The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-15
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There are three art schools in Evansville,
Ind, conducted By ladies.
In the Maryland schools women receive
the same wages as men for the same work.
DR.. Aurelis L. Gilbert, of Louisville, KY,
has become the editor of the nluminstor, a
paper devoted to moral education.
The Woman's Medical College of Bslti-
more was lately incorporated. 1t is the
only institution of the kind in Maryland.
The best part OF woman's love is worship;
hut it is hard TO her to be sent away with
her precious spikenard rejected, and her long
tresses, too. that were let fall, ready to soo;he
the weary feet.-GeoTge Eliot.
Mr.. and Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt have
built cottage on Long Island in memory
Of q deceased daughter. 1t is to DO a home
for orphan girls, has twenty-six beds and
Mr.. Vanderbilt Is to pay AL expenses.
Last year nearly forty-fve hundred cases
were treated in the charitable dispensary
connected with the Now York Infirmary
for women aud children. Both women aud
children are admitted to its care and the
physicians in attendance are women Of ap-
proved sSill in their profession.
George Eliot wrote to Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, in her later years, that there had
been no change in the point Of view from
which she regarded life since her first fiction
was written; but the principles that were at
the root of her effort TO paint "Dinah Nor
ris" were equally at the root of her effort to
paint "Mordecai."
Several Indian girls who are attending
Moody's Seminary for girls st Southville
Mass, expect to 90 back to their own people
as teachers when they shall have finished
their five years course. I'VE hope to open
q seminary like this" one OF them said to q
visitor. 'The one of US who stands highest
10 rank here will be the Principal, and the
others will be assistants"
An interesting result of years of careful,
intelligent labor and patient research, is a
volume recently issIed-"The Original Por-
traits of Washington" by Miss Elizabeth
Bryant johnson. These sixty portraits Of
Washington have been sought for far and
near, in oil, in marble, or in ivory, and the
history of each given with charming touches
of incident and descriptions, besides a sketch
of every artist in connection with his special
work
Nora Perry says: mo sort of bad
WeaI1eT Keeps bno DOSbOu WOuldH ~ hOIlo.
She is out ali day in waterproof and rub
bers. when the rain pours or the snow falls,
and in the evening she gets herself into
her velvet and satin, her point lace and
diamonds, and finishes up the twentY-four
hours with, as likely as not, headachy
talk on some reform. and then goes out into
the night as serene as if the weather was
not sending down in every whirl of the
wind all sorts of bronchial and lung hor-
TOrs."
In Giles County, Tennessee, resides a
widow lady, an invalid, who has not been
able to stand upon her feet or walk step
10 the last twenty years. About fifteen
or sixteen years ago her husband died, leay-
ing her a set of shoemaker's tools and little
farm with big mortgage on II, and she
borrowed money enough to buy side OF
upper leather and piece of sole leather,
and with only such knowledge of shoemak-
ing as she had gained from binding shoes
for her husband, she commenced to make
shoes, and she has sat upon her bed from
that time (some fifteen or sixteen years ago)
to the present, with her shoemaker's bench
beside the bed. and made ana mended boots
and shoes.