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Show Mme. Blaze de Bury. Mme. Blaze de Bury, whose death is announced from Paris at the age of 80, was known to a wide circle of distinguished distin-guished people. She was cosmopolitan in her friendships and maintained a correspondence cor-respondence with the principal statesmen states-men of the day, as well as with the leaders lead-ers in the moral a;- intellectual movements move-ments of the time. Mme. Blaze de Bury contributed many articles on French and European affairs to Blackwood and The Revue des Deux Mondes, of which latter journal her husband was the critic. She was of Scotch parentage, her maiden name being Marie Pauline Rose Stuart. Paris Journal Won the Mary Smith Prire. The Mary Smith prize, which annually gives $100 to the painter of the best picture pic-ture in oil or water painted by a resident TrrTnA.n Artist, nf Philadelnhia. was this year awarded to Maria L. Kirk, who for a number of years has been a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, for a portrait. The prize was instituted in 187S by Mary Smith, the daughter of Russell Smith, the scene painter. The prize was won by Miss Cecilia Beaux twice in succession and four times in all, which is the limit of eligibility. Philadelphia Phila-delphia Ledger. Lecturing: on Law. Mrs. Martha Strickland, an attorney of Detroit, is lecturing on parliamentary law to parlor classes of women in Chicago. Chica-go. Three already engage her attention and are being instructed in the proper conduct of public meetings, the different classes of motions, how to think on one's feet and the various features of self control con-trol and culture necesary to the correct and expeditious transaction of business in public bodies. In this field woman, to whom it is very new, has yet much to learn, or rather perhaps to practice. Chicago News. |