The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-18
WOMEN AND THEIR WORK.

| FIVE thousand four hundred and thir-
ty-one missionaries are supported by the
! women's societies of the United States
and Europe.
THERE are now eighteen women ply
sicians in Detroit, all engaged in active
practice. Eleven of them studied medi-
cine at the University of Michigan. the
rest coming from other States.
ONE of the best IL not the very best
high art enamelers in this country is a
New York woman whose wages is 500 a
week. She has constant employment and
is proof that women of special capaci-
| ties are always in demand.
MosT of the depositors in the largest
savings institution in Philadelphia
are women, and an authority in such
matters asserts that by far the greatest
share of all the invested capital in
Philadelphia held in trust belongs to
women.
THERE are 196 women operators in
the great operating room of the West
ern Union in New York. In this room
husband and wife are working side by
side. They are perfectly matched in
skill, but the man gets SIS more month
than the woman.
DIR. KING. an American woman. occu-
pies the somewhat enviable position OF
physician-in-ordinary to one of the most
distinguished statesmen in China. Her
practice in Shanghai is large and valua-
bic, and some of her successful surgical
operations have ELECTED the warmest
praise from her brother physicians.
Mrs. n. GRAY BARTLETT, of Chicago,
the wife of a prominent analytic chem
ist, has discovered a process by which
Photographic pictures can be developed
without the old-time operation of wash
ing in dark room and staining the fin
ers- The pictures produced by Mrs.
Bartlett's process have the appearance
of fine etchings. This discovery re-
moves the greatest drawback to photog-
raphy as recreation
IT is noteworthy that lady, Miss
Kate Marsden, is making scientific in
vestigations into leprosy, Russia being
the field for her inquiries She hoped
that incubation might be resorted to as
preventative or palliative, and has
Just had two interviews with NJ. Pas
teur. He, however, holds out no hope
of dealing with the disease in that way,
and Miss Marsden is returning to Rus
STA to continue her researcheS--Lam-
beth Gazette.
THROUGH the columns of British re-
view, Miss Clemtinin Black, the Eng
lish writer, has been championing the
cause OF the oppressed working-women
of England. Miss Black thinks that
the trouble can only be relieved by the
organization of trades unions and pro-
tective societies among women workers
She shows on what small sums factory
girls are forced to exist and urges coop
Grafton as the remedy rather than char
ity, which helps some at the expense OF
all.
THE Topeka Kan. Capital says while
it may be true that the women of Law
renee first organized for political study
in that State, it is by no means the only
society so engaged. 1.-The auxiliaries of
the Equal Suffrage Association. all over
the State, are now studying State and
National constitutions, municipal gov.
ernment and political economy. They
also are making study of parliamentary
rules, and to the leading questions Of
the day they give study and discussion
as rart OF their regular programme"