The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-18

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siding officers Ideas must be expressed
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The popular impression that every family
possesses Bible as we'll as dictionary and q
copy Of Shakespeare. like many other popular
Impressions. seems to be an erroneous one.
for there is In town o firm that makes q bust
moss Of renting out Bibles Of an expensive and
handsome kind. suitable to hand to Bishop
or fashionable clergyman on the occasion Of
q christening. wedding. or funeral IN the fam
s9des in the family the high church diGnitary
SHOULD S19 tHrn to the blank leaves , between the
devoid of seneaoscaI reeords to the const e
When the Bible Is Hired. and charge Of 81
night is the regular price.
Mrs. Troutman. Vice. President OF the Worlds
Fair Commission for this State. is engaged in
the promotion Of a school for trained nurses in
connection with the Hahnemann Hospital.
These nurses are to give their services to
women who arc Ill and unable to pay tho regu-
Home there are also nurses who 60 out among
people Of small means, accepting for their
g1s s Fnd
most potentIy to the sslf-supportlng woman.
who is unable TO nay the regular rates icr
Charity q the Tree nurse. ~ '''NN W '''''' ''
Miss Alice Fletcher is still busily working
among the Nez Perc6s In Idaho in tho hope Of
completing tho allotment OF their lands this
year. She is surrounded with Indians from
early morning until evening. and spends most
OF her time going up, and down mountains and
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seff wrote in her childish diary, that she Thought
Of
for the Inferno.
Miss Ada Rehan during the twelve years she
has been member OF Mr.. Days company has
created or appeared In 200 roles. Tho person.
atty OF this gifted woman has ever been
shrouded in well-sustained mystery. sacred
from the paragrapher's pen md the interview
ers inquisitlon. At the doorway Of her home
you are met by an inflexIble Cerberus In the
shape OF determined. broad-shouldered black
aunie, to whom no gift or grace appeals with
sufficient potency to obtain entree. But tho
friends within tho actresses charmed circle will
tastitc lads and whims which the world accepts
from genius as eccentrtcities She Is q brilliant
r. kbn h well
her Irish ancestry cultured TO keenest wit, and
her language simple and direct delivered in o
worth snug Little fortune.
Among successful women inventors are Mrs.
Catherine Green. to whom is due tho invention
Of the improved cotton gin. Mrs. A. Manning
Is the designer OF reaper and mower and
clover cleaner. Another woman took out a
patent for IN Improvement on this machine In
the shape OF device for changing the knives
without stopping the wheels. Miss Mag
sic Knight Is tho inventor Of one
e. tho Hsr most GSmp pssS tRs sohnss in
tAre OF reinforced bottom, paper bags
Tho street sweeper IS also due to the ingenuity
and and I mseEinists had failed IN studying out
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No less eminent authority than Sir William
Gull Of Great Britain has said that tho benefit
derived from q university education. such as
girls Eet at Neypham and Girton. makes Thorn
Also that the percentage OF chililess marriages |
centass Of children that survive Infancy is
larger.
The honors OF the entrance examination at |
the University OF London were carried of by q |
little Scotch lassis Of 20. Charlotte Higgins.
over 1000 male students. And this youthful |
and scholarly woman owes her success to /
another womRn-her mother-.who has had en- |
tire charge Of her education, the father having |
died when Miss Higgins was eight years old.
CLARA Barton OF Rod Cross fame is the only
woman who ever sat In tho Swiss National
Council. tho only woman to be decorated with |
The Iron Cross by old Kaiser William. and tho
hrst person TO decorate soldiers graves as a
patriotic rather than personal act OF homage.
The representative live stock breeders have
decided that they do not want woman to rule
over them as Chief Of the Live Stock Depart
nent OF the Worlds Fair no matter how ex-
llted her character or high her qualifications"
Mrs. Meredith Of Indiana had been proposed
took raising But The men 81 the ysoeR
Breeders Association desire an executive man,
,ne with force OF character and strong will
I've stock breeders and tho millions Of dollars |
In the industry.
At Iowa College o careful record has been
tept Of the comparative standing Of the young
women and men In class work. From this the
interesting lasts have been cleaned that the
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