The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1893-04-14
WOMAN'S WORK AND AIMS.

Mrs. Margaret Sunderlan6 Cooper,
the only woman awarded q gold medal
by the American Humane Association,
is member of the Society of Letters
and Art Of London, England.
The Lady Mayoress of York enjoys
the distinction Of being the only En-
glish mayoress who wears an official
chain Of office. The custom dates back
to the beginning OF the seventeenth
century, when an exquisitely. worked
chain of gold was presented to the then
mayoress, and has been handed down
in lineal civic succession ever since.
The famous Bryn Mawr School, near
Philadelphia, has for its medical drec-
tor lady, Doctor Kate Campbell Hurd.
who is the daughter of physician and
after her college course had practical
experience in hospita. and dispensary
in Boston, then took up athletics under
Professor Sargent, and finally visited
England, France, Germany and Scan
dinavia, to study her specialties still
further.
Mrs. Flora M. Kimball, of California,
selected the trees and superintended
their planting on seven miles of the
streets Of National City, Cal. She was
selected by the supervisors us the most
competent person to direct this work of
town improvement, and it was labor
OF love with her. Mrs. Kimball is an
authority in horticulture and arboricul-
turo, and q contributor to many peri
odicals.
Miss Jogaunadham, who was the first
Hindoo woman to study medicine in
England, was for while resident medi-
cal officer in the Edinburgh hospital
for women and children, and is now
house physician at the Cana hospital
in Bombay. Inspired by her success,
another Hindoo woman, Miss Gorindu.
raIulu. has begun course in Spurgeon
Square, London. She had been house
surgeon in the hospital at Mysoro, and
the Mysore government has given
her two years absence and her expen.
SOS.
Perhaps the only woman who was
ever buried like warrior with the stars
and stripes for q winding sheet was the
late Mrs. Cutter. She will be remem.
bered for her bravery at the battle Of
Fort Donelson. when she snatched the
colors of her husbands regiment from
their fallen bearer, and rushed through
the smoke with the flag in ono hand
and asword in the other. After the war
she made the care OF veterans and their
families the charge of her life. She is
buried among the soldiers in Arlington
Cemetery.
1t is not true, it now appears, that
ladies. to the number Of five or six, arc
in the habit of following the Devon
and Somerset stag hounds astride upon
their horses, after the manner of men,
Only one female rider makes bold to be.
stride her horse with these famous
hounds, and as yet she hos no imitators.
One swallow does not make q summer,
and it is not probable that this bold,
and very likely bad, riders example
will affect her sisters, or abolish the
side-saddle. She is probably q bad
rider, because some lorsemen say that
side saddle gives a more secure seat
than mans. TO ride in side. saddle
Is also n prettier attitude for woman
than to sit astraddle of her horse. In
parts of the south of Europe women
habitually bestride their mules and
ponies. and the seat is ugly. If hunt.
lng-women find they neither look we'll
nor go well on mans saddle they will
certainly abide by the side saddle of
their fore-mothers.
Mrs. Ella Nelson Gaillard, who was
d Maryland belle in her youth, has
since distinguished herself as an in
Among her inventions are the |
automatic toy called the TIRE.
pressible Conflict" being the figures of |
an lrishman and an African engaged in |
n fierce fight; the eyeless needle, now
almost universally used by surgeons;
the musical top, which plays full tune
while spinning; folding basin for
travellers, a folding fiat-iron, novel
bird-cage chain, a musical fountain,
which renders music while throwing a
stream OF water from q statuette with
such precision that not q drop escapes
to spoil the carpet; dress shield and
sweat band" for hats, both said
TO be superior to anything previously
known; carriage telephone, musical
paper-wsight, and lock which enables
any one, by simply looking at the key, |
10 determine whether the door is fast.
ened Or not, the locking being regis
tered on the key. The musical paper
weight has calendar attachment, and
is in the form of stem winding watch. /
The face Of tho weight indicates tho
day, month and year.