Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-31

winch may oStler the cOnultlOn OF
beloved one, or of a whole household
of such. The masculine stay of the
family is laid low by death, or is in
capacltated, sometimes by his own
fault, oftencr without 1t, from fur
nishing the circulating medium out
of which come the comforts, aye, the
necessaries OF life. The wife, the
mother, stands by and sees
THE BASKET AND THE STORE
dwindle, the fire burn low on the
hearth, the children threatened with
pinchlug privation and the loss OF all
the advantages fondly counted upon
for their training and education.
What will her first question be9 Ii
will be this: WHAT shall do2 And
1t is here that | want a middle-woman
to step in, with wide knowledge of
the things which need to be done, to
the end that in this world of uses,
what is utterly useless and uncalled-
for need not be attempted IN the ig-
norance of what is desired and de-
manded."
It is in this life that the woman's
exchange finds the work-a work
which even in the few years since its
first Inauguration, and in the limited
number of cities in which it has beeu
tried, has proved of incalculable value
to women. Thus far, such organiza-
tons hsve only been established in
less than a dozen of the largest cities
of the union, but they are needed in
every city. 1t is not too much to as
sa.nfs h.t k.t go. 49, h.
land, having population of 5000 or
over, in which woman's exchange
might not be carried on. to the great
advantage of the community, and be
made partially if not altogether self
supporting. In every such town there
are scores of women left by
THE MIsCHANcEs OF LIFE,
more or less dependent upon their
own exertlons for livlihood, and
eager TO find some channel for their
work. outside of the too crowded ones
of sewing, and school teaching. eve
say nothing of the field of domestic
service, within which the need of
helpers is perennial, and whose en-
trance gate is always open, but where
in the ghost Of poor social pride for
bids the respectable American
woman, sore as her necessities may
be, to enter) There are also, in such
communities, many woman of atilu-
ence, ready and willing TO pay for the
results of skilled labor by their own
sex, if these can be brought to them.
All that is needed to start such an ex-
,laot, 49, IN tau nd a.
ii a valuable medium between pro
ducers and purchasers is generous
share of unselfsh effort on the part of
some benevolent women TO give the
enterprise beginning. A moderate
capital is also needed, but in any pros
porous town there can be found few
well-to-do citizens willing 10 be of so
great general benefit.
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.
Mime. Hava, daughter of M. Favre,
who built the st. Gothard Railway,
has been voted pension of 81, 900 per
annum by the directors.
The International Industrial Exhi-
bition to be opened in Edinburg in
May, 1886, is TO have a separate de
partment Of woman's work.
Bertha Wolf, a German girl living
in southwestern Coronado, is announc-
ed in western papers as the first dis
coverer of gold in the San Juan noun
tains. She is worth 5000
The German survivors of the Fran
co-Prussian war living in Milwaukee,
Wis, have formed society among
themselves. Recently, in commem-
Grafton OF her services in the hospitals
during the war, these gentlemen
elected Miss Clara Barton a member
of their society and sent her a diploma
handsomely framed.
Miss Virginia Macafee is one of the
most prosperous planters in Mlssis.
sippi Her plantation in Holmes
county, managed by herself, yields
fine crop of corn as any in the Yazoo
Valley.
Miss Alice Fletcher, well known for
her philanthropic work among the In
dams, has received from the New
Orleans Worlds Industrial and Cot
ton Centennial Exhibition certificate
of award and diploma of honor for
illustrations of Indian progress, ad-
dresses, etc.
The society established in Bombay
for Introducing into India English
medical women for practice in the
Zenauas, has published its first report.
II shows that over 200, 600 rupees have
been subscribed, dispensary started,
hopital put under way, and that the
two medical women have treated
from one hundred to three hundred
patients daily.