Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-01
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Miss Jenny Henry is farming on Ash
creek, in Kansas. The Logan Enterprise
says: To show what an enterprising girl
can do, we will state that she came to that
place several years ago with barely enough
means to sustain herself after entering the
land. She went to work by the week, and
the money she earned was invested i i'm
provements on the land until now, at which
time she has about thirty acres under Guilt
walton, comfortable house we'll furnished,
and other valuable improvements. She
will soon have deed to one OF the best
tracts of land in that country"
The London Times says 1.-TWO new
fashions are heralded in the city OF
fashion. The We Parisienne announces
the advent of the paralune as a supple
ment to the parasol. The rays of the
moon are quite az dangerous as those of
the SUP, say the chroniclers of the novelty.
One can be moonstruck just as one can
have a sunstroke. If the sun browns the
skin, the moon dries it and wears it out,
just as it affects the surface of stone
Therefore, the ladies who are staying at
country houses, where long country walks
at night are often arranged that one may
enjoy the moonlight should remember to
secure one of the dainty paralunes made
in gauze, lined with red silk, which are de-
clared to be the last effort of fashion,"
The London Spectator says: ''In the
London University honors lists, which came
on Saturday last, the girls took a very re-
markable place. The first in the English
honors for the preliminary B. A. examina-
ton was girl, though one past the age for
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two other girls in that first class of only
first class, consisting of only four, were
girls. In the mathematical honors list for
the examination common to the preliminary
B. A. examination and the preliminary
Bachelor of Science examination, the first
was a girl, from Girton College-Miss
Scott-again too old for the exhibition, and
one of the only three in this class, having
beaten both her male competitors. The
first in the honors list for anatomy in the
preliminary Bachelor of Medicine examin.
alton was girl, Miss Prideaux, of the Lon
don School of Medicine for Women, who
had beaten both her Guys Hospital rivals
and one 1.-THE LAST of the three placed in the
class of the honors list for materia medica
pharmaceutical chemistry was also girl,
or, perhaps we should say, a woman.
That is pretty good score for women, who
have been only so lately admitted into the
field of competition"
The Woman's Journal says of the exclu-
sion of women doctors from the late Inter
national Medical Congress, that the Eng
lish provincial press is doubtless right in
saying that it is due more to Sir William
Jenner than to the Queen. It says "He
has been their bitter and answering op.
ponent from the first. As court physician
he mas great influence with the Queen, who
would assuredly be biased by his wishes,
whether for the admission or exclusion of
women from the Congress. At the same
time it is true that the Queen sets her face
like a flint against any movement of women
to enlarge the area of their lives. The
woman who lectures, who aspires to pro-
fession, who is identified with any of
the reforms of the day that seek to
change the status Of women, is alb |
horrent to her. 1t is not, therefore, at |
all probable that the Queen was in the |
least reluctant to lend herself to
the furtherance of Sir William Jenner's |
pettiness. Lord and Lady Granville ten
dered the Congress an elegant reception,
pointedly including in their invitations
every woman physician in the kingdom.
Every one felt that sharp rebuke had |
been administered to the Queen and Sir
William Jenner for their intolerance, and
to the London physicians for their syco-
phancy, whether intended by Lord and
Lady Granville or not.