Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-04-15
ANNAPOLIS MD, WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL IS,



Boston claims the pioneer travelling
saleswoman, Mrs. Kate Chute.
The women's Club of Munice, Indiana.
lately celebrated its 50th anniversary.
The Office of State librarian in South
Carolina has been given to Mrs. Caroline
lie Conte.
Miss Louise Smith, of Cheyenne, Wyo,
has been commissioned a notary public
for Laramie county.
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace is filling
series Of more than 40 lecture engage
ments in Indiana.
A fencing class has been started at
Wellesley College, under Miss Hill, the
gymnasium director.
DIR. Edith Pechey Phipson has been APP
pointed member of the senate Of the
University of Bombay.
Miss Frida Schyette, Danish violinist,
has been awarded a first prize at the con-
servatory contest in Paris.
Mrs. W. X Vanderbilt always wears a
"commonsense" shoe and places her foot
squarely on the ground in walking.
Emmy Koch, wife of the famous Ger
man professor, has the entire charge of
her husbands immense correspondence.
The Women's Industrial Union of
Prague has established home for edu-
Gated single women who are in need of
one.
The Friends Literary and Library
Society of New York is making arrange
ments TO form protective women's as
sociation to look after women brought
before the courts.
Mrs. Katherine Surget Minor, of Nat
chez, Miss, is actively interesting her
self in seeing that Mississippi women
have creditable exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. Mrs. Minor is Southern woman
of great wealth. enterprise and liberality.
Mrs. Clara HI. Smith, who is associated
with Mrs. Jenness-Miller in the dress re-
form, superintendent of the Chautauqua
Assembly, of Chester, H., her native
place. OF thirty assemblies in this
country, this is the only one that has a
woman superintendent.
Mrs. Ida M. johnson is serving her
third year as president of the school
board at Loveland, Col The secretary,
Mr. Cunningham, and the treasurer, Mr..
Brandt, are estimable citizens. The
board works harmoniously and to the
satisfaction of the schools and patrons.
At Frankfort-on-the-M Main, Germany,
was founded, in 1876, Woman's Educa-
tional Union, which has 500 members.
Its schools have 6S4 pupils, who study,
besides the usual subjects, tailoring, em-
broidery, machine sewing, hair dressing,
ironing, millinery, and cooking.
Miss Laura Fry, the teacher of wood
carving at Chautauqua, has lately become
the principal of the art school at Prudue
University, at Lafayette, Ind. The pc
culiar blending of the ground colors
characteristic of the famous lockwood
potteries at Cincinnati is produced by
method discovered and patented by Miss
Fry.
The ground has been broken by Mrs.
Leland Stanford for the great university
to be erected in memory of her son, at
Palo Alto, California. Both men and
women will be admitted TO the university
on equal footing; and although every
thing is to be as complete in its equip
ment as it can be made, $500 a year is to
cover the sum of maintenance for each
pupil.
The old lady who for many years acted
as cicerone in Shakespeare's birthplace
at Stratford-upon-Avon has recently
died. The name by which she was
familiarly known, Aunt" Chattoway,
will seem no misnomer to those who
ever heard the unbroken flow of cut and
dried information and stale platitudes
with which she overwhelmed the visitor
to this shrine from his entrance to his
exit. She had the reputation of know
ing Shakespeare's plays by heart.
Mrs. Farrow, of Boston, Lincolnshire,
England, is poor law guardian and wife
of county councillor. She is also
woman with remarkable capacity for
business. Knowing nothing of printing,
she nevertheless bought all the machinery
required for doing the printing called for
by the increasing needs of her husbands
mustard factory, and within one month
had mastered the whole business of print
ing the gay colored labels and case COW
ers, bilIheads, notices, etc, for the entire
establishment.