The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-02-22
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Mrs. Jane +. Henshaw, of Independence,
Iowa, has been appointed to a position in
the pension office ~ Des MoiEes,
Winnie Resm Hoxie has just finished put.
ting into plaster bust of General Custer,
for which he sat before leaving Washington
the last time.
Mrs. Lucretia Garfield is President of the
Womsn's National Relief Association and
was one OF the most active workers pre-
vious to the assassination OF her husband.
Norah Perry's home is in Providence, r.
Ia little house shaded by branching
elms. She favors soft, subdued light, open
wood fires, pictures pictures everywhere.
A Womens Art Society has been organ
lied at Austin, Texas, with Mrs. j. w.
Glenn as President and Mrs. julia Pease ss
Secretary. An exhibition is to be opened.
The utter sacrifice, body and soul, of tens
of thousands Of women in all lands, is the
Logical outcome of that vile dostrine that
"woman was made for an."-Frances
Power Cobbe.
Ga hundred Petrarchs and Lsuras were
not worth one John Stuart Mill and his
wife, who were so perfectly joined in life
and who in death were not divided says
Rev. DR.. Field in the New York Evangelist.
DIR. Anna II. johnson, of Orange, n. j.,
a graduate of the Philadelphla Female
Medical College, aud OF Vassar, hes brought
out in pamphlet form her treatise on Neu-
rasthenia, which was published in the Phil
adeiphia Medical Times for Aug. q. II
treats of nerve diseases.
Mary Pratt, of WATERFOWL, Massachu,
sets, left 600 to the State hospital at
Boston. The will of Miss Sally Blood who
died in her home in Concord, Massachusetts,
recently, aged 30 years, provides that Il con
siderable portion of her estate, amounting
to several thousand dollars shall 90 toward
the payment of the Concord town debt.
An independent class must be a free and
equal class. Women are not free nor are
they recognized as equals. They will never
be above the necessity Of having the aid of
the other sex" until they are equals of men
in political rights. A DISTINGUISHED class
can not be otherwise than dependent upon
the class in power.-New Northwest.
Frances Hedson Burnett is the literary
lion of Washington. She has pretty lit
tie house where she receives Tuesdays and
Tuesday evenings. She has q coterie in her
own particular den up stairs. She looks
very pretty, standing in tie center of her
cozy, low-ceiled drawing-room, wood fire
blazing on the hearth, and herself in pretty
pale pink gown, receiving with natural
grace and cordiality that is very csptiva-
ting.
At a recent dinner party in New York
City, says the Sun, some odd dinner cards
we're used. They were exact limitations OF
square soda crackers, made of pale silk
filed with down and sschet powder. The
edges were slightly oolored, as a cracker is
Drowned in the baking, and the print of the
cutting stamp was copied by the silk being
stitched together in places. In the center,
where the name of the manufacturer usually
is, was the name of the guest. As they lay
upon the pure white linen by the plates
they looked like such fresh, good soda
crackers that it was disappointment to find
that they would not break and crgmble into
brittle mUuthfuls.
A number of Ohio ladies residing in
Washington have presented a handsome
FIRE screen to President Garfeld's honored
mother as token of their esteem for herand
reverence for him. The screen is made of
glass, with the designs painted by hand snd
then burned This glass part swings ia
frame of carved ebony, which stands nearly
five ieet high and is about three feet wide.
In the center of the glass there is an excl
lent picture of Garfield, painted from
copy of the photograph taken for Queen
Victoria. Above the head is the coat-ol-
arms Of the State of Ohio. In one of the
upper corners there is shield, and in the
other a spread eagle. Below the picture
are flags, cannon and shot, appropriately
arranged.