Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1892 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE]

THE LADIES.

The Arkansas building at the Col* umbian Fair is to be built by a woman. Miss Jean Longborough has been notified that her plan of the building has been accepted, and that she will be made superintendent of its construction. The design is in the rococo style Of architecture, which prevailed in the seventeeth century in France, as the first settlers of Ar kansas were French. On the ground floor wilt be a fountain constructed of the many colored crystals found at Hot Springs. North Dakota has a full community of Indian Sisters established under an Indian Mother Superior, the first community of the kind ever established, though there have been before this Indian Sisters in other convents. There are now ten station houses in rhe city especially prepared. for the reception of women under arrest and twenty matrons in charge, two at each station. Another vocation for women re- 4 cently developed is that of designing book covers. A good cover is often quite as attractive as a good title, and many of the striking designs now seen are the work of women. It requires a special gift of art.

Marie Moran, a brave girl of Newark, only 18 years of age, recently proved herself one of the world’s heroines by volunteering for service at the small-pox hospital when the courage of the regular nurses had failed. The health officer of Newark says she has the stuff of which Florence Nightingales are made. The two most noted women in French journalism are Mme. Adam and Mme. Severine. The former is well known to English-speaking people as well as French, both as a journalist and a woman of letters. Mme. Severine is said to possess a prodigiously facile pen and to be “kindly, eminently democratic, wearing her heart upon her sleeve, nothing of a blue stocking, and having the gift of tears to exaggeration.” In addition to this, sheas the best pupil of Victor Hugo. Mme. Yver occupies a uniques place in French journalism as a reporter of police cases— —— —— F The Mary Smith prize of the Pennsylvania Academy has been won for the fourth time by Cecelia Beaux of Philadelphia. According to the terms of the gift it can be taken only by a woman resident of Philadelphia, and must not be given to the same person more than five times. The Queen of Italy is described as a tall, fair-haired lady, a little inclined to be stout, but very pretty. She is a highly educated woman, with a special taste for literature and a knowledge of languages, which enables her to talk to her foreign ambassadors each in his natiye tongue. Perhape the greatest gift of this greatly beloved Queen, whom her subjects fondly call the Pearl of Savoy, is a rare womanly grace and tact which endears her to all her subjects. _—..

Clara Montalba has been elected to full membership in the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors. Only one other woman is allowed to write the coveted R. W. S. after her name, as by the rules of the society nd woman could ever become inore than an associate. A short time ago the Council altered the law, and now includes two women in its membership. Mlle. Elise St. Omer, the celebrated French explorer, travels without any luggage, not even a hand bag. All she requires is stowed away in her capacious pockets. Thus equipped, this energetic lady has traveled through all parts of Europe, Asia and America; has visited Mormons, Japanese, and Cingalese, ridden side by side with Bedouins, and climbed the Himalayas. r. i nt' A little girl in England aged only ten has rewritten the book of Euclid, supplied it with new examples, and proved all her propositions. The book has created great surprise in learned societies where it has been discussed, and in the favorable criticisms and reviews of the press the work has been accredited to a clever man. The child is the daughter of Prof. Hudson, and a brilliant future may be prophesied for her from this remarkable achievement.

Chicago has a woman engineer. Miss De Darr, who has successfully Bissecl the rigid examination of th< oard of Examiners, for which she paid the official fee of S2O, and's now a regularly licensed steam engineer. A writer in the Fortnightly Review has taken great pains to col’ect a number of facts as evidence that women endure pain with much greater courage than men,that men swoon in the dental chair more frequently than women, who face the-inevitable suffering more uncomplainingly, and patiently, all of which every dentist and most women knew before. And then he very shabbily seeks to draw the conclusiqn that women are physically less sensitive than men,and do not feel the pain so acutely because they make less fuss about it. The Pennsylvania College of Dent, al Surgery graduated nine women at its recent commenceinent. One ol the graduates, Dr. Mrttie Holey, ol Virginia, has been appointed resident dentist of the Willi amsos