The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-22
THE WOMEN,
Achievements OF Many OF Them.
For Self and Others.

Notable Achievements OF Many Of Them
For Self and Others.
More than two-thirds of the inventions
sent to the patent Office belong to
Twenty-three states in the Union now ad.
nit women to practice at the bar as law
yerg.
The South Carolina legislature has passed
a bill to found an industrial school fol
girls.
Anna W. Kelly, Of Denver. has beer
elected reading clerk to the Colorado state
senate.
The Binding Girls union, of Chicago. hal
applied for admission into the Trades as.
ISOLATION.
Louise Smith, of Cheyenne, Wyoming,
has been appointed n notary public by the
governor.
The Society Of Sons and Daughters of the
American Revolution are holding weekly
meetings in Washington, d.. G., Mrs. Harri.
son presiding.
Mrs. James r. Fields, widow of the well
known publisher, is the founder of many OF
the five cent coffee stands and other worthy
charities OF Boston.
Julia Fletcher, author of "Kismet,' is a
singularly fascinating young woman, slight
and graceful, with pale face, big blue eyes
and plenty Of yellow hair.
II kcNSLlOI "a NOV 1ldLIp6ulID uA6 dD-
pointed Miss Sanborn a notary public. IT
seems to depend on where q woman lives
whether she is q person" or not.
Mrs. Roscoe Conkllng is the owner of a
necklace of exquisite workmanship. design
cd by Napoleon l, who is said to have per.
Sonally supervised its manufacture.
There is a petition being signed asking
the honored governor of Montana to ap-
point women on the board of education:
also the school board. We hope the gov
ernor will consider it very favorably.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York senate to enfranchise all women who
served the country as nurses sanitary agents
or otherwise; also the widows and mothers
of soldiers.
There is a good deal of interest awaken
ing in regard to the election of school trus-
are permitted to vote on this matter are
talking it up.
Minnie Slaughter, of Wyoming, has been
appointed state Librarian. We are happy
to say that Montana has been equally as
courteous by appointing Miss Lou Guthrie
state Librarian.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson was lately in
Washington and called On Mrs Harrison,
on which occasion the two ladies had an in
teresting chat concerning Mrs. Johnson's
recollections of the executive mansion.
Jenni G.. Nixon. of Tennessee, is profess
sor of rhetoric and belleslettres in New
combe college, New Orleans. She is a
clever newspaper woman and has done
much editorial work for southern news-
papers.
Nancy Cornelius, who graduated in 1888
from the Indian Industrial school at Car
lise, has received her diploma from the
Hartford Training school. She is the first
Indian woman to prepare herself scientific
ally for nursing.
The Japanese minister at Washington has
placed the officers of the Board Of Lady
Managers in communication with three Of
the first ladies of his country, with a view
of obtaining for the fair a good exhibit of
Japanese woman's work.
There were 700 girls who were employed
by the Troy Collar Girls association who
struck against the reduction of wages. The
assembly branch of the Federation of Labor
endorsed the strike and before the close of
the convention the disagreement was settled
and the claim of the girls was conceded.
Judge Barrett, of New York. lately rend-
cred the following opinion: "A wife is not
a nere creature of a husbands arbitrary
will. but an independent helpmeet, subject
of course to wifely duties, but endowed also
with substantial rights and privileges as
are freely accorded to her sex by the general
usage OF modern society,""