The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-01
Personal and General.

Miss Maria Louise Blaine niece OF
Secretary Blaine, has been appointed a
clerk in the United States Land Office at
Helena, Mon.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett has
founded an asylum for newsboys in
Drury Lane, and called il "Lionel's
Home" in memory of her dead son, the
original of Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Mrs. l.. c. Purington, NJ. d., of Dorches-
ter, Mass, is appointed national superin-
tendent of franchise for the w. G.. Il. u.
Mrs. Purington is also State superintend-
ent of health and heredity.
Nine. Blouet c'Max O'Rell's" wife) has
translated all his books into English ex-
cept the last, which was written in Eng
lish She is n Devonshire woman, daugh-
ter of well-to-do ship owner named
Bartlett.
Miss Mary III. Krout, Kentucky wo-
man who has been for some time on the
staff of the Chicago Inter ocean, doing
exceptionally good v ork, had a reception
given her last week at the Brunswick,
Boston. by her friend, Mrs Fanny kel-
logg Bachert.
Mrs Magnusson OF Reykjavik, Iceland,
has erected ON her own lot high school
for girls in Iceland. Needing about S., 900
for teachers salaries, books. etc, she has
decided to sell her family Jewels, some of
order 10 obtain the money.
The Countess of Aberdeen came TO the
headquarters of the WOmdH's Journal
and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation last Monday, saving that she
could not 20 home without coming in to
see us She asked for the latest number
of the lYomdR'S journal, as she had
missed il in her travels.
The Cambridge university extension has
4 a slaaw
ing the past year, but only 426 men have
been similarly successful-a fact which
shows that women avail themselves much
more largely of the advantages offered by
the extension teaching. Thirty-nne
women and only eighteen men have taken
the vice chancellor's certificate.
Professor Nichols. who is i'm charge of
the microscopic station in Chicago, in his
recent report regarding the work of that
station in inspecting pork for trichinn,
calls attention to the, opening for women
made hy this work, for which they are
oftcner adapted than men. Those already
selected he says, have proved without u
single exception TO bc successful manipu-
latutS of the microscope, delicate and re-
iiued in their work and thoroughly re-
liable"
The first woman to enter the Grocer
Theological seminary, at Upland, Pa, as "A
regular student is Miss Mary 4. Liver
more. She is "A young woman who has
been engaged in missionary work connect
ed with the Memorial Baptist church,
Philadelphia, and who wishes TO study
theology TO fit herself for her life work az
n missionary. She will take the full
course of three years and will study on an
euu9l footing with the seventy male
students.
\ society known rs the South Side
School Suffrage Association" has been
formed i'm Chicago by the advice of Judge
Tuley, aud largely through the efforts OF
Mrs Celia II. Woolley. Ii includes n
number Of wealthy women, who propose
20 test to the utmost the legality Of the
recent refusal 20 allow women TO vote for
school committee. The decision has been
given against them i'm the lower court. as
they expected, and they have taken an
appeal TO the supreme court.of Illinois.
Mrs Mary Clement Leavitt. at the Ma
| tional w. &. T. L. convention, told of
seeing group Of Chinese ladies. TO whom
some one had given magazine containing
an American fashion plate. They were
examining IL with great interest, with
their deliberately decorated heads all bent
over the picture together. At length one
of them Strengthened mp and said 20 Mrs.
Leavitt China woman pinch foot. You
say China woman Velly bad. Mclean
woman not pinch foot Mclean woman
pinch here laying her hands on her
waist " Life here: life not in foot
Mclean woman yelly much more bad than