The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
Susan B. Anthony is a greenbacker.

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Susan B. Anthony is a greenbacker.
The prettiest faces are not always on the
| prettiest shoulders.
1t is intimated that about 200 good looking
women can find husbands at Little Saskatch-
avian, Manitoba.
Wife beating is common in New York but
the irrepressible mother-in-law still survives,
triumphant over every foe.
Something to wear means this year lat
Saratoga three new dresses day with hats
to match, and nineteen costly parasols.
''Therel that explains where my clothes
| line went tor exclaimed an Iowa woman as
she found her husband hanging to the stable.
Lady Darlington has surprised English fash
| ionables by setting out on her honeymoon
tour wearing for her travelling dress very
simple PRINT.
Camden Post: Mr.. Rifell attempted to
kiss young lady at picnic last week, but
stumbling he fell down. The girls now call
him blunder-buss.
Miss Mary Mosby, daughter of the confed-
crate general, was crowned queen by the
| triumphant knight at the recent tournament
at Orkney Springs, Virginia. Miss Mosby is
described as blonde, graceful, and sylph-
like.
Londoners say Patti sings as well as ever,
but makes but little effort to act. In ''Semir-
amide" at Covent Garden, the other night,
she did =. little but walk through the
scenes usu lily so replete with dramatic ex-
ertion.
The London Lancet says blow on the ear
has often ruptured the drum, and warns
parents against boxing children's ears. You
can get more music out of a child by apply
| I'M he o1ir 10 Of foot ho1 ha
''drum."
! In the memoirs of the Empress Catherine,
| written by herself she gives an account OF q
masked ball which took place at Moscow,
where all the gentlemen came dressed as
women and the ladies all wore the dress of
gentlemen.
The women in the post Office department
at Washington quarreled like cats about hay
| ing the windows open or shut; so at last the
postmaster general had to interfere and make
a rule that windows should not be opened
till certain hour of day.
A grand picnic of the working peoples
newly formed amalgamated relief union is
announced for the 9th of August. Might
an interested outsider venture to ask the
National Socialist if women are to be admit
ted to membership in this association?
Abby Hadassa Smith, who died recently,
was the youngest of the famous Glastonbury
sisters. She was 81 years old, and had
much stronger will and executive force than
her sister Julia, who is nearly 81 years old,
and has some doubt whether she will now be
able alone, to resist taxation with represen-
tation.
The medical societies of Trumbull and
Portage counties admit regularly educated
| women doctors members. At a union
meeting of the societies of these two coun-
ties last week two ladies took part in the
/ proceedings. Mrs. DIR. Grimes, of Trumbul
| county. read a paper on "Hysteria," a sub
| ject a woman doctor ought to understand if
! anybody could.
| 1t is surprising how rapidly lady gains
strength under well directed trsining in
/ archery. She begins slow moving, languId
half-invahd and at the end of four weeks of
regular practice you see her running across
the lawn to recover Der arrows, like Diana
| pursuing the stays of old. She has thrown
/ of her lassitude, and is already beginning to
develop on her arms the outlines of perfect
muscles.
The Baltimore American, in a letter noting
the rapid advancement of women in bust
ness pursuits, tells the following aneedote'
1t is a little tough on the average man:
The other day very nice looking young
woman called at the house of friend to ex-
ecute some orders in regard to the covering
of furniture and the putting up of summer
window curtains. Her appearance was so
thoroughly good and fitted to her work that
my friend could hardly believe she was the
person. 1t expressed, as she phrased 1t, too
much culture" She proved, however, to
be the woman superintendent of the up
holstery department of one of our most
famous furniture and decorating houses and
| lightly climbed step ladder and proceeded
in womanlike way TO get on the outside of
q window in the furtheraDce of the object
she had to accomplish. My friend, who is a
lady of observation and intelligence, be-
came very much interested in her, and no
ticing plain gold ring on her finger, asked
If she were married.
mo, thank Goo" was the repIN.
"Why are you thankful that you are not
naarried?' asked Mrs III.
Because have two sisters who are mar
ried," she said land / have to work, not
only to support myself and my mother, but
to help support their children"
This will be found about the position OF
every superior workingwomanin New York.
and tells the story why the Stewart house
had TO remain empty or be filled by persores
who had no claim upon 1t.
Here is another suggestive newspaper
paragraph from the New Yosx Tribune:
To the editor Of the Tribune.
"SIR-I have been married Is years 1
have seven children. Ny husband hives
land with him, of course, - on the old home
place. Every summer during all these years
the house has been over full with my hus-
bands relatives. His mother comes, and his
brothers and sisters with their children /
can say nothing against it, because they are
my husbands kindred Once when my hus-
band told me that he had heard from his
mother, and that she would be with us to-
morrow, said oh dearl oh dear whatT
said he. Il don't know how to take any
more trouble, said /. MY mother never
made any trouble anywhere ssid he. I
- A.
My mother don't make any more work. All
you have to do is TO put. on another plate.
| said no more But from that day to this
each year she comes with her children and
grandchildren. They sit on the cool piazza
and l cook for them over the kitchen stove,
with one child in ray arms and another
hanging at my skirts. 1t is a cruel way to
treat any woman. II 1t were not for my
children should run away. / hope other
| women will show how they are imposed