Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-09-05

busts and declined to take them. Sub
sequently she did accept the bust of
herself and paid $500 for it. Once more
moneyless Miss Johnson opened
school of art, in connection with which
she teaches the Delsarte system of phi
losophy. She also holds position in
one of the departments and in the ca
pacities of clerk and teacher works
nineteen hours a day. She lives entire
ly alone in a small house on s street,
where she carries out many peculiar
ideas Of life, Her house is now in sum
mer garb, the walls covered from cell
ing to floor with white cheese cloth
gathered and futed into a soft back
ground for the few pictures and carved
cabinets artisticallY disposed. Filmy
white curtains are Topped back from the
windows, in one of which hangs bird
cage, in another globe of water for
growing vine. A white-draped table
and couch and few white-painted
chairs with rack for photographs con.
stitute the furniture of the studio. Here
Miss johnson lives her eccentric life,
eating almost nothing never any meat
and enjoying her enthusiasts with lit
tie hindrance, She is what people call a
theosophist, and is a firm believer in and
practicer Of Christian science, which,
she AYERS, has utterly eradicated all
traces of the results of her fall down
the elevator shaft in Chicago. She also
declares that her Christian science has
restored her eyes, which at one time
were in fair way to lose their sight
Since Miss Shaw, the president, will be
absent from Washington most of the
time, Miss johnson, the president,
will be the resident head Of the Vino
daughsis.
Miss Lucy Anthony, the youngest OF
the Seven, is the daughter of Captain
j. M. Anthony, of Fort Scott, Kan, the
youngest brother of the grand old wom-
an" and as the young lady's education
has been directed entirely by Aunt Susan
she is not only one of the most devoted
of the illustrious spinsters disciples, but
is in training to wear the mantle as she
| bears the name of that remarkable
woman. She is as thoroughly acquaint.
ed with the business of the Suffrage as.
social ton as her aunt is, and, since this
business is done with few accountings
and nobody else knows much Of the dc.
tails Of it, Miss Lucy is likely to be
earnest in the work Of raising her fell
| low-women to what she sincerely be.
lieves is their right and proper sphere Of
action.
Miss Fanny Norris Edwards is clerk
in the Pension Office. II was born in
Ohio" she says, land brought up in the
Pension-office. She was very young
when she entered this Office at salary
of $500 year. She now receives 81, 200
which is tip-top woman salary" 60
course when she and her sisters of the
Wimodaughsis shall have accomplished
their purpose of suffrage women will
get as much as men for as much worl
as we'll done; and that certainly is {
consummation pleasing to look forward
toy During the years which necessity
made her devote to this daily work sh,
employed her evenings in school where
by greedy attention to her studies, sh'
gained good educational foundation
Miss Edwards says she inherited he
desire for woman suffrage from he
mother She is enthusiastically inter
ested in nearly all the reforms, an ear
nest advocate of Temperance in al
things" of the Jenness Miller reform
Dress and indeed Of all those thing
which the Wimodaughsis will striv,
for. She is the secretary Of the Distric
Woman's Suffrage Association and sec
rotary and treasurer of circle of King
Daughters. Her residence is at High
land Station, in Prince Georges Coun
ty, Md, where she planned and person
ally superintendent the building of he
house.
Miss EmHa M. Gillett still anothe
Of the Seven, was born in Wisconsin AM
educated in Ohio She claims the dis
tinction of having been the younges
girl ever graduated from the Painesvill
Academy. Her excuse for studying la,
| was that cha wac EItirod nf tho in f. oil ar