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Show Sliu'a a Frlund to ActreMem, There is uo matron of the drama in '. New York city, but Mrs. D. P. Bowers : stands iu the position of benefactress to ; many young women who now shine aa 1 particular stars in some of our leading . companies. She has spent hundreds of dollars in educating and clothing ac- j tresses who came to her iu distress. She : is at present endeavoring to establish a national .school of dramatic art in Amer- I ica. A few weeks ago she made a lengthy viit to Washington to interest several well known legislators in tho j scheme. New York Recorder. .Mrs. Frederick Ilerrick, the daughter of the lvnuwned Mariuu Harland, has made herself favorably knowu by her efforts to establish public baths for the poorot' the metropolis, and alsoin supply- j iug the public schools with gymnasiums J for the pupils. Mrs. Ilerrick is a charming charm-ing and youthful matron of 29. She in- , herits her mother's literary talent, but I seems bound to bend her energies in the j i spirit of reform rather than to shine in j the literary world. The two women of this generation ; who have earned the largest incomes are Onida and Patti. Mrs. Burnett's literary liter-ary income is said to be greater just now than that of any other author. Her Americn revenue from the play of "Lord Fauntleroy" is $95,000, to which may be added her English profits and her proceeds from the Bale of the book. Mrs. Rebecca Bean, of Petersburg, Col., is a granddaughter of John Quincy Adams. Her mother was Elizabeth Adams, the president's youngest and prettiest daughter, whose elopement with her poor but worthy lover, Alfred Shinn, was the occasion of a national i sensation. I And now we learn of another angelic j scheme of women, to wit: An organized i society whose prime object is to "look i after bachelors' linen after it comes i from the laundry." This is, indeed, a merciful beneficence. j s The well knowu Austri.-m writer, ! Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, is to be , honored ou her sixtieth birthday by having hav-ing her portrait painted at the expense I of th Vienna government, to be placed in the town hall. I 1 According to Rndyard Kipling Lady i Dufferin's work iu India has done more , and promises more iu the solution of the 1 troublesome eastern empire problem than all masculine suggestions and ef-: ef-: forte. I Notwithstanding the alleged helpless-I helpless-I ness of women Germany has 5,500,000 j working women, England 4,000,000, France 8. 750,000, Austria 3,000,000 and i America 2,700,000, including all occupa-j occupa-j tions. ! The Clara Barton Training School for Nurses, organized in Chicago last August in connection with the National Tem-I Tem-I perance hospital, is a most gratifying ' success. |