The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-05-10
Woman and Her Work.

Rev Phebe Eanaford's Sunday school at
Jersey City has been superintendent fifteen
years by Miss Nellie Miles.
Martha Washington, Mrs. Tyler and Mrs.
Hayes are the only Presidents wives whose
portraits are hung in the White House.
An 81 800 clerkship in the internal revenue
bureau of the Treasury Department has been
assigned to Miss Mary Van Kraken, OF Gene-
va, New York.
Belva Lockwood, whom a correspondent
speaks of as a very bright woman is said 70
have quite an extensive law practice in Wash
ington.
Gen. w. 7. Sherman's daughter, Mrs.
Dubys, owns plantation at Pass Christian.
Miss, which is far famed for its rose garden,
exhibiting over 300 choice varieties.
In becoming the wife OF the Marquis de
Lenville, Mrs. Frank Leslie marries q man
who paid 5000 to the Portuguese government
for his title.
Ontario and Nova Scotia have each enacted
law giving to unmarried women and winows
municipal suffrage on the same terms az
men.
Rev. DIR. John Hall has received S65, 900
from lady who desires to remain unknown.
The money is q donation to assist in paving
the debts of struggling Presbyterian churches.
The same weakness which prompts Miss
kilgore to enter her name as Carrie Kilgore
when seeking admission to the bar, prompts
Willie Winter. Pet names may be very &C
ceptable in the home circle but in public life
they betray want Of stamina.
Julia E. Smith has hung up in the Woman's
Journal Office bill for the auction sale Of her
goods that she may not 'even seem TO consent
to the injustice of taxation without representa-
ton. She is now eighty-nine years of age and
once before she" entered her protest against
payment Of her taxes, and sold her pet COWS
for the same reason.
In New Mexico recent legislation has de-
cided that all property owned by any woman
at the time of her marriage or acquired by her
after marriage, shall continue to be her separ-
ate property free from her husbands debts.
She can also after marriage make contracts
the same as her husband in relation to her
property but no contract between the two
shall be binding or give any power or author
ity to the one to sell or dispose of the real
estate of the other.
John Hay, formerly hard working mem
Der of The Tribune staff but now a man Of
leisure through his wife's accession to proper
tv valued at million And half, John Pull
zee of The World, James Watson Webb, and
the proprietor OF the News, who all became
rich men through fortunate matrimonial alli-
aDces are not more to b. envied than David
Hale, the former editor of the journal of Com
merce, who had vito whose dowry Of chsrac-
ter and nobility made her treasure in her
self. When The journal was struggling
through its early difficulties Mrs. Hale kept
boarding house, and in this manner sustained
her family until the paper became a success.
Hale had been brought up dry goods dealer,
but failed in business and then turned editor.
This is the wealth that does not take wing at
the approach of adversely, and which when
united with woman's tenderness and constancy
has been the corner stone Of many q mans
success in life.
After a long and energetic struggle Mrs.
Carrie 3. Kngore has gained admission to the
bar. The University of Pennsylvania granted
her diploma as Bachelor Of Laws, but the
statutes Of the State make no reference to the
sex of lawyers, their only requirement being
that the applicant shall be 'of honest DISPOSE
ton and learned in the law" The courts in
Philadelphia have, in this case, taken the oft
expressed view that the statutes should be
interpreted as only allowing to men the prac-
tice Of law until the custom is changed by an
act of the Legislature. Judge Thayer, who
admitted Mrs. Kilgore, declares, In disposinQ
of previous decisions, that "mere negation''
has no right to give prestige to custom
After declining to "enter into a controversy
on the subject of .womens rights" he bases
his final decision on the following grounds:
First, that "if there is any longer any such
thing as what old-fashioned philosophers and
essayists used to call the sphere OF woman. 1t
must now be admitted to be "a sphere with an
infinite and Understandable radius; that she
is found in all the pursuits and professions OF
life' that persons who talk OF her admission
to these with apprehension as Of AN impend-
ing social change, are asleep and ought to
awake from their slumbers' and recognize the
fact that the revolution Is over and finally
that it would not be in the line Of wise
Judicial discretion to attempt to turn back
ine Wheel OF Time to convince history that IL
Is all wrong, and to say at this time Of day that
woman shall not be permitted to pursue the
vocation that suits her TASTE and for which her
studies have qualified her"