Omaha daily bee., 1897-05-16
EcminInr Nntn.

women OF Brooklyn.
The late Miss Julia Cooper OF New York
left $3.50, 00G 20 the Cooper Union-a sum
which will enable the institution to receive
geo more pupils.
The Women Rest Tour association, with
headquarters IL Boston and a membership
Of 500, has established a travelling fund,
lending money 10 women needing holiday
trips.
The German government has commissioned
Mrs. Guild. al American, to execute two
statues e pieaenting the pest and the tele-
graph to be placed on the new general post
office In Berlin.
The czarina Of Russia is of a practical
turn of mind, and uses the typewriter with
facility. The frame of her machine Is in
laid with mother of pearl, and the bars are
OF gold.
Mrs. Raymond, the mother OF the president
of Vassar college, has given the NForeign
Missionary society of the Epiphany Baptist
church, New York, 81, 900 for the education
of heather women.
The women of Belfast, ireland, are greatly
interested. assisting In raising $25, 900, which
will be the cost of the statue Of Queen Vic
toria, that is TO be be erected In commemora-
ton of the sixtieth year Of her reign.
Miss Eugenia Sellers has had the degree
of ILL., d. bestowed upon her by st. An
drew,s university in reeognition OF her trans,
lation OF "Pliny's Letters on Art" She
gained her reputation as a lecturer on
archaeology and art.
Miss Gordon Cumming is raising money
In all the principal cities of England for the
purpose of teaching the blind in China. She
will found a large blind asylum at Picking
and is doing this in of the
Diamond Jubilee, The Murray system will
be taught.
Mrs. Oliphant is in Italy to gather ma
terial for a volume which she Will entitle
'Siena." 1t will form one of a series OF
| hAnly- al, bfpttrt, tpypnS nf tha MaHinnra1
period. The books will be illustrated by
artists living in the localities where the
scenes are laid.
Mrs. G. II. Spurgeon, widow of the late
renowned pastor of the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle, London, cut the first sod of the ground
upon which a large Baptist chapel will be
commenced at once at BeXhill, near London
She made an appropriate address at the cere-
mony.
Miss Frances II. Simpson, one OF the frs,
women graduates of the University OF Edin'
burgh, has beer appointed warden of the
Mason hall, Edinburgh, which is to be
opened next year as a residence for women
students of the university. 1t is a gift oil
friends and pupils of Prof. Mason.
Rev. Augusta Chaplin, DID,, lately spent q
few weeks in Cortland, N. Y. She preached
on two Sundays, addressed the students of til,
normal school, and gave her new illustrated
lecture, From London to Palestine" DR.
Chaplin is going westward. stopping al
Rochester and various other points.
Another daughter of DR.. Charles A. Briggs
OF higher criticism fame, has entered upon
u professional career. Miss Sophia Brigg.
has graduated as a lawyer in the woman
class of the New York university. In ad
dition to Miss Briggs ~forty-siX other young
women received certificates at the SAINT
time, and a scholarship OF 5000 was gained
by Miss Isabel T. Alexander.
The Woman's Christian Temperance unior
has for wa rlp1 tn LADY, Somerset ah0ut "a OO(
collected in the United States for the sui
ferers in Armenia. 1t is for the education
and support of orphans whose parents wer,
killed in the recent massacres. The same so
ciety has sent $500 toward sending out nurses
to Crete, under the superintendent of Mrs
Ormston Chant.
Miss Mary Forster, a graduate in scienc,
Of Newman college, Cambridge, England
and who came to this country a few year,
ago as teacher of natural sciences at BryI
Mawr, is lecturing on the science of living
Miss Forster has made an exhaustive stud,
of foods, and is showing the effects upor
health and daily life of false gods in tn,
kitchen and false ideals in the parlor.
Miss Mary E. HALEY of Lawrence, Mass.
will complete her term as state factory in
spector for Massachusetts, in a few weeks
The Boston Typographical union and tn,
Fall River Central Labor union have passet
resolutions to recommend to Governor VOL
colt her reappointment. Miss Mason o
Lowell Is understood to be also a candidat,
for the position. Miss Mason is a shoe
worker; Miss HALEY a weaver.
Miss Serena Rhinelander has given $500. 00
to st. James Episcopal parish. New York
When complete there will be a church build
ing, with audience room, lecture room, men
club rooms, a gymnasium, with baths, swim
ming pool and bowling alleys; also a kinder
garten, a nursery, ewing and cooking schoo
rooms; also a rectory and parish house. Tn
I ,.,hnlA L, IN ~ q hnr 2 a fhhr and ut.nn nd
father, and several of the windows will b.
memorials to other relatives.
Since the opening of the Tennessee cen
tennial Mrs. Sara Ward-Conley. the architec
of the Woman building, is being congratu
lated by the women visitors from various
states. Eight massive columns stand II
front of the building and support the roof
which is surmounted by an observatory. 4
flight Of six steps of Tennessee marble, eacl
thirty-fve feet long, leads to the entrance
of the building, and on either side of this II
a magnificent iron vase of unique and hand
some workmanship, filed with palms ant
towering plants.
Kate G%reenway. the famous English artist
is almost as well known in America as il
England for her work of bringing about
reform in the dress of little children, We
comparatively little is known of her private
life. Like most other successful women, sh,
worked for a long time unknown until tht
publication OF Under the Window" a col
ltCllOu VI bAtlCuts VI CHiluItl II Tie QudlHl
old fashions Of centuries ago, brought hel
fame. She lives In a picturesque old houst
near Hampstead Heath, London, and hat
her studio on the top floor. 1t has long win
dows opening on to a balcony, where OF
pleasant days she spends much Of her time
Miss Clara B. Martin, who, as announced
some time ago, was the first woman admit
ted to the bar in Canada, has decided upoI
making a specially of the law as relates Il
women. 1t is now six years since Mis-
Martin undertook her difficult struggle t
obtain a b. A.. degree. The regulation dix
not admit of the enrolment Of women. b.
appealing to the Ontario Parliament a bill
was presented in 1892 to authorize the ad
mission of women. The bill passed by on,
vote. Another year passed before she wa
able to induce a law firm to permit her Il
study In Its office. After a time Miss Mar
tin found that the bill passed by the legis
lature only allowed women to become solici
tors. and she wished to become a barrister
After she had again petitioned Parliamen
a bill was passed, by thirty-seven votes, au
thorizing women to practice as barristers-
the result of the bill having been presented
! seven times during the last six months o
1896. She attributes her final success I,
having interested Sir Oliver Mowat and sew
eral other influential gentlemen.