The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-15
stated q sentiment which has not vet wholly

stated a sentiment which has not yet wholly
d1ed away IN these good years for women;
Men seem to fear he says, that the care
and sollcitude which a mother feels for her
children depend on her ignorance of Greek
and mathematics, and that she would de-
se1t her infant for q quadratio equation"
To the inventions OF women the world is
indebted for a street-sweeper, an improved
method of heating cars, a chain elevator, a
reaper and mower, q machine for feeding
cattle on cars, a f'e-escape, the paper bag.
an ice cream freezer and perambulator, yet
She will get off a car backward.
The duchess of M~ontpensier, now reported
to be dying, who looks at least fifteen or
twenty years older than her elder sister,
Queen Isabella. is the mother of the coRn-
tess of Paris, who will inherit the greater
portion of her vast wealth, which is esti-
mated to exceed $50, 900, 900. Her only son.
Don Antonio. has always been cordially
disliked by his mother as we'll as by his
late father.
The Woman's Rest Tour association, of
1854 Boylston street, Boston, publishes a
list Of inexpensive lodgings and other use
full information for women who oontem-
plate a summer in Europe, showing how q
woman of simple tastes may spend the
summer abroad at a total cost of $3.50.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is the president of
the Woman's Educational and Industrial
union, OF which this is q part.
Among the peculiar occupations for
women which Mis-. Virginia Perry eIumer-
ates are the following: In Buffalo a wo-
man runs q stroet cleaning bureau; in
Kansas City a woman is in the fire depart
ment; at Eassar q young woman combs
hair at % cents a head; a Louisville lady
makes special shopping trips to Paris;
another in New York makes Matchmaking
a business; still another III New Ham pshire
IS president Of a street railway company,
while Chicago has q woman empalmer.
A story comes from The Hague which
shows that little Queen Wilhelmina is not
without a little sense of humor, although CT
a truly feminine kind. Her English GOV
ernsas. Miss Winter, had set her to draw a
ma of Europe, as a punishment for some
1nisbehavior-even little queens are pun
ished when they mlsbehnye. The little
lady drew the map very neatly, but when
she handed it to Miss Winter the latter par
ceived, greatly to her amusement, thai the
British Islands had been put in on q very
much reduced scale, SO much that they APP
pearea to be about one-quarter tho size of
the Netherlands. i mis- was the little queens
revenge on her English instructress.
Ia tho year 1892 the women Of Toulon
declared themselves in a state of insurrec-
tion, and assembling in great crowds
threatened to hang ths magistrates if they
did not lower the price of sugar, The pro-
curator-syndic at first laughed at their
threats, but the multitude refusing to dis
retge, he assembled the counciI-penera Of
the and ordered the fire engines,
with q plentiful supply OF water, mixed
with SCOT, to be drawn out in battle array.
BY a yIeoroua discharge of the smutty ar
tillery the Insurgents in petticoats were
completely routed, and retired peaceably
to their homes.
A Chinese girl with the golden lily foot"
was married to San Ynen, 4 prosperous Los
Angeles merchant, recently. Her feet are
by actual measurement only three inches
long. The bride was attired in a rich gar
net silk costume embroidered in green and
yellow and decked with cloth of gold. She
wore slippers trimmed with pearls. He.
neck and ours were ornamented with mas
slye gold earrings and Il necklace, The
couple went through the complicated Chi
nese ceremony after having had a OWL Ger
ernony performed by Il judge. The elite of
Chinatown was entertained at II BANQUET
gwen by the groom, which was Monte
Cnrlstan IN Its extravaganza. Turtles, cells
and u variety of fish we're brought alive
from China Tor the occasion. The fsstiy-
tiles. lasting three days, cost not less than
$40, 900.
Women appear to be on the high road
toward auppianting men as "~dtummers' OF
commercial travellers. A number of the
largest New York and Chicago houses en-.
gagged In the coffee. the shoe, the dry goods
the canned goo.s and the silk trades hay,
replaced all their male commercial trnvel-
ers by brlgh and attractive female drum
mers. The increase of business that ha,
been brought about by this change il land,
ing other houses to adopt the same innoya,