The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-01-01

V3oxs61 He worked awhile at mining,
saved money, then opened butcher
shop in Dawson. In 1899 Mrs. Rebate
joined him. Next he sold his shop in
Dawson, and he and his wife went into
mining. They bought claim and fit
ted it with steam machinery. At first
Mrs Rebate cooked and did the house
work of the cabin. Then she became
SO interested in gold digging that she
accompanied her husband into the
shaft $40 feet underground. She wore
boomers and rubber boots, SO that she
could work. She learned to run the en-
CINE, wash gold and do every part Of
the regular work of a miner. She be-
came so expert that finally she labored
in the mine altogether, hiring cook
and housekeeper at home. Success
came to the plucky pair, and at length
they had SAC, 1000 clear in dust and mug
gets. They decided to 'tgo outside" as
it is called in the Klondike, and take a
rest and visit Mr.. Rebates parents in
Germany. Mrs. Rebate departed two
weeks before her husband to prepare
for the Journey The husband followed
with the $4,000, taking passage on the
steamer Islander from Skaguay The
ship was wrecked, Mr.. Rebate went
down in her, and with him went the
$4,000, lost forever. With the news
of his death appeared former wife,
claiming his estate on behalf of her
son. The claim was mostly worked
ont h1rf IN
The second wife went back in the dead
Of winter to the Klondike, had an adj
ministrator appointed for the property
and herself began to work it again for
all there was left in it. She knew ex-
actly what to do to the last particular,
SO she got considerable amount out of
it. Then she made an amicable ar
rangement with the first wife on ac
count of the boy, gathered up what she
had left, a neat sum, and at the begin
ming of cold weather this year re-
turned to civilization. After a rest she
goes back next season to start in over
again and find fortune.
Obstacle is another name for oppor-
| tunity.
The college bred woman is entering
| into business and showing how it ought
| to be conducted. Two college women
| partners, Misses Stevenson and Elliot,
established some time since a labora-
! tory kitchen and model bread baking
establishment at Cambridge, Mass.
| They use the new bread mixing ma
chine invented by Mrs. Lydia Coale
Sharpless and have demonstrated to
| their own profit the economic possibil-
| tiles of breadmaking as an industry
for educated women" which is what
| they started out to do. Two other col
| lege girls went into the laundry bust
ness in Brookline in 1898. They had
six assistants when they began. Now
| they are running a really artistic laun-
dry and keep sixty persons busy all the
| time.
| A muddy complexioned fat woman in
| black silk dress is not beautiful.
/
Men usually scott at mental sci
ence," so called yet a husband not long
since wrote long letter to "healer"
appealing to him to give the writer's
wife, without her knowledge, 'absent
treatments to make her obey him, the
writer. Amusing creatures, men are.
b y
The woman who has trained herself
her purpose is the woman who wins
Keep your mouth shut
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Girl college students ought to study
the natural sciences in preference to
dead languages. Especially useful and
inviting are the departments of biology
and organic chemistry.
D. d
Miss Violet Oakley Of Harrisburg has
obtained the order to decorate one of
the rooms in the new state capitol of
Pennsylvania.
Lately IN New YORK middle aged
woman died at whose funeral folk said
admiringly, "She was the mother of
twenty-five children ''But how many
Of them are living?" asked the only
thinker in the lot. "Only seven" was
the answer. mo wonder!' remarked
the thinker.
The woman who keeps her mouth
shut is the woman who is storing UP
power, not wasting it.
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Women's clubs are being forced into
the consideration of suffrage for their
sex. They cannot dodge it. The ILL
nois Federation of Women's Clubs has
Endorsed by great majority the bill to
give taxpaying women in the state a
vote on all matters and officers con-
nected with taxation.
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