The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-09-10
About Women.

Mount Holyoke seminary has supplied 115
wives for foreign missionaries, the last two
graduating classes furnishing eighteen They
usually 60 abroad first as teachers, and are
speedily married by the missionaries.
1t is simply absurd 10 talk about a woman
being qualified to fill every position in life
that a man fills. For instance, what woman
could lounge around the froat of grocery and
lie about the number of fish she caught. last
week.
A divorce in Grant county (wis.) was re-
Gently applied for because the young mother
insisted on having fifteen dollar cradle "a
bass wood sap trough is good enough for that
little red faced vasahond," said the brutal hus-
band
A London correspondent says we don't know
what treat is in store for US when Tietjens
comes. She not only sings beautifully, but
she is magnetic singer, and being very jolly
person, keeps her audience in the best of
humor.
Olive Logan in late Long Branch effusion,
says she is entirely superior to facts ANY
Gradgrind Can give you facts. 1t takes your
lady correspondents to compound readable
melauge of fact I'd fiction, and soar into the
empyrean of small talk untrammeled by the
combining cereme nts of tiresome fact"
Miss Ada Luck, of Carthage, o., won a cook
stove az the Cincinnati fair as ''the best and
most expeditions cook" In thirty minutes she
cooked, and cooked well, potatoes, chicken,
porter-house steak, tomatoes and corn, and made
coffee, tea, pie and biscuit, and set the table in
the neatest style.
Mrs. Mary Vaughn, of Williamson County
Tenn. had centennial the other day, and
marched at the head of procession of 100 of
her defendants to the grove where picnic had
been prepared. Mrs. Mary Vaughn doubtless
shortened her life by so doing, aud will proba-
bly, suffer tor the rest of it with rheumatism.
Miss Frances E Willard of Evanston and
Chicago, caused quite stir among the wise
heads and grave faces at the National Educa-
tional invention at Minneapolis by reading a
paper on "The Relation of the Teacher to the
Reforms of the Day." She believes in teach
ing temperance, honesty and piety in the
schools
Miss Jerusha Loomis took the one hundred
dollar scholarship prize at the late Commence
ment in Cazenovia, New York, and the four
scholars next in rank were all girls. This. in
school of six hundred pupils, where a ma
jorty of the pupils were boys 1t is an old
Methodist school, which has just celebrated
its semi-Centenial anniversary. The girls
there have always had fair chance.
Mime. Sophie Hamet, the original Fro
chard in the 1.-TWO Orphans" died recently in
Paris. Among the late Mme Hamet's accom-
plishments was one which she introduced with
unbounded success in the "Two Orphans, that
of emptying small flask of liquor in stream
which shot ia an undertaking line from the bot
tie to her mouth from quite distancea bove,
with celebrity which would put an ancient topper
to the blush.
NJ argaret Foley, the American sculptures in
Rome, was once employed in Lowell factory
One day the overseer, Walter Wright, dscov-
ere her whiting an acorn out of chalk. He
stopped and asked where her model was, SIN
my head" was the reply. Then this is no
place for you," said Mr.. Wright. He per-
suaded her to leave the factory and let him
send her to school. In that way she received
her start.-Sprinafeld Union.
He handed her package and sat down. She
opened tbs paper. Her countenance fell.
"Don't you know anything?' she said sharply.
Didn't tell you to get smoked pearl but
tons? and you bring me covered coat buttons"
He started out to do other chores, remarking
that she might as well expect bear to climb
down tree head foremost asito expect him to
remember everything when she told him forty
eleven things to get, without marking them
down.
"Jane has got very nicely turned ankle,
hain't she?" said John to his wife the other
day. And then John noticed a strange, un-
earthly CLEAN in the eye of his spouse, which
made him feel very uncomfortable-he knew
not why. But the next day the place which
Jane had filled is the domestic economy of the
household was occupied by middle-aged wo
man, with ankles like those of the Mullinggar
hefer.
Mrs George Raworth, the wife of a market
gardener living near Leighton, Carbon
county, Pa, has fallen heir to fortune of $780,,
600, lately the property of a cousin in England
Mrs Raworth's mother was an English woman
and a schoolmate of Lord Byron, and her
friendship for the poet induced her to act as
his secret messenger 10 the correspondence car
red on between him aud Miss Mary Chawotth
during his early youth.
A French girl of great beauty has taken the
veil under romantic circumstances. During
the Prussan invasion Mademoiselle de la Tour
was insulted BY German officer at her ia
Tiers chateau whereupon she killed him with
knife. She was surrendered to the German
authorities court martialed and condemned to
be shot, but thr ugh the intercesson of the
crown prince, was pardoned. She now ends
the story by shutting herself forever from the
world in convent.