The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-10-27
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Isn't this decidedly Frenchy2 A Partisan
store offers for sale "the skIn OF serpent
that seduced the first woman, with testl-
monies of theologians.
Miss Frederick Perry and Miss Ellen
Martyr, the only ladies' law firm IN Chlca-
go, are both graduates of thelaw department
Of the University of Michigan.
The latest case of display in New York
CITY is an S, 900 bonnet. It is described as
ga model of quiet taste, being of dark,
maroon plush, with little other trimming
than diamonds
In three Counties of Washington Terri
tory the Democrats have nominated ladies
to the office of School Superintendent
Kitsap, Miss Ordway; in Pierce, Anna Z.
Weller; in King, Anna Bean.
Teresa Tua, of Turin, young girl OF
thirteen, bore off the first prize as violinlst
at the Paris Conservatory. last year. She
has been offered $4,000 for a five years
tour through the United States.
Says the Denver (ColOrado) Inter Ocean:
"What right has the law of the land to i'm
prison a man one foot this side the Terri
tory of Utah for having two wives, when
one foot on the other side it lets him have
twenty?r And that is the case in nut
shell.
A lady traveller remarks that the cleanli-
ness and order on board SHIP. where all the
work is done by men, including that Of the
kitchen and the care Of the cabins, almost
convinees her that woman has mistaken her
vocation in attempting to grapPle with
homework.
At the Social Science Meeting in Sara
toga, Mr.. Conway thought in a few years
cO-education of the sexes in colleges and uni
versities of England would be an assured
fact. The example of America In its Vassar,
Oberlin and other colleges has great in-
huence in leading England in the paths of
the eO-education Of women.
Nothing bears so directly upon the inter-
ests of home, and nothing should interest
women more than those who teach and con-
troll the common schools. Why shall Indi-
ana longer delay in this natter So long as
twO-thirds Of the teachers in this State are
women, why not allow them TO express their
sentiments in the selection of the officers
under whose direction they must laborl-
Helen NJ. Cougar, in Lafayette Courier.
Miss Sarah A. Brown has accepted the
Democratic nomination for State Superin-
tendent of Public instruction in Kansas
She says that in nominating her without
solicitation on her part, the Democratic
party Of the State has shown that it is in full
accordance with the Jefiersonian doctrine
that the Office should seek the man, and not
the man the Office, and also that it fully ap-
precistes the fact that the best interests of
the schools damand that the office Of Super
intendent, both Of the State and County,
should be, as far as possible, disconnected
from politics.
Woman's fondness for flowers is common
ly supposed to be universal but it seems that
there are exceptions. Speaking of the
beauty of the Bernese wild flowers a recent
writer says: Foreigners excepted, have
not seen single wild flower in the hands or
on the person of man. woman, or child. If
/ could watt here by the touch of an en-
chanter's wand an Andalusian child Of the
lowest condition, woman, muleteer, they
would pluck such flowers as abound here by
handfuls You would see them in every
woman's bosom, in every mans hat, on
every child's neck"