Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-16
woMAN'S APARTMENT
MABEL II PoMERoY, EDITOR
About Women.


very successful woman druggist. She
has followed the business for ten
years and is the owner OF four well
paying drug stores, with everything
modern and new.
Miss Marion Hunter has been sp'
pointed the female member OF the
British medical corp sent out to COM
bat the plague in India, She is, or
was until lately, the only physician
of her. sex who held the Cambridge
diploma of public health The duties
of @ medical corp will consume about
six months.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe will pass
the winter with her daughter Maud
Howe Elliott in Rome. Her severe
lameness is much better and her
physician advised milder climate
than Boston.
Nine Josefa Zeman Of Chicago is
the only Bohemian newspaper woman
in this country, and she was recently
honored by the male members OF the
National Slavic Press association by
being elected secretary Of that or.
ganization.
Miss Ray has given $4,000 toward
starting a negro colony in Alabama
II is located near Decster, and pro-
vlsional government has been estab'
lished over it. Her idea is to tesI
the ability Of the negro for local self
government,
Mrs Booker 7 Washington, wife Of
the negro educator, recently address
ed the young people of her race il
Milwaukee, aud warned them not tc
shirk ordinary manual labor in order
to become teachers, as there we're toC
many teachers already.
Miss Sara Francis Hall of New
York ia Jealous phllanthroplsf, an(
is active in working among The poo
to introduce the laws of sanitation
She studied for the benefit Of he
father, and afterwards became al
expert on the subject of Hygiene
cookery.
HERE AND THERE.
A large number Of translation
from French, German, and Itslisl
figure among new American an
houncemente, and literature say
there can he no question that il
America the interest in contempoI
airy foreign literature is largely o.
the increase.
Little Japan has become yer
avaricous and aggressive for weRlt
through the glory and the profit c
war, and their self esteem On
self assertion would perhaps hav
brought sullen disaster if the Ru
sian, French and German sllianC
had not forbade the taking of an
territory on the main line of Chin
That was Illuminating blow to the
pulled up pride.
The womsn's board Of missions
the Congregational church recent
celebrated Its thlrtieth year OF Il
annual meeting held at New Lol
don, Conn, There are twenty-eig
branches connected with the boar
100 senior auxiliaries with a meI
bership of about 100000, and near
800 junior suxilisrles.
There are now 51,57s Christian e
desvor societies in the world with
membership of 100000. It is ste
ed that almost 100 new societies I
port each week to Secretary Baer.
From an article in the Eureka U
ion we excerpt the following: "MI
Evangelins Cisneros, the young La
who was imprisoned by Butch
Weylef, in Cuba, and for whose ]
lease great many prominent peoE
both ladies aud gentlemen in ii
country and Europe petltioned t
Queen Regent Of Spain, has be
finally liberated, through the entt
prise of the New York Journal. T
journal seeing that petitions frc
the entire civilized world could hs
no effect upon the british Spani
government, organized a relee
party; ant by drugglng the guar
succeeded ia breaking open the ]
and releasing tho young lady. I
fore the Spanisrds knew that 8
had been released, sce wsS on t