Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-07-10
OF and Concerning Women.

Minnesota rejoices in the possession OF
a unique character. Sara Pollard, who
is one of the most successful farmers In
Polk county, where she owns a half
section of land which she works herself
with no help from men except In the
! harvest season. Miss Pollard is a young
woman of grace, beauty, and many &C.
complishments, who has left a pleasant
Eastern home for the life OF farmer.
She does her own ploughing, seeding,
I and narrowing, operates her large farm
with no other counsel than her own
good Judgment, and has added quarter
section of land to her domain with the
proceeds OF few years industry. She
wears when engaged in outdoor work a
short skirt which falls just below the
! knee, and has knee breeches to match
! it.
Queen Christina, Of Spain, upon re-
! ceiving information that the thousandth
| had been named after her husband, sent
the parents layette, silver baby serv-
ice and handsome nest egg, with the
| graceful message: "To the thousandth
Alfonso, from q woman whom two AL
fonsos have made happy"
Queen Victoria has, like other women,
her pet superstitions, one OF which is
the belief that anything made by q
blind person brings luck. Accordingly
the cradle with all its furnishings for
the latest. Battenberg baby has been
prepared entirely by the blind.
The Society of Lady Artists Of Ber-
lin has under its charge the only art
school in all Germany where women can
obtain advantages for the thorough
study of art. There are free scholar
ships for talented pupils, and reduced
fees for the deserving, and at reason
] able terms all the advantages enjoyed
| by the men Of the academy.
! The Association OF Visiting Nurses In
! Chicago Is supported by the society
girls OF the city, who organize sewing
| classes aud arrange amateur entertain
ments, and by professional men and wo-
men, who contribute funds for the ex-
penses OF the work. Seven trained
nurses are employed, and wear uni
form OF blue and white, with white col
| lars aud cuffs, and white cross on the
| left arm. Each nurse has a district in
which she goes from house to house
! among the poor, attending to their sick,
| and reporting cases OF distress TO the
proper societies for relief. The society
has no fund, but is supported by volun-
tary offerings.
Higher education was not quite dead
letter TO our ancestors OF the middle
| ages, and according to some authorities
boys and girls shared equal advantages
In being whipped along the road TO
knowledge with equal impartiality.
Some latin exercises written by Mary
Queen of Scots when only 10 years old
are still extsnt, and Marguerite de Va
lois writes in her memoirs that she owed
/ the excellence of her latin to the bodily
chastisement she habitually received
from her tutors. Queen Isabella was,
too, Latin scholar, and through her
influence it became the fashion tostudy
ancient tongues. Italian teachers were
imported into Spain, and the beauties OF
the Italian court atteded the academic
| examinations and took part in the pub
lie exercises OF the gymnasium. 1t was
not until after she was queen that lsa-
bella realized the necessity Of Latin in
diplomatic intercourse, and applied her.
self brayely to its acquisition.
The ex-Empress Eugene is working
on her memoirs, which will doubles:
prove interesting to the. next generation.
They are not TO be published until sew
sral years after her death, and no one
Is to see line Of the manuscript
Sarah Berphardt gives her friends "a
understand that she was one Of eighteen
children, and h censideraslsn Of thai