The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-16


of the pleasantest figures to meet on
the street-ElizG Putnam Heaton.
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN
Mrs. MARY A. L1vERMoRE will be
in New England the rest of the season.
MRS. j. ELLEN FOSTER is lecturing
in Iowa, on the Irish question. to large
audiences.
FRANCES E. WILLARD has gone to
Washington in the interests of pending
bills to secure better protection for
women. and the prohibition of liquor
in the District of Columbia.
Miss HANNAH TAGGART. of North
cumberland, Pa, with her mothers as
sistance. dragged her unconscious
father from burning room. when .
few seconds delay would have been
fatal.
Mrs SARAH K. BOLTON is engaged
upon a new volume. to be entitled
Famous American Statesmen" It
will give short biographies of men who
have been prominent in the history Of
this country.
Mrs. JEANETTE THURBER. who pa
trioticaliy sunk SO much money in the
American Opera, has given q musical
education to numbers of poor girls in
New York. and sent them to Europe
to complete their studies.
Rev. FLORENCE E POLLOCK, pastor
of Englewood nl) Universalist
Church. lately commemorated the
twelfth anniversary Of her entrance
upon the ministry. During her pas
torate, the society has increased from
fifteen members to two hundred.
Miss FLORENCE MENKMEYER, the
young pianist and composer over
whom musical circles at Vienna are
going into raptures. is a grandniece Of
Rubinstein, and a pupil of Liszt Her
playing is said to be wonderful. and
she has already composed an opera.
She is only eighteen.
Miss MARY L. BOOTH has translated
more than fifty works from the French.
She earns $4,000 year by her transla-
tons, in addition to her salary of
5000 as editor of Rarper's Bazaar. 1t
is related that once. when Scribner was
in a great hurry for Angenor de Gas
parin's Uprising of a Great People,"
Miss Booth translated the whole book
in five days
Mrs. CHRISTINA F. HALEY, of New
York, has made comfortable fortune
in a business rather unusual for .
woman-the examination of inventions
and patent claims. She is described as
very quiet and retiring, and is said not
to look nearly old enough to be the
mother of two grown sons. She is
chairman of one Of the committees of
Sorosis.
ETA SHArTUCK. the brave Nebraska
teacher, was a heroine long before she
sacrificed her life to save her little
pupils. A disposition of the $1,000
raised before her death develops the
fact that her father Ga disabled vet
eran), her mother. two sisters and q
brother had all been largely dependent
upon her earnings. Still the sex she
represents are excluded from the right
to vote. along with idiots. lunatics and
felons.- Woman's Journal
LADY MACKENZIE has opened a bon
net shop in London. The family
property is in the Highlands, where
estates no longer pay the Old-time
rents. ut is no USE" says Lady
Mackenzie, in lately published in
terview, trying to shut out the truth
Socialism is making enormous
strides, unpleasant though it may be
to have to face it." Commenting on
this, the Christian Union says: IF
Socialism means such changes in con-
ditions that men and women who used
to live off other peoples industry must
now 90 to work and live off their own.
it is only another name for democracy.
or rather let us say for organic Chris
tianity."
Mrs. SrERRY. of Emporia Kan. is
talked of as a member Of the State
Board of Charities, intelligent people
believing that at least one of the five
persons on that board should be
woman. The Hiawatha (Kan.) World
says: ut will be wise. as a matter of
economy, to make this change, Tho
board buys immense quantities of dry
goods, groceries and cooking utensils.
of which a woman is better Judge
than a man. But as matter of
humanity, tie hundreds of women who
are inmates of public institutions abso-
lutely need the attention of woman
on the board. Who else knows so we'll
about the health, the clothes. the body
and mind of the female inmates? The
States that have adopted this reform
are entirely satisfied with the result"