The Portland daily press., 1884-05-28
Woman and Her Work.

The first daily paper was started By wom-
an in London, in 1902.
Intemperance, says Chicago journal, is
greatly on the increase among women.
In Valparaiso they have women, who are
said to be honest and polite, for horse car con-
ductors.
At Albert Hall, London, there ia to be a
"Shakespearian show" in aid of the Chelsea
hospital for women.
Louisa s. Baker, pastor of the Orthodox
Congregational church, in Nantucket, attends
the ministers meetings" in Boston.
Over the door of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Summer cottage at Gloucester is the inscrip-
ton, "Let your peace rest upon it."
The wife of Andrew Lang. the poet and
essayiss, Is preparing for publication novel in
two volumes, entitled "Dissolving Views"
Rev. Phoebe A. Hannaford has preached her
first sermon to the Second Universaiist Church
at New Haven. where she was called.
Miss Mary B. Grant of Matinicus Island,
Maine, has become quite famous by rowing
five miles through rough water for the mail.
"Among one hundred men you will find two
witty ones, while among a hundred women
only one will be stupid. Mime. de Girardin.
Hu King Eug of Foochow, young Chinese
lady, is about to study medicine in Philadel-
phia for the purpose Of practicing in her own
country.
There is laundry department connected
with Trinity House, which, among its chari-
ties gives employment to women who could
not obtain it elsewhere.
The lately appointed resident physician Of
the Thomas Wilson Sanatorium, Baltimore, is
Miss Emily W. Fifeld of Nebraska, gradu-
ate of the Woman's Medical College.
DIR. Sarah L. Weintrank, a graduate of
Philadelphia Medical College, is going to
practice her profession in Damascus, where
male physicians are not allowed to enter the
womsns apartments
Poultry raising is said to be light and re-
munerative occupation for women living in
the country. Mrs. j. III. Phelps OF Wethers-
field, Conn, has model hennery, filed with
| Plymouth Rock fowls, and has made her bust
ness very profitable
In Switzerland telephones are exclusively
| in the hands of women. Here, as in postal
| and telegraph services, the Swiss government
report them as giving entire satisfaction and
add that "as SO many remain single it would
be unjust to deny them convenient and re-
| spectacle occupation" The pay is from 1900
to 1000 francs year.
A woman was refused divorce from her
drunken husband by the Supreme Court of
Iowa for the following reasons: "She does not
show that her personal safety or even her well
| being requires her to leave him. She doubtless
| would have lived more comfortable in the So
| ciety OF sober man, but she ought to have
| considered, and doubtless did consider the dis
Comforts Oh q drunken husband when she mar
ried the defendant. But, she urges, he prom
| ised q reformation before marriage. His fail
ure to keep his promise did not justify her in
deserving him. All the world knows that such
promises made by drunken man are always
broken. In few words, as she knowingly
married q drnnkard, she must be content to be
drunkard's wife,"
| The Isle of Man, 1t appears. ought To be
more correctly styled the Isle OF Woman since
| 1t is only IN the kingdom of the Manxmen that
| the claims OF the better sex are properly recog-
| nized. By way OF precedent and exemplar to
the government, which has the franchise bill
in hand, it is pointed out that the last time
the Manx Legislature had before it the ques-
| ton OF Parliamentary reform, they dealt with
| the question OF female suffrage as WE'LL In
1881 thelHous of Keys passed bill which
conferred the same electoral privileges on
| women as on men. But, enlightened as it IL
in other respects, Man still groaBs under an
| Upper Chamber; and that body refused to pass
the bill in its entirety, and only allowed a "a
| ownership qualification TO give the vote to
women. "The first political enfranchisemept
Of women in Europe" we are reminded has
commenced. The Isle of Man having shown
| the way, it is only to be expected that Eng
land, France, and Germany should PROMPTLY
follow the example.-St. james Gazette.
1t appears from the gathered statistics of the
| world that women have a greater tenacitv of
life than men. Nature worships the famaIa
in all its varieties. Among insects the male
perishes at relatively early period. In plants
the seminate blossoms die earliest and are
| produced in the weaker limbs. Female ouad-
| rupeds have more endurance than males In
| the human race, despite The intellectual and
physical strength of the man, the woman en-
cures longest, and will bear pain to which the