Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
WOMEN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH By ELIZA ARcHARD
coNNER.l
PHOEBE CozzENs is special census agent for
st. Louis.
LAURA JEAN L1BBEY, who is very young
novelist, is paid $3.50 week by a New York
story paper simply for the right to her serial
stories.
THE women of Milford. Me-, have built
town hall. They were two years getting the
money together, which they collected by giving
fairs, oyster suppers and other entertainments.
Mrs. E. F. ANDREWS says that now when
ladies have so many ways of earning their own
living, marriage is not the only resort. and
woman will naturally decline to give up a 500
place for $50 man.
WASHINGTON has 300 feminine bicycle
riders and Chicago over 1.000 Miss Emma
Rummell, Captain of the Women's Wheel and
Athletic Club, of Buffalo, travelled $500 miles
on her wheel in 1883.
BOSTON, which is capable of giving us some
thing new at almost any time. is the head
quarters of a new political party which may at
length hold the balance of power in the Hub
City. The new party bears the name of the
independent Women Voters Party"
~ SHALL be happy with my husband, for I
shall not neglect myself" wrote Marie Bash
kirtsef in her journal. 81 will adorn myself
to please him as I adorned myself when 1
wished to please him for the first time" But
poor Marie died before she got husband.
THE State Reformatory Prison for women at
Sherborn, Mass, is managed altogether by
women. The superintendent is Mrs johnson.
The affairs of the establishment have been
SO well conducted that the receipts for labor
done by the women are constantly increasing.
DIR. ALICE BENNETT has been for ten years
resident physician in the female wards of the
State insane asylum of Southeastern Pennsyl-
vania, and has entire charge of her depart
ment. DR.. Bennett has lately been unani-
mously elected President of the Montgomery
County Medical Society. This is the first time
a woman has been President of q Medical
Society in Pennsylvania.
THE Y. M. c. A. of Milwaukee gave notice to
the W. c. I. U. that it could no longer meet in
their rooms because, having allied itself to the
Prohibition party, it had become political Or
ganization, and their rules forbade the letting
of their hall for political meetings. This is
rough, indeed. The ladies have no VOTE SO that
political affiliations do them no manner of good,
and yet they must be snubbed as though they
did count Tor something politically Here are
cuffs from both sides, with nothing to com
pensate.
THE editor Of the Paris magazine La Nou-
peIIe Revue, asked not long since for an essay
which should give complete summing up of
the status of the land question in the countries
of the civilized world. The most thoroughly
clear learned and logical contribution on the
subject was from woman, Mime Vallette.
Inc essay was ana Inc eQ1IOr OIL Ine
Revue himself pronounced it a remarkable
study. Why do not women's clubs generally
take up for their studies some of the living
questions of the day, as Mime. Vallette did, IN
stead of packing their brain with rubbish
about the old Italian painters and France un-
der Louis X?
ESTHER DE PUY is descendant of one of
the old Knickerbocker families. She was
reared in luxury, highly educated, and had not
much else to do than to cultivate the Delsarte
system of expression, of which she was an en-
thusiastic student. But one fine morning this
young lady woke to find that fortune takes
wings, that, too, without moments warning.
Poverty and despair stared her and beloved
mother in the face. Then it was this fashion
able girl showed that she possessed the true
blue blood which never weakens. Miss De
Puy took the agency of the District of Colum
bia for an important invention. 1t was slow
work and hard, but the girl was not to be
downed. She visited the factory in New Eng
land where the machine was made. and learned
how to take iJ apart and put it together again.
She spent several days at the factory. until she
had mastered the mechanical part of her busi-
ness. Then back to Washington to wait work
and hope. Although the waiting was long, it
was rewarded. Miss De Puy finds herself at
length at the head of a thriving business all her
own, and all built up by her own energy and
perseverance.