The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-17
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. MAcKAY distributed more than
500. 900 Mt Christmas among the poor
of London and Paris.
Miss LOUpIE HEUsTIs, an Alabama
girl now studying art in Paris, ranks
first in q class of three hundred stu
dents.
MIS- HENRY WARD BEEcHER has
given the Soldiers Home at Leayen-
worth 1000 books from her husbands
library.
Mrs. HARRIET BEECHER STowE. in
spite of her advanced age. is fond of
outdoor exercise. and walks from five
to seven miles daily.
QUEEN VICTORIA will use the
Jubilee Fund" to found and main
tain training-school for nurses of the
sick poor in their own homes.
Miss EMILY S BoUroN, in the To-
ledo Blade. advocates. under the title
of Health and Beauty" the establish
ment of gymnasiums for girls.
Mas VIRGINIA HANSON has been re-
elected State Librarian by the Ken
lucky Legislature. This is her third
term. and it is said the State never
had a better librarian.
Mrs. ZERELDA q. WALLACE will
make lecture tour in Maine next
May. by invitation of the W. c. T. U.
of that State. She may also visit Ver-
mont and Massachusetts.
MISS VARINA A. DAVIS. Jefferson
Davis daughter. writes of "Serpent
Myths" in the February North Am-
erican Rcrisw. showing incidentally
how the remains of the ancestral ser.
pent worship still persist among the
negroes of the South.
Mrs. FRANCES HODGsON BURNETT is
installed with her two boys at the Villa
Trollope, in Florence. This villa was
built by Mrs. Trollope. Anthony Troll
lope's mother, with money earned by
her pen. 1t is now II boarding-house
kept by an American lady.
Mrs. ELIZA CHAPPELL PORTER. who
died the otherday ut the age of eighty,
is sincerely mourncd in Chicago. She
taught the first school in that city,
and her husband. Dr. Jeremiah Porter.
preached the first sermon. Both
rendered heroic service during the
war, lie as chaplain and she rs nurse.
1t was said of her that she closed the
eyes of more than 1900 soldiers of
both armies.
Miss MARY GRANT, the English
sculptor. is now visiting this country.
and at the exhibition of drawings by
the Architectural Le:gue in New York
portfolio of her WORK was exhibited.
1t consists of statues for Litchield Ca
thedral. the reredos for Edinburgh Ca
thredal. and other ecclesiastical work.
Miss Grants portrait busts include
those of the Queen. Dean Stanley and
other distinguished people.
ERMINIE SMITH. who is to be COM
,ncmorated by a scholarship at Vas
sar. was, perhaps. the foremost author
ity in this country in regard to the
aborigines. She lived for years among
the Indians. was adopted into an In
dian tribe. and became thorough
Indianologist. She received Gov
eminent pension for service rendered
in her Investigations and researches
The money for the memorial scholar
ship has been raised partly by wom-
ans club founded BY Erminie Smith
in Jersey City. and p artly by Sorosis.
PROF. MARIA MITCHELL ranks with
Caroline Herschell. these two being
the most distinguished of women as
tronomers. Miss Herschell announced
the last of the eight comets discovered
by her in 1875. and the next comet
discovered by woman was seen by
Maria Mitchell in 1917. Prof. Mitch
ellis original observations and in
vestigations have included valuable
examinations of the nebuln, and much
work connected with the coast survey
and the compilation of the Nautical
Almanac
MRs. ELIZA GARFIELD. the late Presi-
dents mother. who has recently died
at Mentor. O.. aged eighty-six, was
born in New Hampshire, and moved to
Ohio with her husband in 1880 A log
cabin was built and u farm partly
cleared; but her husband soon died.
and Mrs. Garfield was left to struggle
with many difficulties She faced them
heroically. refused to send her elder
children out to work among the neigh
boring settlers, tOiled with her own
hands to keep them together under her
own eye. and from her they received
the first rudiments of an education.