St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-23
HERE AND THERE.
News About Women From the
Worlds Four Quarters.

News About Women From the
Worlds Four Quarters.
Women suffragists have more ardent
supporters of their cause among men in
England than do the women of America.
The Duchess Karl TheOdor i'm Ba-
varia is, like her husband, an opthalmic
physician, and assists her husband IN
his large practice.
The Fredrika Bremen society, IN
Stockholm, has awarded two money
prizes for the best books for young peo-
pie. The first prize was awarded to the
we'll known writer, Frau Mathilde Lon
berg.
BY special decree of the University of
Oxford Cornelia SOrabji, B. A, of Bonn
bay, a student of SOmerville hall, who
has been reading law for two years, was
admitted to the examination of the B.
c. l.. degree.
Lady Dufferin has invented new
| garden party beverage, over which
PariSianS are raving as only PariSans
can. The drink consists of strawberries
mashed In cream and sweetened, upon
which ClicquOt frappe is frOthed from
SiphOn.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts, Mrs. j.
A. Spurgeon, Mrs. Charles Spurgeon.
Mrs. Thomas Sturgeon. Mrs. q. Will
Jams and Mrs. AT. Pierson have plant
ed memorial trees in the grounds of
Stockwell Orphanage, to celebrate
founders day, the birthday of the late
Rev. Charles SpurgeOn.
1t is said by those within the pale that
overndulgence in Intoxicating beyer-
ages is lamentably on the increase
among fashionable women in England.
French, German and Italian women are,
in spite of their wine and beer drinking
propensities, really more temperate,
than English women.
According to London correspondent,
the development of women's work in
the mission field, despite the pecuniary
difficulties of one society, seems likely
to go on apace. The Church Missionary
society lately accepted the active service
of no fewer than fifteen ladies, some of
whom are ready to brave the difficulties
of work in those very parts of China
which have so recently been the scene
of disorder.
Mile. Jeanne Chauvin, lcentiate in
letters philosophy and laureate of the
law faculty of Paris, read her thesis for
the dOctOrate of law before the presi-
dent of the law faculty, NJ. Bendant,
and Profs. Gerardin, Esmein and Larn-
aude, in public seance recently. PRO
1tSSlOuS ACCCSolDlC W w Oillcll dUu Tile
Historical Evolution of the Economic
Position Of Woman in Society," was the
subject which the learned young lady
chose for her lecture.
There are more than sixty co-opera-
tive societies of women of national
scope engaged in the philanthropic
work of the country. The Woman's
Relief corps, the Kings Daughters,
Young Woman's Christian association,
working women's guilds and working
girls clubs, educational and industrial
unions of various kinds which own and
erect buildings, establish schools, day
nurseries and kindergartens, and col
lect and dlsburse vast sums of money to
the needy.
Miss Isabel Hampton, superintendent
of the trained nurses at John Hopkins
hospital, Baltimore, has been appointed
member of the Maryland committee
on women's exhibits at the worlds fair.
A great feature will be made at Chicago
of the work of Maryland nurses. Miss
Hampton is we'll known as an earnest
advocate of the higher education of
women and the enlargement of their
sphere of usefulness. She is also known
in the literary world by many ex-
celIent articles She has contributed on
] the subject of her profession.