The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-09
CONCERNING WOMAN


CONCERNING WOMAN
Sarah c. Bagley of Lowell Mass, 1886,
was the first woman telegrapher.
Miss Julia Pearce of Kansas has been
appointed analyst of soils in the de-
partment Of agriculture at Washington
Miss Anna M. Lang is receiver in the
United States land office at The Dalles
Wash. She is said to be the only woman
land official in the United States.
Miss Mary A. Prettyman, a typewriter
office at Washington, wrote 1850 words
in SIX and onehalf hours the other day.
1t Is believed she is the worlds champion.
Madame Marcella Sembrich says she
does not talk to any one, not even her
husband, on the day of the evening she
is to sing. Neither does she eat any
thing later than p. M, until after the
evening performance. She is careful to
the weather is damp or stormy. She Is
very careful about the quality of her
food.
The right of women to wear male at
tire in France is conferred by the gov
eminent as a great privilege, for which,
in addition, she must pay $40 a year as a
tax. The only women to whom the right
to wear male attire has been given are
George Sand, Rosa Bonl1eur, Nine. Dieula-
foy, the Persian archaeologist; Nine.
Faucart, the bearded women, and Nine.
Forrreau and Nine. De Jeanette, both
sculptors.
Miss Jane Scherzer, an Ohio young wo-
man, who has just passed the doctors ex-
animation in English philology at the Uni
versity of Berlin, is the third American to
pass this examination. Miss ScherZer
formerly held the position of high school
principal in her home town, and was also
principal of a college in Oxford, Ohio.
The Empress of Japan, a very clever and
accomplished woman, is quite European in
the practical interest she displays in in
dustries of her own country She is said
to be particularly well informed about
cereals and rice growing, that important
feature of oriental industry. Her majesty
has also certain literary talents, and oc-
casionally writes little poems, some OF
which have been printed and distributed
among the scholars in Japanese schools.
;. OF 10000 women from all parts Of the
civilized world French jury has selected
Miss Maud Fealy of Denver, Col, as the
most beautiful woman in the world, anc
has awarded her a prize of 1000 francs
The jury almost. decided to give the frs
prize to another American beauty, Mrs
Lee Jordan of Augusta, Ga, q prominent
southern society woman and a relative OF
the Lees Of Virginia.
Miss Elizabeth Yeats, a sister Of the
Irish poet, has started in Ireland q Dur
Elmer Press, in which she is attempting tt
| rival the Kelmscott work. Paper made
l7of pure linen has been procured from
Irish mills, and Miss Yeats is doing hel
| own printing, with the help of an ap
prentice. The first volume is to be a col
| lection of poems by w. B. eYats, In thu
| Seven Woods"
Fanny Crosby (N1rs Van Alvstine), the
blind hymn writer, lately attained her $50
| birthday. She has written about 5000
hymns and was also the author of some
quaint old melodies like Resale, tn,
| Prairie Flower. - Music in the Air. anc
In the Hazel Dell My Nelie's Sleep
/ ing She believes that she was thu
first woman to go before congress with 1
petition 1t was when she went to appea
for governmental nelp for the schools TO
/ the blind. She, with other blind persons
Il
! for the sightless, and at the, request o
members Of congress she repeated som,
of her poems.
Mrs. Minnie Ayres Pierce of Indianapolis
Ind, is one of the few women in tn,
4 United States who knows how to max,
violins, says the Indianapolis News. Mrs
/ Pierce assists her husband regularly, a
his factory. AS Miss Minnie Ayres Burk
leI,.
when a young girl At that time sh
knew nothing Of violins or of music Sh
acted at first as clerical assistant, bu
soon drifted into the real business of tn
factory. The first thing she learned t
do was to put in the purfing, as the fin
ornamental inlaid line of ebony or syca
4 more on the edges of violins is called. Sh
now makes all the hoops or frames, put
in all purfiing. does much Of the finishing
and can make entire instruments. Durinl
these years in the factory Mrs. Pierce ha
/ learned to play, and she plays second VIC
! lin in a string quartet.
4 Paris has just organized a union o
4 French mothers" on lines similar to tn
mothers congresses and child study cir
c1es in the United States. It aims anon
j other things. to secure the passage q
laws for the protection of mothers, and t
: make cooking a required study during tn
final year in girls schools. An unusus
plank in It's platform, however, provide
for the furnishing of necessities, comforts
and medical aid to poor mothers durin
confinement
4 Many club women are familiar with TIL
name and work of Mrs. Washingto
Roebling who died last month In Ne,
q Jersey. Her husband succeeded his faith
u er, John A. Roebling, as engineer Of tn
Brooklyn Bridge, on the latter's sudde
death in 1859, and was himself strdcke