The Portland daily press., 1884-06-18
Women and Her Work.

Florence Nightingale, the celebrated Crime
an nurse, now an invalid, has become an ad-
vocate OF woman's suffrage.
DR.. Beecher, DIR. Storrs and other prominent
men have petitioned Mayor Low of Brooklyn,
N. T., that women be allowed to serve on the
board of education in Brooklyn.
A window has been set in the church at Ha-
worth's, Yorkshire, where Charlotte Bronte's
father was vicar, which bears this inscription:
"To the Glory of God. In memory of Char
lotte Bronte. By an American Citizen"
Miss Charlotte Bruce, OF Scott county, Ind,
is said to be very handsome, intelligent and
modest young lady, who from childhood has
developed such taste for agriculture that she
can manage large farm as successfully as her
father, transacting all the business and doing
all the trading. She is an accomplished eQues-
tfienne and good ploughman.
Mrs. Spurgeon, the wife of the far.famed
London preacher, though for many years an
invalid, has, by making photograph frames
and like articles, established "book fund"
for the supply of poor ministers OF various de-
nominations. Seven thousand books were
thus disposed of during the last year, ard forty
past six years, thus showing what one feeble
pair of hands can accomplish.
Two very respectable women, Mrs. Shultz
and Mrs. Fries, are breaking rock for the
streets of Reading, Pa. They occupy small
stools at the edge of the quarry and "swing
their hammers Justify" They work eight
hours day, during which time they break
ton and half of rock, for which they receive
the beggarly amount Of thirty.five cents a ton
These women are widows, have families to
support, and prefer this sort OF labor to "house.
hold drudgery."
The Tory leaders in London have been hold
ing warm discussions on the question of wom-
an suffrage. The suffragists assert that during
a recent visit to Belfast Sir Stafford Northcote
pledged himself to sustain the amendment to
the franchise bill, thereby extending its bene-
tits to female rate payers. Sir Stafford admitted
this promise In speech before the Carlton
Club, but when the opportunity to make good
his words presented itself, he failed to do so.
During the debate of the franchise bill he,
with large number Of his followers, left the
House, thus obliterating all probability of Par
liamentary action in this direction.
"a perfect foot must be little less In length
than one-seventh.the height of the woman. 1t
should be arched on the top. 1t should be
broadest across the ball, and the toes, symmet-
rical and tipped with pink nails, should spread
flat upon the ground at every step. The sec
ond toe should be the longest. The heel
should descend in straight line from behind
the ankle, and should be delicatey rounded.
The skin should be IS white as ivory and
marked with faint indications of blue veins.
The heel and toes, however, should have q rosy
flush. Such foot you never see treading the
beach OF seaside watering place, and never
will until women learn that a small foot is not
necessarily a beautiful lone."
Miss Consuelo Clark, in graduating from
the Medical School of the Massachusetts, Uni.
versity, obtained the highest average in the
class, ninety,eight per cent, and was awarded
the highest prize Of forty dollars in gold. Miss
Clark was the only colored member Of a class
of thirty-four. and had to compete with the
graduates of Eastern colleges. M. Edward
Briefly, who took the second prize, is a gradu-
ate from Bowdosn College. Miss Clark is a
graduate of the separate Gaines High
School of Cincinnati, and learned her early
lessons in medicine under that most estimable
lady, DIR. Elmira Y. Howard of that city. Miss
CLARK completes her duties as presiding physi-
clan at the Massachusetts, Hospital July 1,
and will return home to Cincinnati by the way
of New York, Philadelphia and Washington