St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-01
WOMEN AND THINGS.
The Worlds Progress and the
Women Who Help.

Indianapolis is eXulting over the fact
that she entertains at present two dis
tinguished Japanese visitors, Mr.. Tsuda
and Miss Tsuda, of Toxic. Miss Tsuda
is no stranger III this country, having
been sent here by the emperor Of Japan
when she was a mere child She grad
uated from Bryn Mawr last July,
having been assistant to the pro-
fessOr Of chemistry since 1891,
says the New York World.
She is highly educated young woman,
and thoroughly equipped for teaching.
which she will do when she returns to
Toxic. The school where Miss Tsuda
will have a position is the PeereSS
school, established by the emperor and
maintained by the government for girls
and women Of the nobility. The graduation
is similar to that of the American
schools, beginning with kind ergarten
and extending through a course of
twelve years. There are about 800 pu-
pills in the Peerless school, and Miss
Tsuda will instruct in English. Her
brother, a civil engineer, has also been
educated in this country, and will fol-
low his profession in Japan.
The insignificance Of man in his own
home is illustrated by a remark recently
made to Beerbohm Tree by his little
her pony. He declared that he could
not afford to purchase such luxuries.
But the child was a match for him.
Then, papa, why don't you play little
better and make more money" asked
the dear little innocent. And BeerbOhm
Tree says he is goihg to get her that
pony ii he has to work eight hours a
day for it.
Ralph Emerson's widow is now in her
ninetleth year. She lives with her I'M
married daughter. Miss Ellen, in the
old homestead at Concord. She sees no
visitors. reads nothing. and apparently
feels no interest in the outside world.
leave the house. Then she goes for a
short drive in the old family carry-all,
| which looks as if it might have been
purchased with the house in 1885. Miss
Emerson is the constant companion of
her mother.
Miss Maude Come, the Joan of Arc
of the Irish home rule cause, is twenty
six years of age, fair to look upon, in
tensely romantic and an accomplished
linguist. She has made her home in Paris,
and there lectures OH the subjects dear
| to her heart.
| She was born in the most romantic
! ally wild scenery on the British Isles
| near the Gap of Dunloe, in County
kerry-and under the influence of such
! romantic surroundings became passion
ately attached to Ireland and the Irish
Whatever may be said against Mis-.
| Comes politics and methods, no man
| OF woman can breathe word against
her character. A free lance among free
lanceS OF the opposite sex, she has never
: been known for a moment to lose or
JeopardiZe her self-reSpect as woman.
The women of America will be very
much shocked to hear of a little sigu
which occupies place OH the banks of
the 1uen-Fule river in FoOchoW.
$3.50. .......-.....
Do Not Drown Female Infants Here.
'.::...-...... ........-..- ..-.--....-.-...
The sign is read by 10000 Foochow-
| ans. causing no blush and no comment.
| The killing of girl baby in China is a
! crime never punished. The birth of a
| female child throws the whole family
/ into the deepest grief, and the mother
| often finds that the only way In which
! she can retrieve herself is to dispose of
| the infant quietly and effectively. Very
| different is the state of things in Japan.
| There the parents are strainlng every
| nerve to educate their children, girls as
| well as boys. Even young husbands
/ are sending their young wives to school.
| European clothing is worn Gt is an open
question, however, whether this is an
! Improvement, and colleges and semi
| narieS have been established all over
! the country. Much of the credit of all
! this is due to the efforts OF the empress
| of Japan.
| Perhaps. no writer before the public
is more Interesting to women than
| Mary E. Wilkins. whose first serial
story, "Jane Field" is now running in
| Harper's. Mrs. Wilkins is the typical
| New England women her readers would
| imagine. She has absorbed New Eng
| land life and its atmosphere. She was
! born in Massachusetts. in the village of
| Randolph, where she now lives, sur
rounded by her books and pictures, and
with apparently no desire TO leave the
| quiet little town in search of fresh
! fields. Her first story, entitled 1.-Two
Old Lovers" was published in Harper's
| Bazaar. Her reading is said to be con-
| fined to Dickens, Scott and Thackery.
| She knows no French and her first bit
| Of French fiction was a translation Of
De Maupassant's book, 1.-The Odd Num-
ber." She has also written a play,
"GileS Corey YeOman"