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Show Women In Iceland. The establishment at Reykjavik of a school for the higher education of girls is likely to be soon complete. A peculiar interest is found in the work from the fact that it indicates a total change in social aspects in that country, where the few existing educational institutions of a good order have ( been provided exeja. had no other education than that acquired ac-quired at home. They will be indebted in a certain degree to the World's fair for so unfair a course being interrupted, since this brought as the Icelandic delegate dele-gate Mme. Sigridir Magnnsson, who has been diligently at work for the school, proposing to devote to its benefit the proceeds from the sale of private property prop-erty of her own in the form of a collection collec-tion of northern antiquities. The patrons of the school are his majesty ma-jesty the king of Denmark, her royal highness the Princess of Wales, her ror-al ror-al highness the Duchess of Teck, the Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderley, the Viscountess Emlyn, the Dowager Lady Churchill, the Lady Kensington, the Hon. Emily Cathcart and others. A house has been built for this school on a piece of ground given to Mme. Magnus-son Magnus-son for the purpose by her mother. Exchange. |
