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MRS MmLIcEST GARRETT FAwcErr
il the author Of "A Handbook Of Po-
litical Economy now in use in several
colleges.
Miss AMELIA Il EDWARDS, the En-
glish novelist and ar~cheologist. has
been leeturing on "Old Egypt" TO
crowded houses.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX has heen
writing 4 series Of prose articles for
the newspapers. which will be pub
lished later in a boob form.
Miss STORY. the daughter Of a North
81 Ireland clergyman, has won the
literature scholarship Of fi0O a year
for five years. awarded by the Royal
University of Ireland.
MISS ALICE +. FREEMAN, president
of Wellesley, was married recently
to Prof. Palmer. Of Harvard. They
will spend the winter Mt BoNfor,i.
Mass. and visit Europe in the spring.
The Philadelphia grand jury wants
to have the ~wife-bcaters of that city
formed into a chain-gang. and set to
sw eep the streets. This would be bet
ter than furnishing tho ~wife-beater with
a fine. which the wife generally has to
pay in the end.
SHIRTS are being exported from this
country, and the New York women
who make them get thirty-fve cents a
dozen for doing it. Wouldn't it be
well for Great Britain to adopt a pro-
t%ective tariff against the pauper labor
of New York?-8oSton Globe.
LAURA B~RiDGEMAs has only recent
ly celebrated the iftieth anniversary
of her admission to the Perkins Insti-
tute for the Blind. A reception was
given in her honor, at which Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe presided. aud various
notable persons were present
THERE arc bad women as well No
bad men. But the preponderance OF
women is in favor of the good over tn,
vicious; and the majority of the votes
of women would be unquestionably in
favor of law and order. Of justice and
humanity.-HOn Henry S. Wdshburn.
THE PUSDIrA RaMABAI was con-
verted to Christianity years ago by
reading the New Testament. but has
never joined any particular denomina-
ton. She says their eSpositions Of
their UNCONVENTIONAL differences only
bewilder her. and she prefers { o call
herself simply a Christian.
THE number Of young ladies' COL
leges and lycecs is increasing year by
ear in France. There are now six
teen lycees and nineteen colleges. con-
tanning about five thousand students.
Six or eight more of these establish
mcnts are to be opened next year. and
a still larger number the year after.
Mrs. ZERELDA n. MoCor. publishes
in the Tacoma CIV. T.) Ledger a letter
setting forth. clearly aud forcibly. the
reasons why the members of the Wash
ington Territory Legislature. of both
parties. are In honor bound TO restore
to the women the right of suffrage. Of
which they were deprived by r deeis-
ion On Il technical error in the form Of
the bill passed by two successive lesis-
latures.
Mas. HoLUe. wife of the explorer.
started with him for Central Africa on
her wedding day. two years ago. The
couple have nov returned to Vienna.
Holub says he should have been killed
a dozen times in the region north of
the Zambesi but for his wife. The
natives had never before seen a person
who wore skirts or long hair. and they
regarded Mrs. Ho,ub As a supernatural
being, who had the white man under
her special protection. One tribe d.
sired her for their queen. aud begged
hard that she would remain " tn them.
MRs. ORA LANGHoRNE. of Lynch
burg. Va. contributed to the Woman
Suffrage Bazaar 4 copy Of the Virginia
Gazette, published at WILLIAMSBURG.
Va. in l776. which has been preserved
in her family over since the Revolu-
ton. il is framed. and is on view at
the WomTn's Journal office in Boston.
IL has not yet been sold. rs the mana
gers of the fair were unwilling part
with so great a rarity below It's value.
Persons interested in Revolutionary rel
les are invited to call and see il
CATHERINE CoLE'' saws that since
she began TO write for the New Orleans
PcayHne. six years ago. there has been
a great change in the way working
women are regarded in the far South.
AT first. women Who worked for A liy-
ing were thought 10 be out of their
sphere; then for a time they became
the fashioIable craze; and now tkey
nave ceased to attract attention. and
their rt,ht to work is accepted as ?
matter cf course. Catherine Coles
W Example and in1ueuSe have I'M
doubleday helped to bring about this
benehci-l change. S~:sIeeeived roanv
letters Of sympathy ami appreciation
on htl sisth anniversary.
Mas IoA A. HARPFs has besn hav.
eng - argument al woman safrage
VIII the editor ~ che Tere Haute
On ~ Gazette lie claims that man
sh iuld monopolize the RICH. to vote on
u sole ground that he is the fighting
animal.' and this although all sorts If
@len are allowes to vote. the old. the
'nhrm. the halt. the lame and the blind.
Our Government does not consider the /
power to hghi a necessary qualification
Tor sufirage in the case Of men. The
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