Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-06-22
TENS FoR WOMEN.

Tn Edinburgh Gazette style, wom-
an clerk a ''cleriless.
MISS MARTHA JORDAN. Of Dallas. Tex,
is the first colored woman to prepare
herself Tor pract.clng 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 Z.
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
bee.l recognized
MATTE ToDD, a niece Of President
Lincoln's wife. has been f01s 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 10y sentiment
alone. hut because she has acceptablv
filed the office.
MRs. Literal, Of Hutchinson. kas..
has received a letter stating that she
and each of her children are entitled to
100 acres Of land and $3.50 by virtue Of
being direct descendants of the famous
Indian maiden, Pocahontas 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
elected presideDt of the Neurological
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 section of the New
York academy since its foundation
twentysix 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 a great
advocate of women 5 rights. and is very
good looking. Miss Murphy Joined the
staff of the paper she now edits some
years ago, ana has attained her prescn.
position solely by her ability and sense
Of ,iumor.
THE Americans. especially those who
live in the large cities. are developing
probably 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 ycars.-Dr Ed
ward Quintard, in the Philadelphia
Press.
IL the great momentum Of the woman
movement, which gains new recruits
every day, one is inclined TO overlook
the fact that woman was a power moral
ly. socially, and intellectually in the
fifteenth century as wei as in the nine
teenth; that the doors Of universities
were open to her not only to study but
to teach within their sacred precincts.
In the university Of Salamanca She had
place, and when Isabella Of Spain de-
sired TO acquire the Latin tongue it
was to a woman she turned for tutor.
In Italy, even in the thirteen century.
a noble Florentine lady won the palm
Of oratory in a public contest in Flor
ence with learned doctors from all over
the world.