The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-01-26
ABOUT WOMEN.

ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Julia Griffin is putting up bust OF
Gov. Tilden, at her studio, s Astrr Place,
New York.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker has been
chosen president of the Connections
Woman Suffrage Association for the coming
year.
Miss Carrie Clark is express agent at
Northampton, Mass. She performs her du-
ties well. and nature seems to have ex-
pressly designed her for that vocation.
A Newark lass, becoming annoyed at the
attentions of young divinity student, told
him that he looked sappy enough to be the
principal of girls seminary.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs. Fred. d.
Grant are to spend next summer at Long
Branch, if the reported lease of one of the
Seligman cottages for their occupancy is
true.
Adelaide Nelson says the stories that she
has sometimes been naughty are all untrue.
We think so if AIDE says so, for she is too
pretty to be disputed with.-Virginia Enter
prise.
A Boston girl advertises herself as 16 and
pretty, and adds that if any gentleman will
enable her to obtain q frst-class education
she will put herself entirely at his disposal
the day she graduates.
Philadelphia ladies protest against the
Dissertation of the sidewalk with saliva.
L hey claim that the inalienable right of the
A merican man TO spit does not extend be-
y ond the thester, the church and the gutter.
OF all the women who served in the war
in various capacities only one wAs PEN
stoned for physical disabilitias-Mrs.I Isabella
Fogg, of Maine, who was seriously injured
by tall in Louisville while engaged in hos
pital work. She died in Washington last
summer.
A young married woman by the name of
Clara Ruth, of Wyoming, Ohio, was lately
detected in passing fraudulent money in
Cincinnati. This she did by FASTING the
40" of a tobacco revenue stamp over the
figure zone" on bill. After detection she
asked for poison that she might take her
life.
"Kate" writes from Brooklyn for the pur-
pose OF advising gentlemento study the art
of sitting gracefully in a chair. She says
that most men seem to be at war with their
lower limbs when in tina company of ladies,
and betray a consciousness of awkwardness
by constantly changing position.
Bayard Taylor pays this just tribute to the
robustiousness OF California children: emo
where can more rosy specimens of health
and beauty be found. Strong -limbed, red
blooded, graceful, and as full of happy, ami
NAL life as young lawns, they bid fair 70 de-
velop into admirable types OF manhood and
womanhood."
A Syracuse girl declined to engage herself
to the object of her affections until his father
had given her written guarantee that his son
was not only sound sin wind and lint" but
of good morals, gentle and warranted to be-
have in both ''slngle and double harness."
That girl did not intend to be seen in q di-
V0rce court.
There lives in the vicinity of Hanover a
girl of such exquisite beauty that people
come from long distances just to get peep
at her. But unfortunately she has an incu-
rable passion for hunting skunks, and close
approach to her person is far from agreeable.
She makes money out of her strange avoca-
ton, however, having sent 962 skins 10 the
Boston market last year.
Miss Carrie S. Burnhsm, who has been
studying law for three years in Philadel-
phia, presented her application before the
board of lawyers of that city the other
day for the usual examination and adj
mission to the bar. The board declined to
receive her application, as they could find no
precedent for it, but promised to lay the
matter before the court.
Miss Eleanor Blenkhorn, a schoolmlstress
living near Sheffield, England, has obtained
from jury verdict for $500 against Mr..
Minnett, farmer, for breach of promise of
marriage. He had courted her for ten years,
and, at length, when some pecuniary mis-
fortune had overtaken her, broke off the
engagement and wrote to her to say he
thought she would not make a farmers
wife.
at the late meeting of tho National
Woman Suffrage Convention in Washing
ton there were three lady attorneys on the
platform: Phoebe Cousins, of st. Louis,
Carrie S. Burnham, of Philadelphia, and
Iavinia @. Dundore, of Baltimore, resides
three very successful lady physicians:
Clemeuce s. Lozier, of New York, DR.. Susan
A. Eison and DR.. Caroline B. Winslow, OF
Washington.
A society has been formed in this city for
the advancement of the medical education
of women" The object is a worthy orc, for
ifwon,en are to DO educated at ali for physi-