Telegram-herald., 1891-05-24
womAn's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

k1weah women Colonists-''S1ander oas
Habits of the Outside World"
The ladies Of the kaweah co-opera-
tive colony In Tulare county, Cal, have
issued a circular 70 the public in regard
To certain statements made about them.
They do not weep themselves to sleep
every other night. they say. Moreover,
their lives are as happy and free from
care as a woEnan's life can be. They
live with their families and friends near
10 the heart OF beautiful nature, have
even luxury in the way of food and do
not toll half as YEARLY as the worlds
wo,aen do. One OF the lying reports
about kaweah declared thar fifteen chill
dren died last year there for want of
nourishment- AS matter of fact, says
the women's circular. only four persons
died in the colony last year-three grown
persons and one child. Two of the
grown people were fatally afflicted with
consumption before they went 10 Ka-
weah. and knew it. going there. as they
themselves expressed it, To end their
days The other grown person was =
woman advanced in years. Harmony,
health and plenty TO eat prevail at Ka-
weah, the ladies say Finally, if the
persons who illuminated them had re-
manned with them longer the Kaweah
women are Of opinion that in time these
persons might have outgrown "the Sian
derous habits of the outside world"
Miss Virginia Penny, who is informed
Of hat oh or - -,
that General Spinner was the first to en-
ploy women in the government service
They worked in theJJnited States mint
at Philadelphia as far back as 1850.
twelve years before General Spinner
took them into the service as clerks at
Washington.
l have lately seen newspaper page
devoted to portraits and sketches of sue
cessful American playwrights. There
was among them not one woman. Can
not women write plays? They can write
novels fast enough, and good ones.
Probably conventionality has chilled and
stunted the dramatic constructive fac
ulty of women, just as it has chilled and
stunted their other powers.
A live Mississippi woman edits tenn,
perance paper with this motto: WON
ans protest against the destruction of
her business-homekeeping."
There is one woman in the govern
ment service at Washington who Is chief
of division. This is Mrs. Kate Smith,
of the census bureau. She has charge
OF the work of collecting mortgage sta
tistics, and gets 81 900 year.
Kansas women are police judges in the
towns of Burr Oak and Jamestown, and
Mrs. Paxton is mayor of Kiowa.
The reform walking dress, invented BY
Mrs. Charles Hancock, of London, seems
about the prettiest one yet devised. II
is five inches shorter than the ordinary
street gown, and no skirts are worn un-
derneath. Instead are knee breeches,
called lsnickerbockers. These are made
frequently of the same goods as the dress
For street wear CATERS of black cloth
cover the upper part of the foot and
ankles completely and extend to the
knee. The upper part of the dress is a
neat fitting waistcoat and trim jacket
or short coat, with plenty of pockets.
Picturesque and delightfully."- neat and
convenient this dress. But when are VIZ
going TO wear it!
Mail carriers and stage drivers OF the
southwest all know who the Little
Boss" is She is Mrs. H. j. Langdon, Of
Vera, Cal, the only woman mail con
tractor, it is said, in the United States
Her husband was large contractor fol
carrying the mails. He died and left
her with twenty-five unexpired contracts
on her hands. He left these to her by
will, and made her sole executrix, she
says. She had been a bright, busy WON
an, and made herself familiar with mai
contracting and carrying during hel
husbands lifetime. She at once tool
control Of the routes and began to rur
them. She managed the business with
eminent success. and rs fast as one con
tract expired sho took others. Success
attended her efforts throughout. She
carries the Wells-Fargo express parcels
and between July 1 and winter has
transported as much as 800, 900 worth
of gold dust. Twelve years ago she
married again. and then, rs the penalty
of this. had to bid for the contracts in
her new husbands name, but she made
the bids all the same and got the con
tracts Her routes embrace a thousand
miles, and one-quarter Of this distance
is under her immediate personal super
vision. She employs nineteen agents.
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