, 1890-12-14
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
How Two Splendid Girls Made a HON
for Thama.

How Two Splendid Girls Made a Home
for Themselves.
What can a woman do? A letter in
The Chicago Inter Ocean tells us what
two of them did. They were Pennsyl-
yAnia girls, educated and refined. Be
sides their education and refinement they
had pluck enough for half a dozen
strapping big men. They resolved to
make a bold move and secure a com
potency for life. They went to Nebraska
and pre-empted 100 acres of government
land apiece. Their claim was 100 miles
away from the railroad, but they went
there alone in a wagon. The first winter
they chopped down trees and hauled
wood for fuel. After the first winter
their money gave out, there was an
Indian scare, and billiards drove icy
needles into their brave faces. They
woul have been in want then, but luck
helped them at the last moment, as it
always does help those who hang on and
do not give up. Luck, IL that is the right
name by which to call it, sent a line of
railroad directly past their land. They
opened a boarding tent for the railroad
laborers- Fol- six months they cooked
for these rough men, who treated them
with respect and paid their bills. Tho
work was very hard, but at the end of
six months the fight was over for the
girls. They had money enough for all
their needs. They built a frame house
with their wi hands, finishing it neatly.
They went to Nebraska six years ago,
Now they own 500 acres of rich land on
which they have built a windmill for
pumping water. A village has sprung
up on the edge of their farm. They have
horses and q carriage, cows and all that
makes life happy and comfortable in the
country. They have too what many =
city belle would give a fortune to pos
sess, magnificent health and dazzling
compleIions.
One Of three things must happen;
Either walking dresses must be made
shorter, or a patent facing must be in
vented that will not wear into rags and
strings in two weeks time, or women
must stop walking. Forbearznoe has
ceased to be a virtue with the old slip
per stopper, long, dragging gown.
Ella Dietz Clymer, the beautiful pred-
tdent of S~orosis, reports that sixty-eight
organizations are now represented in tho
Federation of Women's clubs. Others
still are coming in and twenty-three
states are represented. The next meet
ing of the federated clubs will take plaoe
in Chicago in 1891. The object of the
federation is to keep women's clubs in
touch with one another throughout the
country.
There is one spot where the female sex
IS appreciated properly, and that Is in
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school One Of these put upon indiyidu-
ais says he would rather take care Of six
girls school houses than of one occupied
by boys. The boys leave the building
k a pen for animals, the girls keep it
neat as a parlor. All the j~anitors try to
get girls school buildings to take care
Of, he says.
Mrs. Clymer says the difference boz
tween mems clubs and women's is that
those of the women are formed for mu-
tual improvement, while those Of the
other sex are organized for social pleas
ure. And remarks she, I'VE are less
likely to follow the men han they are
to make-their clubs moro like ours"
Mrs. Mary A Latham, of Spokane
Falls, is the first woman lawyer in
Washington state.
The Women's Legal Education So
ciety of New York has done well. It
has established, with permission OF the
trustees of the University of New York,
a pr~ofessorship in that institution for
the legal education OF women. The law
school of the university admits women
now, and the new professorship will be
for the benefit of the women law Stu
dents, and also for women who want to
learn law enough to assist them in bust
ness. The chair will be held by DR..
Emily Kempin, LII. D., graduate OF the
University of Zurich.
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