The Iola register., 1891-07-10
woMANs WORK AND WORLD.

The daughters Of General Sherman
dress with great simplicity. They go
into society . great DEAL and are par
ticularly sought after as dinner guesn.
They never dance.
A girl in LinSess county. Kansas.
whose father gave her farm few
years ago, last year paid all the expenses
of the place. supported herself, and
cleared 1000 beside, doing all the work
| herself.
The wife Of Ex-Governor St John is
drawing large audiences in the West as
Lecturer A local paper describes her
as bright eyed, glib of tongue, and O.
blamed sight prettier than her cranky
husband.
The first woman to make the ascent Of
Mount Tacoma, Wash. is Miss Fuller, of
Tacoma. She accomplished her trip In
hurricane. spent the night in the cave
at the summit, and never flinched,
although she suffered greatly from cold
and exposure.
Mime. De Latour, the well known
| writer, defends the use of tobacco by
her sex, alleging that if it is good for
men it can not be hurtful to women, and
altogether the madame writes very much
like person who is about to ask for
| chew.
Miss Forsyth, of the Forsyth Techni-
cal School for Women, London, pro-
poses, should funds be forthcoming, to
open a branch for the special training of
girls for colonial life. teaching particu-
larly dairy work, gardening, and bee
keeping upon an actual farm.
The Salvation Army has made an i'm
portant capture in Baroness Margaret OF
Lilienkruz, who has enrolled herself in
Berlin and is already in active service.
She is a woman of means who became
disguised with the shams and shallow
ness of fashionable life.
One of the three daughters of John
D. Rockefeller, while student at Vassar.
| had handsome allowance in the way
of money from home. Instead of spend
ing this on rich gowns and apartments
! she paid for two years the tuition and
expenses of girl from the country
who was not able to pay them herself
The difficult task of arranging and
editing the correspondence Of Cardinal
Newman has been intrusted, in accord
ance with his request, to Miss Amy
| Motley, daughter of Canon Motley, a
clever and cultivated young woman,
whose brightness of mind afforded much
entertainment to the quiet priest, who
was a relative.
In very quiet way two New York
women have set up a partnership
business that promises to grow into
handsome proportions before another
year elapses. They are house cleaning
| contractors, and although this firm has
neithAr advertised nor been in existence
quite IL months, yet their orders are
steadily increasing
Mrs Mary Gould Eckhart passes tri-
umphantly that last test of practical
capacity-the ability to keep hotel.
This lady owns the largest caterers
business in the western division of Chi
cago, manages it herself, and is noted
for the constant invention of new de-
signs in favoYs and new dishes, which
become at once popular.
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt is credited
with an effort to bring back summer
country life in her world to the SIM
plicity which means summer rest Last
season at Newport she wore cool and
simple toilets with few ornaments, she
turned her children out to play in the
plainest and most serviceable garments,
she invited guests to quiet pleasures,
and set her whole life to the key of
unostentatious comfort and leisure. 1t
is said that her missionary labors re-
suited in some conversions from the
painful worship of Mammon.
A dentist in New York employs a
lady assistant at salary of $50 a week
and commission from every customer,
who goes from house to house and keeps
his patrons teeth in order This timer
ant is young and pretty. attractively
dressed, and while self assertive, she is
lady in all that the name implies
Without mentioning the dentist employ
ing her, she is perfectly honest in advis-
ing work where it is needed, and the
very modesty of her tactics secures 3
trade that an audacious method would
never reach 1t is needless to mention
that the scheme is profitable one. The
refusal of the young lady to examine
into the masculine mouth gives her o
standing in the family that less discrimi
ination would deny her