WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 192, 17 September 1909, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

THE SHRINE OF A LOST LOVE.

Only quit« recently a pathetic little love story of the Victorian era was revived, affording us a glimpse of the deep constancy of a woman's love, by the death o. Miss A. Managan, whose nouse,next, to the mansion uf liord Iveagli, oa Stephen's Green, in Dublin, had re-1 inaincd unoccupied (or fifty years. Lord Iveagh had always wished to buy it, but, as often as he made the oiler, lie received a refusal Ironi the owner, who declared she was rich enough to keep it. The explanation of the mystery was simple. Fifty years ago, when a happy and beautiful young bride, her lover died on the ;nor;iing of her wedding day. Broken-hearted and .overcome by grief, she refused to allow anything b the house to be touched. For the tiiiiirc it was to remain the cenotaph of all her hopes. So the house was shut up, and now, at the expiration of half a century, with the dust lying thick, the musty smell of years hanging around, tile air filled with the memories of a dead love, the wedding robe and finery still spread on the chairs and couches, the little satin shoes, the faded Mowers, the bouquets, the trinkets, and luce letters, all the simple tokens of a girl'w innocent life and romance, have been I once more brought to the garish light [of day, and the house and its contents Isold by auction.

"Now, the fact that the number of women doctors lias been steadily increasing for a great many years past proves beyond all doubt that we are wanted," remarks a prominent woman doctor in an Jiuglish (contemporary, "and that we fill a useful place in the world. Look at' the New Hospital for Women in the Euston road. It has for thirty years been stalled by women, and its. waiting list is always Inn. Many women go there who would decline to lie attended by men. There are in England now over 600 women doctors, about 200' of them in London, and it is not denied by any one (except -\fiss Edith Barnett) that they arc doing excellent and valuable work.

"In many other branches of science women have rendered distinguished services which quite vitiate Miss Barnett's argument. Mary Somerville, Agnes Clerke and Lady Huggins arc famous names in astronomy. Mrs. Ayrton was awarded the Royal Society's medal for her electrical research work. Miss' Eleanor Ormerod was a high authority' on insects. Mrs. Percy Franklmd has a deservedly great reputation as a bacteriologistr Miss E. R. Saunders received a medal from the Royal Horticultural Society for her studies in the variation of plants. As soon as women are admitted to the .Bar, which will not be long now, they will do as well in the legal profession as Amorican and French and' Scandinavian women are doing."

Ellenn Key, the Swedish writer, although little known to Australian readers, is one of the most discussed women in Europe, and her books arc translated into almost every language. Her "Century of the Child" has gone through more than twenty editions in Germany, and is everywhere read by those who are interested in tho training and education of children. Her own bringingup was simple and uncommon. She was lioni and bred amongst the pine forests of Sweden and read very few books, but those by the best writers, philosophers and thinkers. Wlien she was' nineteen her father entered the Swedish Parliament, and she became his secretary, thus coming into contact with men of learning and prominence, which completed her education.

An Auckland lady, who writes "Mcrculio" in the Herald, clings to the superstition that opals bring bad luck. She gave away an opal brooch to an acquaintance in exchange for a greenstone tiki. Last week she saw the husband of that acquaintance in mourning, and it distressed her exceedingly. "I knew," she moaned, "that I was giving those people misfortune." "Ves," a friend answered drily, "his wife's aunt died and left them £3OO a year."