The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-03

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in this city nearly one and > half mill
ion dollars annual taxes, yet are denied
representation Woman's Journal
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss OcTAvIA THuRsroN is one Of
the most successful crayon artists in
Buffalo. N. T.
The Empress Of Austria has given
81, 500 toward raising monument to
Heine at Dusseldorf
Miss Rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
is writing q life Of St. Augustine She
expects to have . volume Of poems
ready for publicat ion In the spring.
Mrs MARY b WILLARD and her
daughters have returned to America
for visit Mrs Wizards Home
School in Berlin will b cared for dur
ing her absence by Frau Cauer.
Miss MARIE REINDE, editor of the
Bam6erger 1dgblatt . German daily
paper. is the daughter of the former
proprietor. and has for some time past
conducted the paper with ability and
success
Mrs. REBECCA P. NIELDs has been
made clerk of the courts Of Chester
County. Pa She Is forty-five years
of age. and the widow of navy officer.
She had served as deputy to the
former clerk. who was killed by an 40
cident short time ago.
Miss MILDRED HOLLAND is the prize
pupil in the art of fencing as taught
at the Chicago Conservatory. There
are nine other young women in tho
class 1t renders their movements
more graceful. and is said also to teach
the art of self-defense from q scientific
standpoint
In. MARY E. BATES, of Newton
Center, Mass. has just completed a
successful course of scientific lectures
in the Read Fund course at Newton.
DR.. Bates is the first lady who has
been invited to lecture in this course.
and she has had larger audiences than
any previous lecturer.
Miss ANNA H WHITNEY, the pro-
prietor of the Chequasset kennels, at
Lancaster. Mass, is said to be at the
head of mastiff breeders in this coun-
try. Always n lover of animals. Miss
Whitney gave up her vocation Of
school-tesching, which she had fol-
lowed for thirty years, and went to
Europe, where she secured the best
stock obtainable, and then started the
Lancaster kennels. She. with Others,
has taken steps for the organization OF
a St Bernard club in this country.
This affords another illustration of the
fact that American women are coming
to the front in business enterprises
Mrs. ADA NJ. BIrrENBENDE1,. of Ne
braska, the newly-elected superintend-
ent of the legal and petition depart
ment of the National w. C. T. o..
win spend the winter at WASH
ington. In tho interests of the
petitions that the w. c. 7. u. has
''sent to Congress" In lieu of the rep
resentatives it hopes to send ere long
from its own number. Mrs. Bitten
bender will become widely known II
she lives ten years longer. She has
good sense, untiring industry. and 3
high reputation as q lawyer in her
own State. She is described in addi-
ton as zone of the most womanly Of
women" She and her husband have
for years conducted the firm of Bitten.
bender & Bittenbender in Lincoln.
Neb.. where Mrs Bittenbender has
been tower Of strength to the W. C.
I. u.
Mrs CANDACE WHEELER. through
whose efforts the New York Exchange
for Women's Work was founded some
ten years ago. has plan now for
woman's hotel In New York. She
wishes to form a stock company with
capital Of 100000 to build fire.
proof house SO arranged rs to give
each occupant a room with an open
fire. One hundred boarders at six dol
lars week would make the hotel SELF
supporting Rapers Basar says:
There Is one suggestion Of Mira
Wheeler's which proves that she un-
ders:ands the people for whom the
hotel is designed; that is to have It
managed like . club with . house
committee of the inmates and the
stockholders The great trouble with
the experiments that have been made
in this direction Is that their rules and
regulations have been made BY out
siders who do not appreciate the posi-
ton of the class Of women for whom
they are intended. Mrs Wheeler's
long association With art students and
art workers has shown her that they
are young women TO whom life Is
something more than play. who are
infused with serious purpose. and do
not need to DO treated with the restrio-
tons Of schoolgirls"
CARDS OF INVITATION
Styles Considered C0mmo II Esut BY b.
cisty Lesdsrs
The special cards sent out for invl
tations to afternoon tears are trifle
larger than lady's visiting card. A
shane nearly anuare IA Oreferrcd The