Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE]

THE FAIR SEX.

Miss Francis Power Cobbe has lately received from a philanthropic woman $150,000 to be used in her various lines of humane work. Miss Addle M. Stevens of Concord, N. 11., has been registered as a skilled pharmacist. She is the first woman in the State to qualify for this position. Mrs. Sal a is about to start a newpaper for women. With this paper Gr. A. Sala’s nanio will be associated, but it will be chiefly contributed to by members of the opposite sex. Burra ah most be a heavenly place for women. In that country tbq members o i the fair sex select their own husbands, and when they tire of them procure a divorce for the asking and marry again. The queen has decided to confer the Order of the Garter upon the king ot Portugal and the king Ofl W rt.-mburg. There will probably be a special mission ' o Listen for the investiture o! Kl&g Charles. Mrs. Woods’ “Village Tragedy” has been t rub slated into Russian. Stepnitk’p iafit»env.e had probably camething to do with this; he is sak'l to admire Km. Vv'oods’ work tery mush, and in reviewing the “The Village TYagody ’ wrote: “Orm can act read a chapter without being thrown inLo an ecstasy of admiration. The whole thing livc3. It ii simple aad natuial all tL*cugb. y 6» every line tolls, 1 every strofc* of tlw pon 'aV'itls new and unexpected perspectives. A writer on medical wosiwo claims •hat CiVere is non an insTSiutinj. of iea r ning. not a wwaan s elub or a woman s a.'i c4*»s. a imyersiltf law school Or woman’s n»rex, not & •ploma nr a-ted at Barnard or a cerLocate of proncleecv givtc at Harvsru but jwes its e* sLn*o, Us %*U , er&tiow, tfnd Its tHurepLs to ilio courage of Emily, and Eli'sb« fy-wtfcwod of England n.c Ne < Ydw,! and tl j ctiw* worn* sawAmts oJ ldoO, who dismantled p'ace and IWnor la the medical wori*.