Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — THE LADIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LADIES.

A stattftical Item of Interest to women is that women to-day are two inches toiler on an average than they were twenty-five years ago. The cause fs found in the exchange of the embroidery needle for the tennis raajquet, the oar, and the gymnastic apparatus of the school and college. It is estimated that the incomes of women doctors range from S2OO to : $20,000 a year. Ten thousand dollars for well educated, gifted and healthy woman doctor is not uncommon, and $5,000 a year is less rare. One doctor of repute earned $3,000 the first year she practiced. $5,000 the next, and a corresponding increase until she died; but she spent eight hours a day in severe study for many years after graduating.

The Medical Record is responsible for the theory that to keep the complexion, and spirits goad r to preserve grace, strength and agility ot motion, there is no gymnasium so valuable, no exercise more beneficial than sweeping, dusting, making beds, washing dishes and polishing brass and silver. §till the country housewives who spend their lives in these health-giving pursuits as arule grow old much faster, lose the bloom and freshness of youthful beauty much younger than do their city* sisters who have maids for every branch of work, and seek exercise on horseback and in the gymnasiums. St. Andrew’s, the oldest of Scotch universities, not only offers to women the privileges of its classes with a view to graduation in arts, science, theology, or medicine, but generously makes provisions for them to share in its pecuniary benefits. In the year 1833 a sum of $150,000 will become available for bursaries or scholarships at the university, of which one-half is reserved for the use of women students exclusively. Those who intend to enter the medical profession. will have prior claim to those bursaries, though they are tenable while arts and science classes are being attended.

Martha Foote Crow has been recalled from Oxford to fill a chair in the department of English literature in Chicago University. Mrs. Crow is one of the three women included among the lecturers of the university’s extensive summer meeting at Oxford, her theme being “Women's Obi leges in America." Marion Talof the officers of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and a member of the. Board of Visitors and Instructors at Wellesley College, has been appointed assistant professor in the department of social science at the new university. J. M. Barrie, popular as he is on this side of the ocean, is not likely to suffer from excess of praise from the villagers of the now famous Thrums. One old lady, with energetic but quaint criticism, says of his “Little Minister”: “It’s of rale true, but there's naethih’ in't—mere havers aboot things that's gaen on lika day—and who wants to waste their time readin' aboot sic like. Beside,®, what kens he aboot the soiers in Kinie. He’s just been makin’ up bits here and there oot o' fat he’s heard ither foulk tellin’. He’s no old enuch to hae ony mind o’ sic things."

Another prophecy assures us that the sleeveless ball gown will again obtain fashionable recognition, for which the few women who have beautiful arms will rejoice and be glad. How seldom this distinction is eujoyed by a woman a night at the opera or a single ball Witt show, for at every assemblage of women in full dress it will be noticed that the throats of graceful contour outnumber two to one the arms that might, by any flight of admiriDg fancy, be called, as were those of a famous beauty of old, “the arms which the great Venus has lost." According to a recently published account in the Examiner, the society leaders of California are most original, energetic and gifted women. To Mrs. Lizzie Coit belongs the peculiar distinction of being the only woman member of a fire company. She joined the fine volunteers when a young girl and responded in volunteer days to every alarm with the same alacrity and courage as the other members of the ass iciation. Mrs. Coit counts her fortune in millions now, but she is still an honored guest of every gathering of her fellow exempts and the toast of the occasion. Miss Marie Williams is a cabinet maker of great skill, and employs bfer talent practically in making beautiful pieces of furniture from the native California woods for her home. Miss Carrie Wheelan has one of the finest collections of coleopteru extent, which Is honorably mentioned in the Scientific Directory. The Misses Lpwry. Isabel aud Agnes, are graduates of the surgical institutes of Edinburgh. | for D sk iU* in feta ujun u* e itu iMJv vwv

male practitioners in Sfc*, BYancfeco. Miss Eleanor de Hooghtim, daughter of a hia an second- in precedence i n England,’ is an expert goldsmith and delights her friends with pieces of j jewelry in antique patterns which no ! one would take for the work <Sf aa amateur. Miss Swyney speaks «ght i modern languages, and can sustain her part in a conversation in Greek or Latin besides reading in Sanskrit. 1 1 All sorts of rumors are afiost concerning the coining mode. One learns from one authority that lace is still to be among our idols, but «At ska OAOroa tnnaho/1 T/OPlotirtC In 11 vo tuu wUI So UiUSutAi Vul IculCIJ in which we have invested our substance, but the finer and more delicate patterns which we have been fortunate enough to savo among our treasures. - The September drees equation is a fascinating study to the devotees and savants of the mode. Dress evolution is founded upon certain formulas as inviolable as the tenets of the Westminster catechism or the axioms of geometrical law. History repeats itself with unerring fidelity, and in the chronicle of the modes of the past the clever observer finds the prophecy of the modes to come. Thus one needs not the sanction of French designers, or'the guaranteed French fashion plates, to foretell that the short waists will lengthen to tunics,the scant skirts will broaden in flounces, aud their severity be interrupted by friflings ; that nigh shoulders will lower and broaden, and that simplicity will broaden out in splendor before the coming of the .new. year.

Mile. Jeanne Chauvin, the young woman who passed so successfully the examinations of the Ecole de Droit in spite of the disturbance which necessitated a postponment of her first examination, is in appearance the reverse of the once popular idea of the strong minded woman. She is a womanly woman, with a masculine grasp of intellect, and SO slight in stature, diffident in*manner and mode3t in demeanor that her judges fell into the error of treating her with a partiality she did not enjoy, for she would have preferred having her arguments questioned that she might have had the honor of supporting her doctrines, with the ready wit and clear judgment characteristic of her treatment of questions oi law.

Banning, Montana, is tho residence of one of the most capable and successful of business women in the West, where to win the medal of excellence is not easy, owing to the great number of woman that have made marked success in unfamiliar lines of work. When in October of last year Captain Fraser, of Banning, died he left an extensive estate, consisting of hundreds of acres of hay and grain, orchards and vineyards and a large hotel. His wife, a quiet and modest little woman, is now carrying |on the business entirely by herself, Spending days in the saddle from 6 in the morning to 7 at night without dismounting, except for lunch, overseeing the Indian laborers who do the work of the vast estate, and, half an hour later, changing her habit for an evening gown, she entertains her guests in the hotel parlors through the evening as gracefully as if life for her meant only the ordering and wearing of Paris gowns and bonnets.

Speaking of the en trance of French women into the professions, Jules Simon says a pretty woman will always be a most dangerous lawyer. There were several women, he aids, “who were great teachers—Hypatia, for example. She spoke behind a curtain. They understood the argument she uttered; they did not see the argumeut she was. We shall be a little embarrassed with pretty women when they begin to struggle with us at elections, and more if they make personal visits upon influential electors. It is the mistake, the misfortune of women to demand equality with men. They are often asked' ‘How cun you demand equality when you are weak?’ Hut it would be only just to add, ‘How can you demand equality when you are so pretty V”

A table d’hote costume has been designed, and consists of a block coat made in fine cloth with a rolling collar simulating the dress suit of men, but daintily feminized by a waistcoat of gayly flowered brocade, with a cravat of ivory lace, and full lace ruffles in the sleeves. A Variation in Blouses. A young woman who is fond of adding a touch of her own to the prevailing, mode ha? made a pretty variation on ruffles and studded f onts. It is simple straight b’ouse 1 tting only at the yoke, with full sleeves and the waist hanging loose over the oand or belted iu, but tne front has a double set of crochetcovered rings arranged in two rows os for eyelets, iu which is used a heavy silk cord or lacer.

Wanted—A young woman to wash, iron and milk one or two cow*. Philadelphia paper. Frenchman .(visiting America)— Pleasant woman, that. Is she un-ESII-.'Ste“ o-Y “ t Hai per s Weekly.

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