The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1893-05-24
ITEMS FOR WOMEN.

THE Edinburgh Gazette styles wom-
an clerk ''clerkess."
Miss MARTHA JORDAN, of Dallas, Tex,
is the first colored woman to prepare
herself for practicing dentistry. She is
attending the dental department of the
Denver university.
LADY HENRY SOMERSET declares that
not even John B. Cough or Dwight L,
Moody was received in England with
greater enthusiasm than Francis L.
Willard, president of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union OF the
United States,
Mrs. PAULINE FRYER, better known
as Pauline Cushman, the Union Spy, is
said to be living in poverty in San
Francisco. She recently received a
small pension for her first husbands
services but her own work has not yet
been recognized.
MATTE TODD, a niece of President
Lincolu's wife, has been for years post
mistress of Cynthiana, Ky. She was
appointed partly out of sentiment many
years ago by Hayes, and has been kept
in Office ever since, not by sentiment
alone, but because sine has acceptably
| filled the office!
Mrs. LITTER.AL, Of Hutchinson, Kas.,
has received letter stating that she
and each of her children are entitled to
100 acres of land and 1850 by virtue of
| being direct descendants of the famous
Indian maiden, P0cahontas. There is
no fiction about the item, as the name
of Mrs. Literal would indicate.
A Boston lady earns her living by
breaking in" boots for stylish patrons,
She wears them few days until they
become easy to their owners Fifty
cents pair is the charge. In three
days they are usually broken in, and
she only wears pair two hours of each
day. Sometimes she wears six different
pairs in one day.
DR.. MARY PUTNAM jacob has been
Section of the New York Academy of
Medicine, in succession to DR.. Greame
NJ. Hammond. Mrs. jacob is the first
female physician ever elected to the
presidency of a section of the New
York academy since its foundation
twenty-six years ago.
Miss MURPHY, the pioneer lady jour.
nalist of Australia, edits the Melbourne
Punch, one of the most successful Of
the Australian COMICS She is grea,
advocate of women's rights, and is very
: good looking. Miss Murphy joined the
staff of the paper she now edits some
years ago, and has attained her present
position solely by her ability and sense
of humor.
THE Americans, especially those whg
live in the large cities, are developing
proba bly, the finest type of womanhood
that has existed, at least since the days
, of the Greeks. This development has
, been rather slow, so gradual that those
who live here have hardly perceived it
: but it is recognized by the ADLER physi
clans, and it is certainly recognized by
! cultivated foreigners who have visited
: this country in recent years.-Dr. Ed
I ward Quintard, in the Philadelphi;
Press.
!. In the great momentum of the woman
S movement, which gains new recruit
e every day, one is inclined to overlool
l. the fact that woman was a power moral
ly, socially, and intellectually in tn
d fifteenth century as well as in the nine
l. teenth; that the doors of universitie
IS were open TO her not only to study bu
If to teach within their sacred precinct,
q In the university of Salamanca she ha
$, a place, and when Isabella of Spain dc
IS sired to acquire the Latin tongue
n was to a woman she turned for tuto
In Italy, even in the thirteen centur,
d noble Florentine lady won the pail
IN of oratory in a public contest in Flo
lie ence with learned doctors from all on,
,e the world.