Middletown transcript., 1895-12-14
Our WOnan'S
.....COlunn
HE opinion has gen.
orally prevailed
among men, or at
least has been ex.
pressed for CEN
turies, that wo-
men are densely
and incurably ig-
nora IL t a b out
m o n i g y. "H Q

W@ money. "H,
knows no more of money than a wo
man" ;" is almost proverb. The absurd
est stories are perpetually told of wo
mans total incapacity to learn anything
about money, and some Of them ART
dot btless believed. What was current
ages ago ii regarp to women, is current
now and is almost as likely to gain credit
as it was then, says Harper's Bazaar.
Men are apt to forget what extraordin-
ary changes women has undergone in
this century-in the last half palticu-
larly. She may have been a financial
simpleton in the remote past; she surely
is not now, in most cases.
Where she is wholly uninformed on
the subject her lack of information is
commonly due to the man or men
nearest her. He or they fail to give
her any instruction and they laugh at
her defects, as is much their custom in
other things. Man gets his knowledge
of practical affairs from constant exper-
ience. When he tries to teach her
something about money-its value, its
relations, its purchasing power-he
finds her quick to learn, and his small
exertion in her behalf amply recon-
pensed. Who has known a woman
that, having had any sort of financial
education, has not profted by it2 Of
ten she shows grasp and comprehen-
sion Of monetary matters, as well as
details of business, that are seldom
shared by her husband or brother. She
is, notwithstanding contrary belief, an
intelligent economist when she learns
what enonomy means. 1t is frequently
said by the other sex that she can make
a dollar go as far as they can make
Two; nor is this by any means the lang
uage of compliment. Many and many
husband has discovered that his wife
can buy more with small amount of
money than he can. and he is in the
habit of giving it to her for that spec
ial purpose.
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No woman is ever too old to learn
she wants to learn. At forty |
ones mind is clearer, brighter. quicker
and more skilful than it was at twenty.
unless the person slumps down and
gives up through sheer laziness.
~
The first part of the new woman's
bible was published recently. It gives
Interpretation of the script
lures, and is to be sold at fifty cents
per copy, the first edition consisting of
50 900 copies. The woman's bible is
he work of IA revising committee, all
If whose members are more or less
prominent in the cause of female suf-
rage. No man had anything to do
with it.
Chief among those who have been
most active in thus revising the SCRIPT
Tres are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs.
Nary A. Livermore, Lille Devereux
Blake, and Mrs. Sarah A. Underwood.
Mrs. Robert G. Ingersoll is one of those
Who have taken hand at the work.
**
Jean Ingelow is now three and sixty,
nd is a. profoundly religious-minded
Id lady, with a handsome kindly face,
nd iron-gray hair that is streaked with
liver. She has never married, but has
lways been devoted in marked de-
rec to her mother, and while the lat /,
er lived the two dwelt always toy ether. I Q
he now bestows much of her time to g
forks of charity, and among other
eneficent acts is the habit of giving =
the poor--old and young at regular in
ervals, what are known as copyright
inners," from The proceeds of her d
ooks.
So
There is woman contractor and 1
uarry operator in Buffalo who has v
lpplied stone for some Of the most Il
nportant structures in the city. She =
] the only woman who is an active !
lember of the Buffalo Builders Ex-
hange. t,
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The famous political lecturer and ii
ritter, Annie Dickinson, was Quaker
irl and began her career at sixteen.
he is now living very quietly and out n
the trend of politics, but it is some
ling to remember of her that as
stump speaker" in the days of popu-
rity she earned from $40, 900 to S45,- J
10 iyear with her bright, quick = =
'gic and ready tongue. {.
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Miss Frances E. Willard Is in fair o.
ay to come into possession of her p
home in the suburbs of James, II
lille, Wis. Fifty acres of the farm are Il
} be deedec to Miss Willard in trust for a
le w. G. T. q. The projectors of -
le enterprise are some real estate
callers, together with the w. c. T. u.
Iiss Willard at first objected to what
light seem plan to get possession :
her old home through her iniluen- I
al position. But finally all obstacles 9
ave been removed, The farm is be- t
g plated and will be put on the mar
st soon. !,
1t is proposed to utilize the fifty-acre 3
act in the centre, containing the !,
,use and buildings, for a home for Il
d and wearied workers of the tenn y
france cause.
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Nine. Sarah Bernhardt,s last gown =