Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-04-26
GD- TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL se. 1892.
woMAS.s WORK AND ANS.


Mackenzie's daughter, has good repu-
tation as newspaper correspondent.
In Manchester, England, a woman
polled the largest vote as candidate for
the school board under the new education
law.
The North says that several ladies have
been permitted to practice dentistry in
Kjobenhavn, Denmark, after having
passed the necessary examinations.
Mrs. Warren. the wife of the Wyom-
ing Senator, who has voted for twenty
years, declares that il is no more trouble
10 so to the polls than to go to church.
Doctor Mary P. jacob, OF New York,
snd the fashionable Doctor Mary Wool.
sey IIoxon. of Washington. are each said
10 earn over $4,000 year in the prac-
lice of their profession.
Mrs Edward White, of Washington,
proved herself heroine when the Fern
dale Was wrecked off that coast. She
lives en- the beach near where the wreck
occulr red. aud she waded alone into the
breakers and rescued three men. All tho
test were lost.
Doctor Alice Bennett, medical superin-
tendeal cr the State Hospital for insane
women At Norristown, Pennsylvania,
has been appointed by Governor Patti
sou member of the commission hav-
Ing in charge the construction of the
new hospital for the chronic insane
Mrs. j. r. Newman. wife of Bishop
Newman has been elected Fellow of
The Royal Geographical Society. Mrs.
Newman is an extensive traveller, and is
well informed regarding the many
countries she has visited. She is the
only American lady who has travelled
the whole length of the Euphrates VAL
ley.
Miss Florence Kollock has the honor of
being one of seven sisters who have each
profession. Miss Kollock has herself
taught school for the past seventeen
years in Englewood, near Chicago She
says that she has worked hard for her
money, and now she intends to spend
part of it in the way that will give her
most pleasure.
1t is not generally known that the
author Of the famous jingle, Little drops
Of water, little grains Of sand," is Mrs.
Julia A. Carney, OF Galesburg, illinois,
She was Miss Julia A. Fletcher, of Bcs.
ton, fifty years ago, when she wrote the
verses. They attained an instant popu-
larity, but Mrs. Carney's connection with
them has never been well-known.
Mrs. Foster, widow of General John
A. Foster, once United States District
Attorney in New York, devotes all her
time to work among unfortunate women.
She visits the police courts and prisons,
looking for those who may need her
help. So quietly and modestly does she
do her work that although she has been
engaged in it some years. she has at.
tracted almost no attention.
Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, author
Of "Jinrikisha Days" was unanimously
elected secretary Of the National Geo.
graphical Society. During the Russell
Expedition, sent out last year by the so.
ciety to hitherto unexplored part Of
Alaska, Mount Ruhamah was named in
honor Of Miss Scidmore, who has done
much to make known to the reading
public the picturesque parts Of Alaska.
Mrs. Brand, the wife of the member Of
parliament for Wishback, canvassed the
entire district in company with her hus-
band; she charming the electors wit, her
singing, while he devoted himself to
their political education. The populace
turned out to hear her sing, enthusias.
tic crowds greeting her every rywhere. Mrs.
Brand sang to the electors in the open
Dir by the river as well as in the great
political meetings.
Mrs. g. NJ. Harris, an American won.
an, who for many years has resided in
Venice, is one Of those gentle hsroines
who are still remembered with grateful
affection by survivors of our civil war.
In no less than forty-nine battles this
sweet woman found opportunity to wait
skillfully upon wounded soldiers, in
camp and on the field an angle of mercy,
while in many hospital she cared inn.
partially for the suffering on both sides,
even washing the weary feet of the
dust-grimed and pain-stricken fellows
Miss Angelina Brooks, whose knowl.
edge of kindergarten methods has ren.
dered her authority in that line, has been
making a study of the curbstone chill
dren of New York. She finds that there
ore 141 900 boys and girls between tho
ages OF four and six years who spend
their lives in the streets of New York
and never see the inside OF school. Miss
Brooks is making every effort to kindls
an interest in these waits that will result
in the establishment for them Of free kin.
dergarten schools.
Several Swedish women have gained
fame as musical composers. One has for
years been the engraver Of medals at tbs
Royal Mint in Stockholm, and many are
skilled as engravers on wood and glass,
and in lithographing, wood carving,
modelling decorative painting, designing
of various kinds, and art enlbroideries OF
the finest description. Lace-making is
limited to certain portion of the coun-
try, chiefly Vad Stena, where it has con-
stituted the principal industry OF the
nuns of the famous convent of st. Bir-
gitta since the fourteenth century.
Miss Alice Rideout, the young Cali.
fornian, who 10 to model the statuary
figures for the Worlds Fair, Chicago,
had novel introduction to the art in
which she has since become proficient.
She was walking in San Francisco with
her big dog when the animal jumped
into the open door Of Rupert Schmid's
studio and upset recently finished