The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-28
VIEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

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Of the 56s cofvicts in Michigan
reuitentiaries notSne is a woman.
Lady Constance Lytton is among
the most able women in English jour-
nallsm.
It las become current among fash
ionable critics to say "she dresses very
intelligently."
The number Of women among the
immigrants arriving at New York IN
1892 is 1874, 28O.
Anna Louise Cary, Nine. Nordica
and Nine. Eames, all great singers
are all natives of Maine.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor's fine new
house on Upper Fifth avenue, New
York City, is being built OF white soap"
stone.
After forty-three years occupancy
of the editorial chair Of an English
periodical Charlotte "a. Young has
been retired.
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, wife OF
the poet, is bending all her energies at
this time toward the development OF
the kindergarten school system.
Lady Griselda Ogilvie, sister of the
Earl Of Airlie, is studying to be a
nurse. She is at present a probationer
in the Children's Hospital, in Edin-
burgh.
Following the example of George
Eliot. George Sand and George Flem-
ing. Mrs. Clairmonte, who is coming
into prominence as q novelist, calls
herself George E%gerton."
There's a bold schoolma'm in North
Waldoboro, Ne. The big boys locked
her out of the school-house one day,
but she broke the door down, and bus
mess was continued at the old stand.
The Portia Law Club has been or
ganized III San Francisco, Cal. Only
ONE are to be members. The OBJ
ject of the club is to aid in
acquiring a more general knowledge
of law.
The Princesses Maud and Victoria
of Wales gave their mother a piano on
her recent birthday. It had been used
by Paderewski when he crossed the
ocean on the Teutonic, and was econ
mended by Signor Tosti.
One of the prettiest women in Lon
don society is said to plunge a towel
in very hot water, wiring it out and
leave it on her face for half an hour
every night before going to bed in
stead of washing, and this lady has nc
wrinkles.
Queen Victoria is a great lover of
animals. It is said she has fifty.tive
dogs of all sizes, breeds and colors in
he" palace. They are housed and fed
with great care, properly groomed,
and in every way better cared for than
a good many of her subjects.
Miss Ella Weed, who died recently
in New York, was one of the first
women in this country to interest her
self in the higher education of women.
She was born in Newburg, N. Y, in
1854, and was graduated from Vassar
College with honors in 1873.
Grant Allen dissents theoretically
from Sir Frederick Boyle's dictum
That English women are not rs hand
some as they were when he was a
youugster. His gallant contention is
that the girls of the present time
especially the middle-cl girls-are
the comeliest ever seen on the foggy
little island.
Miss Laura Yorke Stevenson has the
equation of being Philadelphia's
greatest woman scholar. She is the
curator of the Archaeological and
archaeological Museum of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and to her
energetic labors is due the fact that
these museums take their high rank in
the museums of the world.
Beautiful house dresses are made
this winter of peacock blue, amber,
crimson, silver, blue or old rose India
cashmere, trimmed in some cases with
black chantilly insertion and edging,
in others with white silk braiding, and
again with bisc or ecru lace, elaborate
Persian gimps Or Russian galloons the
color of the gown, with bronze and
gold glints through the pattern.
Miss Agnes Murphy is an enterpris-
ing young woman. She is the editor
Of the Melbourne Punch, is a member
of all the leading women's clubs of that
city, and writes authoritatively on
"Victoria AMI Its Resources" She
calmly says that she expects to be
quite Independent, financially, by the
time she is thirty, when she intends to
take up literary work in London.
Miss Dorotha Klumpke, the Cali
fornia girl who has attracted much at
tention in Paris recently for her work
in astronomical research, has been
made a Doctor of Mathematics by the
University of the Sorbonne, after pass
ing an excellent examination. This is
the first time this degree has been con-
ferred upon a woman in France. Miss
Klumpke is in her twenty-eighth year.
The Princess Bismarck has written
to one of her London friends a letter
in which she says: 81 cannot refrain
from repeating what I have often said,
Know that if I had had the choice of
a Nationality, I should have chosen to
be a free Englishwoman-fresh, cult
waited, trained in liberty for an active
life and looked upon by my husband
as something more than a zero or a
plaything.'"
Kate Sanborn, who usually says very
pertinent things when she talks. has