Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-11-09
WORTHY WOMEN.
Sketches OF Distinguished Ladies Who Have Held
Onice, and Those Who Ought to.

1t is recorded that among the persons
returned 10 the Parliament of 1851 (35
Edward II) were marie, Countesse
nlond; Phillippa, Countesse March; Ag-
mes, Countesse de Pembroke, and Cath
crime, Countesse de Athol. In the
preceding year, also, there had been
writs tested at Roynton, on April 5,
issued to divers earls, bishops, and to
four abesses, requiring their attendance
at Westminster on the morrow of the
Trinity, for the purpose of treating of
an aid for the making of the Kings
eldest son knight, etc. 1t does not
appear, however, that any ladies ever
actually took their seats in Parliament
by virtue of these summonses; but there
are numerous incidents on record of
both squires and knights having sat in
the House of Lords in right of their
wives.
Mrs. Drusilla Laha, of Wellhett, Mass,
is woman for American women to be
proud of. When she was at the age of
%, and the mother of two boys, her hus-
band was brought home disabled for life.
having been rescued from the wreck of
his vessel after days of terrible suffering.
Undismayed she started a small shop,
gradually increasing her stock till she
sometimes took 800 day over the
counter, and making, for tifty-nine
years, all her trips to Boston in sail
boat. During all this time she took care
of her sick husband. who could do moth
ing for himself, educated her sons and
started them in life, and adopted,
brought up, and placed in good situa-
tions twenty orphan boys and girls be-
sides. Her spare moments she spent in
visiting the sick by day and watching
with them by night, and now, in her
93d year, she looks back on a life that
few can rival. Bloomington Eye.
nj. Camille See, one of the Deputies
for the department of the Seine, has
submitted to the Chamber bill for the
removal of a number of the legal disa-
bilities of women. Distinguishing be-
tween married women and women UNI
married or legally separated from their
husbands, and widows, he asks that
unmarried women of full age shall be
entitled to act as witnesses in matters Of |
registration; that widow shall possess
the same right over her children as a |
father; that she shall be allowed to act |
as guardian, and shall be legal guardian |
without the father being able to assign |
her family council. As regards mar
ried women, NJ Sees bill contains pro-
visions enabling husbands to grant pow
ers over property to their wives, and |
giving women greater independence
when their husbands have incurred loss
of liberty or OF civil rights.
Miss Clara Morris, at the latest Soro-
sis meeting, said she wished to point out
an evil that persons not of the dramatic |
profession cannot understand. 1t is the
commercial management of theatres.
The drama should go hand in hand with
religion, but the management, to meet |
the demands of the public, place on the
stage immoral instead of moral plays,
and not more than half dozen persons
in the profession are so we'll off that they
can say: Il will not play in this piece
because it is immoral She wished the
ladies before her would take this into
consideration-there were so many there
who by writing and protest would have
an influence for good.
Resolution adopted at Jackson County
Qowa) Conventions: "ReSOlccd, That in
the security of the home rests the Sc
curity of the State; that woman is by her
nature the acknowledged guardian of
this sacred shrine; that intemperance is
its greatest enemy; that the daughters
of the State as well as her sons ought to
be allowed to say by their votes what
laws shall be made for the sup
preston of this evil and who shall be
elected to execute them.
In three of the London clubs ladies
are admitted as members, and in three
others, the Orleans, Twickenham and
Salisbury, they may be invited as guests.
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