The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15


Iarsso. ADDRESSED the Legislature on behalf
of The w. @. Il. IT,, urging the passage of a
bill making scientific instruction on the
effects OF sumulants compulsory in sch lols
Mrs Clara Il. Colby has been elected CORE
spending secretary of the State Historical
Socieiy.-The Legislature employs sixteen
women, eight enrolling clerks and eight en-
crossing clerks.
MASSACHUSETTS DIR. Lena V. Ingraham is
giving course Of lectures to the employees
OF Jordan, Marsh & Co., Boston, on subjects
connected with their health and comfort
Five hundred women and girls listened TO
her half hour talk one Friday afternoon.
Similar lectures are being planned in other
cities One hundred and two women are
serving on school committees this year.-For
the psst ten years Miss Jennie Collins has
provided warm dinners for shop girls in
&c ston. She calls her place Bofhns Bower,
and Feb. IL a fair will be opened at the
Bower to enable Miss Jennie to carry on her
good work.
NEW YoRK.-Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster re-
Gently addressed meeting at Albany in be-
half of prohibiting the sale aud manutact-
ure OF LIQUOR by constitutional amendment
-MadameCnrter is principal ofa lace making
school in New York City. where she teaches
the art and directs the corps of assistants en-
gagged in the industry.-The Board OF Edu-
cation in New York City has put premium
upon CeltDHGy Dy lndS AuhllieSe
disqualites woman teacher.
New ORLEANs-The Womam's Aid As
soc alton of New Orleans has given three en-
teriainmeDts for the benefit of the Woman 8
Department; lecture by Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, us Polite Society Polite?' Gre % e
CoDcer "and matinee. musicale, by Maple.
sons Opera Troupe and the Mexican Band
The next will be the holding of a Grand
Kermesse.
NJ
vile, and Miss Sallie S. Barclay, OF Lexing-
ton, have been appointed notaries public.
The Young Wcman's Christian Temper
arce Union OF louisville Is conducting two
classes in kitchen garden work. Object les
sons in domestic work are given the children
with little dainty household utensils, and
accompanied by music and singing. They
are taught how to select meats, fish and veg
etables and to do plain cooking. Lessons IN
hygiene are also given the classes and they
are taught the effect of alchohol on the
system.
WASHINGTON TERRiToRY.-Mrs Belle Nc
Kinney was recently appointed bailiH OF the
District Court at Dayton.-Miss Kate Feur.
bach has recently been appointed Auditor
of Yakima county to fill vacancy caused
by death. She Lad been deputy in the of.
fee for two years Thirteen women were
elected County School Superintendent at
the last election.
CANApA.-Mrs. J. r. Smith, of Brussels,
was re Gently elected School Trustee. She
is the first lady to gain that distinction in
Canada.
TEYNEssEE.-Miss E. T. Morgan, for merly
of New York. who has been teaching success
fully in various cities of the South has ac
co,ding to the Nashville American. built up
a school in the healthful regions of the Cum
berIand table lands in Tennessee in which
practical education in its largest aud wild
est sense is the chief object in velw. She
had become convinced that the public-scbool
system of the North would be inefficient in
| the 81 arsely settled sections OF the State. In
| fuential citizens propose to ask the Legisla
| ture to m axe some substantial recognition of
| her school.
| PERsoNAL-Mrs. Laura DeForcs Gordon,
| Of California. has been admitted 70 the bar
| of the United States Supreme Court upon
motion of A G. Riddle. Mrs. Gordon is the
| second woman allowed to practice before
the court, the first being Belva Lockwood,
who was admitted March is.9.-It is said
that Mrs. Fawcett, widow Of the late Post
master General of England, going to live
with her sister, Miss Agnes Garrett, the we'll
| known art house decorator" The bust
ness, started some years ago By Miss Garrett,
in conjunction with the late Miss Rhoda
Garrett, to whose skill in designing and ad-
| mirable taste it mainly owes its success has
now large and lucrative connection, and
Mrs. Fawcetts aptitude for business details
will be of material assistance to her sister,
Mis-. Annie Wittenmyer of Philadelphia is
in the lecture field with the subject Under
the Guns" which contains many thrilling
"reminiscences which came under her o5ser-
vation while sanitary agent and member
of the Christian Commission during the
war.-A movement is on foot at Newport to
connect the Lime Rocks Lighthouse, kept
by Ida Lewis Wilson. the Grace
Darling of America" with Newport by
telephone. The heroine and her ia.
valid mother are the only occupants of the
| lighthouse. which is in the middle of the
harhcr. At present she hssno way of sig