The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-21
W0MAN'S WORLD.
Activity in the PrOfessiOns-yoia-
bilities at Home and Abroad.

DllltltS 1T HOiuC anu aoAVAN'
Women doctors can now practice in
all parts of the Russian empire. They
are obliged to wear a certain decora-
ton to denote their profession.
The average Wellesley college girl
weighs 1894 pounds and is a trifie
over 8 feet 2 inches in height.
The council of the Alexandra Col
lege for Girls In Dublin have decided
to include practical horticulture IN
the curriculum, and classes are now In
formation. BY this mea floricul-
tura and horticulture may become ex-
cellent resources for women who either
do not care for or do not have II op-
portunity of cultivating another kind
/ of ''husbandry."
The etiquette of the Holland court
requires that the little Qneen reg
nant shall be addressed as King
Wilhelmina.
Mrs. Amelia Barr, the story writer,
is said to make more money than
does the Chief Justice of the United
States.
Miss Ida Lewis has an offer to go
upon the stage, bnt ii is hardly likely
! that she will accept it. She is too
| good natured q woman, ana after saw
ing so many lives on the rockbound
shores of Narragansett Bay, would
have no heart TO paralyze people with
her acting.
Mrs. Charlotte Crabtree ('Lotta'0
is about to build a four story brick
store building, to cost $50, 900, on One
Hundred and Twenty-ffth street,
near Madison avenue, New York.
Mrs. Ye Cha Yum, the wife OF the
Corean charge d'affaires at Washing
ton, is a most picturesque woman.
She IS short of stature and rather
slender, with the dark, slant eyes OF
the orient. Her husband has adopted
American attire, but this is forbidden
Mrs. Yum, and she wears the dress OF
her native country-a gown like the
crinoline of thirty wears ago. Her
head is covered with a turban. to
which a black tassel is attached
Washington Letter.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the AIneri-
can author, is seriously i'll in Paris.
She has not left her room for six
months, and has not quilted her bed
since early in December.
Ellen Terry's son is a handsome
young fellow OF twenty, who wears
| spectaeles and has hair like his
mothers. He plays the part of a
younger brother to his mother in
i'Ravenswood, " and is said to play it
we'll.
Mrs. Tibbles, better known as
bright Eyes, who has been sent
among the Indians by a Western
paper to investigate the causes of
their discomfort, affirms that incom-
petent interpreters are responsible for
a great many of the wild and absurd
statements credited to Indian orators.
As she is herself an Indian, and an
educated woman as well, she is pecu-
liarly fitted for the work she has I'M
dertaken.
Miss Florence Window, the daugh-
ter Of the Secretary, is more than an
amateur artist. She has been study
ing in Boston for some time, and has
done work which critical judges have
pronounced more than ordinary.
Mrs. Emily Todd Helm, who has
been r%eappointed postmistress of
ElizabethIown, KY, is the aunt OF
Robert Lincoln and is the widow of a
Confederate general.
Kaiser Wilhelm's sister, the Prin-
cess Of Meiningen, has developed a
ldltLlb lOI libcl dLui0 lAAub 10 IckdiuS0
as remarkable. Her principal efforts
so far have been to translate some of
tine German classics into modern
| Greek.
A~rchduchess Maria Dorothea is one
of the beauties of the Austrian i'm
perial family. She is above medium
height, with dark hair and eyes and a
fresh complexion. She is noted for
her charities and for her skill in piano
playing.
Miss Julia Marlowe has quite re-
covered from her recent serious i'll
ness, and is now residing with her
mother at No. 210 West 103d street,
| New York. Her mother recently gave
up her residence in Wichita, Kansas,
| and moved to New York.
The Best Stimulus for Success.
No better preparation exists for
making ones way than having a way
to make. The stimulus OF effort from
poverty, the necessity of industry, the
advantage of thrift and the achieve
ment if possible alone to energy of
character, are all heritages of the poor
young man, better fitting him for the
| hu+Ifa 81 life than a fDrfrnn Iaff him