Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1888-02-09
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MISS OcTAvIA THURsroN is one q
the most successful crayon artists In
Buffalo. v Y.
THE Empress Of Austria has given
s12.5oO toward raising a monument to
Heiae ~ Dusseldorf
Miss RosE ELrzABETH CLEVELAND
!. writing = life Of It. Augustine. She
expects 70 have a vrIume Of poems
ready for publicat ion in ~ spring.
MRs MsKr r. WILLARD and her
daughters have returned % America
for a visit. Mrs. Willaris Home
school in Berlin will be cared for dur
ing her absence ~ Frau Cauer.
MISS MAIZE RErNDE. editor Of tho
BGmbsrger Ttgbiat. a German daily
paper. i the daughter II the former
proprietor. and has for some time past
conducted the paper with ability and
success
Mas REBECCA p NIELDs has been
made clerk Of tie courts u Chester
County. Pa She Is forty-hve years
Of age. anal the -adoS II snavy officer.
She hal served as a deputy to the
former clerk. who was killed By an ae-
cident a short time ago.
MISS MILDRED HOLLAND Is the prize
pupil in the art Il fencing As taught
At the Chicago Conservatory. There
are nine other young women in the
class. Ii renders their movements
more graceful. and is said also to teach
the art Of sslf-tefense from i scientific
standpoint
DIX MARY ( BATES. of Newton
Center. Mass. has Just completed q
successful course Of scientific lectures
in the Read Fund course ut Newton.
Or. 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 Chequasset kennels. At
Lancaster. Mass. il said to be at the
head Of mastitf breeders in this cpun-
try. Always a lover of animals. Miss
whitney gave up her vocation 81
school-te ching. which she had fol-
lowed for thirty years. anil 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
a ST Bernard club in. this country.
This affords another illustration Of the
fact that American women are coming
10 the front in business enterprises.
Mrs. ADA VI. BrTrENBENDER. of Ne
brstska. the newly-elccted superintend-
ent of the legal ami petition depart
ment Of the National W. e. T. o..
viii spend the winter at Wash
ington. in the interests Of the
petitions that the ". G. T. u. has
'sent 10 Congress in lieu Of the rep
resentatives it hopes To send ere lony
from its own number. Mrs Bitten
bender will become widely known If
she lives ten years longer. She has
good sense. untiring industry. and =
high rep tat on as a lawyer in her
own State. She IL described in addi-
ton n ''UHe IF the most womanlv Il
women" She and her husband have
for years conducted the firm of Bitten
bender Y Bitrenbendcr in Lincoln.
Neh. where Mrs. Bittenbender has
been 4 tower Of strength to the W. c.
I. L..
MRs CASDACE WHEELER. through
whose efforts the New York Exchange
for Women's Work was founded some
ten years ago. has a plan now for !
womans hotel in New York. She
wishes 10 form a stock company with
a capital OF s200,e0 to build a fire.
proof house so arranged as to give
each occupant a room with an open
fire. One hundred boarders at six dol
lars a week would make the hotrf self
supporting Harper's Bdzr says:
There is "A suggestion of Mrs.
Wheelers which proves that she I'M
derstands the people for whom the
hotel IS designed; that is. to have it
managed like a club. with a 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 10 not appreciate the posi-
tionof the class of women for whom
they are Intended. Mrs. WheeIer's
long association with art students aal
art workers has shown her that they
ale young Nuan-a to E
something more than play. who are
infused with a serious purpose. and 10
not need 20 be treated with the r~e-tric-
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