The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-12
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University OF London. The first india,
woman TO be graduated as a traine,
nurse Is Miss Nancy Cornelius. OF IN,
Oneida tribe of Wisconsin. There ar,
$3.50 women engaged In medical work
nursing, ETC.. In England
law recently enacted In New Yorl
| provides that so hours week shall bs
the maximum OF work for women ana
children; that chairs shall be provided
for women clerks, and that all nIaces
where women and children are EMPLOYED
shall be subject to sanitary inspection.
/ AT the last meeting OF the conyocation
OF the Law society OF Upper Canada. held
| In Toronto. the legal committee was
directed TO frame rules providing for the
calling OF women To the bar.
Colonel T. w. Higginson has presented
the Boston public library with a coIIec-
Non OF 1000 volumes relating TO the his
tory OF women.
Women are engaging more and more
in business. There are Insurance agents
jewelers.. Journalists. newspaper agents
registers OF deeds. deputy registers. real
estate brokers, musical conductors. keen
crs or bees, market gardeners. commits
sion agents. bank cashiers. window
dressers. paper doll designers. sign paint
ers shingiemakers (Mrs. Stmson will
saw 100000 this year at her mill Houl-
ton, Me.), steel workers, clock and watch
makers, dairy farmers (Mrs. Carrie Mel
son or Ryegate owns and runs the best
dairy farm IA Vermont), ranch owners
etc. There are artists i'm cookery, mill
nnery dressmaking, bicycle costuming.
photographers, engravers. painters
There are in England about 5000 women
In the civil service, 700 journalists. 1870
reporters, Sf7 women blacksmiths, Il, 900
bookbinders and printers, 9l3S nall
workers; also many thousands in almost
every department OF work
Mrs. Willis OF Tacoma has gone to
establish bakery within the Arctic cir
Gle, at Circle City. on the Yukon river.
She Is the first white woman to journey
through the widest and most dangerous
part OF Alaska.
"A school for servants is to be started
In Orange, ". j., where women will, be
trained TO do housework.
In Decatur, Mich. with population OF
l5oO. the town officers are women. The
leading physician is a woman: also one
OF the popular pastors; the postmistress
the proprietor OF the largest dry goods
store, and one OF the best shoemakers.
There are women painters, harness
and brokers. There are no
saloons.
Nine. korany. Beirut, Syria, has |
formed a woman's club, the first ever
organized In that part of the world.
There are about 20 women lighthouse
Keepers in the United States.
Ex- x-Bishop Tlylor Of Africa says that
heathen women are quicker TO learn
rades and industries than men. "They
should be given a chance" he says, Ito
10 what they like"
Mrs. Mary +. Cutter Of HoIliston. Mass.
rom a successful experience of IL years
n raising fruits and vegetables for mar
'et, draws the conclusion that garden
ne may b, made both pleasant and
profitable.
In Arapahoe county, Colo. Miss
ieorgie ;. Richards received, as clerk Of
he district court. $4,000 a year. In
'enver. Miss Pickerill, the new garbage
oLtractor. is giving a clean sweep. doins
nc work Tor $3.50 a month. Ii cost $40. .OOo
ast year Mrs. Florence D. Morse is tho
rst woman TO receive the appointment
I health inspector.
The home secretary of England has ap-
ointed Miss Abraham on the special
'mmittee 10 deal with trades that have
cen scheduled as dangerous. with a view
securing scientific information. With.
year five societies nave been organ.
ed In Holland for the promotion %
oman's interests. In Finland, women
re railroad contractors and ticke.
gents woman in New York city Is
nging the chimes. The Brooklyn Health
ulture club, $50 members. agree thar 1
ng, heavy, mud and nicrobe skirts
ust go. They covenanted to appear in
costume the first rainy
~ In October. This is true of other
ubs.
since last years report, 100 patents :
I'VE been granted to women.