Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-05-17


Side, runs clearinghouse, from which she clears
as much as her school salary amounts to. She is
daring trader on the call board, and, notwith-
standing the risks she takes, manages to buy bit
OF property every year Or So
Miss Theodosia Stiles, daughter of Gen. |. N.
Stiles, has school on the North Side, where she
teaches domestic economy, and Miss Jane Willard,
who father has had tue chair of history for the
last twenty-three years, returned from Smith Col
lege after years study, rented hall on West
Madison street, and undertook to teach the wild
Western damsel how to swing clubs, manipulate
dumb-bells and turn somersauts from spring.
board. She began with q class Of ten, put them
in blue blouses and divided skirts, went in debt
for supplys0f bells, clubs, wands and hanging
apparatus, and before the term closed had three
classes of thirty-fve each. That was in 1885,
With the proceeds of the work she went back to
Smith, finished the course and is again at work
teaching the buds and blossoms of smoky Chicago
how to be well, strong and graceful.
Matilda L. Scott, living in North May street.
has kennel and dog farm, where she raises toy
terriers that net 5000 a year, and she pays all her
expenses with the proceeds of the canine sick
ward.
Mrs. Locke wife of the rector of Grace church,
has always kept cat kitchen of Angora breed
Her pet charity is St. Lukes Hospital, which has
always been heavily burdened with debt Mrs.
Locke's annual contribution consists of four An
CORA pussies, which, reduced to United States cur
rency, amounts to about $50.
Mrs. Thomas Eckhart conducts one of the larg-
est catering establishments on the West Side and
there is Miss Bette Hill in Sangalron street who
has no superior as ssdunner'' her commissions
from real estate men averaging $500 month.
Miss Bessie Bole, of San Francisco, is twenty
years of age and lady of rare beauty, being
1.-the blonde with dark-brown eyes and very
pretty figure At the Mechanics Institute she
exhibited set of horseshoes which she had made
in one of the industrial schools Her hands be-
came at once SUBJECT of interest and large induce
ments were offered by enterprising photographers
for the privilege of selling them in cabinet cards.
Miss Bole belongs to good family, the opposition
from which is all that restraints her from opening
shop of her own.
Miss Carrie Burnham Kilgore, of Philadelphia
has just been admitted to practice before the
United States Supreme Court. She is the fourth
one of her sex who has sought for or obtained this
distinction The other three women practitioners
are Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, Laura De Force
Gordon, and Mrs. Ada M. Bittenbender of Ne
braska
One woman has made the silk gowns Of the JUS
tees Of the United States Supreme Court for the
past forty years, and she gets 500 for each one
of them. They are all made alike, the only differ
ence being in the material the Chief-Justlce wear
ing black Chinese satin, while his associates are
robed in black silk. The Chief-Justice always
wears new gown when he swears in President
Mrs. Emily Pfeiffer, the poetess who died in
London week ago, was all her life woman's
woman and an enthusiastic friend of all movements
for her progress. Her sex will now be further
benefited by handsome legacy. In her will the
poetess has bequeathed an estate of f63, 900 to
charitable and educational establishments for
women. Her late husband, it seems, held the
opinion that bows should never have money left