The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-04
Notes.

Amelia E. Barr the well-known author
eSs, owes her popularity to an accident.
For long time she wrote for the papers
trying TO acquire fame and fortune, but
found it uphill work. She injured one of
her limbs by fall, and during period of
enforced confinement in her home she de-
cided to write Jan Veder's Wife" 1t
was accepted, published and made her fam
Gus.
Rev. J. S. Barrows, editor of the Christ
ian Register holds that woman suffrage
is simply the formation Of a sugar trust,
only it is trust without any monopoly.
We want the sweetness Of w0man-her
moral sweetness and purity-tO sweeten,
not only the home, but society and Govern
mpnt as WELL
Miss Mary B. Dennis has started walk
ing club tor the young people of Chautau-
qua. The object of the members OF the
club is to take tramps in the country, and,
under instructions from competent per-
son, take lessons in mineralogy, geology
and botany from nature.
The late Mme. Rouyier was the best re-
porter at the Versailles Assembly. She
condensed the speeches OF the members
without taking notes, and always had her
c0pv re ady before the other reporters, who
Lad to tranScribe from memOrandams.
EXperlrnce shows that women make the
llshmenls in which women and children are
employed. There are five PROBES Slonal
schools for girls in Paris. In these girls are
admitted at fourteen and remain three or
four years. The course of instruction in
cludes domestic economy, industrial design
ing, cutting and hitting garments, Keeping
accounts and the study of modern Ian
guages.
DR.. Jennie McCowen, one of the earliest
members of the New York Medico-L Legal
Society, has been unanimously reelected
President of the Davenport Qa.) Academy
of Natural Science. Mrs. Julia j. Irvine,
who was recently appointed Professor OF
Greek at Wellesley College, graduated at
Cornell, where she won a Greek prize in the
intercollegiate competition, In which there
were sixty competitors.
Mrs. PnillIpa Fawcett has received the
highest educational honor ever awarded to
a woman at Cambridge University. Her
credits in mathematics at the recent exam
ination surpassed those received by any
man.
Que of the most successful painters of
the present day is woman. Dora w heeler,
who recently married b. Keith. an artist.
She has painted portraits OF num-
Der OF literary men. and the produc-
tons are pronounced excellent and most
life-like." Many of the first-class houses
of Washington and New York have in them
bits of landscape, fgure-pictures and deco
rative work done by her.
Nine. Demorest of magazine fame always
dresses neatly, modestly and in good taste,
but she has an intense love for diamonds,
which she constantly displays in her ears
and On her fingers.
Miss Wilkinson, woman of good family,
well educated, residing in Bloomsbury. En-
gland. makes good living as landscape
gardener.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe recently eel
ebrated her seyenty-eighth birthday. She
is physically and mentally weak.
Mis- l.. Blanche Fearing, the only lady
in the class, graduated from the Union Col
leee of Law at Chicago recently.
Not long ago there was opened in Flor
ence a national exhibition of the progress
of the women of Italy in the arts and indus
trjps