, 1890-02-23
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

woMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
vIrEinis Penny's work@snny Juns's "Peo-
pies Church."
Copyright 1901
The wisest man / know says that what
women most need Is pecuniary independ-
ence. .
1t Is rather odd that while 1t is not con-
sidered etiquette for fashionable women
to go to burials, women are to be seen at
weddings in church and elsewhere in
proportion to men of about four to one.
Men go to burials and women to we'd
dings.
More than twenty-five years ago a dark
eyed. enthusiastic young southern wo-
man. Miss Virginia Penny, became inter
ested in the industrial progress of her sex.
She resolved to ascertain how many &C.
equations women could successfully en-
gage in at that time as a means OF
bread winning. She investigated not
only the trades at which women usually
work, but also those generally classed as
belonging to men, in which women oc-
~casionally engage. Miss Penny pursued
her labor of love with ceaseless energy.
She was not rich, but had at that time a
modest competency. She spent this in
her investigation. From city to city
h Travelled, visiting shops, factories.
and work rooms, sometimes getting her
self most ungallantly and numerically
snubbed, but never becoming discour-
aged. 1t was before the days of eleva-
f0ru and Afsco pap,- I-z
down miles of staircases. AT last the
work was done. A handsome book was
made from the results of the lady's
labors. 1t was called Five Hundred
Occupations for Women" and was
widely read. 1t opened the eyes of the
American public to the possibilities in
the direction Of women's work, and did
unlimited good. But the talented author
got almost nothing for it. The year
1890 finds her who wrote to such good
purpose of the occupations of other wo-
men with no occupation of her own
whereby she can get bread, and no roof
over her head. Miss Penny's address is
105 Sixth avenue, New York. Women
all over America have profted by her
labors Of long ago, and now generous
and kindly women will certainly help
her find suitable employment.
Jenny June wants peoples church,"
a church that shall be open all the year
round, with service every day in the
week, "a morning service of praise, a
midday song of rejoicing, a vesper hymn
of thankfulness." It should be q church
where the tired woman with her market
basket might drop in any moment to lis
ten to the music and dream of heaven.
where the young woman might pray
away her perplexities, where ever the
business man might find brief surceass
from struggle and temptation
Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the Eng
lish battle painter, is making studies OF
evictions in Ireland with a view to fu-
ture pictures.
Knitted bead trimming for collafs and
cuffs of gowns is pretty and durable. 1t
is made as follows: Take some purse
silk and cast on five stitches, having pre-
viously threaded the silk with a good
supply Of jet, gold, garnet jet, moonlight
gray, blue steel, or white chalk beads.
Knit the five stitches in plain knitting,
with fine steel needles, and ct the Begin
ming of every alternate row slip up ten
beads before knitting the first stitch,
which forms a loop at the top, and, COM
ing n upon another, makes a sort of
thick ruche of beads"
Mrs. Margaret G. Risiand, of New Or
leans, is both a writer and a musical COM
poser. She Is the mother of the three
Bisland sisters who have, at an early age,
achieved SO enviahb a reputation in jour
nalism. Elizabeth Bisland, who COM
pleted the voyage around the world in
seventy-seven days, is permanently at
tached to The Cosmopolitan Magazine at
a handsome salary. With her in New
York is Margaret, who works on various
papers in that city. The third sister of
this remarkable trio is in New Orleans
with her mother, and is on the staff of
The Times democrat. Southern girls and
women are achieving a success in litera-
ture and journalism that is a credit to
their pluck and talent
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER