The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-19
WOMAN AND HER WORLD
A Budget Of Crisp Foreign Gossip
for Maid, Wife and
Mother.
Discrimination in Favor Of the
"Beauty" in an English
Family.
j. 8. S%argent's "La Carmencita' in the
Royal Academy-"Reduced Gentlewo-
men" Looking for Situations.

Especial Correspondence of The INDEPENDENT.
LONDON, May Att is ar extraordinary
and inexplicable rule that forces women
who have taken collegiate honors, and
who are acknowledged to be in no way in
ferior in mental discipline to their masou-
line fellow students, to be unable to COM
mand the salary that men receive as a mat
ter of course. One of the royal colleges
for women inserts an advertisement in the
leading scientific weeklies for a woman who
has had experience in laboratory work, and
who 1s entirely capable of preparing a stu
dent for a chemical examination. The sal
airy mentioned is G3 a week. Il is abso-
lute!y impossible to obtain the services of a
man for the sum mentioned; but only too
many women are capable and willing to
give their depth of knowledge, their time,
and their lives for a beggarly rittance that
a man would think lowering to the stand
ard of scientific remuneration.
An English family is proverbially a large
family, and as a rule more than half of the
members of the large family" are COM
posed of 'sisters," while the "brothers,"
by reason of their scaroeness, are looked
upon as a luxury, and are appropriately
cherished. Now a family of girls is a velv
nice thing, and if they are good looking
girls they are still nicer. There is always
sure to be one sister, however, who is the
''besuty,'' and she is, of course, the one to
be looked up to and treated with a due
amount of reverence and regard. Now,
why should all the lesss, lights in this CON
stellation of feminine and family stars
wish to dress themselves from the tops of
chair hGaHE IN tho Gnlnu of thair nr,oIJ
feet exactly as the acknowledged leader Of
the %sigterly contingent is atti ed. What
looks tasc mating and charming on top OF
her curly brown locks may look
e~omnonPiace and stupid on her younger
treSses. The clinGiug ball gown
that leaves bnle the white neck and shout
ders of one sister may entirely ruin the an
gular figure of the other. Yet they will
persist IN this fotiv. You can spot IL
family Fnrty at any time. however they may
be separated. 1t certainly Is u useful means
of Identification, but 1T always looks to
r1apN Of Us as if an accommodating shop
man had toid Il certain number of yards of
stuff or a certain number of cloaks or hata
at Il reduced Iate because of the quantity
purchased.
Ono II the most discussed and greatly
admired pictures i'll this yeas royal aced-
eiug Is by Il w~e!l-known American, Mr. j. S.
Sargent. The aubjeot of his picture is IL
C"t nencitn," IA spanish dancer, who
made her debut in New York {
couple of wears ego, and by dint OF
much ingenious advertising created :
tremendous aeunation. In MIR. Sargent,
picture she IL standing. arms akimbo, evil
Gently waiting for her cue to run on tbs
stage. The artist Inns caught the fire ant
spanish grace OF the woman's face and fig
ura to perfection. although it is, of course
an idealised reproduction of Il rather com
mon-plece subject. The daring grace o
tle dusky head, and the proud swirl of tn