Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-31

which may better the condition of a
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
faults oftencr without it, from fur
nishing the circulating medium out
OF which come the comforts, aye, the
necea saries of life. The wife, the
mother, stands by and sees
THE BASKET AND THE STORE
dwlndle, 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 Il
will be this: What shall dog AnS
1t is here that want middle-womar,
to step 10, 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-
handed"
1t 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 have 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
sert that there is not a town in the
land, having population of 5000 or
over, IN which woman's exchange
mlght 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 a hvlihoed. 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
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 afflu-
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-
change mart In any town, and render
it valuable medium between pro
ducers and purchasers is a generous
share Of unselfish 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 to be of so
great general benefit.
NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.
Nine. Hava, daughter of M. Favre,
who built the st. Gothard Railway,
has been voted a pension of SO, 900 per
annum by the directors.
The international Industrial Exhi-
bition to be opened in Edinburg in
May, 1886, is to have separate de-
partment of woman's work.
Bertha Wolf, 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 100000.
The German survivors of the Fran
co-Prussian war living in Milwaukee,
Wis, have formed a 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 diploma
handsomely framed.
Miss Virginia Macafee is one of the
most prosperous planters in Missis-
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 a certificate
of award and diploma of honor for
illustrations of Indian progress, adj
dresses, etc.
The society established in Bombay
for Introducing into India English
medical women for practice in the
Zenanas, has published its first report.
1t shows that over 1000 rupees have
been subscribed, dispensary started,
a hopital put under way, and that the
two medical women have treated
from one hundred to three hundred
patients daily.