Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 11 April 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

". God bless the Princess of Wales," Her Royal Highness is against the introduction of the crinoline. A fearful and wonderful misnomer is ,*• Crinoline", as it is derived from the word Crin, hair, yet the old hoops were really made of metal. . It used to be a wonderful and, pray pardon the assertion, a fearful sight to observe a lady arranged in crinoline getting through the door of a ; cab in Lcndon. The contraction necessary to get through the door used to. cause an expansion in a manner not provided for in the fashion and there was therefore something wanting. The Crinoline was: the revival of the old Elizabethian " fardingale " which combined with a " ruff " made a sweet . damsel unapproachable. The year ! 1855 first saw the horrid fashion renewed in London, and the Empress Eugenic' "is popularly credited with designing it.

fts, .in place of speaking, a screen •will be produced on which the worctpicture of the face of the speaker wiU/be sho^n and irom which the audience will read that whidh other wise would have been uttered. !*hifc! is riot far fetched as a well-known photographer has taken iristantaiiedus photographs of a person's face whilst in the adt o? sjteftkitlgj at the ruie of fifteen a second and irom the expression of the face and motions of the lips, deaf-mutes are able to read what the lips are saying. . Though our Government puts every obstacle to women getting the franchise still it is bound to come. Women have a power in the land which they richly deserve and are therefore entitled to a voice in its management. In the Missionary Review of the World mention is made Of sonic notable women. Barbara littman rescued Saxony by the invention of pillow-lace. Betsy Metchalf originated the straw industry of the United States, by her manufacture of straw bonnets, from which Massachusetts alone reaps millions every year. The cotton-gin was the invention of Mrs General Green. The " Burden " horseshoe machine, which turns out a horse-shoe every three seconds, and saves millions to the land, was the invention of a woman. Mrs Roebling assumed the duties of engineer of the great Brooklyn bridge when her husband was stricken down with overwork. Miss Maria Mitchell, astronomer of Vassar College, received a gold medal from the King of Denmark for : discovering a comet in 1847, besides which she discovered seven others, and was the honoured guest guest of famous astronomers in Europe.