The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS
Notes for the Women.

Notes FOR the Women.
A HfNDoo PRovERB SAYS: 'Strike not,
even with flower, wife, though she has
thousand faults.
of War, has rented q mansion at German
town, Pa. Her health is somewhat i'm
paired.
MILE. PUsTowoJTOw, who during the last
Polish insurrection was adjutant to General
LangiewicZ, died recently at Constantine
pie.
The women of Japan are the most inve-
terate fortune-seekers, having their fortunes
told many times in day, or until they get
an answer to suit themselves.
The industrial school for girls at Water
bury, Conn.,, established about six years
ago, has been very successful in doing
good to the poorer class of girls.
THEOPHMK GAUnRR says of Mile. Nilsson
in Hamlet "She is inimitable; she is
Ophelia herself--ths very vision of the
pOetl Upon her pale brow Shakespeare
has pressed a kiss"-which is a very pretty
but rather shiveiy thing for NJ. Gautier to
say.
An accomplished young lady, for severa
years leading clerk in the Middlesex
Mass, } Registry of Deeds Office, has up-
ened an office in Boston for the purpose OF
carrying on the business of conveyance Of
real estate.
FIVE English magazines are edited by
wOmen-Belgrayla, by Miss BrsddOn; st.
James, by Mira. Riddle; Englishwoman's
Domestic Magazine, by Mrs. Beeton; and
the Argosy, by Mrs. Henry Wood.
Miss MARY F. HovEY, Professor of Ger
man Languages and Literature in the Ag-
rleultural College, Kansas. is mastering
the Swedish, with the intention of bring
ing into the institution the Swedish ele-
ment in the state.
Mrs. S. W. DoDDs, NJ. D., says this, and
she is right:
And yet, we very well know that woman
is at present physically incompetent to earn
equal wages, inasmueh as she is not ouly
sick, but she is in the letters of fashion.
Look at that lady clerk in tbs store; huge
bundle OF imported hair (from some old
hospital, they say on her head, or vile cor
set around her vital organs, swinging
crinoline over her climbs of IoeomatiOn," /"
and trail at her feet Watch her for a
moment, and see how she manevres; she is
trying TO get down box of gloves from
shelf a little above her head; can't reach it;
waist too tight, and dress too low on the
shoulders again, on tip-toe; fails;
calls brother clerk; he comes in haste,
but steps ON her trail, and comes near fall
ing; he says, Excuse me-" but he thinks,
''Confound it You are nuisance"
MOTHER AMP L.
Mrs. Willis and her daughter have locat-
ed themselves, for the present, in one cor
ner of the shabbiest, dirtiest, smoliest old
depot in Boston, the Hartford and Erie, on
Federal street, at the foot of Summer st.
The delightful surprise of coming from the
cars upon this beautiful display of choicest
flowers is almost startling. And the bril-
liant colors, and sweet fragrance are made |
dOubly effective by the dingy surroundings |
and unpleasant odors. There is need in |
that busy and unattractive part of the city |
Of some elevating and cheering influence, |
and no doubt this bright little corner will /
be often visited by admiring groups of
if not by other residents of that /
iOreign quarter, whose sense of beauty will /
be- quickened and developed by the sight 1
Of those lovely, eloquent flowers. l think |
.hese women have started an influence for
he good and elevation of the hard-work-
ng people of that vicinity, whose homes
sannot possess much that is refining and
attractive, but cannot be easily estimated,
md should not be undervalued. / was
anxious to know if the stand was owned
md supplied with flowers by some of our
established florists, or if it and the flowers
we're the property of the pale young wo-
nan who sat there to sell them. So ven
ured to ask if the flowers were hers, or if
he was hired to sell them for some one
Use. 'Oh, no." she replied, "they belong
o mother and i; it is our enterprise. We
re alone in the world, and have no one to
lepend upsn. Mother and 1 spaded up the
garden ourselves this spring, and mother is
ixty-seven years old We have raked end
picked off the stones, and put them in o
and I wheeled them away
myself" further learned that the daugh-
or had taught school until her health
,roke down; then, having partially reeov-
red, she begln to teach music, when her
lealth again failed, and she could not go |
N. By the advice OF her physician she
as soon as convaleseent, TO
ultivate their garden, and the health and /
trength of both her mother and herself /
las been very much improved by their
,eneficial labor. Boston Transcript.