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Butgfbe the @;Ate$, 8 Mationar %Bee,. WOMEN OCT. ?7, 19051 301 ButGfbe the @;ate$, 8 mationar %bee,. WOMEN. - A special ineeting of the Nurses will specially deplore the”death of Miss Brontii Society is to be held Flora C. Stevenson, LL.D., the sister of Miss Louisa ’ at Haworth to-day (Satur- Stevenson, the President of the Society for the State day), October Yth, to com- Registration of Trained Nurses, in whom there has memorate the fiftieth year pussed away one of rare nobility of character, an effec- after the death of Charlotte tive worker in the cause of education, and a supporter BronYti. The Vicar of Leeds of all that promoted the welfare of women. Miss mill preach a sermon at an Stevenson was one of those who, possessed of this afternoon service, when the world’s goods, used them freely for the betterment of hymns sung will be selected her race with wisdom and discretion. Her character, from those written by Charlotte and Anne Bronte, in indeed, presented a combination of integrity, swveet- Haworth Parish Church. In the evening an address ness, great intellectual force, and sound practical sense, mill be delivered by Mr. Ernest de Selincourt (Lec- which are rarely combined in one individual. Full of turer in Modern English Literature to the University days, riches, and honour, she has now passed to her of Oxford), under the presidency of Sir Swire Smith. rest, leaving the world the better for her sojourn init, and the poorer that it no longer benefits by her ripe In view of the rapid increase in the number of open- wisdom, power of discernment, and helpfulness, ings for the work of properly-quali6ed women teachers Miss Stevenson was educated privately, and at in theology the Archbishop of Canterbury is inaugu- clasqes of the Edinburgh Association for the Uni- rating a scheme for the training and testing of such versity Education of Women. In due time she was teachers. The Archbishop has decided to institute a made an Hon. Fellow of the Edinburgh Institute. diploma or licence in theology @.The), to be conferred Since 1873, when the first Board was elected, upon such candidates as satisfy r,he threefold test of- she has been a member of the Edinburgh (.) (.) systematic study ; (b) proficiency as shown by ex- School Board, and in 1903 was chosen by her amination or otherwise ; (c) teaching capacity. He colleauues as their chairman, a position she held at has commissioned the Bishop of Gibraltar to supervise the gme of her death. In the same yeal’ the the testing of candidates, and has nominated a com- deg.ree of LL.D. was conferred upon her by the mittee of highly-qualified ladies to take charge of University of Edinburgh. She was a cordial sup- details under his direction. The scheme will come porter of the movement for Women’s Suffrage, and into operation as soon as possible, and all information watched with great interest the struggle of women for respecting it inay be obtained from Miss Bevan, 61, admission to the medical profession. Although she Egerton Gardens, who has undertaken to act as hon. took an active part in public affairs as a whole, her secretary to the committee, chief interest was given to education. She was a Governor of George’s Heriot’s Trust, a member of The Uourt of Appeal at Ancona has just decided the Edinburgh Educational Trust, a director of the that women may not practise as barristers. Last year Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, and of the Royal the late Signor Socci succeeded in persuading the Blind Asylum and School. In 1894 she was ap- Chamber of Deputies to adopt a measure permitting ointed by Sir George Trevelyan a member of the ladies to become barristers, but the session closed gepartmental Committee on Habitual Offenders und before it had +ime to reach the Senate. At present, Juvenile Delinquents, and she also served on the therefore, the Ancona decision stands, and women, Departmental Committee to consider the rules for though they may take degrees in law, may not practise. inebriates’ reformatories. At the Conference at Neuchatel last week of the Miss Stevenson, who was deeply interested in all International Abolitionist Federation, which aims at questions affecting the working classes, was a Vice- the abolition of State regulation of the social evil, the President of the Women’s Free Trade Union ; she also President of the Conference stated that in respect of held the same osition in connection with the Society all proposals for dealing with the evils in question the for the State Legistration of Nurses, and showed her Federation regards it as essential that the law afYect- interest by appearing on the platfornl at its annual ing men and monien should be the same. meetings. She was also a Vice-President of the National Union of Women Workers. Her kindly and Miss Lillian Gonzales Robinson, the youngest woman gracious presence will be greatly missed at these and linguist in the united States, who has just been ap- other public gatherings. We offer our sincere sym- pointed head of the department of romance of the pathy to her sister, Miss Louisa Stevenson, in her Ufiiversity of Oklahoma, although only twentpthree bereavement, in common with many of those who years old, has already mastered twelve languages, mourn the loss of one who has made the world a better speaking most of them fluently. Miss Robinson and brighter place for her presence in it. graduated at the University of Chicago in 1903 with a The funeral took place at the Dean Cemetery, Edin- degree of A.B. - burgh, on Saturday last. It was a fitting tribute that Two nymphs named Luck and Ill-luck, living in t the children of the public schools, for whom during her wood, mished to know which of them was more beautl- lifetime Miss Flora Stevenson had done SO much, ful than the other. They went to a fox and asked him should have lined the route to the cemetery. his opinion. He said : ‘4 I can give no opinion, unless The co%n bore no AowerR, none hamng been sent YOU walk to and fro fora mhilo.” So they did. Quotll by the special request of the relatives, but a fitting the fox to Luck, ‘‘ Madaiii, you are indeed charming tribute was a large wreath of laurel from Lord Rose- when you come in,” (,uoth he to Ill-luck, “ Madam, bery, which was placed on the grave at the cemetery, your gracefulness is simplyininiibble when you go out I” where, surrounded by those who loved her, she was previous page next page.
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