Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-03-16
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Achievements 81 Hoa.sa.
Some II tie best friends # our SEX
have doubted lie wisdom IT Publishing
II II tie newspapers - HsIeh whea
WOMAN stexs oat u the cid contracted
sphere and AoeoLnpliznes successfully
works that the world used ~ beiisye
coali only be eompassal by the hand
snd brain Of Inzn- They say We saould
cease 70 think of these things "a extTs.or-
binary slerels bscause women have done
IAen. bar should judge Of the work
simply and quietly On us own merits,
without reference ID the fact Of il being
done 6y han or WOMAN. Ia brief, say
these good friends, cease 20 spell woman
with large w This Is an excellent
thought. ia one way. BY ali means
let the work Of women be Judged on is
own merits strictly and without mercy.
Only Ia this way can our SEA learn 10
excel IN what they undertake.. II a
woman assumes % do task, and then
slurs or sights IL II she Is incapable Of
doing nightly what she attempts, and
then claims immunity because Of her
sea, by al means show her up for
the fraud she Is. But when she does
achieve something cut OF the old line.
and does II grandly ard thoroughly. let
Us still publish IL in the newspapers yet
awhile. Do you know why: Ii brings
inspiration and hope 10 other women
who are struggling out Of the ancient
ruts. IL one woman has painted a good
picfura N shs has uritt..o a suc..-zSFul
book or amassed a competency IN bust
ness, Horticulture, butter making, poul-
try, let Us still tell other women about
1t, SD they may know there is
chance OF success for them II they
are faithful to the powers they
feel dinly stirring within them. Ii is
with no desire 10 give women a newspa-
per notorie;y, no intention of gratifying
a silly personal vanity. that we print :he
story when certain women have striven
and achieved God forbid, But it Is
for the sake of the comfort and hope the
story brings 10 other women who are
struggling and have not yet achieved.
Nothing is more gratifying than the
progress women are making in extern
pore speaking. Even in Sorosis the La
dies five years ago could speak nothing
like as well As they do now. Often they
use no notes whatever. They way TO
learn extempore speaking is 10 begin
and preach your speech over in your
mind beforehand. thinking 1t out care
fully, but not writing line Of it except
the headings. Then when you arise TO
deliver it you will probably forget two
thirds of it, but never mind. Keep prac-
ticing, and you viii gradually remember
moro and more of it, and new thoughts
will 1T length come TO you upon your
feet. No matter if you dc forget part.
Even Wendell Phillips always did that,
but nobody knew it but himself.
A dealer advertises life size dolls for
$6. / have seen life SIZE dolls with life
in them that were worth even less than
that.
The New York Sun advises woman
suffrage ladieS TO go among their own
sex now and convert taem to suffrage
Cardinal Gibbons SAYS, 1.-The prejudice
which allows women TO enter the profess
SION o. nursing and excludes them from
the profession of medicine cannot be too
strongly censured" Cardinal Gibbons
seems to mo to be the best friend to
women that the Roman Catholic church
has ever had in America
Don't be q tabby, old or young. II
you are spitaful and deceitful and given
TO retailing gossip when you are young
you will show in your face in after
years that you are an old cat. How
would you like to look like some Of the
old women you see: That is how the
evil In ones nature comes out. 1t is one
meaning of the Scripture saying that
nothing is hidden but shall be revealed.
The Womau's Journal says the world
has now one true republic, and that is
Wyoming, where the women vote.
A graceful and extremely appropriate
costume has been adopted by the men,
bers of the graouating clns of the Wom-
ems Medical college of Pennsylvania.
Instead of the miscellaneous finery which
young women usually indulgein at com
mencement, these lady doctors will ap-
pear IN the black Oxford gown and cap.
Paris, conservative rs lit is on the wom-
an question. can yet give at least one
point" to rs. That city has n woman
who has lately started in business as a
veterinary surgeon and has already more
patients than she can attend TO.
The age of woman's rights is here. II
you don't believe it read this note a
Pennsylvania husband fonnd waiting
for him whea he went home one night,
and discovered that his house was empty
Of his wife md four children: Charles
Tcter-I am going of to stay, and don't
you dare TO come after me-