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


and four times taken back into the fold.
DIR. Holmes was cajoled into adding
the charm of his presence to the high
| tension ecstacy of an afternoon tea re-
Gently, and when asked his opinion OF
| the affair, he said with queer good
humored twinkle in his eyes: lis gig
gle, gable, gobble, and-git."
A young English girl is seeing Amer
lea on somewhat novel plan. AS she
has not enough money to make the
grand tour, she has adopted the idea OF
applying for work in the hotels OF the
cities that she visits. She remains In q
place long enough to see the sights on
her afternoons out, and with the wages
she earns and small sum she has on
hand she intedns TO see most OF Amer
lea.
For manv years Ida Lewis, the keep
er of the Lime Rock Light, has STOOD as
the peerless heroine of her sex, the only
woman honored by receiving the gold
medal for bravery in rescuing life. Now
she shares the distinction with two
other women. Bette Burr, a student
of LaSalle Seminary in Auburndale,
Mass, who rescued two OF her school
mates from drowning, and Martha
White, who saved three sailors from
drowning in the surf off the coast at
Gray Harbor, Washington, during q
terrible storm.
Lillian F. Smith the champion girl
rifle shot of the world. has constructed
with her own hands small tule boat
weighing less than thirty pounds, In
which she is rowing down the rough
San Joachim River to San Francisco.
She will sleep in the boat at night under
a canvass awning, and row toward her
destination during the day. Miss Smith
was presented TO Queen Victoria during
her exhibition of Workmanship in Len
don.
Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, the new prin-
cipal Of Newman College, is the wife
of one Of the most distinguished profess
sors in Cambridge, who was one or the
founders of the college over which his
wife is to preside. This is the first In
stance of married woman mot a wild
owl being made the head of woman's
college in Europe. Mrs. Sidgwick's
mother, years before woman's higher
education had become the fashion in
Great Britain, insisted on her daugh-
tiers having the same course OF educa-
ton as their brothers; and so advanced
is Mrs. Sidgwick's knowledge OF mathe-
mates that, had women been permitted
to subject themselves to the test OF the
tripos, she might have preceded Phillippa
Fawcett as lady senior wrangler.
There is in Rosyn, Long Island,
woman stock raiser, Phebe Willets, who
owns one of the finest herds OF cattle on
the. island, and some trotting stock OF
her own selection or bred under her own
supervision.
Mrs. James Brown Potter seems to
have lost much enthueiasm for art which
formerly induced her to leave the do
nestle for the professional career. To
an interviewer in London she confessed
that she had to work because she had
nothing else to depend upon, and that II
she were not obliged TO act she should
leave the stage, as the continual change
of bill and the rehearsing of new plays,
and the travelling long distances were
very wearisome. She also confessed that
she considered herself very unfortunate
and unlucky professionally.
The Ann Arbor and Pennsylvania
College dental departments are the only
ones that admit women to the study OF
dentistry. The first woman dentist,
Nine. Hirschfeldt, who afterward be-
came dentist to the family OF the EN-
peror William, graduated from the
Pennsylvania school.
Punch, OF Australia, most clever
and successful colonial comic publica-
ton, is edited by woman, Miss Muir
ply, who began asa member OF the
staff and worked her way up to her
present place.
Philippe Fawcett has been appointed
to resident mathematical lectureship
by the Council of Trennham College,
and elected to fellowship at University
College, London. Constance jenkins,
OF Somerville Hall, oxford, is the only
woman to take first class in Classical
Moderations at Oxford this year She
received much OF her education at
home.
One of the most delicately considerable
of practical charities is the quiet work
done by the Home Hotel Association, at
15s st. AIMS avenue. Needy authors,
artists, teachers, writer's find here a
home in time of need, where prices are
regulated by the circumstances OF its
guests. Those who can pay small sum
for their accommodations are allowed to
do SO; those who cannot, enjoy Its priv
ileges regardless OF sex, religious belief
or profession. One OF the sources OF It's
income is the generosity OF those who
have benefited by its help, and by
obtaining work through Its patrons are
enabled to repay their Indebtedness
with the generosity Characteristic OF
people of the type for whose relief 1t Is
founded.
Among the best reports sent out from
the Minneapolis Convention by the
picked army OF reporters there we're
those written by Mrs. Margaret Sulii-
van. While her associates had comfort
able quarters on the platform, Mrs. Sui
Hvan sat in one OF the far galleries, taxi
ing notes In her lap. She is acknowl-
edged the brightest newspaper woman
of the West, and one OF the most unas-
snming and modest.
A Spanish lady has succeeded In
crossing the Andes In carriage, a dis
tance OF 800 miles. The journey was
completed in eleven DAYS, though near
" mile Of the road had to be built for
her use.
Elizabeth More, pretty young girl
of Edgeworth, with the help OF a girl
friend, has recently built cottage for
herself, laying the foundation, doing
all the carpentering and plastering the
rooms.
Mrs. Hattie Brooks, OF Maine, is con-
Quoting an extensive foundry and loco