Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

most suspicious debtor will not suspect
woman of having clandestine designs against
him; and a well-dressed, neat attractive
female can easily gain admittance where il
would be impossible for man to enter"
| While in the legal field let us pause to ad-
lnire Esther McQuigly Slack Morton, Wy
omipg's woman Judge, who had the nerve to
sentence her own husband to month in
| Jail for coming home intoxicated. Would
that more wives had such authority and
| courage to enforce it'll Mrs. Morton is
described as 'snowy-haired, dignifed old
lady, with a hard stock OF common sense
| and a matter-of-fact manner. She never
| studied law, yet withal she has administered
| it SO well that in the few cases appealed from
her decision, her rulings have been affirmed
| by the higher court"
We don't need vote to be power in
politics-at least not in New York State, as
proven in the case of the ladies of Fredonia
causing the name of Judge Barker to be
Withdrawn, and the defeat of Albert Haight,
candidate. tor Judge OF the Court of Appeals,
owing to their active campaign against him.
He is said to formerly have given some de-
cIsions which the women believed were un-
just to their sex.
WOMEN IN THE PULPIT.
In the theological world we have several
gifted representatives. notably Miss Carrie
j. Bartlett, of Kalamazoo, Mich, described
as being particularly feminine in appear
ance and manner, always preaching with
cluster of roses in her corsage. 25 or 26 years
of age, eloquent and beautiful" Before
entering the pulpit she was engaged for sew
eral years in newspaper work, being re-
porter and assistant editor in Minneapolis
and Oshkosh. She claims to have gotten
her theological training in a newspaper
ofice-not just the very first place one
would go to look for such training, by the
way.
The Rev. Anna b. Shaw, while address,
ing legislative body in Maryland little
time back, afforded some amusement by q
well-deserved rebuke to a young member
who took the pains of showing his disrespect
of woman speaker by occupying frontseat
and blowing cigar smoke in her face while
she addressed the House. In the course of
her remarks Miss Shaw observed there were
people who objected TO women appearing be-
fore legislative bodies, but that it could not
be improper Tor a woman to come into the
presence of gentlemen; therefore this, senti-
ment must be based upon the assumption
that some members of the Legislature were
not gentlemen and would not act as such.
AS she spoke she looked steadily at the
smoking member and of course the eyes of
the whole assembly were turned in the same
direction. The young man soon found no
pleasure in smoking.
IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE.
Mrs Henry Draper is one of our most dis
scientific women. It was her
habit during her husbands life to work
with him in the laboratory, assisting him in
those experiments in astronomical photog-
raphy which enabled him in 1876 to an
nounce his discovery of oxygen in the sun.
Since her husbands death Mrs. Draper has
continued his labors, becoming both member
and correspondent of many learned socie-
ties. She is described as woman Of many
accomplishments and social and personal
charms.
The three LII. DIS, Miss Amelia B. Ed
wards, Marie Mitchell and Mrs. CIV. Dali,
are described as being sweet, womanly
women with none of the offensive strong
in appearance or manner, and
each tasteful in dress. or women who have
patented useful inventions we have been in
structed by Miss Grundy, Jr., through the
medium of these columns, they are s'too nu-
merous to mention" OF our so called trades
women, Mrs. Maria Longworth Stoner prob |
ably ranks first. By her the Rookwood pot |
teries Of Cincinnati were established several
occupation to young girls and women COM
PEELED to work for a living. She spent much |
money on the kilns. workshops and materi- |
ais and in skilled labor from abroad. She |
worked eight hours day with her design |
ers and modelers, experimenting the mix |
ing of the clays and working of the kilns. |
She is now rewarded by producing the most |
artistic and creditable ceramic work in this |
and which is said to hold its own |
in technical particulars with the best Ed
glish and Continental faience.
Harper's Weekly says Miss Nellie Patter- |
son, of Connecticut, is "one of the prettiest |
and most sensible girls of Mount Carmel,
and has just completed an apprenticeship |
and is now earning her living as full |
fedged machinist; pronounced as clever
and efficient as any workman in the shop, |
while her success has been accomplished |
without any sacrifice of womanliness."
There's the point!
ALL SORTS OF OCCUPATIONS.
A woman in California is florist and |
seed grower, having now five acres in seeds |
and bulbs; and another woman out there is
q blacksmith and is chronlcled as working
at the Jorge in a neat-ftting dress and
mind-your-own-business air which brooks
no questioning" OF our 'cattle queens"
W nv Ao'S sanoo>Su AaiSO Nv giving
their personal supervision to ranches and
who travel through the country in special
coaches and Paris gowns, the newspapers
keep us we'll informed, likewise of
the movements of our array of professional
women, doctors, druggists, dentists and
like brainy ilk; but that our famous philan-
thropist. Clara Barton, is fond of rifle
practice, and is dead sure shot; and that
Frances Willard rides bicycle is not so
known. Have they "unsexed"
themselves? or do they lessen their power of
good by induiging in these so-called manly
sports?
1t looks as if woman cannot have many
surprises in ambush for future use; but the
I'D one, that she can do anything with head
,r hands that man can do, and still act we'll,
lress well and remain womanly woman,
will continue a never-dying surprise to
hose who prefer to believe differently.
MEG.