Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1882-10-03
CONCERNING WOMEN.

The president of the University at Col
orado Springs advertises for an expert
cheesemaker to instruct the young lady
students.
The women of Denver have organized
themselves into an Industrial Association,
for the purpose of circumventing unscru-
pulous spectators.
The thirteenth annual meeting Of the
American Woman Suffrage Association
was held in accordance with the call at
Omaha, on the 10Th, 18th and 18th
insts.
Sixty-one delegates were present from
eleven states, those from the West greatly
preponderating.
Miss +. A. Omerod, who has given
years to the study of insects injurious to
agriculture, has been elected by the Roy
al Agricultural Society as consulting en-
tomologist.
Under a new law three women are to
be appointed in each County of Ohio in
conjunction with two men, as board OF
visitors for the charity and correctional
institutions. They are to serve without
pay.
A lady whose winter home is in Wash
ington, and who is said to possess social
distinction. employs her summers in her
home in Central New York in preserving
fruit. Her sales are said to reach $780,
900 year.
Miss Mary Obren, former student of
Vassar College, is associate editor OF the
largest and most influential paper Of st.
Joseph's, No., writing under the nom
de plume Of Julia Scott. She is the only
lady editor Of her state. and is of rare
intellectual and literary abilities.
Nine Vallenberg, who is the daughter
of Mr.. D. Ehrenof. Swedish Minister to
the Porte, and who has already swum
with the stream from Therapia to Yeni-
koi. is now in training with the consent
of her husband, for swim across the
Bosphorus.
Miss Mary Berger Of ortland. Ore
gon, on returning from picni", found
the timbers of the Elk Creek bridge on
fire. She disrobed, dipped her clothes
into the creek, wrapped them about the
burning ,imbers, and thus kept the fire
in check until help arrived.
France is ahead of US in the public
employment Of women. The great
French railway companies in many cases
employ women as ticket and audit clerks
in several banks and public companies.
they are largely employed in the clerical
work: and the corporation Of the City
Of Paris offer three hundred situations
for women as clerks.
Sister Mary Frances Clare, Of the Con-
vent at Knock, County Mayo, Ireland,
has taken the most practical and useful
way of helping her young cou ntrywomen
by establishing an Industrial School for
Irish girls, in which they are taught
cooking, sewing and all practical home
duties. The care of fowls and bees, the
making of butter. and knitting will also
be taught in the House Of Industry.
Mrs. Cartwright of Snowden Springs,
Oregon, and lady from Eugene, who
happened to be passing that way, discOv-
cred the railroad bridge. three quarters
of mile south Of Drain, to be on fire.
There was no time to be lost in summon
ing assistance, and having no vessel at
hand they went to the branch under the
bridge, and using their aprons and cloth
ing to carry the water, they extinguished
the fire, after burning and destroying
most Of their clothing.
Elise de Roerber, whose efforts TO pro-
mote a plan for the international protec-
ton Of female emigration have been rec
ognized in this country, has been visiting
Liverpool to arrange for public meeting,
to be held in that city shortly, TO aid
the movement. Lady Jane Taylor Pres.
ident OF the Women's Emigration Society,
will attend the meeting to urge the for
nation Of branch Of that society in
Liverpool. The Duke Of Manchester,
Lord William Seymour and other prom
inent men are supporters of Nine. de
Roerbers project.
The Democratic state convention of
Massachusetts. held in Boston last week,
adopted the following resolution Equal
rights, equal powers, equal burdens,
equal privileges, and equal protection
by law under the government for every
citizen OF the republic, without limitation
Of race or sex, or property qualification,
whether it be by a tax on property or
poll-tax on persons" The debate over
this resolution was vehement and excited,
but it was carried by strong vote.
Miss Annie S. Evans of Kingston,
Conn, has patented device by means
of which sick and infrm persons may
be comfortably raised and supported in
different pastures on ordinary bedsteads.
The invention consisted of divided and |
hinged bed bottom, in the under side Of
which braces are hinged upon the side
board. The braces at the head of the
couch may be made extensible, so as to
raise the head Of the bed bottom higher
than the center, so that the bottom may |
be used either as a chair or reclining |
couch. For raising or lowering the bed
a windlass is journaled on the sideboards |
of the bed, and receives a strap connect