The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-10

world" At last, however. her writings at tracted too much attention and discus- sion to please the Turkish government. and every article bearing her name was ordered to be suppressed.
 or course Madame Korany. who, by the way, says she considers the repre- sentative American woman to Do the ideal woman, had something to say about suffrage. Very sensibiy she spoke Of 1t as "a duty to be performed. not a privilege to be enjoyed" She be- lieves In . qualified suffrage for both sexes. this to be founded upon an edu- cational basis; the ordering Of the gov ernment to be placed in the hands of those men and women who are best fitted by education and training to de- eide what 1t shall be. And she paid high tribute to the uplifting power Of the Christian religion in Oriental lands, saying that of the three orders-Ma- hometans. Druses and Christians-the women among the Christians were the most intelligent, active. progressive and ambitious, as well as the happiest. Fairly eloquent at times. she surprised her hearers with the depth and penetra- tion of her thought and charmed them with the play of her facile wit
 We shall learn to think more re- spectfully of the intellect of Oriental women after entertaining such a guest as Madame Korany. And we have now in this country Syrian girl Of nine teen years who Is a more accomplished linguist than most American scholars, as she has mastered seven languages. She is an adept with the needle also, and specimens of her embroidery are exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York city and at the Peabody museum, Cambridge. She Is to take course of study here, proba- bly at Radcliffe college, her ambition being to obtain scholastic honors in America and afterward in England. She intends also to study our institu- tions, our government, manners and generally. Then she will re- turn to her home at Beyrout to make practical use of her investigations for the benefit of her countrymen and coun- trywomen.
 SOME FORMS OF PHILANTHROPY.
 At Aylesford, Nova Scotia, there Is model farm, owned and managed by Miss Sterling. which Is also g. training school for destitute children. There is a grist-mill, sawmill and number of workshops on the place, and here a hundred or more little waifs find home, receive an education and are given thorough training in some trade that fits them for future usefulness and self-support. Thus the model farm becomes also an experiment station for practical philanthropy, and the results prove it to be a very successful one There is plenty of room in the world for many more such experiment stations
 A phase of eccentricity, if such it should be called, which is not now nor, likely ever to attract many imitators, though exhibited by the wealthiest woman in France, Is one that reveals an extraordinary amount of sympathy for the suffering. with a proportionate quantity of for titude and .self-denial. It is that shown by the Duchess D'UEes, who every Friday puts aside all the pleas ures that her station can offer, and dons the dress of an ordinay nurse. Then she goes to cancer hospital, places herself under the direction of the physicians, and all day long does the work of one of the regular at tendants. A work more irksome to the nerves or more taxing upon ones sympathies can hardly be imagined, yet she does it from choice, and with a regularity and promptness that rem ders her services much more valuable than the fitful and uncertain attempts at philanthrophy of a. hundred en- thusiasts.
 Madame Antaev, a Russian land- owner in the province of Voronezh, at the time of the great famine of 1S91-2, conceived the idea Of assisting the peasants by enabling them to emil grate to the fertile lands in the Tomsk province of West Siberia. These lands are the property of royalty, and im- migration was strictly forbidden, but Madame Antaev, after the expenditure of much time, money, and persistent effort, succeeded in obtaining special permit for 1000 peasants to settle there. They were given the best of the land, and until they become self supporting their necessities have been provided for by grant of 1900 from the government, Madame Antaev giv- ing the same amount. She made all for their transportation. every possible facility for the long journey of many thousand miles being afforded them, and not only that, but she went all the way with them and to the details of their set clement in the new home. A physician and a clergyman also accompanied the party to a Siberian sojourn very diff ferent from that which the imagina- ton usually pictures. the word Siberia to most of us bringing only sugges- tions of frigid climate, and the suf- ferings of the condemned in the prisons and convict camps. HILARY.
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