The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-11-29
FEMININE 1TE1s.

Miss Winslow, the new American
beauty in London, is from Cleveland as
we'll as her rival, Miss Chamberlain.
Miss Susan E. Dickinson, lister Of
Anna Dickinson, is one of the be4 jour-
nalistic contributors of the day.
Louisa B. Stephens is the first woman
to become president of bank. SheAnc-
ceeds DER husband in the first natioAal
bank OF Marion, Iowa.
Rose Bonheur, although she dresses in
male attire while at work, does not ad-
wise others Of her sex to do so. 1T
doesn't pay to be eccentric, " she says.
Mrs. Lydia Smith, who for twenty
years was housekeeper for Thaddeus
Stevens, 10 still hale and hearty, and
lives near the old house in Lancactey.
Pennsylvania.
Lsdy Gay Paget, who was married re-
Gently to Lord Windsor, Q young noble
man with the comfortable income of
ESQ 600 sterling year. was accom- panied
on her bridal tour by white cat.
On the occasion OF the marriage of
Mise Knight, the daughter of the lord
mayor of London, to Mr.. Aitkens, the
other day, the eight bridesmaids wore
dresses of white brocaded silks adorned
with wrsaths Of Virginia creeper.
Large wedding receptions are going
out Of fashion, and small family gather
ings with breakfast will be the correct
thing to large extent during the coming
season. When the bridal couple come
back from their honeymoon. then they
hold their reception.
Susan Anthony says there are one
thousand women practicing medicine in
England, and that, SO far as she has
been able to learn, "they kill as large q
proportion of their patients, and receive
as exorbitant fees for so doing, a. male
practitioner.
The infant born to the Chinese minis
ter in Washington during the summer,
being girl, has not been allowed to
leave the house hut once since its birth.
1t is carried into the yard adjoining the
legation, but gets no fresh air in any
other way. Her little feet are already
being bandaged to keep them small.
In the state of New York alone are
$1,000 "superAous women" women Who
have no right to be mothers, no POSSIBLE.
ity of being wives. What right have
men to oppose or hinder these women
from doing precisely what they please,
from leading the lives and filling the
professions for which they are COM
petent? Surely it is ungenerous. to say
the least, for any man to wish to confine
the lives of unmarried women. Accord
lug to their own theories, such women
have no "raison d etre." Nature only
added one more to her many plumbers in
allowing them to be born vt all. But
now that they are here, they must be
suppressed; they must not be allowed to
exercise and educate their faculties 70
their highest possibilities. One and oil
must subdue their inclinations and in
tellects 10 one level of uniformity. All
energy, all different tastes are to be sat-
isAed at home or with charitiesi How
many hearts have been broken under
this terrible machine, whose Office is to
turn ont thousands Of women cast in the
same mould There is one comfort, ct
least, that the best, the most individual
women, have refused to be cut and
chafed by society. They have dared TO
be individuals, and with indifference
have received the verdict Of society
Guilty OF being peculiar"