The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-21
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING

Out of 5000 school teachers in Nebraska
4 90 are women, and ID of the county
superintendents are women.
Miss Elizabeth p Peabody contributes
to the Index an interesting article on the
status of women in ancient times.
Il sometimes think" says Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, in her new novel, "that God must
be woman-He is expected to forgive SO
much"
Mrs. S. ID Power, Shirley Dare,) whose
gifts as writer are winning day by day,
wider recognition, expects to winter IN
the South.
Medical College at Philadelphia, IA are
practicing medicine in India or are on
their way to that country.
Sarah Hallowell, the Secretary of the
Art Committee of the Chicago Exposi-
ton, has gone to Europe for the winter
in the interests of the art exhibit in Chi
cago next season.
Mrs, L. M. Wilson. Superintendent of
Public Schools at Des Moines, Iowa, has
under her charg eight buildings, eighty
teachers, and about 1000 pupils. Her
salary is $500 year.
Queen Natalie, of Servia, bought forty
American sewing machines recently, and
set seamstresses at work on them in the
palace at Belgrade, making garments for
the troops, which she cut out with her
own hands.
Mrs. Farr, of Minneapolis, this year
gave Christmas dinner to the newsboys
of that city. Mrs. Farr is business wo'
man, doing business of $60,000 annually
She takes great interest in poor children
and is special friend of the newsboys and
bootblacks of Minneapolis.
Women to-day ask no favors in bust
ness on the score of sex. They expect to
stand or fall on their business merits
But because this is true is no reason why d
woman should be treated with any less
courtesy than she gets to-day when sh'
behaves herself
Miss Florence Hale, of the Ladies' Ar
Association, New York, stains and paints
glass. and fires her decorated glass ant
china i'll her own kiln. She has orders
from large firms to ccpy ancient stained
glass, and is said to be the only woman il
this country who does this work in al
its stages.
, Princess Beatrice's brush has not beel
idle since her marriage She has made sew
eral water color sketches during her sta
in the Highlands, of which some ar
2 finished, and others will have the las
touches put on them when the court ha
settled in its winter quarters in tn
south.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts, it is sait
offered some time ago, at her own ex
[ pense, to have water from the pools re
introduced into Jerusalem, where it woul
have afforded a permanent and abundar
J. supply of excellent spring water; but tn
plan was frustrated by the stupidity an
;. obstinacy of the Turkish Pasha.
d 1t is stated that, "as the immediate an
direct result of the ten unions establishe
> by Mrs. Leavitt in New Zealand, tha
l. country is deciding to abolish bar-maid
n and petitions are being circulated ash
j. ing Parliament to prevent liquor sales
children, and to give woman an equ'
ballot with man on the liquor question
Apropos of the liquor question it is to
hoped the temperance women Of Ne
Orleans read paragraph in column (
the Picayune recently suggesting the
attention to the numbers of women
n New Orleans engaged in the retail sale
:, liquor at corner groceries, and sma
1 i second-rate saloons and eating houses.