The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1889-07-10
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NOTES ARour WOMEN.

NOTES ABOUT WOMEN.
A New York woman, Miss Mary Bailey
makes a living as guide to other women
visiting the city. She meets them at trains
shows the sights, gives shopping lists. ETC.
Residential chambers" for ladies hav,
been built in London. consisting of two
three and four rooms, which rent from ter
shillings to twenty-five shillings, un
furnished. Only those women who earn
their own livelihood are permitted to become
occupants.
The wife of Count Tolstoi, the Russian
novelist is like the wives of many literary
men, the business member OF the family
firm. She has sole charge Of the sale and
distribution of her husbands books, and is
his amanuensis, reyiser and translator.
Besides all this she superintends the bring
ing up and education of their thirteen
children. looking after domestic matters
meanwhile.
Those who have read the detailed accounts
OF the flood in the Conemaugh Valley can
scarcely have failed to note that, with the
single exception of the messenger who rode
TO his death in giving his warning of the
advancing torrent, the incidents of fortitude,
self-sacrifice, resignation and moral courage
were traced for the most part to women.
There Is every reason to believe that the
accounts are true to nature as we'll as true in
develop higher grade of moral strength
than men, although they are regarded as the
weaker SEX"
The real estate business is now open to
women. A young women in New York city
recently. accomplished one of the largest
transactions Of the year, and real estate
men were so pleased with her energy and
courage that her name was proposed as a
member Of the Real Estate Exchange.
Forty years ago for the first time medical
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At present $4,000 women are receiving
degrees in our own and foreign schools.
The first woman's paper ever written In
the Finnish language is published by
Baroness Geipenberg and Is called Home
and Society
There is a woman near West Seneca, New
York, who has a 17-acre flower farm, with
four large greenhouses. From this farm she
is able to make about $4,000 year.
At the last meeting of the Kings daughters
order numbered about 100, 900 members, most
of whom were young ladies devoting their
time to charity and reform.
III Is said that the most successful dentist
in London at present is German baroness,
who is the most clever tooth extractor In
England. In that as well as in technical
work, she is unequalled. and Is called
dental surgeon"
Miss Ticknor. the secretary of "The
society to encourage study at home," re-
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held that 800 women are pursuing various
courses of study. The leading library of the
society, a most useful feature of the work,
has circulated 2268 volumes during the year,
representing books with 1879 titles.
NUTMEGs.
The nutmeg is the innermost kernel of the
fruit of a small tree that grows about 30 feet
high. 1t is native OF the East Indies, but
is cultivated in other tropical lands. 1t has
a small, yellow flower. The fruit is small
and peach.like, but with smooth surface
and turns yellow when ripe. The exterior,
thick, fleshy husk, dries up and cracks,
disclosing the nut. The outer covering of
this nut is what we know as mace. 1t is red
at first bus turns to light brown when
dried. Next comes hard shining shell,
and inside that is the nutmeg. The tree
bears about the eighth or ninth year from
the seed. The mace Is taken off and dried
In the sun for one day and for eight days in
the shade, then dampened with sea-water
and pressed in bags. The remainder of the
nut is very thoroughly dried, when the shell
is broken and the nutmegs are assorted, the
best ones being exported. They are first
picked in lime water then lett to sweat and
finally packed for shipment. The Penang
nutmegs, the BEST are about an inch long,
pale brown, corrugated on the surface, with
red streaks in the gray Interior