The Osceola times., 1888-02-04
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

bbOo WOnENs
MISS MURFREE Charles Egbert Grad.
dock) will spend most Of the winter in
Boston.
Mrs. CRAIK was prompted to write
her last book. can Unknown Country"
which discusses the condition of the
poor In the North Of Ireland, by over
hearing the remark of laboring-man,
who, when rallied upon helping little
girl across the street. replied, "Ay.
but 'andful of 'elp is worth cart
load Of pity"
MADAME EMILE HYGARE Carr EN-, n
popular Swedish novelist. many OF
whose romauccs have been translated
into English, is about to publish her
memoirs in three volumes. under the
title of aftermath from the Ca
reer of an Octogcnarian Writer"
The veteran author has just entered her
eighty-lrst year.
Mrs. MARY SEYMOUR HOWELL has
organized Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion at Byron, ~ Y, which will hold
its meetings during the year at the
Presbyterian Church. She has ad-
dressed large audiences at Danss ille.
Horncllsville and other towns, and ex.
poets to visit Chautauqua and Ale
ghany Counties.
SENoRITA MATILDE MoNroYA is the
first Mexican girl to become a doc
tor. A committee of young men
in tho City of Mexico got up a
hull-light in her honor and devoted
the proceeds TO the purchase of books
and instruments for her A country
that is civilized enough to have women
doctors ought to abandon bull-fgh :.
MRs i. d. GILLESPIE will shortly
hold festival of the year at Horticult-
ural Hall, at Philadelphia, for the BEN
eft Of the School of Industrial Art.
Each table will be named after a
month, and decorated to correspond.
Mrs. Gillespie, although grand
mother is an unusually active woman.
She is direct descendant of Benjamin
Franklin.
Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY is speaking
at n series of suffrage conventions in
Kansas, and meeting everywhere with
good audiences and great applause. At
a meeting in Holton recently she re-
piled TO Senator Ingalls, article in the
Forum, and the whole house voted
that the Senator's position on the suf-
! frage question is wrong, and that he
misrepresents his constituents.
MADAME CLARA BRINKERHoFF, the
welI-known primG donna soprano and
teacher Of the singing voice, read TO
the Polytechnic Section Of the Amer
lean Institute at the opening lecture of
its yearly course. paper entitled
Some Suggestive Thoughts on the
Culture of the Hum n Voice" The sec
retary and others pronounced it the
best paper they had ever heard on voice
culture. This was the first time dur
ing the fifty-six years of its existence
| that the institute had been addressed
by woman.
JENNY LIND is dead. The wonderful
Swedish nightingale" has lived very
quietly Of late years, training the wom-
en- singers in the Bach choirin London,
and teaching class Of poor girls,
whom she prepared for concert and
opera. OF the vast sums she earned as
a singer. she had spent nearly all in
charity, founding and maintaining art
scholarships aud charities in Sweden,
and hospital in Liverpool and large
section of similar institution in Lon
don Her character seems to have
been.as beautiful as her voice. She
leaves q husband, two sons and a
daughter
MRs DICKENS, the grandmother OF
/ the famous novelist, was housekeeper
40 Crowo in the time of the first Lord
Crcwc the grandfather of the present
holder of the titIe, and of his sister,
the first Lady Houghton. Lady
Houghton used TO speak with en-
| thusiasm of Mrs Dickens wonderful
powers as q story-teler. 1t was her
delight rs a child to listen to the tales
which the old lady related with so
much dramatic force and feeling.
Mrs. Dickens had one grievance which
Lady Houghton recalled. 1t was the
conduct of her son John Charles
father-against whose idleness and
general incapacity she was never tired
Of inyeighing.