Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-03-10
WOMEN'S D0lNGS.

Selma Journal.
WOMEN'S DOlNGS.
Short Paragraphs of Interest About the FAN
GoddesSes.
In January. Miss Caroline H. Pier, of
Wisconsin, and Miss Alice Minnlck' OF
Nebraska, were admitted to practice pc
fore the supreme court of the United
States.
Miss Helen Gladstone has been prin-
cipal Of Newman college, Oxford, for
fifteen years, but has lately resigned
this position in order to devote herself
to her father and mother.
Miss Grace Lincoln Temple, who was
the decorator of the womens building at
the Atlanta exposition. has been given
newly bought Cleveland residence of
Princeton
There has been an effort made to Sc
cure the release of Lady Scott, lately
condemned to eight months imprison-
ment for libelling her son-in-law, but the
home secretary insists Lady Scott shall
pay the penalty the law imposes.
D
Mr.. Hobbs, who died not long since
in Ireland. was 10S years old. She was
a friend of the Duke of Wellington, and
has for years had near interest in af-
fairs military, having had five children
and six grandchildren in the service
Miss Marian S. Parker is a practical
civil engineer; she studied at Ann Ar
Dor after a thorough prepare tory course.
Two weeks after her graduation, she
was at work with the unique experience
Of receiving the same salary paid men
for doing the same work and equal
chances of advancement as men.
= Miss Caroline Ingersoll, of Kenne, N.
H.. has founded the Ingerson lectureship
at Harvard. providing for one lecture q
year upon the Immortality of Man"
The first lecture was lately delivered by
DE-. Gordon of the Old South Meeting
/. House in Boston.
new philanthropy in Chicago is pro-
posed in the form of a Training School
for Nurses" The training is to cover six
. months, at the end of which time a GER
tfieate will be granted. The course will
include theory and practice; lectures and
lessons being accompanied by practical
work at the ma ternity hospital. There
I is no fee, the school will be sustained by
private contributions.
The Woman's Industrial Union of San
Francisco sent a petition to the board of
supervisors requesting to beallowed to
take charge of the janitor work of the
city hall for a month. This plan is to
give employment to poor and deserving
women who are unable to find work, and
~theOffef of the union is to keep the build
ing spotlessly clean for 81 200 a month,
whereas the present expenditure for that
purpose is 50 300 a month. and it is whis-
pered the work is not we'll done.
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Mrs Crays has BEEN elected president
of the school board of Minneapolis. Mrs.
Crays has been a member of the board
for four years, and has served so ac-
ceptably that she has been made presi-
dent, and now everyone is, waiting to
see what will be done a bout it, since by
law the president of the school board is
also eX-rfficio member of the library
board and the tax levy board which lat
ter position is only open, tt Is claimed.
to men. So we shall see what we shall
see.
Bloomington, Ills, has had beautiful
legacy in the form of valuable ground
for a park where children may play with
only such restriction as is absolutely
necessary. There are to be no flowers
and no keep off the grass signs. for the
place is the children's play ground and
the donor, Mrs. Withers who lately died
at the age of 81 wished the children to
play there unfettered by .burdensome
rules. 1t is possible that in time when
many little feet shall have bsaten the
place bare, some may be willing to yield
themselves to judicious regulate
On Saturday night, not great while
ago, a fast train from Chicago was saved
from wreck by so simple a thing as a red
table cloth; but ii was waved by a v,o-
man, and she was inspired by a little
common sense and a good deal of pres
ence of mind. A horse had been caught
in a cattleguard, and the train would GER
tainly have been thrown from the track
before he could be removed. A WON n
In house near by saw the danger, and
selling the red table cloth, used 1t as a
signal to the engineer, who stopped the
train.
Much is said concerning Queen Vic
toria's coronation anniversary and of the
manner of its celebra ton. Great splen-
dor is expected from pageants and cere-
monies. The queen herself has asked
that the occasion be distinguished by
acts OF charity; It would be graceful
thing, il she should give largely from her
riches to such objects: precept and ex-
ample would then edify the world. In
this connection it is said that every vii
lage in England is to have a public park
as a memorial of the great occasion
the world as a. woman and queen without
reprosch, and her long reign is cause for
celsbrat ton.
There is no city in the country where
there seems to be a larger activity amons
women than Buffalo: there are clubs, re.
| ligious. philanthropic. educa tional, civic
! In short, every department of human in.
| tereSt appears to have attention in thi:
| city on the lake. The Business Women:
| club reports membership of 200 of tht
| practical business women of the city
| This club has leased rooms and has SCI
about putting them in complete orde1
| with fittings, ranges, steam. ables etc
| When a. club has comfortable and conve
| nient quarters it Is evidence of prosperit,
| and gives promise of success
| The adjutant generals office in Wash
| ington needed a translator of moderI
| langua ges. An exemina ton was pro
posed to the applicants; the examination
| was searching one; one applicant fail
| ed to make the necessary per cent, on,
| passed. This one who passed the exami
| ration was a Miss Stalhlnaker: she wa.
| Informed that though she had been Ger
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