Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25
POINTS OF PROGRESS,

ment employ at Washington.
WOMEN are rapidly getting in the
real-estate business of the northwest,
and some of them have already realiz-
ed handsomely upon lucky invest
ments.
Miss S. NJ WELLS, of Fisk Univer-
sity. went South from Michigan twen-
ty-three years ago, and has been ever
since engaged in missionary and edu-
cational work.
In New York women. married ones
among them, are becoming real estate
agents. druggists. clerks, doctors, law
yers and BARRIERS, as we'll as type
writer's, florists. milliners and actresses.
The patent-office is a great tempta-
ton to womankind. and in the United
States they have patented nearly 5000
inventions. A Southern colored woman
is said to have invented an ingenious
device for coupling cars.
THE printer girls of Topeka, Kan.
have organized 1.-The Leslie Club"
named after Mrs. Frank Leslie. They
will soon issue the first number of the
Printer Girl. which will be the organ of
the printer girls OF the United States.
Mrs. LILLIAN NJ. PAvY, of London,
England, is commercial traveller now
visiting the Western States in the in
terest of an English house. She travels
alone and finds that in this country a
woman does not need an escort to pro-
tect her from annoyance.
The Ladies' Library and Educational
Association of Topeka have commenced
writing the history of Kansas women.
and one year from date expect to have
it completed. Taking the counties
alphabetically. they design making a
and concise biography Of the
women of the State.
The late Emperor of Germany dis
liked to hear anybody speak slightingly
of women. When he was crown prince
an officer once remarked to him of q
wounded comrade that he was weep
ing like a woman" Never make that
comparison" said the prince, with a
frown Crying like child would be
better Women have more fortitude
than men,"
The women are, writes Paris corre-
spondent coming TO the front more
than ever in France. They not only
set the fashions and are miracles of
''make-up." but are pushing their way
everywhere among the men. We have
lady doctors. lady stockholders. lady
and recently a lady defended
her father in law court with acumen
worthy Of an ancient forensic hand.
WOMEN lawyers are becoming a pow
err in the land. Michigan University
has already sent out twenty -four young
women holding the degree of LIB
This year young woman from the
Sandwich Islands. Miss Alma Hitch
cock, will make the twenty-fifth. In
England there is club of women law
yers 1t is mainly correspondence |
club, yearly letters from the members !
being printed and circulated. Mrs.
Belva Lockwood. and Miss Waugh.
from the Law School in Chicago, are
among the members The motto of the |
club is: '.All the Allies of Each"
Mrs MARIA E. BEAsLEY. of Phila-
delphia. has made fortune from the |
most remarkable invention which the |
mind of q woman ever conceived. In |
1884 Mrs. Beasely took out a patent for |
a machine for the construction of bar.
rels. Up to that time the barrels had !
been made almost altogether by hand. !
The machine is worked by three men, /
and turns out more than six hundred
barrels day. Mrs Beasley
was born in North Carolina Of wealthy
parents. She possesses wonderful
genius. Her first invention
was machine for hopping barrels It
will hoop LOO barrels q day, and il
used BY tho Standard Oh Company