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Show t ONE OF THE CIRLS OF THE DAY. Mils Dowle.Who Viplorid th Carpathian Mountain! Without Mala Help. This Is a picture of Miss Meno Muriel Dowie, whose paper on her trip through tho Carpathian Mountains delighted the wlseheads of tha British Association, beforo whom It was read, and set all the slow-going ones to exclaim: "Well, what will womon be doing next." Miss Dowie comes honestly by her literary ability and her pluck, for alio is tho granddaughter of the famous book-MtSS book-MtSS MItNK MUlttKI. nOWIK. printing Scotchman, Robert Chambers, Sho explored tbo Carpathians alone, "bestriding a mountain pony in all tha glory of skirtlcis knickerbockers, walk ing the mountains barefoot and roughing rough-ing it on rafts," an English magszlns sirs. The correspondent of the London Daily JWim describes her address as follows: fol-lows: "The low, swoet voice; tho real and tbo simulated naivete (ono as good as the other); tho original thoughts, the protty bits of poetlco-artlswc description uf places and peoples, the witty criticism criti-cism built upon a concrete of common sense, tho Information runnlng.warp and weft, through tho entlro fabric the paper, in abort, from beginning to end, gavo us one of tbo mnat delightful treats ever enjoyed st a Brltjsk Association meeting. It was eloquent, clever, refined, re-fined, womanlv. and vigorous." Altogether Miss Dowio has mado for herself almost as big a place in tbo talk of the women of England as Miss Fawcott mado for herself some mouths ago. That bright woman, by the way, shows that her knowledge extends beyond be-yond mathematics, In which she beat tha men of Cambridge, by a sympathetic and highly creditable article in tbo Contemporary Con-temporary Jtetino on "Child Marriage In India." |