The Newtown bee., 1879-04-01
News and Notes for Women.

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 News and Notes for Women.
 Six counties in Iowa have lady super intendcnts of public schools.
 Mrs. Mary A. Dennison has made l5, 1000 out of That Husband of NLine.n
 A French fan painter recently painted a dress for lady at an expense of S1, 200.
 Misses Goodell &5 King, attorneys-at- law, have entered into partnership at Janesville, Wis.
 Over $36, ,OOO, GOO pairs ofstripped stock ings were made, sold and worn in the United States last year.
 The New Hampshire Society for tie Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has elected Miss Mary A. Foster, secretary.
 French women turn their pianos so that the player faces her hearers, and cover the back of the instrument with rich silk.
 Neither women nor wind instruments will be permitted after June 1 in the choirs of the churches in the Catholic diocese of Montreal.
 Women can practice law as much as they please in Ohio, but owing to a strange anomaly of the law they can not be notaries public.
 The Japanese ladies paint their cheeks, but the article they use for the purpose when first put on is green. Exposure to ha hCyt +, shell pink.
 The Begun of Bhopal, a province of HindOstan, is clever and energetic lady. She has built the best hospital in India, outside of Calcutta, is making excellent roads, and arranging for a railroad to her dominions,
 Lucretia Mott, who has just passed her eighty-sixth birthday, is said to ascribe her longevity, with excellent bodily health, to her simple mode of living, her continual selfrestraint and her constant intellectual activity.
 Mrs. l.. II. Stone, of Kalamazoo, who has several times taken classes of young ladies to Europe and Palestine, is now teaching a class in Detroit and one in Lansing, thus contributing to the grow ing interest in literature which is spread ing everywhere.
 Mrs. Folz, San Francisco's female lawyer, is a bright, fair-haired, rosy, cheerful, matronly woman. She says: |" originated from the cradle, the wash tub, the sewing machine and the cooking stove. I have educated myself, and am now trying to earn living for myself and my little ones.n
 Clara Reinmann, a young American prima donna of German descent, who left good engagement in Berlin in 1877 to take part in the Louisville saengerfest, and who was led to form delusive hopes by the applause that was there showered upon her, has become insane through dis appointment and need.
 Mme Blanc, the widow and heir of the owner of the gambling house at Mo naco, began her career by sweeping out the Kursaal gambling rooms. Her pro perty is managed for her by a company. One of her daughters married Polish prince. The income of madame varies from S2,OOO,OOO to S3,OOO,O0O year.
 Mrs. s. s. Cox, wife of the Congress- man, is capital business woman, and relieves her husband of a mass of cores pondence which would otherwise demand a large portion of his time. There are many women in Washington whose ami ability, good sense and tact are of the greatest value to their Congressional and domestic lords.
 Neat thing from the Cincinnati Con,- nercial: The latest work of Mrs. Winnie Ream-H Hoxie, the sculptress, is Cupid. The conventional bow and arrows and wings are omitted. In. accordance with modern custom, the image is tinted in pink. Those who have seen it say it is the most perfect piece of work the artist has ever accomplished. It weighed twelve pounds when first placed on ex- hibition. It weighs more now.
 This is the way in which Louisville girl disposes of a young man, according to the Courter-Jour7sdJ: She says: You have asked me pointedly if l can marry you, and have answered you pointedly that I can. I can marry a man who makes love to different girl every month. l can marry a man whose main occupation seems to be to join in gaunt- let in front of churches and theatres, and comment audibly on the people who are compelled to pass through it. I can marry a man whose only means of sup port is an aged father. can marry man who boasts that any girl can be won with the help of good tailor and an ex- pert tongue. I can marry such a man, but I won't p