The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-25
WoMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Kaweah Women erOus
Habits of the Outside WOrld,D

Kaweah Women erOus
Habits of the Outside World"
The ladies of the Kaweah co-opera-
tive colony in Tulare county, CAL, have
issued circular to the public in regard
to certain statements made about them.
They do not weep themselves to sleep
every other night, they say. Moreover,
their lives are as happy and free from
care as woman's life can be. They
live with their families and friends near
to the heart of beautiful nature, have
even luxury in the way of food and DO
not toll half as YEARLY as the worlds
women do. One of the lying reports
about Kaweah declared that fifteen chill
dren died last year there for want Of
nourishment. AS a matter of fact, says
the women's circular, only four persons
died in the colony last year-three grown
persons and one child. Two of the
grown people were fatally afflicted with
consumption before they went to Ka-
weah, and knew it, going there, as they
themselves expressed it, to end their
days. The other grown person was a
woman advanced in years. Harmony,
health and plenty to eat prevail at Ka-
. weah, the ladies say. Finally, if the
persons who illuminated them had re-
manned with them longer the Kaweah
women afe of opinion that in time these
persons might have outgrown "the SLAM
derous habits of the outside world"
Miss Virginia Penny, who is informed
of what she states, says it is not true
that General Spinner was the first to EN-
ploy women in the government service.
They worked in the United States mint
at Philadelphia as far back as 1850,
twelve years before General Spinner
took them into the service as clerks at
Washington.
have lately seen q newspaper page
devoted to portraits and sketches of sue
cessful Americ an playwrights. There
was among them not one woman. Can
not women write plays? They can write
novels fast enough, and good ones.
Probably conyentionality has chilled and
stunted the dramatic. constructive fac
ulty of women, just as it has chilled and
stunted thei other powers.
A live Mississippi woman edits tenn
perance paper with this motto: "Wom
ans protest against the destruction Of
her busine ss-homekeeping."
There is one woman in the govern
. ment service at Washington who is chic
of divi sion. This is Mrs. Kate Smith
of the census bureau. She has charg
of the work of collecting mortgage sta
tistics, and gets 81 800 year.
/. Kansas women are police judges in tn
towns of Burr Oak and Jamestown, ami
Mrs. Paxton is mayor of Kiowa.
The reform walking dress, invented b
Mrs. Charles Hancock, of London, seem
about the prettiest one yet devised. ]
| Is five inches shorter than the ordinar
street gown, and no skirts are worn III
derneath. Instead are knee breechei
called KIN ickerbockers. These are mad
frequentl y of the same goods as the dress
For sire ct wear CATERS Of black clot
cover th Q upper part of the foot an
r ankles completely and extend to til
: knee. The upper part of the dress is
;, neat fifth ng waistcoat and trim JACKIE
). or short coat, with plenty of pockets
:. Pictures que and delightfully."- neat an
convene MT this dress. But when are v
!, going to wear it?
Mail arriers and stage drivers of IL
: southwe st all know who the "Litt
Boss" is She is Mrs. H. ]. Langdon,
" Vera, Gal, the only woman mail CO
tractor, it is said, in the United State
> Her husband was large contractor f
=, ca frying the mails. He died and lie
y h sr with twenty-five unexpired contrac
/. n her L ands. He left these to her
u will, and made her sole executrix, S
a Jays. She had been bright, busy VOL
n an, and made herself familiar with nj
q contracting and carrying during b
o husbands lifetime. She at once to
I control of the routes and began to r
4 them She managed the business wi
emir tent ut;cess, and as fast as one &C
4 trac- expired sho took others, Succt
4 attel lded her efforts throughout. S
: carr les the Wells-Fargo express parce
+ and betwee July 1 and winter h
e tran sported as much as 500, 900 wol
f of gold dust, Twelve years ago
:, maj ried again, and then, as the penal
4 Of this, had to bid for the contracts
3 her new husbands name, but she ma
: the bids all the same and got the ct
? trn It's. Her routes embrace thousa
Il Elil es, and one-quarter of this distal
r. is,E nder her immediate personal sup
riR ON. She employs nineteen agents
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