Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-03-15
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

FLORENCE NfGHTTSGALE SAYS: Half
h trouble In women's lives comes in
their excepting thenis selves from rules
Of training considered necessary to
men,"
JENNY JUNE" Mrs d. G. CroIv).
now editor and proprietor of Godey's
Ladps Book. has worked in every de-
partment of a newspaper office except
the composing-room-
Mrs E A krNGsBURr supplied the
pulpit OF the Unitarian church At Los
Angeles. Cal. recently. in the absence
~ the regular pastor. In spite of rain
and mud. she had a large and appre-
ciative congregation
MRS NICHOLSON. editor and pro-
prietor Of the New Orleans PicruaHs.
Is also a poet. writing under the name
OF Pearl Rivers" The New York
Home Journal calls her 1.-THE poet-
laureate Of the bird and flower world
Of the South"
Mrs FANNY RAYMoNp RITTER lately
published volume of singularly mu-
steal poems. which have called out ex-
pressions Of appreciation from various
authorities, including Mr.. Gladstone.
Ihe Cd saying that women lack the
Lyrical faculty must 90.
Mis-. FRANK K STOCKTON Il de-
scribed rs a fair. serene. happy-tem-
pered woman. whose placid nature
soothes the dark. and restless
author of 1.-The Lady or the Tigera"
and enables him to DO twice the
moun of work he could accomplish
without her.
Mrs ANNIE JENSESs MILLER offers
premiums of plush cloaks. silk dresses
and gloves for those who send sub
scribers to her useful aud interesting
magazine. Dress. She has patterns.
also. which will enable those ut home
To cut these comfortable and handsome
dresses for themselves
MRs. CARRIE A HALL secured the
admission of women to the Grange.
The Aew England farnter SAYS: Be
ing a relative If one Of the projectors
of the order. she urged this A. a great
opportunity for raising the social and
intellectual condition of farmers wives
and intoxicating ideas Of equal rights.
The present advantages enioyed bv
women in the Grange are largely due
to her suggestion.
MRs OLE Bull 20 admires the beauty
of teakwood that she has had designs
made for q mantel-pieee. several doors
and one or two pieces II furniture,
which will lie semi 10 China 10 be
carved expressly for her. They will
be used in the drawingroom of the
new house she i building at Cam
bridge. Mass. Another room. which
she calls her Norwegian room. has all
IT'S wood decorations in pine.
Dr. ALICE Bennett has charge of the
female department. ef the Pennsylvania
ntate Hospital for the Insane. Norris
tay1 81. has established a variety
OF entertainments for the patients.
which divert their minds aHd pramots
n cure These include music. games.
a Dickens Club. etc- Almost two hun
dreu oil The etght hundred and fifty
female patients are employed in house
work and sewing All the mending IS
done by the women q the institution.
NRS DR. >cHLIENASN and her cele-
brated husband were drawn together
D. their mutual love for Homer. lie
met her At her parents house in Ath-
ems when she was a Girl If sfghfsan
She reeited a long extract from the
Had TO him. To his amazement and de-
Light; and he proposed to her ON the
same day DR. >chIiemann saws:
:" During our married life we have not
had a single falling out-not even over
Agsmemnon and his sister. The onIv
dispute we ever had was when we had
different ideas about the rendering Of
q passage in Homer"