The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-10-27
Miss Nancy's ( own.


ALICE AMORY.
Miss Nancy's Gown
=, davs when George the Third was king,
And ruled the Old Dominion,
And law and fashion owned the sway
or Parliaments opinion
A good ship brought across the sea
4 treasure fair and line
Miss Nancy's gown from Lonuoh to"h'
Out in the last design.
The Matted waist from neck TO belt
scarce measured half span;
The sleeves. like balloons at the top,
Gould hold her feather fan;
The narrow skirt, with bias gore
Revealed an ankle neat,
Whenever she put her dainty foot
From carriage step 10 street.
BY skillful hands this wondrous gown
OF costliest stuffs was made:
Cocoons of France on Antwerp looms
Wrought to embossed brocade,
Where violets and roses sweet
In blooming beauty grew
AS If young May were there Away.
And June and April too.
And from this bower Of delight
Miss Nancy re.gned "A queen:
Nor one disloyal cart rebelled
In all her wide desmesne.
The noble House of Burgesses
Forgot its fierce debate
DER rights of crown when Nancy gown
gown
Appeared in halls Of state.
Through jocund reel. or measured tread
OF stately minuet,
Like fairy vision shone the bloom
OF rose and violet,
As hand in hand with Washington
The hero of the day,
The smiling face and nymphlike grace
OF Nancy led the way.
A century since that gay time
The merry dance WIS trod
Has passed, and Nancy long has slept
Beneath the church-yard sod,
Yet on the brocade velvet gown
The rose and violet
Are becoming bright as on the night
She danced the minuet
-Zitela Cooke, in Harpers Bazaar
The woman physician no longer finds
her path thorny in England. Mrs. Car
rett Anderson NJ. O., has been writing
for the British Journal on the status and
qualifications of women practitioners, and
she shows that their hardest days are
over. Her first statement is that IT is as
easy at this moment for woman 10 get
a complete medical education in Great
Britain as il IS for man, the course OF
education and the necessary expenditure
being practically the same in both cases;
the same examinations must be passed
and the same qualifications and diplo-
mas must be obtained by individuals of
either sex. Some of the examining bodies
such as the Royal College of Sur
geons in England do not admit women
TO examination, but even with them there
Is no direct opposition, and hours are set
apart at the museum OF the college sole
" for the convenience OF women stu
dents. The depress Of the universities Of
London, Durham Ireland Edinburgh.
Glasgow. and St Andrews, and the medi-
cal colleges Of Edinburgh Glasgow. and
Ireland and the license OF Apothecaries'
Hall, are now open 10 women. who are
prepared for examination IN many medi-
cal schools, some of which are open for
women only and some for men and wO-
men together The schools for women are
those of London. Edinburgh, Glasgow.
AMI there are mixed schools In ireland
aud one in Newcastle. The course Of
education IS laid down by the examining
bodies. and therefore must Of necessity
be the same in all schools, though more
completely carried out in some than in
others. 4 very considerable number OF
women have passed their qualifying ex-
aminations and obtained degrees. OF
these upward of fifty are now practicing
in London, and several medical charities
are worked entirely by their aid
Mrs Anderson speaks strongly Of the
requirements Of the woman who wishes
10 practice medicine. She insists that all
these are necessary: A vigorous healthy
constitution. with no tendency TO bodily
or mental disease or weakness Of any
kind determination TO spend five years
IN arduouS study, a sufficient amount of
capital 10 support the student during that
period any pay for the expensive educa-
ton and surplus enough for maintenance
during the establishment of practice.
Parsons Weekly says "The Empress
Eugene used to be extremely fond OF
dressmaking. She gave directions and
superintendent the carrying out OF her
ideas \ corps OF trained workwomen
and sewing machine operators were en-
gagged 10 put her plans into execution.
The work-rooms We're situated on the
floor above the private apartments OF the
Empress. A trapdoor. cut in the ceiling
OF her boudoir. permitted of the lowering
from the room above a mannikin array
ed in a newly completed toilet, so that
the Empress could inspect it without go
ing upstairs.
VIII IL be believed that this perfectly
harmless occupation added very un-
needed increase TO the unpopularity OF
the Empress? The story OF the sewing
room and the sewing machines got abroad
and Partisan society stigmatized the pas
time itself as well as the economy that
had apparently dictated II as altogether
unrOyal.
The cx-Empress OF Germany was noted
cvsn as the young Princess Royal "
England, for her skill as an artist. She
paints landscapes In oil and models little
figures and groups in clay with more
than an amat Sir , talent.