The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-06-28

MIS-, L. It. OobGrD, lady OF San
Antonio, Texas, has AZ, 900 silk worms
ct work in her yard
DR.. Anna Warren, Oh Emporia, Kas.,
has practice of $4,000 year, besides
mining interests that will give her
competence In old age.
Miss Eula Marsh is secretary Of an ex-
change for woman's work, recently
established in Detroit, which has met
with decided success.
Mrs. DIR. Tyler Wilcox presented
ballot at the polls Of the West Joplin
Missouri school election, but the judges
declined to receive the vote.
Miss Lizzie Sargent, the younger
daughter to the minister to Germany,
intends to pursue her medical studies at
a German university. She is already a
qualified physician, having been gradu-
ated ss the Pacific Medical college.
The progress of women toward com.
plete parity with men III all the rela-
tions of business is illustrated by the
establishment of an advertising agency
atiBoston, lBlsisdell & Foster; and the
proprietors are Misses l.. A. Blaisdell
and e. f. Foster.
Mr.. W. E. Kollock, of Madison, Wis
consin, has four daughters. The two
oldest are well-educsted physicians;
the third is q successful and popular
minister of a church in q Chicago su-
burb, and the fourth is a successful
dentist at Chicago.
Several ladies are employed on the
staff of computers in the astronomical
observatory Of Harvard college. 1t is
said that women have shown them
selves specially competent in the ordi-
nary reductions Of observations in more
than one European observatory.
Mrs. d. F. Crocker and Mrs. 81. A.
Johns were appointed as police matrons
to look after women prisoners in police
stations and courts, through the action
of the First Brooklyn Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, which fur
nishes the money for the purpose.
In Wisconsin committee of women
consisting Of Mrs. Emma @. Bascom,
wife of President Bascom, of Wisconsin
university, Mrs. B. L. Delapaine and
Mrs. Helen r. Olin have undertaken to
introduce suffrage literature into the
newspapers of that State as far as pos
sible.
At the last election held in the CITY
OF Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory,
l, 434 votes were polled, $40 of which
were voted by the women. This pro.
portion confirms the recent statement
of Governor Hoyt that women vote in
proportion as largely ss the men in
Wyoming.
Judge Brady has common sense to SUD.
port him, even if he lacks legal prece-
dent, in holding that wife has RIG ht
to sue her husband for damages from
assault and battery. The record of
wife beating and wife murder in this
city has become intolerably long and
Offensive Christian Union.
Five women, graduates in good stand
ing of several reputable medical col
leges, applied recently to be admitted
to membership in the philadelphia
County Medical society, and were black.
balled, although the society had pre7i-
cusly voted that women should be eli
gible for membership ON the same
terms as men.
A lady, Miss E. q. Keely, is the pro-
prletor OF large establishment for TIE
manufacture of steam boilers, fixtures
and machinery in Willismsport, Pa.
The receipts of her business exceed
So 600 per month, and she sells her
goods in all parts of the country, East
and West. She was once bookkeeper
for the firm which carried on the works.
but it failed; the business was sold and
she became the purchaser.
Miss Alice Fletcher smoke TO a dis.
tinguished aid very much interest, d
audience in the parlors of the Foundry
church, Washington, recently, On
her life among the indians, and the
measures which regard for their wei.
fare and the general public interests
require in their treatment. The meet.
ing was held un5er the auspices of en-
association OF ladies' interested in the
Indian question, of which Mrs. General
Hawley is president.
The "New OeDtury Club" of Phila-
delphia, one OF the largest, is also one
OF the most conservative of women s
organizations. One of its standing
rules has hitherto been that the oues.
tlon of woman suffrage could not be
broached in its meetings. BY general
consent, this rule was set aside, recently
and the tabooed topic was the formal
title OF the paper read by Mrs. Turner,
one of the founders of the club. A
second innovation was made by having
gentlemen discuss the paper. The
meeting is reported by the correspond
ing secretary as one of the most interest
ing ever held by the society.
Fashion Notes.
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