Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-10-17
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. Loretta Brownlow, Of East Paw
Paw, H., has patented simple and con-
venien, means of crushing and straining
fruit in making jellies, etc.
There is published in Calcutta small
monthly magazine called the Kr'st'ya
Mohati, or Chrisiaa Homan. The
written. are all native, converted Chris
tian women.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, NJ. d., Of
London. has accepted the vice presidency
Of the South Lambeth Tricycle. Club.
Women can now be seen in all parts OF
England riding tricyeles.
The agricultural college at Hanover,
y. H., will admi, women pupils at its
next term, who will be given a special
course Of study. including butter and
cheese making. and dairying in all its
branches
Miss Sanders. lady sent South by the
American Board of missions, has estab-
hshed home for destitute colored girls
in New Orleans, and has organized
fiourishing Chinese Sunday School in the
same place.
Mrs. Charles Turner, a widow Of Liv-
erpOOl, has given 100000 for the cree
ton of home for incurables in that city.
and will make ample arrangements In
in the shape of endowment for the main
tenance of the Institution.
Miss Frances F.. Willard has mapped
out her autumn and winter work as fol-
lows: a trip through the South-the
third made in the interest Of the womens
Christian Temperance Union a trip to
the Pacific coast and all the Territories;
and later on, trip to the Canadian
provinces. There are earnest calls from
all these quarters.
Mis- Alice Welch on being nominated
for County Superintendent of Schools In
Fulton County, H., by the Democrats,
was escorted to the platform and made a
speech, which was declared the finest ef-
fort of the convention, and caused the
rock rooted men who thought the NOM
nation Of a woman an innovation on
Democratic doctrines, to declare that
they were captured and would ''vote for
the woman"
An application was recently made to
the British local government board TO
sanction the appointment Of a woman, a
resident Of Great NARROW, England, as
register Of births and deaths. The office
had been filed by her husband, now de-
ceased. The rate-psyers of the district
Pe;itioned for the appointment The
r .gistrar- general inquired into the case
and now has given the woman the office
for a term of twelve months. This was
apparently promotion on merit.
If the newspaper stories are true, there
Is an invalid widow in Tennessee who
deserves something more than honorable
mention. She has not been able to stand
or walk for twenty years, but some years
ago she began TO make shoes with set
Of tools her husband left her at his death.
She has persevered so that now, while
sitting in bed with her tools beside her,
she plies her trade successfully and has
very nearly paid off the mortgage on her
little farm.
Mrs. Emma B. Johnson, of New Or
leans, has published pamphlet entitled
silk Culture in Louisiana and in the
Southern States" which gives plain,
practical direction for the management
# silk worms in the South. Mrs. John
son is dealer in silk-worm eggs. and
mulberry trees and cuttings, and makes
. specially Of what she calls Louisiana
,Igs," breed that has been produced
in that stale for thirty eight years. The
cocoons from these eggs are said to be
unusually fine in size and color, and no
disease has ever developed among them.
Nine. Gonzales, who has been visiting
Senior and Sonora Roa, at the Mexican
Washington, is the wife of the
Presiden, Of the Republic. and has come
to this country TO perfect herself in the
study of medicine and surgery. She
learned the rudiments Of both on the bat
tie fields of Mexico, where she won the
name Of the Modern Joan of Arc" Her
name and deeds are favorite themes for
song and story among the writers of Mex
leo. She is said to be of medium height,
plump and we'll proportioned, with keen
dark eyes and an aquiline nose.
A Western woman has just done her
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