Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-05-21

women do. One of the lying reports
about Kaweah declared that fifteen chill
dren died last year there for want Of
I nourishment As matter of fact. saws
the woinen's circular, only four persons
died in the colony last year-three grown
persons and one child Two of the
grown people were fatally afflicted with
consumption before they went to Ka-
weah, and knew it, going there, as they
themselves expressed it, to end their
days. The other grown person was a
woman advanced in years. Harmony,
health and plenty to eat prevail at Ka-
weah, the ladies say. Finally, if the
persons who illuminated them had re-
mained with them longer the Kaweah
women are Of opinion that in time these
persons might have outgrown 'sthe SLAM
derous habits of the outside world"
Miss Virginia Penny, who is informed
of what she states. says it is not true
that General Spinner was the first to en-
ploy women in the government service.
They worked in the United States mint
at Philadelphia as far back as 1850,
twelve years before General Spinner
took them into the service as clerks at
Washington
| have lately seen newspaper page
devoted to portraits and sketches of sue
cessful American playwrights. There
was among them not one woman. Can
not women write plays? They can write
novels fast enough and good ones.
Probably conventionality has chilled and
stunted the dramatic constructive fac
ulty Of women, just as it has chilled and
stunted their other powers.
A live Mississippi woman edits tenn
perance paper with this motto: s.Wom-
ans protest against the destruction Of
her business-homekeeping."
There is one woman in the govern
ment service at Washington who is chief
of division. This is Mrs. Kate Smith,
Of the census bureau She has charge
of the work of collecting mortgage sta
tistics, and gets 81 800 year.
Kansas women are police judges in the
towns Of Burr Oak and jamestown, and
Mrs Paxton is mayor Of Kiowa.
The reform walking dress, invented by
Mrs. Charles Hancock, Of London, seems
about the prettiest one yet devised. It
is five inches shorter than the ordinary
street gown, and no skirts are worn I'M
derneath. Instead are knee breeches,
called knickerbockers. These are made
frequently of the same goods as the dress.
For street wear CATERS of black cloth
cover the upper part Of the foot and
ankles completely and extend to the
knee. The upper part Of the dress is a
neat fitting waistcoat and a trim jacket
or short coat, with plenty of pockets.
Picturesque and delightfully."- neat and
convenient this dress. But when are we
going to wear it?
Mail carriers and stage drivers of the
southwest all know who the Little
Boss" is. She is Mrs H. j. Langdon, of
Vera, Cal, the only woman mail con-
tractor, it is said, in the United States.
Her husband was large contractor for
carrying the mails. He died and left
herwitk twenty unexpired contracts
on her hands. He left these to her by
will, and made her sole executrix, she
says. She had been bright, busy wom-
an, and made hezs@lf familiar with mail
contracting and carrying during her
husbands lifetime. She st once took
control Of the routes and began to run
them. She managed the business with
eminent success, and as fast as one CON
tract expired she took others. Success
attended her efforts throughout. She
carries the Wells Fargo express parcels,
and between July and winter has
transported as much as 800, 900 worth
of gold dust. Twelve years ago she
married again, and then, as the penalty
of this, had to bid for the contracts in
her new husbands name, but she made
the bids all the same and got the con-
tracts. Her routes embrace thousand
miles, and one-quarter of this distance
Is under her immediate personal super
vision. She employs nineteen agents.
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