Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-16
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss BERTHA PIPER has been elect
ed journal clerk of the Washington
Territory House of Representatives.
THE Queen of Sweden is going to
England shortly. She will pass sew
eral months at Bournemouth or Tor
quay.
MISS PHOEBE CoUzINs has an
nounced herself as an Independent
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Missouri.
MISS ANNA DICKINSON has so far re-
gained her health as to make it pos
sible for her to start for Florida, where
she will spend the winter.
Mrs. S. M. PERKINS lately lectured
at Cleveland, O., on 1.-The Righteous
ness of the Movement for Woman
Suffrage" showing the justice and ex-
pediency of the proposed reform.
FRANCES Z. WILLARD contributes to
the Woman's Journal story illustrat-
ing the good effects of the tricycle.
upon mind and body Miss Willard is
an enthusiastic believer in this kind of
exercise for women and girls.
Miss WILKINSON, of London, is
successful landscape gardener. She
prepares plans for the laying out of
recreation and play grounds for the
Public Gardens Association, which are
much admired for their beauty and
economy. and herself superintends
the manual labor.
MRS j. c. DRAPER, of New York,
has given to Trinity College, Hartford,
large and valuable collection of pho
tographs on glass, illustrating re-
searches in physics, and especially in
the study of the spectrum. made by
her husband, the late Prof. Draper, OF
| the University of The City of Network.
Mrs. MARY A. WOODBRIDGE, Of
Ohio, at the meeting of the National
Committee of the Prohibition Party in
Chicago, made one of the best
presentations of woman suffrage from
the prohibition standpoint that We
have ever seen. We commend it to
the special attention of DR.. Cuyler -
Wonian's Journal
LOUISA M. ALcoTr says: lit is wise
for women who have made place for
themselves in literature and journal
ism to cultivate not only their intel
lectusl faculties. but practical ones al
so, and to understand the business
affairs of their craft. The ignorance
and helplessness of women writers is
amazing. The brains that can earn
money can understand how to take
care of it, by proper knowledge Of
contracts, copyrights and duties Of
author and publisher.
Rev. ELIZA FRY, a Maiden Rock.
Wis, is taking the theological course
at the Garrett Biblical Institute, Evans
ton. Ill. She has shown great courage
and perseverance,; and her career, il
shelves, will make the way into the pull.
pit easier for every woman who follow:
her. To their honor let it be said, thai
all the professors and almost all the
students have given her warm wei
come. Rev. DR.. Ridgeway. President
of the Institute, is man of progressive
views concerning women's work.
MISS HELEN A. SHAFER, senior pro
fessor of mathematics at Wellesley
who has beer appointed acting presi
dent of that collegeTw was born in New
ark. N. j., but her home is in Ohio
and she is graduate of Oberlin. Fo
eleven years she has been professor q
mathematics at Wellesley, and is i
full sympathy with Miss Freeman
! form of government. She is
thorough disciplinarian. and is re
, marksble for her executive ability
Wellesley is to be congratulated upO
, having so near at hand so worthy
t successor to Miss Freeman