The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-12
ABOUT WOMEN.

A YOUNG GlTton girl played the part
OF "Pallas Athena" in a representa-
ton OF the Eumenides Of H'schylas
given net long ago at the English
Cambridge. Her soft-voiced pronun-
citation OF the Greek lines is said to
have been admirable, and her per-
sonation OF the "clear-eyed goddess"
very good and effective.
Mrs. ANNIE JENNEss MILLER / az be-
come interested in dress reform, and
is at present busted in getting up
house, street and reception DIR asses
whichare designed to be at once health
full, beautiful and artistic. Mrs. Mile
means to prepare lecture on the
subject, 10 be illustrated on the plat
form by the various dresses.
THE Iowa State Medical Reporter, a
regular monthly journal OF medicine
and surgery, has added TO its editorial
staff DR.. Jennie McCowen OF Daven-
port. She is 10 have charge of a de-
partment devoted to "Medico-Legal
Questions and Neurology" The as
segment, by medical journal, of
such subjects to a woman marks
another advance.
The Lawrence american tays: 1.-THE
ladies are getting on in Chill. 1t is
announced that young lady named
Amelia Venegas has passed brilliant
examination in dentistry before the
University Commission, aud a GORE
spending diploma has BEEN awarded
her. The new republics, like the new
Stotnu Of n nm far lnoe,
timid than the old in the matter CT
comforting honors."
Mrs. THOMAS of Philadelphia re-
ported at a meeting of the bee-keepers
in Trenton, last month, that she had
obtained an average Of $50 pounds of
honey from twenty colonies, or q total
crop of 5000 pounds. This was ex-
t'aCted honey, for which she received
25c per pound, netting her S37 80 per
hive. She cleared last year $1,000
from her poultry-yard, and runs a
twenty acre farm besides.
SHIRLEY DARE Mrs. Susan D. Powerl
70. only writes practical and enter
tanning books on household and sani-
tary topics, but also, the Inder says,
keeps her own house unaided, gardens
enthusiastically, writes pungeDt edi-
torials for the Boston Saturday Emn-
ing Gazette, the New York Nail and
Express and Outing; and this winter,
as an avoCation from regular journal
istc work, is translating an Italian
enic, French work on art and an
Hungarian novel.
In the care of insane women Iowa
early put herself on record. AS early
as 1873 when but one other State had |
taken such a step-Massachuse It's, in |
1870, a woman physician was added |
to the medical staff of the Iowa Hos
pital for Insaue, and since that time |
six different women have served in |
our two State hospitals. The present |
incumbent, DIR. Z. Amelia Sherman, is |
OF good ability, both in general profes-
sional work and in this specially.
WALTER BEsANT, in his anti-v oman's
rights burleeque, The Rerolt Of Nan,
draws an imaginary picture of women
sitting in Parliament, and represents
the dignity OF that august body rs
utterly destroyed by the fierceness of
feminine Quarrols. But even he did |
not venture to describe quite such a
scene as took place in the Ohio Senate
this week, when the President of the
Senate tore the roll in pieces and flung
i on the floor, amid riot and coniu-
sion.
DR.. LUCY G. WAITE of Chicago HIS
lately been admitted to the University
1t Vienna on equal terms with the
male students. She is taking a special
course in children's diseases, and at
lending the clinics Of DR.. Herr, which
ire said to be the finest in the World.
Dr.. Waits has also been admitted to
he special course in genealogical |
surgery aud Obstetrics under DR.. Carl
Braun, Count Won Fernwald. The ex-
which take place every
wo weeks, are written in German,
making it quite difficult for an Amer
can.