The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-11-06

| Mrs. Diaz, wife OF the president or the
| Mexican Republic, has been appointed at the
head Of the committee Of women represents
| Ing the women OF the Republic OF Mexico III
connection with the exhibition at the Chicago
worlds fair.
| The Swedish government has been petl.
| toned BY the women Ut Sweden for Oficla
permission to become apOthecaries. Permis'
sion was very recently granted, aud now each
apothecary 10 Sweden has one or more
women pupils.
| woman in Portsmouth, England, has
been for some time past teaching navigation
! to the young men In that seaport. Many OF
her pupils have successfully passed the board
OF trade examination and have obtained situa.
| lions as mates and shippers.
Sweden boasts but one woman physician
who, however, enjoys a large practice In
Stockholm. 1t takes nine years to qualify,
which may account for the small advantage
taken Of the right to practice, granted nearly
twenty years ago.
The Roumanian woman barrister, Mile.
Sarmisa Bilesco, who took the degree OF
Doctor OF Law at Paris last spring, for the
purpose of opening the profession to women
In her own country, has lately been admitted
to the oar In Bucharest.
Miss Jessica Gilbert Tyler, the gifted
daughter Of Moses Colt Tyler Of Cornell Uni
versity. has entered the field of literature by
translating from the German DR. Ewald Flu
gels "Moral and Religious Development OF
Thomas Carlyle"
The young English lady (Sister Rose Ger.
trude) who went to the leper settlement at
Molokai last year, to attend that class OF I'M
f6rtunates, was married In April last to
German physician, DR. Lutz.
] am an old man and have been constant
sufferer with catarrh for the last ten wears. l
a pntfrav curad nv tn of ElV'9 Croa
ialm. 1t ls strange that so simple ,emedy
will cure such stubborn disease.-lH Henry
Billings, U. S. Pension Atty, Washington, ID. q.
Miss Xavier. formerly instructor In Spanish
Ia Wellesley College. ha. been appointed Sec
rotary to the French and Spanish consulate.
She Is mistress of Spanish, French, English,
German and Italian, and Is the frst woman
ever appointed to the office she holds.
The women bave scored a decided victory
In the Michigan Methodist conference on the
question of their having voice In the general
conference. The clergy voted one hundred
and thirty.six to ffty.six In their favor and
The laity in the ratio of eight to one.
The southern Presbyterian general assem-
bly, has ruled that women must keep silent In
public. The southern Presbyterian assembly
is away behind tie wagon, The members
ought to ask their wives at home about this
matter l
Mrs. Looua, Universallst preacher, of Chi |
,ago, says, Il believe that men are In time to |
Give uD the profession OF the ministry and we |
women are to be the only ministers But
We want both. Men must have fair show
n'the new world that Is to be created.
Mrs. Leila Robinson Sawtele provided by
Ter will that in case her husband should not
urvlve her, and she left no kin within the
tatutes of distribution Of this commonwealth,
Ter entire property should go to establish free
scholarships for women at the Boston Uni
ersity Law School.
Mrs. NJ. II. Hotchkiss has given to the Yale
preparatory school S275, 900, AMI Yale college
,i not permit even an annex for women to
Z attached to it. Very unfortunate iI Is that
here are still SO many women like this, who
'ill thus deliberately turn and give their own
tx slap In the face.
Captain Mary Miller, the woman who man.
,ed steamboat on tue Mississippi for seven
ears aud then secured government license
pilot, has applied for the place OF light.
ouse keeper on the Gulf coast. She Is an
telligent and rather prepOssessing woman
er husband Is still an active navigator and
running a steamboat on the Cuff.
1t is significant sign of the times that at
lie convention of the Catholic Abstinence
MON of America In Washington, Frances +
vilard and Mrs. La Fetra were received as G
aternal delegates and Miss Willard In re- I
'onse to enthusiastic calls, made speech. r
ut are there no Catholic ladies who can
axe temperance speeches?
A single trial of DR.. Henry Baxters
andrake Bitters will convince any one
Dubbed with costiveness, torpid liver or
y kindred r diseases Of their al curative
,ttle.-ady.
Miss Ida He Witt, "a very beautiful and ac-
,mplished young woman under 30 years of a
re-" says special from Clarksburg, West g
H., is the only woman locomotive engineer :
the United States. She makes daily run :
| All engine of the Cairo and kanawha Val :
y railroad Miss Hewitt, we are told, has 8
strong natural inclination for machinery, G
I'd since her father owns good part Of this p
road he humors her fancy to Il
n an engine.
This autumn the New Century club of Phil.
elpha will occupy its new home. This is 4
e of the most successful and progressive ;.
lbs to be found anywhere. In the new q
Hiding is stage fitted up for theatrical er- R
FINANCES and the club Is able out of its own n
nks to furnish writer who can make $
arkling and happy dramas for amateur act .
:. This writer, Miss Burnham, has writ. =,
I one parlOr drama, Postal Cards." whi1h We
Is successfully given at the Seventeenth
eet theater in Philadelphia. The New
injury club Is fortunate.
There Is something pathetic In the struggles
d ambitions of the negro woman workers. i
eedom has rendered them twice as ambI sc
us in worthy ways as 1t has the black g.
n. They wash. iron and scrub, day in and q
Y out, to educate their children and get on
the word. They In many cases support -
e negro men who refuse to work at all
lie these faithful, industrious creatures
J earn the living, though the black lords
ever ready to ''boss" their wives. So
as my observation extends, the free col
d women are worth far more than the
n IN industrial fields.