Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-09
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

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 PHGBE 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. NJ. 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 E. WILLARD contributes to
the Womau'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 a
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. 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-
WOman's journal.
Mrs. j. c. DRAPER. of New York,
has given to Trinity College. Hartford,
a 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 NewYork.
LOUISA NJ. AiCoTr says: 1T is wise
for women who have made place for
themselves in literature and journal
ism to cultivate not only their intel
lectual faculties, but practical ones al
so. and 10 understand the business
affairs of their craft. The ignorance
and helplcssness 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.
Miss HELEN A. SHAFER. senior pro-
fessor of mathematics at Wellesley,
who has beer appointed acting presi-
dent of that college. was born in New
ark. n. j., but her home is in Ohio.
and she is graduate of Obcrlin. For
eleven years she has been professor Of
mathematics at Wellesley, and is in
full sympathy with Miss Freeman's
form Of government. She is q
thorough disciplinarian. and is re-
markable for her executive ability.
Wellesley is to be congratulated upon
having 50 near 1T hand so worthy .
successor to Miss Freeman.
Miss VERA HJELr lately lectured be-
fore the Finnish Women's Union in
Helsingfors to large audience. on the
necessity Of extending the field Of
women's work. She pointed out that,
rs about one-third of the women in
Scandinavia and Finland have to earn
their own living. more kinds Of work
should be opened to them. Among in-
dustries suitable for women are men
toned matchmaking. the manufacture
Of children's toys. shoe-making. silver
smith work. book-binding. chemical
dyeing and cleaning. all kinds OF work
connected with cloth-mending and
pasteboard manufacture. glass-cutting.
lithography. Understanding. piano
tuning. stick and umbrella making.