woman of
many resources, and has ingeniously
perfected an arrangement which
serves as an automatic domestic much
more easily managed than the gen
uine articles. The bane of house
keeping to a woman is the lighting of
the kitchen fire in the chilly. dismal
dawn Mrs. Lowell is a scientific cleo
trician, and has fitted up wires in the
kitchen which communicate with her
bedstead in such a way that she has
but to touch a knob, and a little
shock is given to the fire, which is
carefully laid every night. When the
lady deliberately dresses and goes
down to her kitchen the fire is cheer
fully burning, the kettle is merrily
boiling, and the oatmeal is nearly
cooked. When a process is perfected
by which a lady can attach an electric
button to her rocking chair which will
wash the dishes while she reads OF
embroiders, the great servant problem
will cease from troubling.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, in
spired by strong sympathy and
interest in her husbands profession,
has recently written under his super
vision, a story scarcely less strange
in plot and curious in style than Ste
venson's early success, "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr.. Hyde" 1t was from her that
Lloyd Osborn, the o of her first mar
rage, inherited the taste for literature
that now enables him to earn his
living by his pen.
The lovely grand daughters of old
Papa HaveIneyer, girls who will bring
to the man they marry the comfor-
table dowry of 81, 900, 900 each, are de-
voted Baptists and special patron
esses of half a dozen big relief organi-
cations in the church. In the spring.
when their yacht is in commission,
they fill the big white craft to the rail
with poor babies and mothers, a fine
dinner and a band, and go for a sail
up and down the Sound. Twice each
summer this is their custom.
Because Mrs. Dimick, a sister of
Mrs. Harrison, draws a salary of 800
a month from the government as
-housekeeper at the White House,
Washington society shows a dispo-
sition to taboo her. Mrs. Dimick has
the choice of giving up her salary or
being considered outside of the gilded
circle, and decides to cling to the sal
ary. The President and Mrs. Harri-
son approve of her choice, and Wash
ington society is much agitated in
consequence.
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