The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-08-06

ABOUT WOMEN

ll.sy uNlHSs. cuSt Whot 'nSy W"
is exampled by Miss Abigail
Foote of Colchester, Conn.,, who
in 177775 kept dairy of the duties
that hhe performed daily. Here
are some of the entries.
Fixed gown for Prude. Mend
ed mothers riding hood. Spun
short thread. Fx'd two gowns
for Welsh's girls. Carded tow.
Spun linen. Worked on cheese
basket. Hatchel's fax with Han
nah we did fifty pounds. Pleat-
ed and ironed. Read sermon
of Doddridge's. Spoiled a piece.
MIXED the cows. Spun linene:
did fifty knots. Made a broom
of Guinea wheat straw. Set
red dye. Had two scholars from
Mrs Taylor's: l carded two
rounds of whole wool. Spun harm.
ess Irvine. Secured the pewter.
She also. knitted, washed, cook
ed. Kicked geese. weeded the gar
den, dipped candles in the spring
and made some soap in the fall,
besides finding time to visit and
receive her girl friends.
Cleopatra must have been
small of stature, for, wrapped up
II a bundle, she was carried to
Caesar upon the shoulders of the
Anollodorus. Nevertheless, she
was a wonderful queen, possess
inc countless arts, varied grace
, and the gift of numerous Ian
guages. She gave audience to
Romans, Greeks. Ethopians, Tro-
glodytes, Hebrews, Arabians,
Syrians. Modes and Parthians
without the aid of interpreters,
I discoursing fuently in their own
dialects. Plutarch says her voice
had an inexplicable charm of sof!
attractions in its sounds like an
instrument of many strings,
which no one could resist.
Two women were arraigned
at Newbury, Mass, in 1853 charg-
ed with wearing silk hoods and
scarfs, but were discharged on
proof that their husbands were
worth 600 each.
DR.. Livingstone while explor-
ing Africa discovered that when
man suspected that any of his
wives had bewitched him he sent
for the witch doctor. "All the
wives go forth into the field, J"
said the great explorer, "and re.
main fasting until that person
had made an infusion of the GO
ho' plant. They all drink it,
each one holding up her hand to
heaven in attestation of her in
nocence. Those who retain the
noxious dose are pronounced
guilty and put to death by burn.
ing"
The dowager Tsarina of Rus
STA, who Is quite favorite of the
people, once saw on her hus-
bands desk a document relating
to political prisoner. On the
margin Alexander III had writ
ten; Pardon impossible; to be
sent to Siberia" She struck out
the semicolon after impossible"
and inserted it before that word,
making the deere read. Pardon;
impossible to be sent to Siberia. "
The tsar let it stand.
a woman who was convicted Of
felony at the Old Bailey, London.
in 1175, sent to a mercer for some
brocaded silks. She selected
rich design and ordered the pro-
per amount cut off. Fearing that
if she were hanged he would new
er be paid for the goods, the
shopkeeper informed her that he
did not have any scissors, but
would deliver the silk later.
Quickly handing him a ESQ note,
she SAID: Here is a pair of scis-
sors."
In north Japan is an enormous
heather temple, the timbers of
which were hauled from the
mountains and put in place with
ropes made from the hair Of the
women of the province. From
these tresses, which were brought
forth by an edict, two ropes were
made-one seventeen inches in
circumference and 1,400 feet in
length, while the other was eleven
inches around and 1900 feet
long.
Annie Laurie was considered
the most beautiful young woman
of her day. She was the daugh-
tor Of Cir Dnhast Ta,,..o H..