The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-08
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Women are now admitted to $50 colleges in the
United States.
Miss wilkinson. of London. is q successful land
Miss Mary Frances Willard has founded a ladies'
gymnasium in Chicago
Since Oct. there have been organized twenty six
suffrage societies in Kansas
Mother Bickerdyke now resides with her son,
Prof. Bckerdyke, at Bunker Hill, Kansas.
Miss Kate F. O'Connor. of Rockford, ILL.,. has been
deputy county clerk for seven or eight years
Mrs J. Ellen Foster, of Iowa. has returned from
Europe and will lecture this winter the IriEh ques-
ton.
The recent exhibition of the work of the woman
etchers of America at the Boston Museum displayed
1888 prints from twenty one artists
The 5000 women householders in Belfast, Ireland,
had their first opportunity to vote at the recent mu
nicipal election, and a large proportion voted.
The Minneapolis woman's Exchange pays $50 900
q year into the hands of needy women who without
it, could probably find no market for their work.
The Saginaw Art Club has engaged Mrs. Emma P.
Ewing, of Purdue University, to give course Of
demonstration lessons in cookery in Saginaw City.
Mich.
tional and Industrial Union of Buffalo N Y has col
lected nearly SO 600 in small sums owed to work.
ing women
Miss Geraldine Morgan New York girl won the
Mendessohn prize for executive art in violin playing
at Berlin recital. 1t amounts to $500 American
money.
Mrs. Mary A. Lvermore maintains in her town
course of afternoon lectures by good speakers,
excellent.
The Baroness Burdette-Coutts and other philan-
thropsts of London perfecting plans for furnish
ing workshops and sewing machines where
stresses go and the machines for small COST
Frances Willard says: 81 am more than
WINGED that our women ought to give legislatures
rest until they make generous appropriations for
girls industrial schools. No other single effort will
do more to solve the problem of social purity"
1.-The Kings Daughters" an organization for Chris
tian work based the Ten times One is Ten idea
has ten" in Boston called 1.-THE Good Citizenship
Ten" The object of its leader 10 to stimulate a
greater interest and intelligence in all matters per-
usually display lamentable ignorance.
the National W. @. T. u. is a woman of large inteli-
gence and is strong, clear writer and speaker Left
a widow at the of twenty by the fortunes of civil
war, she has reared to manhood her only child, and
devotes herself to the work of philanthropy She
is the daughter of Methodist clergyman, of the
purest and best New England types, GENTLE strong
and womanly.
Miss Mary l.. Seymour who is at the head Of large
typewriting and stenographic establishments in New
women type.writers and stenographers in
that city, the best of whom earn from
fifteen to thirty dollars a week. One young
women who graduated from Miss Seymour's Office IS
now earning So, 500 year with law firm; but her
case is exceptional.
Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell of Ann Arbor Mich.
was made president of the Western Association of
Collegiate Alumna at it's recent annual session in
Ann Arbor, and delegate to the international Council
20. Mrs. Stowe has been for eleven years instruct
or of microscopy in Michigan University. Miss Hat
tie kimbal of the Northwestern University, was
made secretary of the association