Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-11-21
woMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
wHAT soME WOMEN Anr po1Na.


woman custom house broker on the
North Pacific Coast.
Miss Julia Barrel is sole proprietor
and manager Of one Of the largest
dry goods houses in Boston.
Mrs, Julia Rice Seney has recently
been appointed chef Of the Registry
Department of the Post Office at
Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs. =, M, Watson has an apricot
ranch in California, managed entirely
by herself, and employing three hun
dred people.
Mrs. Harriet Strong, has an EGG
lish Walnut ranch three hundred and
twenty acres in extent in California.
A Toast working women, the Bette
NOR OF fashionable nonentities! All
honor to them! their lives are more
earnest than those OF women of
leisure and, therefore, their influence
is more powerful Work makes
women stronger, happier, more help
full, work tends to self improvement,
from working women spring reforms
of society, education and morality
here's long life and larger opportunity
to working women.
Mrs William Scott a representative
woman OF the Colored people is a
lecturer OF national reputation, she
says the Colored people are fully
awakened to their duty, and that edu-
cation and money goes q good ways
towards securing for them proper
recognition as citizens, schools are
being established in all parts Of the
country and are crowded with bows
and girls trying to get an education,
Mrs. Scott has travelled Though Mis-
souri, and Iowa IN the interest of the
Western college at Macon the last two
years; while twenty years of her own
life has been given to the school room.
The "New Women" are coming to
the front in Finland, too, they have
formed a volunteer fre.brigades in
Helsingfors and other towns, and
have done 6rst-rate work.
Miss Edith Okey graduated from
the veterinary college Of Toronto, the
first woman to win diploma there,
has hung her single at Sandeval, o.
She has done well and employs three
men as assistants.
There are between one and two
hundred women in the United States
who are lawyers.
The first women to practice law IN
Kansas were Miss Mary Waite and
Mrs. Helen Combs.
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As the month of November draws
near to its close the preparation for
Thanksgiving commences, in every
land the sons and daughters look for
ward to the last Thursday in Novem-
Der, as the day that will usually
bring the family all together again
from the youngest to the oldest, or
circle Of dear and loving fIiends, it is
q beautiful custom, old fashioned and
time honored. A yearly reunion of
bringing together those who, between
the ties of love are strengthened that
might otherwise become weakened by
absence. How we'll we delight TO
listen when grandpa or grandma tell
OF their early Thanksgivings they en-
joyed, in the old but comfortable log
houses, in the time Of early settlers,
how the floors were scrubbed to a
shining white, the big fireplace piled
high with big logs, the long table set
in the great wide kitchen, the best
linen brought out, spun by grsndmas
own hand, and the best china, with
the wonderful blue sCeneries on.
Then the dinner the big "Thsnksgiv-
ing bird" placed before grandpa with
a good sharp snife near it with the
dishes Of squash, turnips, onions and
potatoes within reach Of grandma, the
big chicken pie at the other end Of
the table near young man cousin
whose business was 10 look after that
especial dish. Then the apple sauce,
cranberry sauce, currant jelly and
pickles, and blackberry jam, the big
plate Of doughouts the rolls Of golden
butter, the rich yellow home made
cheese that would melt in your