The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-06
WOMAN'S WORLD.
Notabilities at Home and Abroad
Active Workers.

An Atchinson, Kan, man is soon to
marry the woman who stood sponsor
for him when he was baptized as a
baby.
A London matrimonial agent boasts
of having arranged 10000 marriages
between members of all classes of
society.
Parsee girls are crowding into Bonn
bay university.
A pretty young lady, Miss A. w.
Kelly, is reading clerk of the Colorado
Senate. The innovation appears to
have been a wise one, for even the
very Oldest and baldest headed MEM
bers are now so absorbed in the course
Of legislation that they pay her the
closest and most interested attention.
Alice, daughter of the poet, Long
fellow, is a fine photographer OF the
amateur class. Her speciality is storm
pictures, and some of them, taken
along the Massachusetts, coast, viii
o appear as illustration of a book
of sea songs.
Olive Thorne Miller has posted from
her home in Brookly no less than 20,
wv DIlifltu sips dchiAAk NAO IL ~
New York not to wear birds on their
plumage. The request is simply and
earnestly made, no reply being called
for. and as a mark OF good faith
signed with the autograph of that
gentle woman, who is the friend of all
the little creatures i'm feathers and fur.
Mime. Henri Greville, who has seen
more of this country than most French
ONE says the American woman
makes teo many acquaintance and
too few friends.
Elizabeth Sergeant, N. d., daugh-
ter of our former Minister to Berlin,
is an oculist of exceptional skill. She
lives in California.
Mrs. Ingalls, is a handsome and
somewhat stately woman, and looks
hardly more than forty. Seven OF
her eleven children arc living.
The Queen of Denmark is a fine
pianist, and her daughter, the Czarina,
is nearly as good. At the Danish
court chamber music is a daily occu-
patton, generally a quartette, with
the Queen at the piano. Beethoven
and Brahms are the fayorite conl-
posers.
The history of women in journalism
dates back to 1772, when Clementine
Reid printed and edited the Virginia
Gazette, "a paper devoted to the Col
onlal cause. Two years later Mrs. II.
Boyle started a royalist paper, hay
ing the same name. The latter was
the first to publish the Declaration of
Independence. Since 1850 women
have been editing departments in
weekly papers, and for twenty years
they have served upon the city and
correspondents stats on daily papers.
1t is said to be q curious fact that
ali OF the girls in Wellesley College
who lead their classes are blondes.
The gamblers of Peru, Ind, have
been warned to leave town by a com-
mittee of seventy-five women.
The Woman's Alliance of Chicago
has called the attention of the health
department to the fact that the little
cash girls in the big stores in that city
are overworked and underpaid. 1t is
said that in some stores they have to
work fourteen hours a day for wages
aver aging from $3.50 to So per week;
that they are not allowed sufficient
time to rest or eat their meals; and
that they receive no extra pay for ex-
ira labor. The health department
has theateued to expose these firms
unless the evils complained of are
remedied.
The little sons of the Emperor of
Germany have an English instead Of
a German governess-the daughter of
an English officer and a graduate OF
the Princess Helena College, or Adult
Asylum, for the daughters OF officers
in the army or navy.
Prof. Harriet Cooke, professor of
history in Cornell. is the first woman
aver honored with the chair and equal
pay with the men professors. She has
taught in Cornell twenty-three years,
and is now interested in the Deacon
esses' movement and making investi-
cations intothat and other charitable
work.
The Empress Harako of Japan is an
enlightened and scholarly woman,
who has done mucn to further the
social revolution of the last twenty
five Years. Her best friend and ally
is the Countess Oyama, who, as
Stamatz Tamagowa, was a graduate
of Vassar College, and no doubt
brought back from the West many a
wise notion of domestic life.