Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-10-24
CONCERNING WOMEN.
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$50 for it.
Miss Alcott has prepared two new
books for the holiday season. "Proverb
Stories" and" An Old Fashioned Thanks
giving"
Lucy Hooper is said to weigh two hun
bred pounds, and yet was never known
to contribute heavy article to the news
papers.
A fraternal letter of greeting was sent
by the national Woman Suffrage Society
OF France to the American Woman Suf-
frage Association in convention at
Omaha.
Miss f.. II. Watson Of Boston has
prepared a chart giving in parallel COL
umns the principal events, with their
dates, in the history Of the thirteen orig
inal colonies.
Lucy Stone has consented at the ur-
gent invitation Of the Nebraska sufFra-
gists, to postpone her return home for
ten days or more, and devote the time to
active work in that state.
Miss Helen F. Clatk, young lady OF
fine literary abilities is on the editorial
staff of the DeRrer Mirror. She is do
ing mnch to render it one Of the bright
est society journals in the West.
Near Bayou Ckico,, La, woman was
recently attacked by large wildcat.
She caught the animal by the throat,
and, although il bit and scratched her
terribly, she held it until she choked it
to death.
In the latest volume of the Encyclo-
pndia Britannica, the lives of Lagrange
and Laplace have been intrusted to a
lady, Miss A. NJ. Clerke, who seems de-
sirous TO emulate the requirements OF
Mrs Somerville.
Nellie Grant Sartoris partakes of her
husbands love of yachting and hunting,
Daring the week at Idlewid she was
second on the lis Of fish. catchers, and
added to her prowess that of an excellent
rifle and pistol shot.
A wide-awakc young lady at Eliza
BEETHOVEN, KY, had her fathers wheat
field glaened after it had been harvested,
securing fifty bushels Of grain, which will
afford a handsome contribution to her
pin money for the winter.
The London Truth wants TO know
why women are not paid the same as
men for doing precisely the same work.
We are unable to guess unless it be that
women are not subject to such heavy eX-
penses for drink and tobacco.
Miss louisa Harris, of Oakland, Ded-
ham, Mass, has just sailed for Europe,
to fill an appointment as teacher in the
Royal Normal College and Academy of
Music for the Blind in London, England.
This college is under the patronage Of
Queen Victoria.
A marble cenotaph, with inscription
and portrait-bust, has just been placed
in Dunfermline Abbey, as a memorial
of Lady Charlotte Locker, sister of the
late Earl of Elgin, and wife of DR.. Fred
erick Locker, the poet. 1t was executed
by Miss Mary Grant, of London.
Mrs. Fletcher Webster, now the own
er of the Webster farm at Marshfeld, has
offered to give the Webster Historical
Society enough of the furniture of the
great statesman, still in her possession,
to furnish suitable room for the society
whenever they decide upon one.
New Orleans must be paradise for
washer-women. One OF the profession
there it is said, has in the past fifteen
years raised a family of children. purchased
handsome house and has $4,000 laid
away for rainy day. All the money,
it is claimed was earned at the wash
tub.
Miss Swift of the Kensington School
Of art, England, has arrived in Chicago
and assumed the position of superintend-
ent Of the Decorative Art Society. Miss
Swift has established number Of schools
of needlework in Scotland and England,
and is probably the finest teacher of
needlework in America.
Therese X. Fischer of Baltimore, Md,
has patented an improved dress Form.
to be used for fitting and exhibiting
dresses. The form is preferably made
of willow rings arranged in a horizontal
position one above another, and con-
nected by withes to which they are suit.
ably attached. The rings are made of
such relative sizes that the figure
will have the general shape of wo.
mans dress. A frame having the
form Of one end Of an ellipse is attached