The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-01-13
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

is the author of Handbook of Pc
litical Economy now in use in severa
colleges.
Miss AMELIA & EDWARDS, the En-
glish novelist and archmologist, ha
been lecturing on odd Egypt" Il
crowded houses.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX has beer
writing series of prose articles TO
the newspapers, which will be pub
lished later in book form.
Miss STORY, the daughter of Nortl
of Ireland clergyman. has won thu
literature scholarship of f100 a veal
for five years. awarded by the Roya
University of Ireland.
MISS ALICE E. FREEMAN. presiden,
of Wellesley, was married recently
to Prof. Palmer. OF Harvard. They
will spend the winter Mt Bedford,
Mass. and visit Europe in the spring.
The Philadelphia grand jury want.
to have the wife-beaters of that city
formed into chain-gang. and set tc
sweep the streets. This would be bet
ter than furnishing the wife-beater will
a fine. which the wife generally has tt
pay in the end.
SHIRTS are being exported from thi:
country. and the New York women
who make them get thirty-five cents a
dozen for doing it. Wouldn't it be
well for Great Britain to adopt a pro-
tcctive tariff against the pauper labor
of New York?-BOston Globe.
LAURA BRIDGEMAN has only recent
ly celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of her admission to the Perkins Insti-
tute for the Blind. A reception was
given in her honor. ut which Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe presided. and various
notable persons were present.
THERE are bad women as we'll as
bad men. But the preponderance OF
women is in favor of the good over the
vicious; and the majority of the votes
of women would be unquestiUnably in
favor of law and order, of justice and
humanity.-Hon. Henry s. Wash6urn.
The PUNDITA RAMABAI was con-
verified to Christianity years ago by
reading the New Testament but has
never joined any particular denomina-
ton. She says their expositions of
their UNCONVENTIONAL differences only
bewilder her. and she prefers to call
herself simply Christian.
The number of young ladies' col
leges and lycees is increasing year by
year in France. There are now six
teen lycecs and nineteen colleges. con-
tanning about five thousand students.
Six or eight moro of these establish
ments are to be opened next year. and
Il still larger number the year after.
Mrs. ZERELpA N. MCCoY. publishes
in the Tacoma CIV. T.) Ledger a letter
setting forth, clearly and forcibly. the
reasons why the members of the WASH
ington Territory Legislature. OF both
parties, are in honor bound to restore
to the women the right of suffrage. of
which they were deprived by dccis-
ion on technical error in the form of
the bill passed by two successive legis-
latures.
Mrs. HoLUB. wife of the explorer.
with him for Central Africa on
her wedding day, two years ago. The
couple have now returned to Vienna.
Holub says he should have been killed
n dozen times in the region north of
the Zambcsi but for his wife. The
natives had never before seen a person
who wore skirts or long hair. and they
Mrs. Hoiub as supernatural
being. who had the white man under
her special protection. One tribe de-
sired her for their queen. and begged
hard that she would remain with them.
Mrs. ORA LANGHORNE, of Lynch
burg, Va, contributed to the Woman
Suffrage Bazaar copy of the Virginia
published at Williamstown.
Va, in l776. which has been preserved
in her family ever since the Revolu-
ton. 1t is framed. and is on view at
the Woman's Journal Office in Boston.
1t has not yet been sold. as the mama
gers of the fair were unwilling part
with so great rarity below its value.
Persons interested in Revolutionary rel
les are invited to call and see it.
CATHERINE COLE" says that since
she began to write for the New Orleans
Picayune. six years ago. there has been
a great change in the way working
women are regarded in the far South.
At first. women Who worked for liv-
ing were thought to be out of their
sphere; then for a time they became
the fashionable ''craze"; and now they
have ceased to attract attention, and
their right to work is accepted as .
matter of course. Catherine Coles
own example and influence have I'M
helped to bring about this
beneficial change. She received many
letters of sympathy and appreciation
On her sixth anniversary.
Mrs. IDA A. HARPER has been hav-
ing an argument on woman suffrage
With the editor of the Terre Hautc
(Ind.) Gazette. He claims that man
should monopolize the right to vote on
the sole ground that he is 1.-THE fighting
ANIMAL" and this although all sorts Of
men are allowed to vote, the old. the
nGrm, the halt, the lame and the blind.
Cur Government does not consider the
power to fight a necessary qualification
Tor suffrage in the case of men. The
''bullet and Blood argument, if ap-
plied at all. should be applied consist
entity. Meanwhile. judging from the
logic of the disputants, if