Middletown transcript., 1895-01-05

MHMAJY every afternoon
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know all about politics, to understand
the great poets and writers of the day
especially those that are counted the
most difficult to comprehend; she
wants to belong to societies that will
make the world better and that will
permit her to talk about them in
public, and yet she desires as well to
keep the position in life to which she
was born. Speak to her suddenly and
see her start. That means overtexed
nerves. Get her to talking to you
about one of her plans and see how
she fiushes, notice the unnatural
brilliancy of her eyes, and watch the
suivering of her lips and her hands.
That woman is on the verge of nerv-
GUS prostration. And why? Because
she is permitting herself to be worn
out to interest people who do not care
in the least for her.-Ruth Ashmore
in Lanies' Home Journal
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Omaha is progressive city so far as
the number of it's advanced women is
concerned. 1t has ten times as many
women teachers as men, a number of
women physicians, a woman lawyer,
two women druggists, woman florist
three newspaper women and whole
army of typewriters and stenogra-
pliers, to say nothing of trained
nurses and women in the arts.
The one woman lawyer is Miss Mae
Wood, an alert, comely and positive
young woman, who studied with a
well-established lawyer, and who is
practising in his Office at present. Miss
Wood has entered her profession very
seriously, and at present intends to
make it her life work. The pioneer
among the women doctors is DIR.
Amelia Burroughs, who has been at
work in Omaha for thirteen years.
Omaha also claims to have the only
woman in America entitled to use the
letters D. d. after her name. She is
DR.. Augusta Chaplin. who presides at
present over the First Universalist
Church of that city. The Rev. Mary
Glard Andrews is also Universalist
clergyman, and breaches twice a
month in Iowa.
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Mrs. Floride Cunningham, mem
Der of the Worlds Fair Board of Lady
Managers from South Carolina, in a
late address declared the serls of Rus
sia and the negroes of the South were
free, but woman alone remained in
civil bondage. The women do not
aspire SO much to sit in legislative
halls as they do to vote for clean men
to hold the Office
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Miss Dora Wells is owner and pur-
ser of the Puget Sound steamboat |
Delta, which runs from Wharton to |
the San Juan islands and Victoria,
B. c., three times week. She COL
lects fares, makes contracts for freight |
and takes hand in navigating the |
steamer.
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A story is going the rounds to the
effect that Miss Florence Ingalls, will |
start an equal suffrage paper in At
Gibson.
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There are a great many medical
missionaries, but DIR. Jennie NJ. Tay-
lor is the first person to go to foreign
land as dental missionary, She is
the daughter of the Rev. A. E. Tay-
lor, a Methodist minister of Martins
vile, Penn, and a neice Bishop
Taylor, and is working in Africa
as missionary and dentist.
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Miss Annie Grace Lippincott, daugh-
ter of "Grace Greenwood" has been I
married to Mr.. Herbert Hall Winslew,
the dramatist.
Women are rapidly acquiring their
rights They are now, on an average
two inches taller than they were
twenty or thirty years ago.
An English peeress, Lady Carlisle,
is training an entire staff of women
to take charge of the grounds of her
estate in York!
The first Japanese woman to study
law and become lawyer is said to be
Mime. Tel Sono, who belongs to an
aristocratis family in Toxic.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is said to be
the best-paid novelist now living.
Out of her three books that have been
published in the last six years she has
realized no less than 100000.
When Others fall
Hoods Sarsaparilla builds up the shat
tered SyStt m bV pivinp viootn, .oti,n |