St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-20
CHIT-CHAT FOR LADIES.


Charles Kingsley's daughter wrote "Mrs.
Lorimer.'
A woman started the first daily paper in
the world in 1902 in London.
Mrs Eliza Clarke has written life of Sus-
anna Wesley for the Eminent Women
series.
Mary Wollstonecraft says that women as a
sex are INDECENT, and that everything tends
to make them so.
The Commencement of the Woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania took place
during the past week.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Louisa NJ AL
colt write for the Womaa's Journal and be-
lieye in its doctrines.
There is an old woman in New Orleans
who can remember when three pirates were
hung in Jackson Square in that city.
A ''society gentleman" wants to know,
yon know, why women wear their sleeves SC
short as to show their vaccination scars
There are eleven states in which women
vote for school directors. Most people will
be surprised to learn that Kentucky is one
of the states.
Miss Kate Field is amusing herself by de-
signing her funeral urn, it is said. Might
one ask if it is to be specimen of American
lady-pottery ware?
Susan B. Anthony is writing book about
women in Europe. Susan's latter days
promise to be her best days and nobody
grudges them to her.
1t is borne in on the Indianapolis Times to
remark that if some men treated theiI
wives as well as they do their servant girls
the re would be fewer divorces.
The daughter of Rev. E. P Roe, the novel
list, gives promise of being novelist too.
She is only seventeen years old, but she has
already written an acceptable story called
"Quits' for the Chicago Current.
CHASING women who never marry by their
complexion, it is said there are more blondes
than brunettes among them. This is sup
posed to be due to the preference of marry
ing men for brunettes. But perhaps the
women who do not marry fade out
Women are employed in considerable
numbers in mechanical drawing in Great
Britain. They make drawings of machinery,
steam boilers, &c, and give excellent salts
faction. They have been tried chiefly in
shipbuilding and engineering offices.
In Dakota married women retain their
own real and personal property, and may
make contracts, sue and be sued, as if sin
gle. Neither husband nor wife has any in
terest in the property of the other. Dover
and courtesy are abolished. Go west.
The first woman to serve as public school
trustee in Quincy, Mass, is Mrs. F. A. Olaf
lin, recently elected to that position. In
Philadelphia Mrs. L. NJ. B. Mitchell has been
reelected school director. Mrs. Mitchell has
been teacher herself and filled her position
as member of the board with great accept
an ce.
More examinations have been thrown open
to women at Oxford, England. Hereafter
the regular university examinations in math-
ematics, modern history and natural science
will be free to them. Higher education for
women is steadily gaining ground. Per
haps the poor things will get more gray mat
ter in their brains by and by If this thing
continues.
The most prolific and industrious living
writer outside of a newspaper office is IN
doubtedly Mrs. Oliphant, the novelist. Like
Anthony Trollope she can carry on three Sc
rial stories at once. Besides great number
of novels, she has written essays, travels,
criticisms, &C., almost without end. Also
her work rises to higher standard as she
grows older, which cannot be said of all
writer's.
A western woman writes a pleasant letter
telling how, years ago, she learned the bud
ding and grating of fruit trees. She hated
teaching and persuaded her father to let hel
help him in his fruit nursery. She had ex-
cellent success from the beginning and af
forwards learned ''all the niceties of grating
from an orange tree down to an apple root. d
She found the business both pleasant and
profitable and one which women could work
at as well as men.
Princess Christian, ''with council of IT,
tied ladies,'' fancies she has been doing
great things for poor London shop-girls. She
has opened a lodging-house for them. 1t has
accommodations for forty inmates. She
gives them ssemi-private bedrooms" and
charges them 81 week for it, which is quite
half of what they earn. Like some of hel
relatives, Princess Christian has a frugal
mind. But how thankful these girls of the
lower classes ought to be to the titled ladies
who take such an interest in them!