Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1892 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

Miss Georgia Cay van and her little party of women have reached Ran Francisco, ea route for Japan. They report a inolt enjoyable trip across the continent. The role of courier is not a new one for the unhappy wife and self-sacrificing sweetheart of the Lyceum plays, for she has taken a party of women all over Europe three different times. She insists that no railroad official can so mix up a time table that she cannot pluck the heart out of its mystery, and that no malicious manufacturer Is able to fashion a can of potted

(neat that she cannot open. One who can triumph over these twin demons pf discomfoj-t has solved the question pf comfort in traveling. She checks the trunks, buys the tickets, telegraphs for berths, tips the waiters, and as shS has always been all the brothers of her father’s house never dreams of wishing she were a man. There lives in Oak Hill, Texas, a blind girl who has from a few acres of land, cultivated by herself, cleared about S2OO each season for several years by the growing and sale of vegetables. She began with no capital and the unfenced piece of uncultivated land. There is now a neat fence about her domain, a well and pump in the center, and she has, in addition- to purchasing these, paid for a piano and a hack to take her vegetables to the market, which fs twenty miles from her home. Every Bvening during the dry season she waters a Certain nujmber of plants until she has gone’ over the entire piece, when she begins again and goes over it iu the same way. Insect use she detects from her acute souse of hearing, and grass and weeds are easily distinguished from plants by the sensitive fingers of the blind gardener. The “Feminist Congress” in Paris held recently its second public sitting, with M. Popelin, the Belgian doctor of law, presiding. The subjects discussed were the founding of refuges for women about to become mothers and ratable to work-, the system of police tolerance, whieh was considered an encourgement of vice, the legal position of women, and the position of women in Routpania, Where every career is open without restriction. Swedish women occupy an important place in the industrial world,and their ability receives recognition in various lines not usually open to women. They are employed as copyists at all the government offices in Stockholm and do the work of clerks and cashiers in banks, insurance companies and railroad offices. They are employed in postal and telegraphic service, and the active duty of the telephone service is entrusted.... entirely to them. Several Swedish women have attained distinction as musical composers, painters and sculptors, authors and translators. They are also proficient in the arts of engraving on wood and glass, wood carving, map making, mother-of-pearl cutting, goldsmithing and book binding. Women’s wages are, however, smaller than those received by men, and educational advantages are greater for bbys than for girls. Several women in New York are, in spite of the tradition that the instrument is too complicated- for a woman’s manipulation, serving as organists and conductors in important churches. Kate Chittenden has for fourteen years presided at the OTgan of Dr. McArthur’s Calvary Baptist Church. Fannie M. Spencer is the organist of the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church, the leader of the choir and the cnorus of twentyfive voices, and the conductor of the Lexington Avenue Choral Society of fifty members. They do not receive as large salaries as men, though they are acknowledged to be better accompanists.

MRS. WHITELAW REID.