The age-herald., 1898-03-10

According to a recent report made by H. -Pleuer, the commissioner of education of Switzerland, there are now 614 young wo- men taking courses in Swiss universities. Geneva has 331 female students, Zurich 166, Lausanne and Berne each 60 Bale ?, while the universities of Neufchatel and Freiburg have none. A number of the students are Americans.
 It is claimed for young woman clerk in a Philadelphia book store that in the thousands of books there on sale she is able to place almost any sentence on any subject asked for telling where it is to be found.
 Noted women have shown no precocious desire to wed and make homes of theil own. George Eliot was nearer 40 than B when she married for the first time, and close up 60 when her second marriage tool place in 1SS0.
 Mrs. Margaret Deland is one of the wo. men who are alarmed by changes which she says noticeable in "the feminine ideal" The new individualism, she de- clared in a recent lecture, is threat to the family, and she mourned that the field of feminine activity, once including only such occupations as teaching, nursing and sew ing, has now broadened until it takes in practically every phase of industry and art. Mrs. Deand says that the women's building at the worlds fair was "a humil- iating and mortifying exhibition" simply because it set woman apart and increased their self-consciousness.
 The Virginia legislature has passed 8 bill to provide seats for women workers in stores.
 Carmen Sylva, as Queen Elizabeth of Roumanfa is known to the literary world, has just received her diploma constituting her a doctor of letters and honorary mem- Der of the University of Buda-Pesth. The diploma is a veTitable work of art and is incloSed in an artistic case of great in- trinsic value. Accompanying it is a letter from the council of the university, written in four anguages-Hungarian, Wallachian, Latin, and French.
 Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany found IA German servant girls last year to whom she could give the golden ser- wants cross for having lived forty years with one family. Only one was found in Berlin.
 A new employment for women is dntro- ducing flour. Several firms who advertise -their flour the world over are now hiring women on a salary and paying all their travelling expenses to introduce particu- lar brand of flour into towns and cities where it is not we'll known. Two women are employed to go together, so that the unpleasantnesses of solitary travel are ob- viated, and certain district of territory is assigned each couple.
 A German scientist is of the opinion that women will have boards at some time in the remote future.
 
 Rosa Bonheur, the painter of animals, is again dangerously Ill, and it Is feared that she has handled the brush for the last time This great artist has many eccen- tricities and pays absolutely no respect to conventional. During the exhibition of a ''Wdld West" show in Paris Mile, Bon- heur frequently went to the camp to sketch the American red man. In speaking of the Indians, she said: "I cannot praise enough these grand and stately men, so calm, so dignifed, and so royalty indifferent in their majestic naturaness." After midday brealfast which she gave to Rocky Bear and Red Shirt at one of the outdoor res taurants, she enthusiastically remarked. in speaking of her guests: "These are real men, They are not the smpering, gossip ing. bowing animals of today. They are grave, dignifed, anstere men, with the sim ple manners which belong to the true chfi- drer of mature. How men have degener- ajted as compared to these noble specimens! No king could be nobler than Monsieur Rocky Bear"