St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-30
women EVERYwHERE.
What Women Are Doing at Home
and Abroad

and Abroad.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution in St. Paul are daily increas-
ing in numbers. The latest order from
headquarters at Washington bids every
loyal woman whose ancestor fired where
he saw the whites of British eyes at
. Bunker Hill, or threw up his cooked
hat when the liberty bell proclaimed
the birth of new nation, to show the
stars and stripes in her window or on
her roof OIL the Fourth Of July.
There is one woman who has made a
study Of cats for the last forty years.
She is neither an old maid nor the
keeper of a hospital for her feline
friends: she is an artist, Nine. Hentiette
ROnner. and she has acquired a tech
nical mastery over what Ruskin calls
"the appalling depths of kitten nature"
that no artist has surpassed. She is the
daughter of a Dutch artist, Knip, and
was comparatively unknown until about
1860, when her pictures Of the draught
dogs of Belgium and cats began to at
trgct attention. She shares with the
japanese painter. Hokussal. and with
Gntifreid Ming the distinction CT being
able to draw cats in motlon-LandSeer
De la Cr0IX. Rosa B0nheur and other
celebrated animal painters having never
attempted to draw the fluffy creatures
otherwise than in repoSe.
Lady Margaret Hamilton has written
very practical article in the Nine
teeth Century entitled "HouSehOld
Clubs; How Will They Affect Small
Households" in which she shows that
the scheme proposed by the Countess of
Aberdeen in previous number OF the
same magazine, as giving point and
character TO much of tile intercourse
between members of large establish
mtnt, would lie next 10 impossible in
small households. In such families,
where the mistress and maid are often
equally busy, neither time nor inclina-
ton would 6e found for such clubs, but
any adaptation of their details which
would conduce toward employers TAX
ing more individual interest in the sor-
rows and joys and well being OF their
dependents would be welcomed gener-
ally.
Miss Olive Rossetti, niece of Dante
Gabriel and Christina RoSSetti. seems
TO have inherited some of the talents of
her distinguished fOrbears. Although but
sixteen, she has been featuring on the
French revolution to large audiences of
working people at Manchester, and is
said to speak with remarkable power
and force.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has been per-
suaded TO overcome her reluctance to
public speaking, and she will give a
lecture to the university extension stu
dents this year at Cambridge on ''Pris-
Gillian, Hereto and Bishop of Avila."
This lecture" we hear, will be histor-
zeal in character and not used as We
hiele for theological argument.
I r.Tl of4n
Brooklyn. is an accomplished woman,
given TO inventions. music and literary
work Her latest invention is water
proof cloak named the ducks back"
The cloak envelops the skirts and dress
in such a manner that they cannot touch
the ground, or be Spiashed by mud or
rain.
Miss Jessamy Harte, Bret Harte's
young daughter. makes her literary
debut in the July Ladies' Home Journal
with an entertaining description Of
Camp Life in the. Adirondacks,
winch shows inherited literary tenden-
cieS not unlike those in Bret Harte's
earlier work. Miss Harte is girl still
in her teens, and has artistic as well as
literary procliYitieS.
Cincinnati has an institution. founded
by women for women, which reioiceS in
the double distinction of being the only
Presbyterian hospital. women's medical
college and free aispensary combined,
and the only one in the United States
founded, managed and controlled by
women. Special provision is made for
preparing young women for work in
medical missions.
The Chautauqua assemblies are be-
ginning to have suffrage days." and in
England, by two-thirds vote, a wom-
ans suffrage plank has been incOrp0-
rated in the platform of the British
Wemen's Temperance association. of
which Lady Henry Somerset is presi-
dent. The work Of this association is
well OreanZed in departments, school
of methods has beeu arranged, and a
weekly paper established under the
management of Lady Henry herself.
Trneman lngersoIl leaves today for
the West to be gone two months or
more. He will photograph in the Vel
lowstOne, Alaska. California and New
Mexico before he returns.