Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-03-16
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Miss Mabel Dunlap, a graduate ot the
Philadelphia School of Design, has heen
appointed one Of the FIVE ladies 70 deco.
rate palace cars at Wilmington. Della
ware
Mrs. Emma Van vechten Of Cedar
Rapids. is an expert wood-carvar. aud.
although still student in her art, has
already received large sums for some Of
her work
MIS- kate Flrbish. graduate ol Bow
loin College. is the moSt not,,d hatanist
IN Maine and has already made a coiec.
tion Of Nrlve hundred diherenl species
I II plants, the greater part OF which She
has reproduced in water-color drawings.
Mrs Ridiell, one Of the most popular OF
English novelists, has never received over
thirteen hundred a year from the sale OF
her twenty eight works of fiction, and IL
Is proposed TO put her on the civil pension
list. Her publishers have made much
money in the meantime.
Mrs. Allen Freeman Palmer announces
from the. platform that there are to-day
forty thousand girls in the colleges 81
America This gives color 10 Doctor
6eeley's declaration that before the end
Of the present century the American
women will be better educated than the
men
Rosa Bonheur Is one of the fow women
who are members OF the Legion OF Hon
or. She received her cross during the
Second Empire. Another is Madame
Abcot de Ragis. who was decorated in
1852 in recognition Of her brave defence
Of the town hall in her native place dur
Ing a riot. She. too, was thus honored
during the Second Empire.
Madame Modjeska is said to be prof
cient in half dozen languages, includ-
tug some of the difficult tongues OF
eastern Europe. She is now making a
large collection of the works of the wri-
ters of the Elizabethan period, and is
constant reader Of the writings of Shake
speare's contemporaries, as well as a tire
less student Of the great dramatist.
A lady engineer has arrived at Sc.
Petersburg from Nladikavkas 70 view the
factories of the great capital. In 1888
she built in her native city an iron and
brass foundry and steam wood-sawing
and planning mill, and she has conducted
these institutions mp TO the present time
without any assistance and with great
success. To her also belongs the credit
OF having introduced among the peasants
Of the Terzkoy districts modern agrioul.
tural machines
Chill is the woman's Utopia, IL is the
only country in the world in which wom.
en- ara possessed of full political rights.
Every woman over twenty-one can vote
on all questions. The street cars sre all
conducted by women, too. The native
women have not good opportunities for
education, but they are said 70 DO pos
sessed of fair mental ability, and boast OF
one native woman doctor. la manner
they are modest and dignitled, in person.
small and delicate.
Miss Marsden, who is striving 10 better
the condition Of the lepers in Siberia, re-
ports that she has been treated with the
greatest kindness by the Russian nation.
She has collected five thousand dollars
toward a hospital for the poor creatures,
whose condition she describes as terrible.
In the course Of her work she has ridden
two thousand miles on horseback. aud
viii present the case To the czarina when
she has finished her travels. She intends
TO cross the Caucasus Mountains, and
also to investigate the condition Of the
lepers in Tiflis and several other prov
4 lnces.
The woman OF TO day is independent Of
the man n che cares to be. Size need but
work, il must bs said 10 her grea
credit .t she apparently finds much
pleasur work. The result of this is =
curious exchange of occupations between
the sexes To-day the best dressmakers,
cleaners ol clothing, servants aud nurses
are men, while won en- have proved them
selves 10 be in like manner superior or
equal to men as clerks, saleswomen, teie-
graphers, amanuenses, writers. authors.
designers and even occupants Of exeeu-
tive positions. They are writing tho best
newspaper articles and inventing me-
chanical appliances. They are train do.
spatchers on railroads and officers of cor
porations.
/ There are now in New York number
Of capable women who for considera-
I ton relieve the oyerburdened house mis-
tress Of the care aud trouble attendant
upon spring cleaning. The contractors
begin at the garret and guarantee 70 pas
everything in order 70 the last load OF
coal in the cellar Under them work
corps OF trained paint and window clean
ers, with others whose sole business is 70
wipe frescoed ceilings and walls and
brush and polish furniture. They are
! personally responsible, not only for the
I quality of their work, but the honesty Of
those they employ and breakages that
may occur. Although they are an ex
pensiye luxury, these energetic young
women receive liberal patronage.
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