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Show Notes About Austrian Women. Aloysia Eirschner, or Schubin, unde which pseudonym she is known the world over, is the best of living Austrian female authors. She is still young, but of a serious seri-ous disposition. She has been much of the world. Her writings, too, show great penetration pen-etration and profound study of the human mind. Although original in her conceptions, concep-tions, she has adopted the style and manners man-ners of Turgenieff and the modern French school. Her clearly cut features denote at once force and delicacy, and her whole appearance ap-pearance is most attractive, Philippine Welser was not onl7 a woman of intellect, but she also devoted herself her-self to the noblest task of a wife to be a good mother and a good housekeeper. She even wrote a book about cooking, "De re coquinaria," which still exists. It is hard to tell whether Austrian ladies now are as experienced in the kitchen as they are in the drawing room. If ludged by the empress of Austria they are, for that lady combines many acquirements acquire-ments in her person, even fencing and acrobatics. But the fact that they live in an era in which the most exquisite dishes will soon become a question of mere chemical chem-ical preparation nay excuse and absolve them fully if they are r ot. |