Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — THE FAIR SEX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAIR SEX.

When Mrs. Amelia Frost was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Littleton, Mass., last month, one of the examining committee asked Mrs. Frost: Does the Bible point to women’s preaching?” “Apparently so in my case,” was the reply. “But,” said the questioner, “I had hoped you would answer by some quotation from the Bible.” Instantly Mrs. Frost replied: “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.” There was a tremendous applause, and any spirit of opposition to the ordination ended. - The women of Canada who subscribed for a pair of horses, a sleigh, and furs as a wedding gift to Princess,May are highly indignant that the horses’ tails were docked before the gift was shipped to England, and have telegraphed to the Princess asking her to refuse to-ac-cept the horses. They propose to prosecute the parties responsible for the docking.

When a club woman begins to burrow in libraries and among old statistics for data for her papers, very little escapes her search. A member of the Woman’s Literary Club of Baltimore, contributing a paper on “The Booths” to an “afternoon with the authors and artists of Maryland.” gave some points about the famous actor's family that are certainly not in everybody’s possession. The family was originally from Spain, of Hebrew extraction, the name being Cabana. When an ancestor settled in England he drolly translated it, for convenience sake into its English equivalent of booth or bazar.

It is reported that Mrs. U. S. Grant has quite decided not to publish the memoirs of her bus! and, as it is her wi-h that this book shall not be published until after her death. Several publishers 1 ave bad the opportunity to look it over, and it is said that one has offered $50,000 for the work Mrs. Thomas A. Edison has certain literary gifts, if she would only exercise them, it is said. She is a niece of Emily Hun tington Miller. Miss C. Eide, of Christiana, has just received a dipkma, the first in Noi way awarded to a woman, as a candidate of pharmacy. ' She stood at the head of her class in all branches but one.

No more beautiful tribute has ever been paid to a woman than that paid by Prof. Tyndall in a letter written to Herbert Spencer several years ago, in which he says of his wife: ‘‘She has raised my ideal of the possibilities of human nature." The late Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of Boston, preserved the historic Old South Church f rom demolition, and that act alone will keep her memory green at the Hub. In many other ways she showed her great philanthropy--chiefly as the main support of the Hampton Institute for the education of negroes and Indians hnd in equiping Frank Lushing’s archaeological expedition, while she did American history a good turn in making John Fiske her protege.

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