Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
wOnAN's WORK AND AIMS.

in the art of dressmaking.
Women are to be admitted to member
ship in the Authors Club to be estab-
lished in London by Walter Besant.
Mrs. Schliemann intends to continue
the excavations at Sissurlik, carrying
them out in conformity with DR.. Schlie-
mann's plans.
Mrs. Somerville was the mother of five
children by her two marriages, yet found
time for study and writing her famous
work on astronomy.
Miss Collier and Miss Hauzlik, from the
Deaconesses' Home, Chicago, have been
sent to China, the first deaconess mis-
sionaries to that empire.
The newly formed Indiana Press Club,
which includes the editors of all the chief
Indianapolis papers, admits women to
membership on equal terms.
Miss Alice Fletcher, who is well known
by her work among the Indians, is now a
fellow of the Peabody Museum and, by
consequence, Of Harvard College.
The only woman chief of division in
the United States Government service is
said to be Miss Kate Smith, Of the Census
Office in Washington. Her annual sal
airy is 81 900.
Miss Kingsley, daughter Of Charles
Kingsley, has been awarded the decora-
ton of the French academic palms, with
the grade Of "officer Of the academy, for
her valuable writings upon French art.
Miss Ashton, a young girl who has been
blind from babyhood, has Just entered
the Melbourne University at the age of II.
In spite of her infrmity she passed cred
itably in algebra, arithmetic, Latin,
French, and other branches.
Laura Bassi, for 80 years occupying the
chair of professor Of physics at Bologna
University, was only 81 years Of age when
she was called to it, and she married and
became the mother Of 10 children with
out interruption Of her university duties.
Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, the accom-.
plished esssyist, has been especially sue
cessful in her course of lectures ON MAN
ners and Social Usages, which she has
delivered before large audiences in many
places, always to their pleasure and
profit
Recently the legislature of the State of
Victoria, in Australia, has passed a law
which gives the wife the night of divorce
if the husband is found to be an habitual
drunkard. If, after marriage, she dis
covers that he is an inebriate she can also
get divorce.
Mrs. Sophie Kovalewska, the professor
of mathematics in the University of
Stockholm, who died recently, was di-
rect descendant, through her father, Of
Matthews Corvinus, king of Hungary.
She spoke and wrote huently Russian,
English, Swedish, and French.
Speaking of woman's work, here is only
hint of the different things woman
housekeeper does in year She gets din.
des 1866 times, washes the dishes 1,09S
times, gets the children ready for school
twice a day for 1SO days, gets the baby tc
sleep 1,460 times, and makes about 30(
calls.
A new coeducational college is to bC
started at Lake Charles, the chief towr
of southwestern Louisiana, about 80 miles
from the Texas border. The college i;
the result of home missionary work anC
Northern immigration cooperating with
The Southern people in an endeavor t,
meet the great educational and religious
needs Of that wide region.
Miss Laura Parsons, superintendent o
the training schools for nurses at the Mary
land University Hospital In Baltimore, il
described as amodest, gentle little woman
who has attained great prominence in he
profession. She is said to be the onl,
F regular Nightingale nurse in America
She studied under Miss Nightingale at st
Thomass Hospital, London. She wa
one of the nurses who went on Lore
Wolseley's Egyptian expedition, and wa
decorated by the queen with the roya
red cross.