Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-16
NUMBER 46.
WOMAN ITEMS.

Phoebe Cousins, the St. Louis fe-
male lawyer, was recently at Washington
attending professionally to legal claim
upon Uncle Sam. She saw the President.
Chief Justice Chase, and the Secretary of
the Treasury in the establishment OF the
claim and without the aid of a claim agent,
marvellous as it may seem to anybody who
knows how such business is generally done
there, she accomplished her mission. and de-
parted well satisfied with her visit to Wash
ingtOn.
A Peoria colored girl is the best scholar
in the county.
A Connecticut woman will celebrate tin
divorce, and more would be glad TO.
Mrs. NJ. 0. Organ of Delaware county,
Ohio, is walking to New York city as a - res
toratlon of health" She travels in bloom
er costume and calls on all the editors in the
towns she passes through. In return they
all take pleasure in noticing her departure
from the place
foolish girl in Iowa danced in twenty
SIX successive sets on wager, and in four
days was buried.
Somebody has written a work entitled
:. Useful Hints for Ugly Girls and the
New York Commercial Advertiser declares
that the book has the smallest circulation
OF any literary production in the United
States
There is much to be said in favor of Young
ladies' adopting the medical profession.
Among other things it has an excellent
effect on the senSibilities and the natural deli
eacy of the sex. Massachusetts maiden
studying medicine out West lately wrote
home for SEQ. and explained in another
letter to dear friend THAT she wanted the
money " to buy man to cut up" The
sangulnary sex is rather too fond Of cutting
up men.
Mrs. Sarah A. Oran, widow of soldier
who died in the United States service, has
been elected State Librarian of Indiana.
A blushing maiden of forty summers en-
tered the town clerk office in Wheeling,
West Va, recently, and asked in a voice
trembling with agitation, for license. The
clerk took down the name and address of
the visitor. Z" Name and address of the
other party ?'' asked the clerk Faithful,
and he lives with me- replied the fair one
The clerk looked at her for moment, and
blushingly completed the filling of the docu-
ment, which he handed to the lady. He
was astonished at her conduct She gave
one glance at the license, hoarsely whisper
ed - Monster and swept majestically out
of the Office. The clerk had presented her
with a marriage license, when it was dog
license she wanted.
\ woman in Pittsfeld, Mass, in an ad-
yertisement, offers her husband for sale for
the small sum Of one hundred dollars
The New. Lebanon On. " Shakers have
ideas upon woman s. emancipation" They
used to call their paper - The Shaker" but
it is now . The Shaker and Shakeress.''
In a recent examination for promotion in
the internal revenue bureau under the civil
service rules, one lady secured fourth-class
clerkship Isl, ,5OO), another, third-elass
Isl ,600), while of 10 other persons appoint
ed to the second class Isl, 400, six are wo-
men. Miss Seavey, who secured a fourth
class elerkship, has been employed in the
Office over 10 years, and for several years has
had exclusive charge of the copying diyi-
sion.
Betsey Sykes, a young Mississippi mur-
deress, under sentence Of death, gets an in
definite respite because she Is in an - inter
esting condition"
4 Missouri woman said she gave con
dnctor n ten dollar bill; he said it was
two; she insisted he persisted she took
out a little revolver and snapped it at his
head, and as he was too polite to quarrel
with the sex. he gave her back her balance
of IS.
\ writer in the Arcadian says he doesn't
think men are fascinated by business wo-
men, and women, as sex, only admire
them in the newspapers. For my part, |
like that gentle sort that can't tell box of
sardines from bale of cotton, nice, soft.
pulpy, innocent, impractical angels, that
don't write plays, don't know anything
about money except that it is to be got rid
of as soon as possible, and wouldn't give
rap for their rights if the world will only
let them have a few duties