The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-03-08
H WOMEN.
What Some of the Notables are Doing
For Self and Others.

What Some of the NOtables are Doing
For Self and Others.
1t seems as if the prejudice to employing
women has been overcome in the public Ii
brary.
Mrs. Catherine W.. Bruce. of New York,
has given $4,000 to aid astronomical re-
search. 4
Gov. Hill says that there il no law
against a woman holding the Office of no
tary public.
Matilda b. Carse, of Chicago, gave an in
Temperance temple.
Alice Fletcher has become a Fellow of
Harvard, and Mrs. VIM. Shaw has endowed
the fellowship with 100000.
Ellen Foster made q. strong appeal for
nom artisanship in reforms and quite car
ried her audience at every step.
Mrs. ChAuncey M. Depew is one of the
best dressed women in New York, very
plain, but elegant, no jewels on the street.
There is a bill pending in the Indiana
legislature that n member of every town
board OF school trustees shall be a woman.
Annie l.. Diggs, who has been prominent
in the Farmers alliance movement in Kan
sas, has gone to Washington to engage in
newspaper work.
Several years ago Geo. w. Childs gave
orders that nothing that tended to present
women in a ludicrous light, should ever APP
pear in the column of his paper.
Ex-President Cleveland, just two weeks
before he became governor, appointed
Jennie Turner notary public and she has
held the Office ever since eight years.
Wyoming has sustained her Sundaw law,
also Bible reading and the Lords prayer in
the public schools. Yet some people think
that the vote of omen is a bad thing.
Julia Ward Howe must nave felt glor-
iously at the convention at Washington the
other day when 1000 people rose up and
sang the "Batt'e Hymn of the Republic"
President Harrison has appointed, on
Gov. Hills recommendation, Ella +. Bron-
son notary and commissioner, by the au-
thorities of forty states, territories and
provinces.
DR.. Anna Sanders was lately permitted
to serve as one of the jurors in an insanity
trial at Anna, Ill. Judge Crawford decided
that she was a person" and had her placed
upon the jury.
Therese Jenkins, of Wyoming, says:
Just rs soon as We found that the right
of suffrage was ours we did just as women
always do, we started to clean up and the
men scattered and some have not been
found yet.
Mrs. May French Sheldon, who has been
considered n of the most beautiful wo-
men of the Smoky City of Pennsylvania, is
about to invade Africa for the purpose of
obtaining local color for her translation of
"Flaubert's Salammbo."
All of the cabinet ladies have been inter
viewed in regard to "dowries for our
daughters" and all have approved, but
Lucy Hooper says, writing from abroad,
my dear American sisters, il you must
have a pet. buy II spaniel, but never n
French count"
Margaret Bottome made a beautiful
speech in the convention. she said: when
last summer l saw Il picture which i'm
pressed me SO much. 1t was The Convent
Kitchen All i'll the kitchen wore angels
wings; some were Smelling peas, some pre-
parlng the vegetables for dinner, all doing
what we are SO apt to think as common
work. / thought of the letters on my sill
yer cross, /. H. N. II had u new meaning,
that we were to.do the wotk He gives us to
do with an angel AIM"