The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-03-09
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.


FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE says: "Half
the trouble in women's lives comes in
their excepting themselves from rules
of training considered necessary to
men,"
JENNY JUNE" (Mrs D. G. Croly).
now editor and proprietor of Godey's
Lady's Book, has worked in every de-
partment of a newspaper Office except
the compOsing-room.
Mrs. E. A. KINGsBURY supplied the
pulpit of the Unitarian church at Los
Angeles. Cal. recently, in the absence
of 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 Picayunc.
is also u 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 RAYMOND RITTER lately
published volume of singularly mu-
steal poems, which have called out ex-
pressions of appreciation from various
authorities, including Mr.. Gladstone.
The old saying that women lack tho
Lyrical faculty" must go.
Mrs. FRANK r STOCKTON is de-
scribed as fair. serene. happy-tem-
pered woman. whose placid nature
soothes the dark, nervous and restless
author of "The Lady or the Tiger?"
and enables him to do twice the
amount of work he could accomplish
without her.
Mrs ANNIE JENNEss MILLER offers
premiums Of plush cloaks. silk dresses
and gloves for those who send sub
scribers to her useful and interesting
magazine. Dress. She has patterns.
also, which will enable those at home
to cut these comfortable and handsome
dresses for themselves.
Mrs. CARRIE A. HALL secured the
admission of women to the Grange.
The New England Farmer says: BE
ing relative of one of the projectors
of the order, she urged this as a great
opportunity for raising the social and
intellectual condition of farmers wives
and intoxicating ideas of equal rights.
The present advantages enjoyed by
women in the Grange are largely due
to her suggestion.
Mrs. OLE BULL so admires the beauty
of teakwOOd that she has had designs
made for a mantel-piece, several doors
and one or two pieces of furniture.
which will be sent to China to be
carved expressly for her They will
be used in the drawing-roOm of the
new house she is building at Cam
bridge. Mass. Another room, which
she calls her Norwegian room, has all
its wood decorations in pine.
DR. ALICE BENNETT has charge of the
female department Of the Pennsylvania
State Hospital for the Insane. Norris
town. She has established a variety
of entertainments for the patients.
which divert their minds and promote
cure. These include music. games,
q Dickens Club. etc. Almost two hum
dred of the eight hundred and fifty
female patients are employed in house.
work and sewing. All the mending is
done by the women of the institution.
Mis-. DIR. SCHLIEMANN and her cele-
brated husband were drawn together
by their mutual love for Homer. He
met her at her parents house in Ath-
ems. when she was girl Of eighteen.
She recited a long extract from the
Iliad to him. to his amazement and de-
light; and he proposed to her on the
same day. DIR. Schliemann says:
During our married life we have not
had single falling out-not even over
Agamemnon and his sister. The only
dispute we ever had was when we had
different ideas about the rendering OF
q passage in Homer"