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Show FOR FEMININE READERS. WOMEN have lately received several sev-eral medical appointments In Great Britain. The Edinburgh Parish Council has appointed Dr. Eva A. Robertson resident medical officer for Craiglockhart poorhouse with a salary of 100 a year and board. There were two men candidates, but, despite some opposition, Dr. Robertson was appointed" ap-pointed" by seventeen votes against six and five, respectively. The chairman said that of the three candidates she possessed the highest medical degree. At Craiglelth they had a splendid example ex-ample of the woman physician, and he thought that Dr. Robertson would be an equally successful doctor for the Craiglockhart hospital. Dr. Katherlne S. Clark has been appointed house physician phy-sician of Leith hospital by the directors. direct-ors. ' Mrs. Elizabeth Boynlon Harbert of Evanston, 111., has been made associate chairman of the World's Unity league, an extension of the World's Parliament of Religions, which will meet at the World's fair June 28, 29 and SO. o Countess Cassini. niece of the Russian Rus-sian Embassador to this country, owes h;r title to the fact that she is an accomplished ac-complished linguist. When th? Count was quartered in China she studied that complicated language and was able to afct as lnterpreter'betwen her uncle and LI Hung Chang at a sudden and important impor-tant interview on the result of which a good deal depended, at the time of the Boxer troubles. This service was reported re-ported to the Czar, and in consequence he preated the young woman a Countess In her own right. ' ' - Madame Maria Martin, In Le Journal des Fcmn.es for February, has a brll-, brll-, liant article on "Tho Education of the ' Father." She points out that the world has hnd abundant preaching on the duties du-ties of mothers, and It Is now time that the attention of fathers should be called to their duties to their children, especially In the way of setting them a good example. , . It is the high and false estimate of the value of fine clothes which leads many a girl to a discontent which ar-gues ar-gues lll for her fdlurc. It Isaiot so much how many clothes the business woman possesses, as It i6 the kind of clothing she wears and her general, appearnucc. TWo hundred years ago the first dally paper was started in England. It was ' called the Dally Courantapd was published pub-lished by Elizabeth Mallet, in a shop near the Fleet Ditch, in Fleet street, London. |