The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-15

III Some of the Notables Are Doing
For Self and Others.
Miss Hill, of Wellesley college, has started
a fencing class.
Helena l.. Webster is professor of com.
p%arative %philology at Wellesley college.
A wealthy New York lady leads the praye
meeting twice a week at the Five Points
mission.
Mary Sherwood, M. D., of Baltimore, ha,
been admitted to postgraduate work at thu
Johns Hopkins university.
nina Jenness Miller, of dress reform
says: Eastern women take hold of all re-
forms with enthusiasm, and always show
good common sense"
Mrs. Lidie Meriwether, of Tennessee,
says that women wear clothing that would
give Samson the baokache, and send Solo
mon to the idiot asylum.
Eliza N. Blair, wife of Senator III. w
Blair, has nearly completed a story of the
New England life of Il generation or two
back, entitled elizabeth the Puritan
Clara Barton has accepted the presidency
n becomes the active head of the wonl-
ms executive commaitee of the national
C%hatauqua of Glen Echo, at Washington.
Mary Hunt says "How sad it must be for
a young girl to teach or learn scientific
temperance. and watch at the same time
the gradual destruction of Il father or
brother.
Out from the Eearthstore the thildl en- fair
lass from The breath OF q mothers, prayer;
Shall a fathers vote on the srowGed street
Consent to the snare for theit Il oightless feet:?''
The subject of married Women Teach
ing in the Public Schools was discussed
very lively at the convention. One woman
said that if a woman was poor and married
she ought to have some recompense for
both of these infections.
Caroline b. Buell. has been invited to con-
duct the Temperance conferences which
are held in the hall Of philosophy each
morning in connection with the Moman's
club of Chicago.
Anna Garlin Spencer says her patriotism
was inspired when she read of the Siberian
prisoners saving up their bits of red, white
and blue candle ends to burn on the ami
Veraary day of American freedom.
Mary Garrett, of Baltimore. is the most
progressive woman of wealth that this
country has ever produced. She saws she is
wiling to accept responsibilities that tend
to the public good, socially or politically.
Before congress adjourned. it made a
handsome appropriation for the Hope and
Help mission" in Washington, ID. G. This
IL q home where fallen women can always
find shelter II sympathy, instead of a
suicides grave.
Annie Nathan Meyer, of Barnard college,
spoke OH tho affiliated college. Harvard
college WIS the first in America to establish
an affiliated college for women. MIS-. Meyer
has founded Barnard college and her love
and pride for 1t is most enthusiastic.
Frances Willard says: woman is a
creature born to the beauty and freedom
of Diana; but she is SO swathed by her
skirts. splintered by her stays. bandaged by
her tight waist, and pinioned by her sleeves
she il no longer what she was created
for, we'll, strong and BEAUTIFUL"
The many.sided woman question has i'll /
vaded all realms. even to those where
crowns are worm. In all the line of Eng |
lish history only two epochs have received |
y gracious name, and they are the two when |
the two great queens have reigned. the |
'Elizabethan' aud the "Victorian.'
Myra Peterson, of Highlands. Col. is n |
successful business woman. She deals in
eggs and poultry. which she buys in |
and sells in Denver and Highlands. |
the year 1880 she paid freight bills |
to the Union Pacific railway alone of over
$3.50. She il Il native of Vermont, and
several years ago was the mani carrier from |
Lincoln to Courson's Grove, Kan. At that |
time she was the only woman mail con- |
III the United States.