The herald., 1895-05-05
All About Women

All About Women
Great Britain has 8. 1850 women.
Belgium has 1, $40, 900 women above ff-
teen.
Roumania has 1850, 900 women over
eighteen.
Switzerland has 500, 900 women above
eighteen.
Norway has 49, 900 women more than
sixteen.
Italy has 6, $50, 900 women Of IN arriage-
able age.
bers.
Spain has 4, 130. 90 women over the age
of sixteen
All the good Roman emperors had very
bad wives.
Sweden has 1, 10, 900 women over eight
cen years of age.
Greece has 400, 600 women over twenty
years of age.
One New England factory employs 12,-
600 women.
There are s.5sGO0 grown women in
France.
Austria has $3.50, 900 women above the
age of eighteen.
The little kingdom of Denmark has
400 coo women.
The United States has 30, 554, $40 female
population.
Portugal has :! $780, 600 women more than
seventeen years old.
nGreat Britain there are I047 women
to 1000 men. ;.r. Sa t.n
In North America there are $40 women
to 1000 men.
The German empire has 1o,930, 900 wo-
men over the age of sixteen.
Women are naturally more prone to in
sanity than are men.
Holland, though small in size, has
1, ,O70, 900 women. young and old.
There are said to be over hundred
female pulpit orators in this country.
No woman has ever written an epic
poem that became known to the world.
The average weight of 1000 women in
Paris is 10 pounds; in Russia. 122.
In France the sexes are almost exactly
balanced, there being 1904 women to 1000
men.
Mrs. Lynn Lynton never went to school.
Her first book was written at the age
of "a.
The Queen of Greece is not above spend
ing her spare time in cutting out and
making her own underclothing.
Crown Princess of Sweden and Norway
Is an enthusiastic amateur photographer.
During her visit to Egypt some little
time ago she took nearly 5000 views.
Of 667 Newman graduates known to be
alive. 10S have married, 122 are living at
.
bo okbnder. 1 market grdener and 374
teachers.
1t is estimated that of the total sum
raised for the support OF the Protestant
churches of this country. over one-third
is now procured by the efforts or labors
of women.
The golden age of woman was the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries of
French history. During all this time
France was practically ruled by success
sion of brilliant and able women.
Miss Dora Wells, who owns the Puget
Sound steamer Delta, running from What
com to the San Juan islands and Victoria,
B. c.. is also purser of the vessel and a
good navigator withal.
The University OF Aberdeen has con-
ferred the degree Of LII. d. on Miss Jane
Harrison. Twenty years ago she en-
tered Newman college, then in its in
fancy. and she has since distinguished
herself by her researches into the origin
of G reek vases.
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider is pro mi
| nent member of the New York associa-
ton of women opposed to the extension
of suffrage. She says tina. in three weeks
it enlisted mem bership of over 1000.
more than half Of whom were king
women.
Mrs. Bellamy Storer, the wife of Con-
| gresham Storer of Cincinnati, is said to
have the most complete private pottery
possessed by any woman. Cincinnati.
and the pottery studio in Washington
contains everything from the clay mix
lures for those works. which stand about
in great jars, to the finest tools for the
business.
lin disproof of the prevalent idea that
only women OF considerable property nov
have suffrage in Great Britain. Mrs. Hall,
the daughter of Julia Ward Howe. and
who has been studying up the subject.
SAYS that more than two thirds of the wo-
men possessing the municipal vote occupy
houses which rent for 800 year or less.