The Osceola times., 1888-02-11
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

Miss OcTAvIA THURsToN is one Of
the most successful crayon artists in
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Empress of Austria has given
sl2,500 toward raising a monument to
Heine at Dusseldorf.
Miss Rose ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
is writing life of St. Augustine. She
expects to have a volume of poems
ready for publicat ion in tha spring.
Mrs. MARY B. WILLARD and her
daughters have returned to America
for visit. Mrs. Willard's Home
School in Berlin will be cared for DUR
ing her absence by Frau Cauen
Miss MARIE REINDE. editor of tho
Bamberger Ydgblatt. a German daily
paper is the daughter of the former
proprietor, and has for some time past
conducted the paper with ability and
success
Mrs. REBECCA P. NIELDs has been
made clerk of the courts of Chester
County, Pa. She is forty-fve years
of age, and the widow of n navy officer.
She had served as deputy to the
former clerk, who was killed by an ao-
cident a short time ago.
Miss MILDRED HOLLAND is the prize
pupil in the art of fencing as taught
at the Chicago Conservatory. There
are nine other young women in the
class. 1t renders their movements
more graceful. and is said also to teach
the art of self-defense from scientific
standpoint.
DR.. MARY E. BATES, of Newton
Center, Mass, has just completed a
successful course of scientific lectures
in the Read Fund course at Newton.
DIR. Bates is the first lady who has
been invited to lecture in this course.
and she has had larger audiences than
any previous lecturer
Miss ANNA H. WHITNEY, the pro-
prietor of the Cheguasset kennels, at
Lancaster, Mass, is said to be at the
head of mastiif breeders in this coun.
try Always lover of animals, Miss
Whitney gave up her vocation OF
school.te ching, which she had fol-
lowed for thirty years, and went to
Europe, where she secured the best
stock obtainable. and then started the
Lancaster kennels, She, with others,
has taken steps for the organization Of
st. Bernard club in this country.
This affords another illustration of the
fact that American women are coming
to the front in business enterprises.
Mrs. ADA NJ. BITTENBENpER, of Me-
braska, the newly-elected superintend-
ent of the legal and petition depart.
ment of the National W. G. T. u,
will spend the winter at WASH
ington, in the interests of the
petitions that the w. c. T. u. has
'sent to Congress in lieu of the rep
resentatives it hopes to send ere long
from its own number. Mrs Bitten
bender will become widely known /,
she lives ten years longer. She has
good sense, untiring industry, and q
high reputation as a lawyer in her
own State. She is described in addi.
ton as zone of the most womanly Of
women" She and her husband have
for years conducted the firm of Bitten
bender 4 Bittenbender in Lincoln.
Neb, where Mrs. Bittenbendcr has
been tower Of strength to the w. c.
T. U.
Mrs. CANDACE WHEELER, through
whose efforts the New York Exchange
for Women's Work was founded some
ten years ago, has a plan now for q
woman's hotel in New York. She
wishes to form stock company with
capital of 5000, 600 to build fire
proof house SO arranged as to give
each occupant room with an open
fire. One hundred boarders at six dol
lars week would make the hotel self
supporting. Harper's Bdzar says:
There is one suggestion of Mrs
Wheeler's which proves that she un.
derstands the people for whom the
hotel is designed; that is, to have it
managed like club, with house
committee of the inmates and the
stockholders. The great trouble with
the experiments that have been made
in this direction is that their rules and
regulations have been made by out
siders who do not appreciate the posi-
ton of the class of women for whom
they are intended. Mrs, Wheeler's
long association with art students and
art workers has shown her that they
are young women TO whom life is
something more than play, who are
infused with a serious purpose. and do
not need to be treated with the restric-