The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-09
AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
England has female bank clerks.

appoint women as clerks. q
The Shetland women are the finest
knltters in the world,
OF the 100 medical missionaries in
China ffty-six are women.
A good sewing-machine is supposed
to do the work of twelve women.
The Baroness Burdett-C outts is said
to W the finest flock of goats in
England.
Nine-tenths of the students and COPY
lists at the National Gallery, London,
are ladies.
A maid of honor to Queen Victoria
gets fifteen hundred dollars for thir-
teen weeks service.
For many years a woman has been
engraver of medals in the Royal Mint
at Stockholm, Sweden.
Women students are now admitted
to qualifying clinical instruction in
the Royal 1nfrmary at Edinburgh.
The dress bill of a certain English
titled lady amounts to $74OO for one
year, and her hat bill for six months
to 5000.
Miss Eleanor G. Donnelly, who is
somewhat prominent in the world of
literature and lectures, is a sister of
1gnatius Donnelly, Of cryptogram
fame.
The $40, 900 bequest of Miss Emma
Turner to the British Museum for the
purpose of enabling it to conduct
archaeological researches is to be util-
lied in exploring the site of Amsthus
in Cyprus.
The Paris Project OF Police has
warned women cyclists that the new
rational cycling costume which they
have donned infringes the law against
women wearing mems clothes. They
must dress differently.
The Housewife Union, of Berlin, es.
tablished for the improvement of do
nestle service, gives prizes to women
who have remained in the service of
the same family for terms of five, ten,
twenty and thirty years.
The Queen of England rarely sends
any kilograms to any member of the
royal family, or to her intimate
friends, otherwise than in cipher, a
system of figure ciphers having been
carefully prepared for her and their
use.
The first and only doctress of law in
France is Mile. Jeanne Chanim. As an
order of the Vice-Rector of the Aead-
envy of Paris forbids women pupils
having copies of the code, Mile.
Chamin's instructions to her classes
are wholly oral.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, the
poet, is decidedly English looking,
with fine complexion and of queenly
bearing. She has returned from her
regular visit to London, and her
house in Boston is the centre Of the
cultured aud refined of the Hub.
Miss Dittweiler, who was for many
years one of Queen Victoria's personal
attendants, is always invited over to
spend her Christmas at court. She
retired a few years ago to Carlsbad
her native place, but is never over
looked as the season of Christmas
comes round.
Mary Frances Butts, author OF the
lines beginning Guild q little fence
Of trust around to-day" (which are
usually quoted anonymously, lives in
Boothbay Harbor, Me-, and has de-
voted herself for twenty years past
mostly to the production of literature
for children.
Miss Mary Proctor, daughter OF the
late Richard A. Proctor, is q deep stu
dent Of the science of astronomy. She
recently delivered q lecture in Brook
lyn on t'The Giant Sun and His Fam
ily," which, though prepared for
children. proved instructive and en-
tertaining to adults.
The band of adventurous women
have had a new recruit. Mrs. Little
dale, accompanied by her husband,
started from Constantinople in Janu-
ary last for a trip across Asia, Kash-
gar, the Pamirs, Tibet and China, at
last arriving in China with safety. The
marvel is that she is notgoing to write
q book.
Harriet Hosmer, the famous Ameri-
can sculptress, regrets, after an almost
continuous residence in Europe of
twenty years, that she has thus per-
sistently kept away from her native
land. She says, if she could live her
life over again, she would stay more in
her own country and keep in touch
with her " countrymen.
A number Of young ladies in society
this have appeared recently
with their shining tresses arranged o
Ia Gainsborough--a style exceedingly
becoming to q certain type, but terri
bly, trying to others. Tiny patches
upon the cheek or chin also appear in
conjunction with this high, wary
structure, and it is presumed, but one
dare not say, that powder is added to
complete this ancient royal fashion.
The appointment of Miss Louise
Imogene Quincy, the literary woman
and poet, as Postmaster of Auburn
dale, Mass. came almost as q birthday
gift for her, for it came within q few
days Of an anniversary. Miss Quincy
is said to be an excellent musician as
well as q charming poet, and to be
fluent in the French and italian lsn-
guages, a good Latin scholar and
highly versed in English literature.
Mrs. Eliza F. Routt, wife of ex-
Governor John L. Routt, of Colorado,
vyo thu Bed $500 n---.--A-
registered to vote under the new equal