The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-16

war. To-day what with improved hos
pital service, with trained nurses. with
such organizations as the Red Cross and
others, our system IS well nigh perfect
The erection of a Faculty for Medicine
Tor Women in st. Petersburg is now in
proved of the plan, which has been made
by the Ministry for instruction. There
has already existed one medical college
for women in St Petersburg. bur this
was closed ten years ago at the instance
OF the authorities. That a new move is
now being made in the same direction
is, it Is considered, principally due u the
eNertions OF Prince WolkowsKJ VINO. at
the Chicago Exhibition, delivered an ad-
dress touching upon this subject winch
attracted much attention. The Ministry
for Instruction has also decreed that
married women will not be allowed to
study at the Russian Universities.
Miss Francis willard diviles her
twenty-four hours into three periods:
Eight hours for work. eight hours for
sleep and eight hours 70 do as l Please"
latter period the hardest one to hold to
its text. he doing as she pleases Of any
woman IS contingent upon so many
qualifying cOnditiOus-the pleasure and
convenience or comfort Of others. accd-
mulated duties pressed out OF Place ny
work and sleeT'-that the eisnt h.uiS
would often be consumed in fndiag time
to do as she pleased
The first wife Of the celebra eel sem
Houston married again and has de.cend-
ants still living I'm Tennessee; but IL has
never been known exactly why Houston
gave up the GOvernOrship Of the state
and rode away into the wilderness just
During the first quarter Of 1884, the mar
rage of $3.50 persons is registered IN
London.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor says the New
York "WOrld" was. perhaps the first
lady who took 90 bicycle riaiag.
II was not to reduce superfiuous flesh.
but TO keep Ter husband company. that
she adopted it, She only rides, however,
at Ferncline her home at Rhncbeck..
At Tuxedo Mrs. George Griswold is
applying herself t. the art of wheeling.
ana Mrs. Frederick Belts is an expert
So is Mrs. Richard Mortimer. Miss
Salie Hewitt. who fences, rides drives
rows ard Plays the violin, nov 2dls
hfcyciing to her accomplishments. MISS
Eleanor Hewitt also wheels occasionally.
The latest convert to the bicycle at
Tuxedo is Mrs. Fernando Iznaga; VINO
Is rapidly acquiring skill Mrs. flerre
IOrllard. Jr., is another one or the ltSh-
ionablcs who has taken up the SPORT
At Lenox the pnelps-StOkes girls, MISS
Adele Sloane. Miss Sands and Nj Green
lear have taken to the wheel. Air. Ge3rse
Vanderbilt recently ordered a wheel 10
be sent t. Bar Harb0r. and some or the
feminine members Of the Vanderbilt ram
ily have sent out similar orders. MRS.
Twombiy rides 50 well that she v 1leH
goes out on the country roads about
Madison. New Jersey
After all, the Pope has not fallen a
victim to the alurments of Plarrer
Knep, the cold water cure man. After
the audience Leo XIII. gave to the ola
German village priest and health-re- toieI,
it was generally said that thoush ms
holiness 81 SHOWN gfett ny. thteif b,Sml IN
no d health.
not quite seen his way 20 having lE'
kueip method practiccd on himSr,i; lie
was only almost persuaded. M1bn-
while. Pf9rrcr kneip IS determined 10
do the Pope some good turn. and has
just written to the priorcss or tn - NM
lean nuns at his village of Morsh0ien,
the cook of the establishment should al
once bake from sixty TO eighty cakes
Of a spaci s make Lebkuchenl and SEND
them Il thc address Of the Pope, VINO
is very much run down
II IS extremely improbable that genius
derives any peculiarly-appropri1 nuri-
ment rom a fish diet. ana IL is certain
that genius gives 40 thought 20 'he sun
iect Mr. Carlyle and Lord Tenhyson
smoked p.pes-because they We're men
enough 10 smoke pipes-but W 10 not
suppose mat cigarettes would have made
a dccadent of Ar. Carlyle or an 'lMllcs-
sionist' Of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The
style ana character OF III 'yil'i'-.l a.
NAMED the same, whether ne drank
lemonade and tea. or port and punch.
Ola Satch.ls boldly AYERS that brandy
makes the poet. but his poetry Would
have had tae same compleXion had ne
recalled his muse with whisky. CA C-iu-
payne and ortolans. Burns "oni1
have written neither better nor
worse than on coiloPs ami too
dy. I'm another field OF exc !
Tops and tod.ly. In another heli OF ~ .-i-
lence it is likely that TO smoke IlIe
and drink q glass of beer would ~ alh
or subtract 70 couple Of strokes from
Taylor's usual round on the INKS. IL
was not because of his great ap'elie
for beef that SIR Andrew Aguo check iei
below a lofty intellectual standard we
do not know whether Shakespeare had
amy faVurite dish.
About Tharkery's and Johnson favor
ite dishes we know great dcdl, but are
psycholoeic4llv none the wiser. Nppr"-
citation of cockylccky does not account
for the state sin3nlille qualities or detects
Of James VI. Whatever Mr.. Gl tlat0ne
favorite food may be- il is probably none
Of the Mechanically dantcS ceie-
bratal bv Homer and il Is not To Re
thought that hc takes grated cheese IN
his claret like Ncst0r In short. fo)d an.
Genius have nothing TO do with cach
other and the most popular noyeistS
are not To ice DISTINGUISHED a. dinner
time from mere critics.-The Saturday
Review.
The modern athletic girl has adoptef
tho svvaqter so much worn by rONlnS,