The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-01-01

clude the eyeless needle. now used by sur
geons. the musical top. a folding fatiron. q
musical fountain. a superior kind, of dreS
registers whether the door IL locked or
not. q musical paper weight. and calendar
combined, and u carriage telephone.
The President OF Harvard College has prom.
ised that, II q quarter OF q million dollars could
be raised to defray the cost. the venerable
university would. admit women to its prlyi-
iieges by considering the annex q part OF the
institution.
Some years ago the French Government
fitted out a scientific expedition for tho pur-
pose OF making explorations on the site Of an
ancient palace in Persia. built by a mighty
warrior. five centuries before Christ. This
snvant" to whom was intrusted this expedi-
ton. NJ. Dieulafoy. was accompanied by his
wife. herself very learned. md q well-known
contributor to archaeological science. To Ia
ciltate her work the lady assumed male at
most Without eo seTsunii ssiiGs " wi tSff ass civil II.
i for no Torl ints sHn%sSd to all kinds . q privatIon;
the lady has refused to resume the ineonyen;
Mith t fsr iul P' co 5SR 2 oi S sepE SssbSns and and and
der special permit from tho police she wears
the regular masculine dress in Paris on all
William M. Salter. in IN address before the
Society for Ethical Culture. said recently that
" the richest result OF the movements for the
education and advancement Of women will be
In the circle OF the home. There Is no knowl-
e %ifS n oi bhIlisto siya i Or p : i SsSpn !, no ssi HSdpss al s,lSy
that may not come into play in q mothers
education Of her children. We do not always
realize that the ady,ancement Of woman means
the advancement OF man."
A gift Of 100000 has boon made to Barnard
College for n building. on condition that the
college should acquire suitable land within
100 feet OF the now site OF Columbia College.
on Morningside heights, The Trustees find
themselves face to face with q deficit OF $4,000
this year. as against $4,000 last year. Laws
tuition. President Low says Of the work Of the
women OF Barnard. that it is worthy oil praise
meeting the standards required for their do.
grees fully as we'll as the young men.
In Vienna it is said that Sarah Bernhardt
was compelled to appear before the official
Judges in all the dresses she was to wear in
the plays produced In tho Austrian capital
This scores one ahead OF Boston.
Queen Victoria wrote o volume OF verses
once. long ago. and as she sent them to a pub
Usher under a nom do plume. the Empress
sations Fl M by having the work promptly re-.
turned with thanks"
Awomanin Newburch owns the village street
roller and sprinkling business OF the town.
and has conducted 1t with great success and
Rromt ior ssTsn r,stsn years r.. she Inr employs hae TWEEN;
does her own collecting.
course Of lectures soon to be delivered to
society OF women by Gen. Francis Walker on
such solid intellectual food as 'The Restric-
G GSnss ., q iimP@ overtg." and @ 9ff,s'i kab5orer ana ana
His Employer" rather indicate that come
t TSS%sRR more no sn aRpoh Pai,s,G.ahI sn ihe s Se tae seat. t'stket Il
the theatre. are In lively demand.
A married woman has boon complain
ing that because she lives In town she sees
less Of her husband in ten years than her
country sister does In three. From q carefully
kept account she demonstrates that he spends
only forty-three hours a week with her.
cures. or course. town life does leave little
time for mutual ,comrnnionship. but on the
mutual boredom. which is an advantage when
Tie wrong man discovers after the Wedding
that he has swore to love and cherish the
wrong woman.
In nearly every Southern State n woman does
duty as State librarian. In Mississippi tho
Legislature has elected n woman to that posi-
ton for twenty years. and in South Carolina
the woman librarian receives S2.lOo g year.
According to private advlces from Neuwied-
on-the- Rhine. Carman sylvia is still far from
we'll. She can neither stand nor walk. though
she retains the use Of her hands and has lately
finished a novel called Snow" In which She
also translated into German a series of Rou-
Hmanian foik songs; It Is no secret at ths
pointments caused by the dismissal OF her
favorite and proteg6e. Mile. 'acareseua.
The American woman bids fair to distance
her English cousin as a sportswoman. There
is to-day no more fearless rider. steadier shot
or moro clever tennis player than this once
iisfs oi The lase d de! slat"S deiiis H%,sp in me h nSini:
faint Swa ys ON the tnrt sli si1l st. pT hnsm dnrpnc one re
best whips in England and France. learning to
tool a coach successfully, and means TO sur,
prise swelldom in the spring 10y occupying the
box seat of one OF tho smartest turnouts that
money can buy.
Adelina PATHS sister Carlotta. but for a ply
steal deformity. might have been as great an
opera singer as the diva. Her voice was OF
singular sweetness and COMPASS. reaching TO
G sharp In altissimo,. but her stage presence
was SO bad. owing to u lumeness. that she
could never appear in npera save In one OF
two parts wheie no walking was required.
Miss Grundtvig. a leader In movements con-
nected with the higher development OF women
In Denmark. has been appointed a stenog-
rapher In the Danish House OF Representa-:
tives. She is also director OF a journal devoted
to the interests OF the woman.S emancipation
societies. The Independence Belize. mme
ing upon this inward movement; SAYS mat
woman has crossed the portals OF sonGress.
the lawmakers?
Classes in nerve training mcot every woek
at Iasalle Seminary. anu the practical results
OF the training are apparent in the absences s
the American rush prevalent in some tnstitus
lions. The young women are also drilled ~
MAJOR Benyon.
typewriter employed in the ONCE Of .
prominent real estate firm in St Paul has such
accurate knowledge Of the realty Of the city
that she is often consulted in preference to
her employers. One Of the firm said that II
she we're a man he would be the office boy
himself. SO great 10 her business ability: yet
she receives only the regular typewriters sal
teen years conducted a large Insurance basi-
ness for the regular agent. He receives the
agents profits, she a meagrs salary. Men
clerks and. stenogrsphers claim that their
chief reluctance TO women's entering these