Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-24

aspiring ones whom we call progressive
women" are not limited, as to their field,
to our own country and the more enlight-
ened parts of Europe. The interest in edu-
cation, in philanthropic work, in happier,
more wholesome conditions of daily living,
is very general, as the tidings from India,
Persia, Finland and Iceland give convinc-
ing evidence.
The truly progressive woman is not
selfish woman. Her ambitions are not for
herself alone; she arouses, encourages,
helps forward host of others. One has
but to read of the earnest work Of women
for women, the world over, in this, "the
woman's era," as Victor Hugo named 1t, to
see that the spirit of selfshness has little
part in the activities of the cultured wo-
man of broad views and eager sympathies.
A Burmese princess, granddaughter of
King Thebaw's predecessor, after finishing
q medical course, is now in training at the
Rangoon hospital, fitting herself to act as
a doctor among her Burmese countrywo-
men, Many other women of India, China
and Turkey are taking up the same line of
work. Pundita Ramabai, who has many
friends in this country, is doing a noble
work in her school at Bombay, in which
girl widows are educated for the profession
of teaching. At Bombay also is a school
where numbers of Parsee girls are taught
domestic cookery, making special study
of the preparation Of food for infants and
invalids.
The queen of Greece is president of
sisterhood devoted to the reformation of
criminals and personally visits condemned
prisoners in the prisons of Athens.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Lofgren is pioneer. She,
with the Baroness Grippenberg, is greatly
interested in the Finnish Women's union,
organized by these ladies and presided over
for seven years by Mrs. Lofgren. The OBJ
ject of this society, which is regularly in
corporated and its rules sanctioned by the
senate, is to deal legally with education,
property rights, women's wages, and all
economical questions of the day, widening
the field of enterprise for women and ele-
waiting their position in the home and in
social life. Through Mrs. Lofgren's in
fuence the first women printers were em-
ployed in her husbands printing Office.
Since then they have been employed in
mostfprinting houses in the country. For
six years she has been members of the
school board, was, one, of the founders of
the first Finnish high school, "a co educs-
tional school preparatory to the univer-
sity, and in every way ardently promotes
the higher education of women. In pur-
suit of this object she has translated good
deal of high class literature, English,
French and Norwegian, into the Finnish
tongue. Finland seems, by the way, to be
an excellent country for wage-earning
women, partly because the men are sub
ject to "the American fever" which "csr-
ries them off" and deposits them upon our
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their posts, and are found as clerks and
managers of limited companies, as doctors,
dentists, use-builders, and especially as
cashiers in banks, where they are regarded
with respect for their orderliness and hon.
esty.
A young Bulgarian lady, Mareeka
Nedelkova, now studying in Geneva, in
tends to devote her energies to furthering
the progressive movement among the Bull
gsrisns, people who seem more willing
to adopt modern ideas than most nations
of the east. Her idea is to edit and pub
lish a woman's newspaper and she has
way, to friends in America for advice and
suggestions. This is her own plan for the
paper: "To help her sisters by giving them
q newspaper for persons who now spend
their time in reading light French
romanoes," with good temperance stories;
sketches of the lives of great men and
women, and general ideas about literature,
sculpture, painting and music. This
journal will deal with woman as q
hslpmate to man, equal in rights
and in responsibilities; woman as a
mother, her privileges and duties, and
with woman as a home maker, with good
wholesome cooking, a we'll ordered house
hold and intelligent conversation "to at
tract the otherwise negligent husband"
Another feature will he the dressmaking
department with directions for making
"simple, healthful and elegant" dresses.
How to furnish a house; neatness; ventila-
ton, and the cultivation of flowers are
other topics to which she intends to call
the attention of Bulgarian women. The
proposed newspaper seems quite American
in its plan and scope, and this item, better
than any other, perhaps, will help to prove
the statement made at the outset that the
spirit of progression and of helpfulness is
felt even in countries which we look upon
as out-of- the-way world corners, and fancy
that the light of latter-day advancement
has hardly had time or power to penetrate
their darkness. HILARY.