The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-05

from the East is also given with directions
for preventing end treating the dreaded dis
case. An important chapter is devoted TO
the construction OF model tenement houses.
Although the information and directions
contained in this work are OF direct service
to the home, and every woman who reads it
will find III it some thing applicable Tor the
improvement of the condition OF her house.
IL women woald.grow a. intensely intrsstsd
in household sanitation as they are in house
hold decoration, the House Beautiful"
would also become the House Healthful.
General News Notes.
KANSAS Eleven of the eighty-one County
Superntendents of Schools in the State are
vomen.-The Legislature adjourned without
taking action upon the Municipal Woman
Suffrage bill.
TENNEssEE-Mrs. Elizabeth L. Saxon OF
Louisiana has been engaged in the w. @. L.
U. work in Tennessee during the past year.
There were bat four U1ions with feeble
membership year ago, since then Mrs.
Saxon has organized for.y.eight Unions with
1850 members
NEBRAsKA.-Rev. Anna ]. Norris pastor
| OF the Unitarian Church at South Platte has
assumed the editorship of department in
| the 'Nebraskian" entitled Home and the
| Church. The sixteen women clerks re-
! ported IS employed by the Legislature were
| only those Of House cleks. Fourteen more
were employed by the Senate, thirty women
| CLERKS altogether.
| OHIo.-The 18th anniversary of the Toledo
| Woman Suffrage Association was celebrated
! March 6. 1t has held regular monthly meet
| Ipgs since its organization and has accom-
| plisbed large amount OF practical work.
Its members always pay taxes under protest
| and compel such protests to be recorded
| upon the books OF the County Treasurer.
| Their laDors to secure women's admission to
| III q bar In Ohm were successful.
IowA-The recent death Of Mrs. Angie
| Cook Lewellipg, Matron OF tbs Girls Reform
| School ia greatly regretted. From the ashes
of vicious girlhood she raised, phoenix
like. many good women. How many homes
she blessed and frightened by returning to
them the cheerful. capable and refined
| woman into which she had moulded their
way wal d daughter. Lovely in person and
manner, loveabie in all her ways she still
possessed that rare sympathy and love oil
home and goodness which enabled her to
| draw near the re Dulslye and unlovely. Not
only husband and children call her blessed,
but great company Of those she raised to
| better life. Greater love hath none for the
for the erring than to devote all the years Of
early life to their improvement.
EDUcATIoNAL.-Therea are 1877 ladies in at
tendance at the Michigan university,
year. They are distributed as fol-
lows; Literary department, 1l9: med
ical, fifty six; home pathic medical college
ten; dental department, eight; law depart
ment, three; pharmacy, One.-The Vassar
alumnae Of Chicago and the West are en-
deavoring to establish an educational fund
for the education of Western girls wh,ss
scholarship and character make them worthy
of the advantages OF q college education
bet whose poverty prevents their obtaining
il. Some of their plans for raising money
are suggestive. One alumns sent boqueis
tx-s~ X Ia ~ h~x okn
where they were sold and the money OBJ
tanned was giuen to the fund. Two grsdu
stes prepared girl for the freshman class al
| Nassar. receiving the regular price for such
work, and contributed it to the fund. The
alumnae OF Omaha gave two uccsssful con-
c rts, in which the musicians gave their SER
vices some being friends OF Vassar, snd
some alumnae. The Vassar alumnae o.
Michigan have recently held a fair in Grand
Rapids, for the sale OF fancy articles, pre-
pared by themselves and friends. In these
and similar ways nearly two thousand dol
lars have been raised during the past year.
PERsONAL.-Mrs. Mary Pruyn, who died
recently in Albany, was q descendant OF Is
Tael Putnam, and had some OF her ancestor:
energy. She was the founder of the Indus
trial School at Albany, of Home for I'm.
fortunates, a Mothers Mission, and Fruit
and Flower Mission there. She also founded
the Mission Home for Girls at Yokohama
reorgsnize the Bri6gman Home a. Shanghai
and was powerful factor for good in bel
generation.-Miss. Alice Z. Freeman, the
president of Wellesley College. was gradu
ated at the University of Michigan in 1876
and IS only twenty eight years Of sge.-Mrs
M. f. Cobb. superintendent of the Nil
waukee Industrial School for Girls, bas
accepted an invitation to prepare paper or
The Instructive and Productive Employ
ment of Girls in Industrial Schools" for thu
National Conference of Charities and Correc
tons to be held In Washington in June
next-Mrs. Williams is keeper of the light
house at Santa Barbara Cal. She has hello
the position for twenty.eight years.-Mis
Jennie NJ. Arms has just been elected q cor
pOrate member of the Boston Society OF Nat
ural History. 1t is only within few year.
that this society has admitted women ever
"a associate members The honor of corpor
ate membership, with full rights and priv
leges Of the society, is given only to thos
who have made original research" or "ad
vsnced the cause of science by their Ia bors
She Got There.
'Do you think the cholera will reach her,
next summer, Mr.. Boolhby?' she muir
INJURED, as she brushed q microbe of dan
druff of his shoulder where her head hst
lately rested.
'I don't know, I'm sure; doctors seam t
think SOL
.'It's awful, amt its''
Terrible