St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-03
PASSING ALLUSIONS.
Brief Notes About Women and
Their Work.

Their Work.
The queen of Holland and her mother.
the queen-regent, met with most en-
thusiastic reception on their tour
through the Northern provinces of
Holland, where no royal person has
been for about twenty years. There
have been great festivities, professions,
regattaS, etc. AT Leeuwarden the
young queen received from 5000 women
beautiful Tristan dress; the cap was
especially costly, being embroidered
with gold and ornamented with dia-
monds.
The Miners International Federation
of Europe, which consists of 100000
MEN of five different nationalitieS, is
said to have been organized three years
ago by Miss Edith SimcoX. She found
the first members of this now powerful
order in labor and socialist congresses.
These she brought together in a poor
little cafe, and to the opinions of each
man, which she translated for the bene-
fit of the others. she added hints of her
own. and from this. small beginning has
arisen the immense society above men,
toned.
Miss Lilly E. Benn, who about three
years ago took up her residence in Lon
dOn has interested herself greatly in
the condition of the children and young
sewing classes for girls between the
ages of nine and thirteen. She provides
the material, pays for each garment
made, and the money thus earned by
the girls Miss Benn keeps for them,
giving them two pence in the shilling
interest as an encouragement for saw
ing. and allowing them to take out the
money when required for useful pur-
pose.
Nine. Viardot Garcia. who has had al
ready by will bequeathed Mozart MS. of
the opera Don Giovanni to the Paris
conseryatoire. lately resolved to make
the gift Of her lifetime, the score was
handed by NJ. Ambrose Thomas, and
was placed in the Conservative library.
The document. which is in MoZart's
handwriting. passed some time since
into the possession of the once famous
prilna donna, whose collection of auto
graphs likewise includes MendelSSohn'S
Psalm KILL. q cantata by Sebastian
Bach and other treasures.
Mrs. Emma p. Ewing, the lecturer on
cooking, declares that while improve
ments have been made in all other direc-
tons, practical cooking stands where it
did 100 years ago. Too much attention
is given to the parlor and drawing room
in proportion to what is given to the
kitchen. Every part of the house de-
mands attention, and the parlor should
contain as good furniture as you can
afford, but money should not be eXpend-
ed in the parlor while the kitchen con-
talnS not more than $40 worth of uten-
sis excepting the stove or range"
Mrs. Ormerod, the entomologiSt, in
letter to Earl Cathcart, declares herself
on the side of sparrow clubs. She says
that, whatever it may eat in town, it is
in the country, to her personal knowl-
edge, a cause of fearful loss. This is
not by its raids on cornfeldS, but. by
driving away the swallows and martins,
which are among the first class of our
insect protectors. Miss Ormerod adds
that, should the matter be brought for
ward she has large amount of evil
dence in her hands to show that the
sparrow is an absolute curse Gn its
fostered condition) to British agri-
culture.