Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-02-02
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.


Mrs. M1LL1cENr GARRETT FAwCEr1
is the author of a Handbook of Pc
litical Economy now in use in severa
colleges.
Miss AMELIA b EDWARDS, the En-
glsh novelist and arch@ologist ha.
been lecturing on 'Old Egypt" t.
crowded houses.
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox has beer
writing series of prose articles fol
the newspapers, which will be pub
lished later in book form.
Miss STORY, the daughter of North
of Ireland clergyman, has won the
literature scholarship of fl0o a year
for five years. awarded by the Royal
University of Ireland
SHIRTS are being exported from this
country. and the New York women
who make them get thirty-five cents a
dozen for doing it. Wouldn't it be
well for Great Britain 10 adopt pro-
tective tariff against the p;Aper labor
of New York?-Bostoa Globe.
LAURA BRIDGEMAN has only recent
" celebrated the fiftieth 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. and various
notable persons were present
THERE are bad women as we'll as
bad men. But the preponderance of
women is in favor of the good over the
vicious; and the majority of the votes
of women would be uuquestionably in
favor of law and order. of justice and
humanity.-Hon. Henry S. Washburn.
The PUNDIrA RAMABAI was con-
verified to Christianity years ago by
reading the New Testament, but has
never joined any particular denomina-
ton. She says their expositions of
their denominational differences only
bewilder her. and she prefers to call
herself simply Christian.
The number of young ladies' COL
leges and lycees is increasing year by
year in France. There are row six
teen lycecs and nineteen colleges, con-
tanning about five thousand students.
Six or eight more of these establish
ments are to be opened next year. and
a still larger number the year after.
MISS JANE GIBSON. of Glasgow. who
has just died at the age of one hundred
and two years, was the founder of the
John Gibson Bursaries' in Glasgow
University. She moved in the brilliant
Edinburgh literary society of the
Georgian period. and wa, able. until
the last few days, to take a lively in
terest in public and literary affairs.
Mrs. ZERELDA N. MCCoY, publishes
in the Tacoma CIV. TO- Ledger letter
setting forth. clearly and 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 decis-
ion on Il technical error in the form of
the bill passed by two successive legis-
latures.
Mrs. HoLUB, wife of the explorer.
started with him for Central Africa on
her wedding day. two years ago. The
couple have now returned to Vienna.
Holub says he should have been killed
a dozen times in the region north of
the Zam5csi but for his wife. The
natives had never before seen person
who wore skirts or long hair. and they
regarded Mrs. Holub rs supernatural
being. who had the white man under
her special protect IL. One tribe de-
sired her for their queen. and begged
hard that she would remain W tn them.
Mrs. ORA LANGHoRNE, of Lynch
burg, Va. contributed to the Woman
Suffrage Bazaar a copy of the Virginia
Gazette. published at Williamstown.
Va. in 1916. which has been preserved
in her family ever since the Revolu-
ton. 1t is framed. and is on view at
the Woman's Journal Office in Boston.
1t has not yet been sold, as the mana
gers of the fair were unwilling part
with SO great rarity below i:s value.
Persons interested in Revolutionary rel
les are invi ted to call and see it.
CATHERINE COLE" says that since
she began to write for the New Orleans
Rcayune. six years ago. there has been
a great change in the way working
women are regarded in the far South.
At trst women who worked for liv.
ing we're thought to be out of their
sphere; then for a time they became
the fashionable craze; and now they
have ceased to attract attention. and
their right to work is accepted as a
matter of course. Catherine Coles
own example and influence have I'M.
doubtedly helped to bring about this
beneficial change. She received many
letters of sympathy and appreciation
on her sixth anniversary.
u Must Come In Time.