The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-29
ABOUT WOMEN.

---PcnnSylYania has two lady super
| intendents of schools. ...s
There arc $50 lady dentists in the
United States, and three times as many
studying dentistry.
One hundred women doctors
graduated at the last term of the Uni
versity ofZurich, Switzerland.
Queen Victoria has $9,O0O,O ,OOC
worth Of royal plate in her castle al
Windsor, but this docs not keep hcl
awake nights.
Mrs. Agassiz has letter to the
women of Massachusetts, congratulate.
ing them OH their newly acquired
right to vote OH school questions.
Mrs. Pcircc, Of Cambridge, who
has studied the subject of cooperative
housekeeping, says that the beginning
of the whole business is the cooperative
store.
Susan B. Anthony is going to
spend part Of tho summer at Long
Branch. Good graciousl Has Susan
at last become frivolous, and gone to
hirting-lt her age, too?
The bellies Of the present season in
London arc all married ladies, and
two ofthem arc Americans. The girls
think they themselves are to be pitied,
for the matrons carry all before them.
--Lucrctia Mott has been elected
President of the Pennsylvania Peace
Society. She is 8G years old and is
the most remarkable woman of her
years i'll the country. She has been
speaking i'll public since she was 25
years old.
In recognition of her services in
furnishing money to encourage the
study of yellow fever last summer,
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Of New
York, has been made ali associate
member Of the American Institute Of
Homeopathy.
Women members Of the Church of
Scotland have equal voting power
with the mon. They have majority
over the men in the organization Of
nearly 10000, SO that the management
Of the Church Of Scotland is, as far rs
suffrage goes, in the hands ofwomen.
Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and
Louisiana are the only States now left
in which tho male teachers outnumber
the female. In New Hampshire thore
are five women teachers to one man,
and in Massachusetts eight to one.
In New York company Of ladies
have organized to erect, at cost of
SSO. 900, a wolnan's hotel, which, is to be
all that Stewards hotel was not. It is
:" he called tho "Martha Washington
Ho ~" Cor W0mcN IN Professional Pur-
SUITS" which is enough to make it 'sdic
a-bornin' in the start. In case it sur
wives its christening, working-X-Unen
will pay thrcc to five dollars q week for
board and lodging in this new hotel. =:
"A widow, seventy years old, not
far from Austin, Texas, has a cattle
ranch with three hundred head of
stock on it, which she takes care of
herself She is out in all wcathers,
and rides mustang OH the full run.
What woman seventy years old can
beat that. Another woman in the
same locality, a Mrs. Pierce, herdcd
five hundred sheep one winter, follow.
ing them every where, and looking
after them entirely. She had al in:
valid husband who took care Of tho
children ut home. Texas seems to bt
good place for women to paddle theil
own canoe.
Lucy Stone has been paying q visit
to Wellesley College for women il
Massachusetts. She gives little &C
count ofwhat she saw there in thu
WOman's journal. At this college
'tthc cooks Gre men, the professors arr
women" The visitors were invited
to look at the microscope work Of the
! school. The girls have more thai
| fifty microscopes constantly in use, ant
gave an exhibition of animal, mincra
and vegetable specimens which wa:
much to their credit. They also have
row boats, each with it's own colors
captain and crew. The girls are &C
customcd to exercise themselves a
their oars, ON the lake, every evening
and arc said to look very rosy ant
healthy.
Senator Jacobs, of the New Yorl
Legislature, thanks God for about til,
funniest blessing that could fall to the
lot of a person-the male sex. every
few senators," says he, "can resist thu
Establishments Of women. Thank Coo
am Of that numbcrP The devou
Hebrew thanks God that he was no
created q woman, but Senator Jacob.
goes ono better than even tho Jew, ant
thanks God that he hates women. Sen
ator Jacobs is in all probability such {
homely, cross-grained old hunks tha
no woman will look at him, an6
wouldn't "blandish" him if he wanted
her to. He is probably lacking in all thu
winning, graceful ways of his sex
therefore it wouldn't be any fun to girl,
to coax him into anything, and the,
don't try But it looks like a queer
thing to be proud of.
San Francisco has good woman
Miss Sarah B. Cooper, who devote'
herself to tho cause of the benightet
Chinese in that city. She visits thei
dens, gets their children into schools
and rcscucs the women, when possible
from lives Of prostitution, and is en-
abled to right many cases of wrons
to Cinnamon. Some timo ago she wa
passing along San Francisco street il
q car. Out of the window she saw tha
q dozen rowdies had cornercd on,
helpless little Chinaman. They wer
beating him with sticks and stones
and abusing him with the vilest epi
thets in tho language, and there wa
no way for tho distressed Mongolia,
to cscape. Miss Cooner snrano from