Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-11
WOMAN's WORK AND AIMS.

"OMAN'S WORK AND AIMS.
The New York Exchange for Women
Work has opened classes for instruction
IN the art Of dressmaking.
Women are to be admitted tomember
ship in the Authors Club to be estab
ished in London by Walter Besant.
Mrs. Schliemann intends to continue
the excavations at Sissurlk, carrying
them out in conformity with DR.. Schie
mann's plans.
Mrs. Somerville was the mother of five
children by her two marriages, yet found
time for study and whiting 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 q
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 81 600.
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 young girl who has been
blind from babyhood, has just entered
the Melbourne University at the age of II.
In spite of her infirmity she passed cred
itably in algebra, arithmetic, Latin,
Trench, and other ranches.
Laura Bassi, for 80 years occupying the
chair of professor of physics at Bologna
University, was only 21 years of age when
she was called to it, and she married and
became the mother of IL children with
out interruption of her university duties.
Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, the accom-
plished essayist, 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 law
which gives the wife the right 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 f1uently Russian,
English, Swedish. and French.
Speaking of woman's work, here is only |
a hint of the different things a woman |
housekeeper does in a year: She gets din
ders 800 times, washes the dishes 1 ,O95
times, gets the children ready for scho,
twice day for $50 days, gets the baby to
sleep AGO times, aud makes about 800
calls.
A new coeducational college is to be
started at Lake Charles, the chief town
OF southwestern louisiana, about 80 miles
from the Texas border. The college is
the result of home missionary work and
Northern immigration cooperating with
The Southern people in an endeavor to
meet the great educational and religious
needs of that wide region.
Miss Laura Parsons, superintendent of
the training school for nurses at the Mary
land University Hospital in Baltimore, is
described as modest, gentle little woman
who has attained great prominence in her
profession. She is said to be the only
regular Nightingale nurse in America.
She studied under Miss Nightingale at st.
rhomas's Hospital, London. She was
'ne of the nurses who went on Lord
Wolseley's Egyptian expedition, and was
decorated by the queen with the royal
Gwen Old Hickory Could Not Stop It.
Much amusement has been caused at
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