The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-06-15
THE eeNrLeR sex.

Mrs. Humphrey Ward is engaged upon
a society play.
A woman's directory is about TO be
published in Chicago.
There are said TO be 1900 women doc
tors in the United States
Miss Emily Faithful is said to contem.
plate another visit to America.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has
gone to England for the summer.
Queer Marguerite, of Italy, is one Of
the best violoncello players of the day.
Some Boston ladies have started a So
ciety for the cultivation of aesthetics
among the masses.
The city of Seattle, w. T., has lady,
Miss Julia E. Kennedy, as city superin-
tendent of schools.
Two hundred and seventy-flve ladies
are clergymen in the United States and
occupy pulpits as such.
Two thousand ladies voted at the De-
troit school election ON very short notice.
They were very politely received at the
polls.
London, England, has police matron
| at every one of its many stations, to
take proper care Of all women who are
arrested.
Sarah Orne Jewett recently told n
friend that she had written as much as
5000 words a day, besides letters, etc.
Her usual average is $500 words.
The Utah women are organizing to re-
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seventeen years, and which they were
deprived of by the Edmunds law.
Thirty-six out of forty-seven states and
territories-more than three-fourths-
have appointed Mrs. Ella f. Braman, Of
New York, to the Office of commissioner
of deeds.
Women are voters in various degrees
in every province of Canada. Sir John
A. Macdonald, prime minister of the Do
minion, favors their voting for members
Of parliament.
The women of Washington territory
are working hard to retain suffrage in
the new state. Mrs. Lerelda N. Mccoy, OF
Seattle, and Mrs. Barbara j. Thompson,
of Tacoma, are their leaders.
About 5000, 900 women have voted in
England the past year, at city, county,
village, school and parish elections. They
can vote there for all elective officers
but one, member of parliament.
Twice as many women voted in Kansas
this year as did last The number who
voted this year is over 900. There are
283 cities in the state where women car
vote for mayor and other city officers.
One Of the most indefatigable and in
teresting living writers is Mrs. Margaret
Oliphant. Her novels are particularly
remarkable for their accurate painting
of Scotch characteristics. She is Scotch
herself, and is 81 years old.
The vote in the Massachusetts house ot
representatives for the municipal woman
suffrage bill nearly doubled this year
Last year 1t was 90; this year it is 90
result OF the voting of II 900 Boston wo
men at the school election last December
The convention of royal and parliamen
tary burgs of Scotland has passed, OF
motion of the junior assessor for Edin
burgh, a resolution favoring women's vot
ing for members of parliament. Tn,
common councils of many cities hav'
done likewise.
The late queen mother Of Bavaria ha'
been well called the Mother of Sor
rows" She had little influence over he
son, the late King Ludwig, but she al
ways had hope that the reason of he
other son, Otto, the present mad mon
arch, would be restored
Gen. Sherman refuses to give permits
sion to several ambitious writers who ar,
desirous of preparing sketch of his lat,
wife. SIN my conclusion" says Gen
Sherman, 81 am joined by my children
who with me are eognizant of thei
mothers wish In this respect"
Three women, mother and two daugh
ters, pay the whole Of the taxes in thei
ward in Missouri town. They say the,
do not object 10 paying, but they thinl
it very unfair that they are shut on
! from voting on laying the taxes the,
have to pay or on spending their owl
money.