The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-11-02
woMAN's WAYS AND polNes

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Is still
allowed Il revenue from "Cncle Toms
Cabin from her publishers. although
the copyright expired some time ago.
A "grass widow" is really grace
widow" or widow by courtesy, and
the experts who hold that all widows
are dangerous declare that this kind
is inevitably mortal.
Bcrnhardt has been photographed
over thousand times. Her first pic
ture was taken in 1867 and she is
shown in crlnol.ne and with an inno-
cent, childish face
In Hawaii the native girls when they
meet a stranger say Love TO you" in
stead of Good morning" And as some
or them are exceedingly handsome the
stranger generally takes it in good
part.
In the kingdom of Dahomey, where
women have their rights. the ladies of
the crack army corps have great
contempt for men, and those Of the
royal body-guard will not allow a man
to come near them.
The room Mrs. Washington died In,
at Mount Vernon, Is in the attic, and a
better one can now be rented almost
anywhere for $3.50 q week. Still there
are ladies' left who would rather be
great than comfortable.
Abraham Lincoln's mother while she
lived In Indiana slept in a bed made
by mailing planks to the sides OF a log
cabin with Dirt floor. And 1t was to
her that Lincoln attributed all his good
qualities and all his success.
The physician in charge of the Wo-
mans Hospital In 500 Chow, China,
Is DR.. Anne Walter, a Mississippi wo-
man. There is no country on earth
now where the plucky American wo.
man Is not doing missionary work Of
some kind.
The wife of j. NJ. Barrie, the novelist,
was n London actress, but 1t Is said
that she was always. as she is now, a
most quiet, modest and well-bred lady.
And, by the way, what a pity 1t Is to
have to use the but" in such a con-
nection!
For $3.50 q year Charlotte Waldo
drives team PIG miles week
through the Bolton Hills, of Connecti-
cut She Is ma!l-carrier. and 1t Ia
said that her route is the worst in the
State. Yet there are still people who
do not know that woman can do any
thing she makes up her mind to do.
Perhaps no woman who ever lived
was ever loved with fiercer affection
than the wife of Andrew Jackson.
After keeping his duelling pistols oiled
and the ha!r-trigger of his temper set
all his life on her account, Old Hickory
said on his death-bed that he would
forgive all his enemies except those
who had slandered her.
The squaws of the Onondaga Reser-
vat.on in New York State are held in
such high esteem by their semi-bar-
barous masters that the tribe Is
spoken of as a people ruled by wo-
men. There Is but little work done
by any Of the Indians, but that little
Is done mostly by the men. The
squaw Is called upon only to do her
household duties. The superiority Of
the squaw to the buck is shown in the
fact that the children, according to the
custom of the Iroquois, belong to the
family or nation of their mother. If q
Seneca Indian marries an Onondaga
squaw and they have children the lat
ter are Onondagas, and should the
father be of the family of the Wolf
and the mother of the Snipe clan the
children are Snipes. 1t is as If John
Smith married Mary Jones and child
of tho marriage was named John
Jones.