The Portland daily press., 1890-07-08
Mites About Women

Frances K. Willard finds women in Chica-
60 making shirts at seventy-fve cents a
dozen, and children working twelve hours a
day for dollar week.
Miss Reynolds, the first woman graduated
from the Boston Dental College, party
earned her way while studying. She took
first rank
New York women will not wait for legis-
lation to shorten the hours of labor, but in
behalf Of the underpaid saleswomen petit
ti0ns are in active circulation among women
Of wealth and influence, on which subscrib-
ers pledge themselves never to shop after
half past five on any day, and never on Sat-
urday afternoon.
One Of the leading hymn writers Ct Amer
lea Is Fannie j. Crosby OF New York, au-
thor OF the popular hymn Sweet Hour OF
Prayer" Miss Crosby is an invalid and has
been blind from birth.
The widow Of Henry Draper continues
his scientific researches; on mountain In
Peru she maintains an observatory COM
pletely furnished with telescopes and pho
tographc apparatuses.
Rosa Hartwick Thorpe, author of Cur
few Shall Not Ring Tonight" is giving
readings from her own works In the cities on
the Pacific coast
Miss Ida 4. Bowser, who has been gradu-
ate1 from the department of music in the
University OF Pennsylvania, Is the first coli
Ored female graduate and Is an accomplished
viOlinist.
Miss Juliet Corson, professor of cooking
and household economy in Rutgers female
college of New York Is, according to Har-
per's BazaT, so frugal and practical in her
instruction that IL Is an article Of faith
among the college. girls that she requires for
a soup only wish bone, quart of water, a
water-cress, pinch of salt, and match !;
while hve cents worth Of gas Is equal under
her management to half ton of coal
Some one who Is we'll Informed writes as
follows about money earning-wOmen; Nine.
Modjeska could raise $4,000 on personal
valuables tomorrow II anything happened
to her. Mrs. Mary LtVermOre has $4,000 OF
the $4,000 made from her lectures. and
hapless Anna Dickinson, who cleared S25-
900 in one season and 100000 In ten, hasn't
dollar Of it left. But she Is wiser than she
was. Mrs. Harriet Prescott Sp0tord has
published ten books in the last forty years,
the proceeds OF which amounted 10 about
$1,000 each. Onlda has earned more money
than any other woman OF the century, with
the exception of Nine Patti. Mrs South.
worth's novels brought her fortune. Mrs.
Harriet Hubbard Aver Is coming money.
With the exception Of Mrs. William ii.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Mary Ann Connolly, who
came to this country forty odd years ago as
a steeTage passenger, and who pulled bast-
ing stitches for two years, has more money
in her own right than any OF the vanderbilt
women, every penny Of which she made
with her needle She owns about ten cot
tages at Long Branch. facetiously known
as the Party Dresses" one of which Is tit
for king, and brings in kingly rent every
summer. The most successful money lender
among modern women is Lydia Van Finkel-
stine, a native Of Palestine, a woman OF
about 2S, and something OF linguistic
wonder. She lectures, or talks rather, ON
the Holy Land, knows the Wn0Ie geography
of Asia Minor. and could enlighten Colonel
Ingersoll on the mistakes of the Bible, which
she knows from over TO cover. In less than
six years this large, blonde biblical talker
has cleared 100000. she gets SlOO lecture,
with a percentage of the receipts, and talks
from October 70 May, often giving three
lectures day.