Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1888 — WHAT WOMAN CAN DO. [ARTICLE]

WHAT WOMAN CAN DO.

The Countesse de Paris is an expert rifle-shot. Miss Wheelock makes a living teaching whilst in Minneapolis. Mrs. M. Thomas is a practical shoemaker living in Camaa, I. T. Mrs. Ly man Beecher has given SBO,000 to the Baldwin Ilniversity. Queen Emma, of Holland, is transacting the State business in a masterly manner. ~ 2. If Cynthia Leonard lives four years longer she intends to be a Presidential - ■— y vciu Vi iVi a vv • Rebecca .Collins, aged eighty-three, "has been "a minister” m the “Fnend’s church for sixty-five years. Mrs. Roger Q. Mills has a liking for politics and keeps well posted on all questions that come before Congress. Miss Braddon, who has written fifty novels during her fifty years of life, objects to having her portrait published. The latest statistics from London show a marked increase in the number 'of women employed in the different trades. P. T. Birnum has given his granddaughter, Mrs. H. P. Clarke, of Columbia, 8. C., SIOO,OOO with which tq purchase a plantation. ? Victoria Woodhull has retnred to one of her former fads and now issues a pamphlet on the scientific propagation of the human race. Mrs. Lynn Linton says the finest trait in Disraeli’s character was the unfailing and grateful constancy with which he stuck to his elderly wife. I" According to the Rev. Elizabeth W. ' Greenwood there are 2,432 physicians ’ and surgeons, 165 ministers and 75 lawyers in this country who are women. Carrie Bauman, the youngest daughter of a poor New Orleans carpenter, is being educated by. a patroness’ who makes the prediction that she will rival Patti. One of the prominent features of Philadelphia social circles is a society of ladies who devote their attention to the study and discussion of literary,-artistic and musical themes.