News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-01
About Women.


Mrs. t. N. Egery, of Bangor, is sal,
to be the richest woman i'm Maine
She is rated at 81, 100000.
Mrs Mary Hunt has been appointe,
a member of the Advisory Council O
the Woman's Branch OF the World,
Fair to be held in Chicago in 1893
Miss Jessica Gilbert Tyler. the rift.
ed daughter of Moses Colt Tyler. ol
Cornell University, had entered tn,
field OF literature by translating from
the German DR.. Ewald Flugel's Nor.
ais and Religious Development OF
Thomas Carlyle.
A prize of fifty dollars for the best
original design by a woman of an
article of furniture has been won by
Miss Gertie Fonda, of Vermont. A
bookcase in form of book was the
shape she gave her design.
The young English lady (Sister
Rose Gertrude) who went to theleper
settlement at Molakai, last year. to
attend that class of uncertainties
was married in April last to n Ger
man physician, DR.. Lutz.
Miss Xavier, formerly instructor
in Spanish in Wellesley College. has
been appointed secretary to the
French and Spanish consulate. She
is mistress of Spanish, French. Eng
lish and Italian, and is the first
woman ever appointed TO the office
she holds.
Captain Mary Miller the woman
who managed a steamboat on the
Mississippi seven years and then Sc
cured government license as pilot.
has applied for the plare as light
house-keeper on the Gulf coast. Sh.
Is an intelligent and rather pre-
possessing woman.
Grace Greenwood writes to the
Home journal from Washington to
say she is not blind, as has been re-
ported in the newspaper press. She
says she can see TO thread up hersew-
ing machine, and even to find herwav
across Fifth Ave. at an hour when
the millionaires are out in force. She
adds: 81 am not blind. neither to
my neighbours sins nor TO my own
little human frailities. / can read
my title clear to more good fortune
than has ever come my way"
"The best protection a young wom-
an can have in New York city" said
big policeman on Broadway squad
" is one of those little silver crosses
that the Kings Daughters wear. 1
have noticed that nowadays the pro-
tessional masher will look first at the
bosom of woman's dress, and il
| that little cross is dangling from "A
| buttonhole he passes her 10y without
even a stare. It's the same way oI
| street cars ~ on the street The
young woman who wears one of these
badges has got the whole carlond OF
men to take care Of her and jump on
the fellow that dares TO annoy her.
The cross is getting to be looked on
with the same respect and Difference
as a NUNS garb. As n safeguard it
beats the average policeman all
hollow"
Writing of Lowell i'm the Indepen-
dent, Edward Everett Hale pays the
following beautiful tribute to thewifc
of his youth
IL would not be right to speak Of his
early life, and his steady aud sure growth To-
the position he holds among men. without
speaking OF his wife. His mnrrinpe TO her
was one of the events determined on In henveu
and which gives joy on earth to all who see
and know. She was Miss Anna Mairn White
young woman of singular beauty. of re-
markable genius, which showed itself in ex-
quisite poems, who had herself had every al
vantage in personal training which the time
and place knew how TO give The match was
perfect love match; and their union. while
IL had the sorrows which belong 20 human
life, was such as men and angels delight in.
lie would have said himself that her enthusi-
asm- for every social reform, including her
alliance with the unpopular nbolitionietn
aud her sympathy with every form Of human
suffering, were at every step Of his young life,
announcement and stimulus To him in what
he said and did"