, 1891-03-06
woMAN's woaLD IN PARAGRAPHS


Is an interesting story about Mrs. NJ. V.
Taylor, of Washington, Pa, q dealer in
oil well castings. Mrs. Taylor was a
widow with a child t support, she
learned bookkeeping and got a place with
an oil firm. While with them she OBJ
tanned a thorough knowledge of oil well
supplies. She had IN eye 10 advancing
herself in business as well a keeping
books, and took a contract for furnishing
the casing to drill a well, in consideration
Of which she got a sixth interest in the
well. But the company fell through,
and Mrs. Taylor vas left with the eI-
peusiye casing on her hands. But well
castings were scarce just then, and the
shrewd woman sold hers for more than
she paid for it. With that rare gift for
looking ahead which il given TO about
one person in half a million, Mn- Taylor
saw that hundreds Of wells would be
drilled and more castings would be want
ed thar could be supplied, 50 she bought
a large quantity Of this particular ma
chinery, all she could get, sold it at a
great profit and made her fortune.
Women always keep their Old love
letters. 1t is a dangerous practice, but
they will dot. The Vienna Allgemeiner
Zeitung says there is a woman not far
from that city who Is undoubtedly ia
years old. The birth records, 50 care
fully kept IN European countries, show
her to have been born in December Of
the year American independence was de
clared. Yet when the census taker
visited her and naturally stopped to have
a little chat, she showed her first love
letter. yellow with ge, which she had
kept a century, having received it when
she vas Il years old. How like a woman!
1t is said privately that it was the
woman suffrage party which defeated
Senator ingalls,. Many months ago the
message was sent quietly from n wom-
ans club 10 another in Kansas. DO all
you can against Senator Ingalls, The
work was as quiet as the message itself,
but it is claimed hat it was effective.
In the farmers organizations women
nave almost as much influence as the
men themselves. Perhaps tho canstic
tongued statesman will one day learn
that it ia not wise to antagonize even the
women.
Women are the ones 10 right their
own wrongs. If they cannot do it they
do not yet deserve to have them righted.
Among the war correspondents during
the Indian outbreak was one woman,
Bright Eyes, a half breed Indian lady,
who held her own with the best. She
represented The Omahn World-Herald.
Emma Abbott owed her rise and sue.
cess in life TO women yet she left not a
penny to help other forlorn and strug-
Cling women up in the world. Perhaps
she would have done 50 if she had lived
longer and thought more deeply on the
woman question.
1 commend especially to the attention
of women this paragraph from an ad-
dress by Cardinal Gibbons:
II seems 10 me that some writer arc disposed
TO lay undue stress on tine Rmieble and tender
qualities Of Mary and OF holy Christian women,
without dwelling sufficiently on tho strong and
robust points Of their character. The Holy
Scripture In one place p-ronounccs u heightened
eulogy on woman. What does tho Holy Ghost
especially admire In herr Not hor sweet and
amiRbla temper or her gentle disposition,
though OF course sho possessed those qualities.
No; he Rdmires her vRlor, courage, fortitude
and tho sturdy virtue OF self reliance. He does
not say, "who shall nnd u gentle woman"
but rather, "who shall ind a valiant woman
As things brought from hfar and from tho
uttormust coasts is tho price OF her" 1t is
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heroic degree, that the church oAnonizes.
Miss Walford is an English girl who
has become m expert in deciphering old
English manuscript. Her services are
in great demand among British lawyers,
who in their search for legal presidents
are obliged sometimes to 20 back to
manuscripts of the Thirteenth century.
In a famous church suit recently the
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obliged to call IN Miss Walford.
do not know who wrote the follow
ing, but it is as beautiful as it is true:
More and more do those who were perhaps
hrst Interested In the cause OF woman's emhn-
c~ipAtion. with u desire to remedy this or that
specific wrong, come TO feel hat there is undor-
lying this movement n great spiritual truth.
and that the freedom OF woman Is equally es-
sentiAl TO the development Of both halves OF
tho race. The interests OF men and women
never have been and never can be Anuagonistic.
A remarkable character is Rocky
Mountain Kate. Of Leadville. Colo. II
she ever had any other name it is forgot
ten. She wears a mans cowhide boots,
a world too wide for her, and an old
bingham sun bonnet. Her occupation is
house cleaning, and we are given to IN
derstani she does it well. When she
does n days cleaning she takes home
with her broken victuals from the table
at the mansion where she toiied in the
sweat Of her brow. This keeps her in
food. Kate also takes home with her
cast off garments which charitable ladies
give her on her house cleaning rounds.
This is very kind Of the ladies. and it is
doubtful if Kate has had a really new
gown in twenty years, 50 they say. But
.here is another part to this honest toll
er's story, Rocky Mountain Kate has
an income of 81, 600 "A month from houses
in Leadville, and a large mouu of prop
erty in Denver besides, all amassed from
her little savings in the washing and
house cleaning business.
Women do not drink or smoke, But
| sometimes think the petty personal
gossip which forms so large a part Of the
conversation of some of them is worse
than smoking, especially when the gos-
sip becomes spiteful and of a criticising
kind. Then it certainly hurts them
selves wor= han smoking would do.
Girls, If you cannot talk anything ex-
cept personalities don't talk at all.
A newspaper tells us all about the ad-
mirable qualifications of Mrs. Potter
Palmer TO be the president of the wom-
ems board Of managers Of the Chicago
exposition. We are informed that her
eyes are coal black, shaded by long
,ashes, and that her teeth are very white
and regular. Her hair was ono blue
black, but is now changing to gray.
What splendid intellectual and business