OCR Text |
Show ABOUT WOMEN. A lady dentist in Berlin has charge of the teeth of the children of the Crown Prince, and a number of lady physicians rank high in European circles. There are forty female physicians in practice in Philadelphia, ten artists and one sculptor - Miss Blanche Nevin, whom the State has lately selected to execute in marble the statue of Muhlenburg. Mrs. T. W. Higginson has written a capital story for children, called "Room for One More." The characters are everyday children, not the embryo saints that some writers let loose upon us. A man always looks foolish peering into a mirror. A woman never does. It is her unquestioned privilege to look at herself as often and as much as she will. Bless her, she sees something in the glass worth looking at - (Boston Transcript). Boston was probably the first city in the world where women engaged in the study of medicine, and at the medicine university there they now have a lady demonstrator in anatomy, also three other ladies in the faculty, one who lectures on diseases of women and the other on diseases of children. Miss Emma Abbott does not agree with those who believe that getting married spoils good singing. She says: "I will mention Jenny Lind, Malibran, Grisi, Viardot-Garcia, Catalani and Alboni as examples. These women have all been queens of the domestic circle as well as of the lyric stage." A Southern girl, who has seen better days as a member of one of the first families of Virginia, is now earning her living by plying an awl at the shoemaker's bench in Petersburg. She served an apprenticeship of four years, and it is said can now turn out as good shoes as any man in the business who has not had more experience. An extravagance into which women are going in many instances is in the direction of buttons. Many have buttons richly painted, and others have solid gold ones made. Many of the latter are decorated in colored enamels. Worth has introduced wooden buttons for heavy suits and cloth wraps. They are in walnut or lighter wood. Mrs. Mark Hopkins, the widow of the millionaire, was a poor teacher in New York and met her husband at her boarding house. She has no children, but adopted a poor boy when he was 7 years old. He is now 19, and shares all the elegance of his adopted mother, who is devoted fond of him. She lives in great splendor. Her house in San Francisco cost $2,000,000. |