Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-09-13
WAITS ABOUT WOMEN.
WHAT THE DEAR CREATURES ARE
DOING

WHAT THE DEAR <4hr-
Fair Sex. i
Dady 4 Ossington has presented
coffee tavern to the tow n Of kllmar-
mock, Scotland, which will cost "a 900.
. Miss Helen "A. Stewart, for some
time a student as Wellesley College.
has been granted d patent ona resplr-
ator.
It has been decided by the Austrian
Railway Administration to employ
| women as road guards on the same
terms as men.
Annie E. Wilson and Isabella M.
Leyburn are the editors of the Electra,
a literary magazine just started in
Louisville, XIV.
Mrs. Gilbert Haven, mother of the |
late Bishop Haven, has partially re-
covered from paralytic shock. She
is in her 96th year.
Sarah Winnemucca, the Piute prln-
cess, has written a book concerning
the habits of the Piutes, which will be
: issued by Boston house,
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is an ex-
ceedingly industrious lady and writes
very much, and very interestingly
and usefully upon household affairs.
Miss Georgiana Ball Hughes,
daughter of the late Ball Hughes, q
sculptor of Boston, has achieved quite
reputation in London as an artist,
where she has lived for many years.
, Nine. Caria Serena, the explorer
and writer, has been made an honora-
+ ry corresponding member OF the Geo
: graphical Society of Marseilles. She
e is the first woman ever thus dlstin-
guished.
+ A girl in Tennessee who has fine
e gray eyes makes them appear blue
: and bright by wearing hats lined with
dark blue velvet and eating Jumps OF
Z sugar on which has been dropped lit
+. tie cologne.
4 Susan B. Anthony, noticing that
10 there are more than 1 900 women prac
y ticing medicine in England, assumes
20 that "they kill as large g proportion
lie of their patients and receive as exhor
p fhitant fees for SO doing as male prac
I'd titioners.'
Il Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe say
< that the novels of the day lack roman
I'd tic interest. Human passion has COM
in to be SYNONYMOUS with a mawkisl
IN hysteria, to be photographed wlthou
grace, and by what strikes her as
n dry process, which takes the victim II
he the middle Of all emotion, as hors
IT. is caught with all his feet in the air.
e. Princess Louise, it is said, owes he
at rheumatism to the queens extraordl
of nary love of cold rooms and open cal
he riages. At Balmoral especially th
its royal carriage frequently returns t
he the castle long after dark, amids
X drenching Scotch mists, or perhaps
Ks sharp snow storm, with the occl
at pants not only unsheltered, but witt
elk out even an adequate supply OF wrap
er The remains of Grace Darling Il
r. buried in Bamburg Churchyard, whic
is within sight of her island home, an
;tb the canopied tomb erected to her men
of ory is now in great need OF restoratlc
ma. as the recumbent figure OF stone l.
ses meath the canopy is rapidly esumblil
to away, presumably owing to the actlc
the of the sea air. The Rev. A. O.Med
cen the vicar, asks for subscriptions t
urt the restoration Of the memorial.
ich Miss North, the English artist, WI
,ial is studying the fora Of Africa, writ
, of with enthusiasm Of her discoveries, e
ees. cry fresh place showing her fresh flo
,om ers. In one place she had a sight
N. one of the largest aloe trees III t
of world, or rather, three standing
,ely gether, forty feet high, with hundrt
,ute of heads on the ends of their branch
each of which, when in bloom, ha
and bunch of s.red-hot poker" flowers co
ing out of it, forming a mass OF tic
will ers which, it is said, GOULD be seen
and miles off.
cted Mrs. Lucy III. Hooper thinks t
her Charlotte Bronte's widower was "
tax ungrateful not to put up memol
!. by for the authoress in the church VIII
ille. she lies buried, after he had inheri
nv $4,000 as the earnings OF his
On > But he preferred to marry again
'nts' .n the money, and therefore Mrs. Hoo
aa,,- n makes this appeal to the Ameri
.,ad I readers of "Jane Eyre" "But tt
~, 49, still remains several windows in
= 1o at church, filled in with plain glass OF
.hS ho and each waiting for its memo
and panes of painted glass. A fairly
, Nv window can be purchased tor
Iooa and handsome one for $500. !,
go, not some one, or some group OF
AZ transatlantic admirers OF Charl
Bronte come forward to repair
- neglect wherewith her memory is Il
vould eu III nei na'i'o
ploy= Nsrvou. weakness,