Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-09
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. MILLIcENT GARRETT FAwcETr
is the author of Handbook OF Po-
litical Economy now in use in several
colleges.
MISS AMELIA B. EDWARDS, the En-
glish novelist and arch@ologist, has
been lecturing on 'Old Egypt" to
crowded houses
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox has been
writing series of prose articles for
the newspapers, which will be pub
lished later in a book form.
Miss STORY, the daughter of a North
of Ireland clergyman, has won the
literature scholarship of 600 year
for five years, awarded by the Royal
University of Ireland.
SHIRTS are being exported from this
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 pro-
tective 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, at which Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe presided, and various
notable persons were present
THERE are bad women as well as
bad men. But the prcponderance of
women is in favor of the good over the
vicious; and the majority of the votes
of women would be unquestionably in
favor of law and order, of justice and
humanity. -Hon. Henry S. Washburn.
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 lycees and nineteen colleges, con-
tanning about five thousand students.
Six or eight more of these establish
ments are to be opened next year, and
a stilrlarger number the year after.
Miss JANE GIBSON, of Glasgow, who
has Just died at the age of one hundred
and two years, was the founder of the
John Gibson Bursaries" in Glasgow
! University She moved in the brilliant
Edinburgh literary society of the
} Georgian period, and was able, until
, the last few days, to take lively in
, terest in public and literary affairs.
. Mrs. ZERELDA N. Mccoy, publishes
in the Tacoma CIV. To- Ledger 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 a decis-
q ion on technical error in the form of
the bill passed by two successive legis-
, latures.
t Mrs. HoLUB, wife of the explorer.
started 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
5 dozen times in the region north of
the Zambesi but for his wife. The
= natives had never before seen person
: who wore skirts or long hair, and they
/. regarded Mrs. Holub as supernatural
r being, who had the white man under
G her special protection. One tribe de-
Il sired her for their queen, and begged
. hard that she would remain with them.
/ Miss, 0RRa hasGHeRNE, of Lynch
: burg, Va. contributed to the Woman
o Suffrage Bazaar copy of the Virginia
: Gazette, published at Williamstown,
o Va, in 1776, which has been preserved
: in her family ever since the Revolu-
|; ton. 1t is framed. and is on view al
It the Homan's Journal office in Boston.
e 1t has not yet been sold, as the mana
!; gers of the fair were unwilling part
h with so great rarity below its value.
Persons interested in Revolutionary rel.
# les are invi ted to call and see it.
is CATHERINE COLE" says that since
# she began TO write Tor the New 0iica;:i:
o Picayune, six years ago, there has beer
l. great change in the way working
Il women are regarded in the far South
l. At first, women who worked for a liv
If ing were thought to be out of theil
"a sphere; then for time they becam,
}. the fashionable craze; and now the,
D. have ceased to attract attention, ant
d their right to work is accepted as
Il matter of course. Catherine Cole
d own example and influence have un
IL doubtedly helped to bring about thi
re beneficial change. She received man,
letters of sympathy and appreciation
A. on her sixth anniversary.
I'd Mrs. IDA A. HARPER has been hay
al ing an argument on woman suffrag
to with the editor of the Terre Haut
a. Qnd.) Gazette He claims that ma
IL should monopolize the right to vote o
~ the sole ground that he is 'the fightin
Isl ANIMAL" and this although all sorts ,
tie men are allowed to vote, the old, th
IL inlirm, the halt, the lame and the bin,
hit Cur Government does not consider tn
ne power to fight necessary qualificatio
We for suffrage in the case of men. I'll
sc ''bullet and blood" argument. if q
ms piled at ALL SHOULD be applied consis
NJ emily. Meanwhile. judging from u
do respective logic of the disputants.
m. suffrage were function of the reaso
We ing animal, Mrs. Harper would be q
IN lowed TO vote. and the editor Of Il
Gazefte would not. - Koznaa's .LonrEl