Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — Che Lodies. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Che Lodies.

It is said that a number of women editors in the United -States receive $5,000 a year. Miss Dora Miller, a teacher in New Orleans, has patented a blackboard eraser for the right of which she has had aa offer of $5,000. 1 ■ ' ™ Two gold medals given in the national competition of schools of art in England for life studies of the undraped model were both awarded to women. There is in London a firm of women tea merchants who have bought an estate in Ceylon and carry on the business entirely through women blenders, tasters, packers, and agents. Jean Ingelow, the poetess, says of womens’ rights: “I don’t approve of twm at all. We can not have rights and privileges, and I prefer privileges. We shall lose our privileges when we demand our rights. ”

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at Hickman, Ky., has elected two women on its vestry with five men, in accordance with their Bishop’s announcement that there is nothing in the canons of the church to forbid such action. A growing opposition against the fashionable training of girls in Holland is resulting in parents sending their daughters to boys’ schools. This arrangement, which requires special permission from the authorities, is almost invariably granted. Cambridge, England, has six colleges founded by women for men, yet when women ask to participate in the educational benefits of the university they have difficulty in gaining even adequate concessions, and share not at all in the honor of its degrees. Not the least interesting to women of all the World's Fair wonders will be the Amazon warriors of the King of Dahomey, who will form a part of the population of the Dahomeg village to be exhibited on the grounds. Sixty or seventy of the fearless women soldiers will be quartered there. The home of the Roumanian queen, Carmen Sylva, situated in the heart of a forest at the foot of the Caramian mountains, is beautifully decorated, according to the Queen’s own designs, the feature of the house being a music room fitted up with a beautifully painted glass ceiling, and walls frescoed with a cycle of fairy tales of her arrangement. The Brown University resolution for opening all its degrees to women has been supplemented by another, giving to women holding bachelors’ degrees the opportunity to pursue all courses of instruction intended for graduate students. Thirteen women have either passed their examinations for the college year or begun preparations for next year’s course, exhibiting comiqendable proficiency.

There has been in England an interesting discussion as to the moral superiority of spinsters over matrons, from which it is shown that women who have achived real greatness in history and shown greatest valor have been, as rule, unmarried, the most illustrious examples given being Queen Elizabeth. Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale and Sister Rose Gertrude. Another development of the Russian craze in Paris is the introduction of the “balaika," the most primitive of all stringed instruments and one to which the old-time mou4'ik danced the ” khorovod. ” What ’uris does, we do. The uncanny sound of the balaika, which resem bles a concertina with a cold, may be the music of the future with New York swelldom. The last report of the civil service commission presents interesting data for the contemplation of the pessimists aud conservatives regarding woman’s status in the industrial world. la the examinatkms for

copyist workdndMbe-menfailecbaßd five out of every six women passed. For clerkships in the classified departmental service every man failed, -bat three women out sti four passed. There may be more menace the welfare of the sex in the increasing interest taken by women in politics than is apparent to the supporters of the movement. A Japanese woman of the Nagano district was so affected by her husband’s voting for the wrong candidate that she drbssed, herself m white- the Japanese sign of mourning, retired to her room, and cut her throat with a sword. Miss Rideout, of California, is one of the women now at work on the exposition grounds at Chicago. Having won by competitive test the right to make the groups of statuary that are to ornament the roof of the'woman’s building, she has arranged her studio in horticultural ball, and is at work upon the two groups and one spandrel which are to be reproduced several times in the scheme of decoration. Miss Rideout will receive $8,200 for her work. Near the town of White Oaks, N. M., lives one of the most remarkable women even of this remarkable age. The house in which she lived, a low. white-walled adobe building covered with green vines and fitted out with rich carpets, artistic hangings, books and pictures, exquisite china and silver, and all the dainty belongings with which a refined woman loves to surround himself, was built with her own hands. The huge ranch whereon it is located, with its 8,000 cattle, is managed entirely by her. It is she who buys or takes up the land, selects and controls the men, buya, sells and transfers the cattle. She is also a skillful and intelligent prospector, and found the valuable silver mine on her territory in which she now owns a half interest. She sings charmingly, accompanying herrielf on the piano or guitar, and handles a cambric needle or a water-color brush as dextrously as she uses an adze or a jack-plane. She entertains delightfully at her home whist parties, and even an occasional german. Her name is Mrs! Barber, and she has been twice a widow. A woman who can run a ranch, build a house, manage a mine and engineer a successful genuau deserves a prominent place in the ranks of women of genius.

A PROMINADE COSTUME.