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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
TO THE FORE.
Women Have Taken the First Place in
Many NOcatioHs.

Women Have Taken the First Place In
Many VOcatioHs.
"Womcn have been very much to the
fore in the various art exhibitions that
have been held in Europe recently.
They have contributed pictures that are
worth looking at" This statement of
one of the daily papers is suggestive.
The master painters have been men.
Woman's work has had but little place
in the worlds art galleries. She has
had nothing to hang along side of the
masterpieces of the Raphaels, Ange-
los and CorregioS. In the higher
achievements of literature. also, she
has been far behind the opposite sex.
She has had no names to place beside
those of Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton
and Shakespeare.
But it must be remembered that
woman was not expected to achieve
anything. Her position was subordi-
nate. Over her whole life hung the
chilling and depressing shadow of her
supposed inferiority. Not until the
public school system came to her relief
did she generally receive common cd
ucation. She has no property rights.
She was shut out from business and
from public affairs. All manner of OBJ
stacles kept her in the rear, out of reach
of the pulse and throb of active life.
But now that the gates are open, that
she is pushing her way through high
schools and colleges and into all the
avenues of business, that she has gotten
into art galleries. into reforms and pub
lie affairs, and that her blood is quick
ened by all the stir and excitement of
the worlds multiform life, is not this
just what we may expect to hear, that
she is at the fore in achievement: that
she is hanging her pictures in the great
art galleries; that she is matching the
poetry of her brother man; that she is
his peer in eloquence, and rival in the
mastery of great subjects? Long sup
pressed, but now emancipated, is she
bringing into life that new enthusiasm
which itsso much needs? The ages tire
of themselves. All paths become worn.
Every theme grows stale. 1t is not
years but sameness which makes the
world old and weary. Has woman come
at such time as this with the Joyous
freedom of her emancipated life, with
the freshness of her new womanhood,
with the vigor and eagerness of her long
suppressed power, to make this old world
young again? Speaking of man. we
say, 1.-The old masters" For mans best
is in the past. Is woman about to
change the phraseology and set us to
saying ''the new masters?" Is she going
to repeat the past in the light, the color
and the tone of the present and the fu-
tl1re?-Chicar 90 Advance
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
WOMEN IN BOHEMIA.
What Is Being Done for Their Advance
ment In That Little Country.

ment in That Little Country.
The affairs of the little country of
Bohemia Ia part of the Austro-liungar-
ian empire) are well worth serious at
tention. A writer in a Polish paper
published at Warsaw recently gave a
history of the advance of women in that
country. The pioneer woman in the
general advancement of her country
women, closely connected with the gen.
cral awakening of a national life in the
first half of the present century. was
Joanna Rottona. or as she is known in
literature, Caroline Swietla, who is still
living. As young girl she showed
decided taste for literature, and despite
conventional opinion that it was un-
seemly, devoted herself to study and
writing. Also she thought the native
Czech language should be spoken in
stead of the German, and she with her
husband, who shared her idea, always
used it. Madame Bottona's efforts were
largely in the line of industrial adj
vance to enable women to become self
supporting. The outcome of her labors
was an extensive and influential Czech
society OF woman's industries.
Another pioneer laborer was Bozena
Nielnbowa, born in 1870. She devoted
special attention to the instruction and
enlightenment of the common people.
She organized schools for peasant wOm-
en-. She worked with energy and final
ly overcame the hostility and opposition
that arose at her efforts, and though
she died in 1852 she had the pleasure of
seeing gsod results from her work
Great service 10 the cause of women in
bohemia was rendered by noble
hearted and philanthropic man, Volta
Naprstek, who was well known in
England thirty years ago. lie spent
much time in studying the various
schemes put forth in England and
America for the benefit OF women, and
after spending some years in England
he returned to his own country in 1865
and organized the american club for
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

women in Prague, where ne delivered
lectures on such subjects. as seemed
best calculated to interest average
women and induce them to think. Also
Mr.. Naprstek freely opened the whole
of his valuable collection of books to
the frequenters of the club
The meetings of the club were at first
held in private house, but soon out
grew such restricted quarters. Not all
their time was given to their own men
tai Improvement. They raised money
to found an Crphanage, and during the
war of 1866 between Austria and Prus-
! sia the members of. the club organized
themselves into sanitary commission
and did valuable work for the wounded
and for the families of those who fell.
As direct result of the club started in
1865 about one hundred and sixty differ
ent clubs and societies have been found
cd, all for women only. Besides these
there has also been clubs where both
men and women are members. In some
of the clubs the Czech language only
may be spoken, but in others the Ger
man as well. One of the societies,
the purpose of protecting and educat-
ing girls morally neglected. A home is
provided for them where they are under
the good influence of family life, but
for their school work study they are
sent to the public general schools. At
the proper age they are found places
for service.
The latest society formed IS called
the Minerva" Nine Elisa Krasno-
horslSa, the bohemian poetess and ed
itor of Czech organ of women's affairs,
is the president of the club. The OBJ
ject of the Minerva is the raising of the
standard of women's education, and to
this end founding schools for girls equal
in range of subjects to the gymnasiums
for boys. A college also has been
started to give women a chance for uni
versity courses. This first year of its
existence shows fifty-three students of
ages from sixteen to twenty-one. Even
higher attempts are on foot. a petition
bearing five hundred signatures of
women was presented last year to the
Czech parliament, requesting admission
to the university courses of medicine
and philosophy. There was at first
much opposition from the least ad-
vanced section, and many excuses made
for delay, but the measure was at last
carried, with this result, that in four
years time the courses of the university
of Prague will be open to women.
The year 1891 has been fruitful in
petitions from the Bohemian women to
their diet. Besides the one already no.
ticed asking for admission to the uni
versity, another has been presented ask
ing for an increase of pay TO the women
post office clerks who at present receive
much less than half, often less than
third of the same salary as the men for
doing the same work, and during the
same number of hours. Last year
petition was sent up by the society of
wOmen's industries asking for woman's
suffrage, presumably fer the first time.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

1t was in one of our schools the other
day where picked up the following
thrilling composition, written by a
twelve-year-old girl, which is one of
the best pieces of English as she is
''spelt" that have yet seen:
"A right suite little buoy, the son of
a kernel, with rough round his neck,
Gue up the road quick as dear. After
a thyme be stopped at a house and
wrung the belle. His tow, hurt hymn
and he kneaded wrest. IIe was two
tired to raZe his fare, pail face, and
feint mown of pain rose from his lips.
The made who herd the belle was
about to pair pare, but she through
it down and ran with all her mite. for
fear her guessed would mot weight:
but when she saw the little won tie IS
stood in her eyes at the site. Eve
poor dear! Why do you lye here? Are
yew dyeing?' Know he said. Il am
feint.' She boar him inn her arms as
she .aught, to room where he might
be quiet, gave him bred and meet, held
a cent bottle under his knows, untide
his cholar, raped him up pwarmly. gave
him suite drachm from a yiol. till at
last he went fourth as hail as young
hoarse. New Western Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

'enough to get one who was not quai-
ifed for the work. which will happen
at times. For the enthusiasm with
which they begin the work does not
always hold out. 1t is when the nov
city has worn OF and the grim serious
ness and monotony OF the work is felt
that the true nurse shows her mettle.
And when that point is reached some
will halt and others go only mechan-
ically. But on the whole the Illinois
training school for nurses is doing
great work, AL the greater because it
is done so quietly. 1t has richly earned
the comfortable building it now pos
sesses, a four-story brick structure
valued at $4,000.
There is a contractor at the worlds
fair grounds who is putting up one of
the great buildings and is supposed to
make it fireproof. He has fireproofing
paint which he uses for that purpose.
He has lively daughter who knows rs
much about business as himself and
generally attends to it with him. In
speaking to one of the worlds fair Off
cials not long ago, she was extolling
the virtues of this fireproof paint. Her
father put it on the old exposition
building twenty years ago. she said.
Now they are tearing the old building
down and selling all the old stuff Most
of the wood is sold for kindling. So
load of wood that had this paint on
was sold for kindling. A few days
after the buyer returned it and said il
wouldn't burn.
And yet some people will not believe
in fireproof paint.
Speaking about the old exposition
building reminds me of the bonanza
which the contractor who is taking it
down struck when he began work. He
took it at stated lump sum, and when
the floor was taken up it was found
that there were over twenty thousand
feet of iron pipe under it that had been
put there some years ago, but were en-
tirely forgotten. They went to swell
the profits of the contractor.
III. +. D. HEINEMASS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
Oarsmen and Anglers.

''The oarsman considers the angler
an inferior creature. What fool fel-
low must be to get up at daybreak and
run to the river for the purpose of soak
ing line in it from morning till night!
The oarsman gets up at the same time,
jumps into his boat, and pulls all day
long, rubbing himself upon the thwart
like broom over carpet. The angler
gets Sunstruck; SO does TIE oarsman.
The angler sees nothing of the country
that surrounds him; neither does the
oarsman- The oarsman makes fun Of
the angler, and the angler never makes
fun of the oarsman. The oarSman
sometimes tumbles into the water, and
it often happens that an angler near by
fishes him out. That is why the oars
man despises the angler. But the
angler laughs at this contempt. What
does he care? Doesn't he know that
the greatest pleasure in the world is To
fish and catch fish, and that the second
greatest is TO fish and catch nOthing?'
French Paper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
UNDER The TREES.
Some of the Pleasures and Trials of . Va
- cation In the Country.

Some of the Pleasures and Trials of o Va
.. cation In the Country.
1t is pleasant lettering under the
leafy canopies of July woods, far from
the madding crowd, from the city
sights aud sounds. 1t is rather strange
sensation. at first, to get the weather
representations two days afterward,
but that soon wears away, and you find
yourself wondering, with no little anx-
iety, when you plan little picnic,
fishing excursion. or a mountain climb,
what kind of weather we probably had
day before yesterday? 1t is something
of a novelty to learn the art of making
ice cream without freezer: also without
ice; likewise without cream. What in
gradients are used you never discover,
but you know they are new to your
astonished palate. Your husband wears
a flaming red and black striped blazer
as he strolls across the pasture, and
learns that animals are not color-blind
at least not all of them. He reaches
the fence m time to prevent your bud
ding into charming widowhood. but
the animal which escorted him thither
DedTS away IDe ndIeQ OldZcr on It's
horns, ike triumphant law and order
society that has raided procession of
anarchists. You lie down under the
whispering trees. but the lawn is not
the velvet handmade grassplot of the
town lot. 1t is roughly moved with
the swift sweeping scythe, and is of the
stub, stubble; you give that up. More
over, while the fly has ceased to
trouble, the intrusive ant has come
upon the stage, and. say what you will
of the fly, he did not crawl up ones
sleeves and down ones back, nor into
ones shoes. Flies are bad enough, we
think, until we strike few choice. fat
and meaty mosquitoes or a handful of
sportive antsl You ask the farmer how
soon the black berries will be ripe. He
says this week, if your boys go back to
town. If they stay out he doesn't
reckon we will have any ripe fruit of
any sort this year. This settles the
farmers standing with mater familie.
What time those dear innocent boys
have to interfere with the fruit pros
pectus is more than you can conjecture.
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
Cherokees Learning Confidence Game

1t is wonderful to see how rapidly the
Cherokee Indians are progressing in the
arts of civilization. In the last treaty
between the government and the Cher
okees it was provided that seventy Cher
okees, then resident in the Cherokee
strip, should be allowed to retain each
one hundred and sixty acres when the
strip was turned over to the govern
ment. Within the past month an ex-
chief of the tribe has been sending out
letters and blank powers of attorney to
hundreds of Cherokees, telling them
that if they will make out the power of
attorney to him and pay twenty-five
dollars to his partner they can become
one of the seventy and get first pick
out of the strip land. As the seventy
mentioned in the treaty were already
living on the strip it can be easily seen
that the ex-chief and his partner are
playing a confidence game on their fell
low Cherokees. 1t is estimated that
they have already realized several thou
sands OF dollars as result of the scheme.
N. o. Picayune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
1t just Occurred to Him.

Can you suggest an inscription to go
over the gate of the new cemetery?"
the president asked of the editor of the
Quohosh Bugle.
Let me see," replied the editor.
"How would this do: We have come
to stay. Jury.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29
4 Pleasant Thoncht.

Friend lin railway train)-You say
you are getting influenza from that
lady's open window, and yet you seem
TO be very gleeful about something.
What is it?
Passenger-I know she must be get
ting pneumonia--N. Y. Weekly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

I'm her ''Recolleetions of d Happy
Life Marianne North tells the story
OF stout and fashionably dressed lady
at a ball who was Mortified by the can
nibal king of Fiji's admiration of her
arms. when she learned that these are
esteemed the choicest morsels OF human
flesh.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

Ham and eggs, please" said the
customer in the downtown restaurant.
"A cluck n a grunt, Billy yelled the
walter to the cook.-LittIe Peddlington
Gheewitz.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-07-29

"A sure way to punish yourself is to
hate other people. Rams Horn
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20
SIZE OF the UNIVERSE.
A Prs;;y Large Old Concern whose Figures
Arc slaguerlnu.


To form some idea Of tho larFcncSs of
this earth one may look upon the land.
scane from tho top OF an ordinary church
steeple aud then bear In mind that one
must view 100000 similar landscapes 10
get an approximately correct idea OF
The size of the Garth. Place SEQ earihs
llAc ours side hy. side yet .snturns out.
erinost ring could easily incloae them
Tree hundred thousand earth globes
could be stored inside the sun, IL hollow.
II a humau eye every hour were capable
OF looking upon a fresh measure OF
world material 1900 square Kilometres
large. that eye would need $4,000 years
10 overlook the surface Of tho sun. no
reach the nearest fixed star one must
travel 83,06O,0OO ldlome,cis. md Il the
velocity were equal 70 that Of cannon
ball u would require O,0O0,uU0 years 90
travel the distance.
On clear night an ordinary human
eye can discover about 1000 stars Ia
the Northern Hemisphere. most OF which
send their light from distances which we
cannot measure. How large they must
Del Round these 1000 stars circle DO
100 other stars OF various Sizes Besides
single stars, we know OF systems of stars
moving around one another Still, we
are but a short way into space as Yeti
Outside our limits Of yision and imagine
alton there arr no doubt still large
spaces.
The Milky Way holds probably at
least 20 ini,000 stars. and as cach is a
sun, we presume Il IL cmoirrled hy at
least fifty planets. Counting un these
teures we arrive at the magnitude of
l,VpONJ1,OOO stars. A thousand million
of stQrsl Who can comprehend IN Sdil
this only part Of the universe. The
modern telescopes have discovered moro
and similar milky ways still further
MO lmnky ftN lnN
which represent milky ways like ours.
Let MS count two thousnd of them as
being OF the size OF our MILKY WAY,
then 2.OONN20. tO1. 900 10. 8S1 600. 900
suns, or 2,Oi9, l0O,0lO,00O heavenly bod
les. Suppose these bodies paradlng be-
lore orr mental eye, one per minute, Il
would require 3,SiO,0O0 years 20 finish
the march, in all OF which tins we would
have TO look upon them unccnMngly.
Suppose a human being migrated from
globe TO globe, and spending fifty years
ON each, he would require t0O. Nl5, 600, q
100000 years for the round, II he stay
ed only one hour he would
save much time but still need go, 49,
900 years for the task. Yet these nchu-
lac arc only n part OF the universe. Out
side the uehuiGe limits we know OF other
nebulne not receivable into stars They
appear 20 be private npbulne nure, uu-
used would-stu1 matter for new crea-
IONS. Some OF them occupy a space as
large ms the orbit Of Uranus Some are
sim larser Tie one IN "Oriun" Is o.
tlmntcd to 2,9lO,OOO 0,OOO OO0. OOO
tunes lnrgcr than that of our sun. Are
We coming to the Outormost limits2
Who dnrcs say yesf We are probably
come 20 our limits. Int the future with
new instruments aud scientific devices.
may push those limits so much further
out INTO Observation-Disclosures, Coponha-
gen,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-20
eeAurlEuL eAals.


A noston banker yisltuu IN Paris. bought
for cents twp delicious nenrs. feiicltatlng
hlmselt upon hia cheap acnnltlun for 3
cents what at tho hotel dlnnrr was served
ut ! frnnc, The delicious nrult proved loo
much OF temptation. One pear quickly
dlaanpenrel, aud the core being thrown
unnh the sidewalk, "A mllitary.lOOk police
politely INTERRUPTED q threatened disposal "
the other pear hv Informing the economical
mlllunMre that II WIS not uermlttcd to
put nuisuuccs upOn the streets The banker
Insisted upon bis rlHht 10 uni his fruit where
ever hn chose, aud began munUhlnr the SOC.
ond when the oilicer called cab. invited
my friend Into IT aud informed mo upou
NY uhgt TO accompany them that 1 could
follow in another cab, | renlicd that ! pre-.
fcffod 10 share the disgrace and fate OF my
cOmlrde und would npcnnuanv HIM tpnn
tie hearing the iustlce released the latter
without ilne up0n his nnynnnt Tor tho cab,
y. ne was stranger aud hits was his hrst
A similar fate 10 tho Bnafonian'a ana a
hno also overlook u hrnnd. Rhnulderrd bull-
neeheh, rcdhcudgd ohioAn who inalatcd
unou standing "a Q tramwi9 car when Il
was Complete seat IA Hn omnibus here
couicra M exclusive a urnuriofnrv right IA n
bnt NJ the upern. No one IN permitted 10
suind N car, because that may inronyun-
icnco others Strange ns IL mny npppar 10
directors OF American street rRtI,yny rom.
pahica, ~ France the TRANSPORTATION OF per-
sons Tor hire e subject to laws which may
not hc violated with inpunl'r
Tho city has twenty wards each governed
BY MAYOR and two Deputies. Ga 4 super
poios ~ about 100000 a.mhro yards II mas
tume $1,000 houses. containing 2du,OOO IN.
hnultuuiH Tho TnNnAYera association Of
baltimore Will hold their breath 10 hear That
tllH vast system, with its water supplies, ita
streets, avenues and houleyhrds ns Wide M
broadway and as smooth ns olnHni itH 10.
Ice. hte and Telegraph dpnarimeuta with
lht furtlncntlnna, uduurcs statues wharvea
bfldges, museums, markets. arches, fuuu.
tainH sewers, catncnnhH mnrguO. railways
HNHiem OF public instruction mud nn endicsa
variety Of ntuuHementH, unrRs. music the.
aires aud other luNurlea which II has mover
entered the Door inlnrinhtiou uf the down.
ifeddou American mNDHver aVen To con.
ceivc Of was furnished last wear by the
CITY government NJ the trlning cost IN Inc
clty of $50. hp2biO francs " the value OF
20 cents each.
ono koy unlocked the mvsterious cabinet
* tho administration ~ pari4-noonntny.
rho French meaning OF that term cnn never
pc c9mprehrndei IN America. II IL not
mennneas' Economy here receives nnd gives
value for value. There ~ not nn over
worried omployo or . gunernwnernry 10 the
MhNie uepaltmeni Of the municipal govern.
mont OF Iarls Every detail "a accounted
Tor At the close Of each daY.