Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-02-23
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
MRs. EMMA Mont MCRAE, of Purdue
University, has been elected president
of the Indiana State Teachers Associa-
tion.
Miss LEILA j. ROBINSON, the author
of Law Made Easy" will contribute
to the Woman's Journal a series OF ar
ticles on the laws relating to women.
Miss Robinson has returned to Boston
after an absence of four years in the
West, and will resume the practice of
law in that CITY,
Miss GRACE SoPER, graduate OF
Cornell, has just published in Harper's
Bazaar highly interesting collection
of statistics relating to the present
occupations of the women graduates
of twelve American colleges. 1t is a
work of much research. and brings
many vague theories to the test Of
facts-a test, in the main. strongly fa-
vorable to the collegiate education OF
| women.
Mrs. LAURA G. HOLLOWAY, of Brook
lyn, has received within the past three
months more than two hundred letters
from women, strangers to her, who
want to earn living by literary
work. 1t may be partly because Of
the increasing literary activity Of
Southern women, and partly becaus
Mrs. Holloway is herself Southerner,
but most of these letters come from
the South.
NINE. FLooUET, wife of the French
statesman, is an active promoter of
technical schools for girls, which she
aids both with money and social infu-
ence. She is also interested in homes
for servants, and offices and homes
where Alsatian girls can obtain shelter
and places. 1t was she who thought
of celebrating the opening of the new
Hotel de Vile by lunch to the chill
dren of the communal schools of Paris.
which delighted the children and their
parents, and added greatly to her hus.
bands popularity.
CLARA BARTON, president of the
American Red Cross Society, recently
had an audience with the Emperor OF
Germany. He stood erect and affable
during the interview, and it was hard
for her to realize that he was ninety
years old. His step was firm, and he
looked unusually well, but when they
parted he shook her hand kindly and
said: This is probably the last time
we shall meet" The conversation
was carried on in French, but when
she left the room he said "Good-bye"
in English.
Miss j. STICKFoRD, a Louisiana
lady, fills the varied office of ticket.
agent telegraph-operator, shipping
clerk, express-agent and train-dis-
patcher, at Prudhomme station on the
Texas Pacific railroad, little above
Alexandria. The New Orleans Times
Democrat says that in directing the
handling of cotton and other freight,
ordering the loading and unloading Of
cars, etc., which sometimes strains the
patience Of the most amiable men,
Miss Stickford maintains invariable
dignity and good temper, and all
goes smoothly under her wise and
careful supervision.
Mrs, FRANK LESLIE thinks literature
poor profession in America, partly
because it is overcrowded, and partly
from the lack of international copy
right. She discourages young women
from entering it unless they have ex
ceptional talent. She is reported as say.
ing: "A young woman in whom l was
interested had about an equal amount
Of talent for writing and for drawing.
She inclined to the pen. but dissuad-
ed her strongly. and she took to the
pencil. She earns sixty dollars
week as an illustrator now, and has
two holidays in the week at that. En-
craving and illustrating are fields less
crowded, and offering better chance
to women than literature.
The PRINCESS CHRISTIAN, accom-.
panied by her daughters, Louise and
Victoria, unvailed a statue of the
Queen the other day, at the Royal Hol
loway College for Women, at Egham.
Eng, and Princess Christian made an
address. 1t is hard to tell which
would have seemed the more shocking
to conservatives, fifty years agc-that
there should be college for women.
or that woman should make public
speech. As the royal family is proba-
bly, the most conservative family in the
kingdom, when one of Queen victoria's
daughters makes an address before a
college for women, it may be taken as
indicating that the higher education
and the public speaking of women
have both become accepted facts.