Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-24
woMAN's DEPARTMENT
MABEL II, PoMERoY, EDITOR.

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Linster and Connaught. In the be
ginning Of her work among the evicteC
tenants, she preached to them thu
necessity Of rallyiDg to the cause o
home rule, although she felt tina
this half measure would never suffice
to lift the burdens from The sufferers
The enthusiastic and independent
mode Of political warfare caused hel
arrest, but she received timely warn
ing and fled to France, and ever
since during the period of eight years
she has passed half her time on the
continent and half in Ireland. She
is an active member of the Amnesty
Association, endeavoriDg TO bring
liberty TO political prisoners in par
ticular She has created a current Of
opinion which may be felt some day
in the hour of international strife
Through her efforts there is an IRISH
question now in France as we'll az On
Egyptian question, or a New Found
land fisheries question
Mrs. e. P. Ewing, the far.fsmed
teacher Of cookery and domestic
economy, says: In my judgment,
good bread in every home is as de.
sirable as the ballot in the hands of
every women. We can have the bread
without lRborous effort; let us have
it while working and waiting for the
ballot.
Nine. Marchese, the most popular
teacher Of vocal culture, has been
offered sixty Thousand dollars for a
Six months tour in America.
Miss Mary Proctor, the we'll known
woman lecturer on astronomy, has
been elected q member Of the British
Astronomical Society.
Miss Estelle Reel is evidently
woman with very emphatic notions
about justice in the distribution of
the spoils Of office. Realizing that
the women Of Wyoming had brought
about her election as superintendent
Of public instruction, she very prompt
ly appointed women to fill all offices
within her jurisdiction.
The late book peter Halkett Troop
or" by Olive Scheiner, wherein South
Africa is the heroine and England
the heavy villain, does not meet the
approval Of Johnny Bull and the
book is barred from the public llbrar-
les of Cape Colony. The opposition
has acted only as a boom for the
story, as every one is extremely anx-
ious to read book that is considered
by 80 powerful a nation as danger
GUS.
HERE AND THERE
One Of the laws passed in 1895, as
a result Of the labors of the Glider
Tenement House Commission in a
previous year, provided that there
after no school houses in New York
City should be built without open air
play grounds.
A field for missionary endeavor:
1t is reported on authority that only
five thousand out of the millions of
women in Turkey can read or write.
Boston school marms" have been
insisting that the old discrimination
against them because they ERE women
in the payment of salaries, is unjust
and without good cause and have at
last persuaded the school boards to
admit the justice Of their plea. 1t is
not possible, however, to make the
change, putting the men and women
teachers on an equal basis, during
the present school year, but the
friends of the movement hope to
secure an equalization of salaries at
the next annual election of teachers
Literary intolerance is not 80 un-
expected in Russia, where the Bishops
of the Greek church have agreed to
demand of the Gar that Tolstoi and
his followers be prosecuted; that Sec
tartan schools in which the great
novelist is interested be closed; that
the publication of Lutheran books in
the Russian language be forbidden
and that the Oommunes be accorded
the right of banlshing sectarians to
Siberia.
Staid old Germany certainly has
newspaper "beat" excelling journal.
istic enterprise in all other countries.
In several large cities the news is