Show WOMANS WORK Architecture as a study for women has had a great push into popular favor of late Mrs Virginia C Meredith of Cambridge Cam-bridge Ind will have charge of the livestock live-stock department at the county fair At Lexington Miss the postoffice and telegraph office are in chargo of a woman The chief express agent is a woman and her two assistants are women Colorado College has lately received a gilt of 50000 for a library from Mr N P Coburn of Newton Mass and a valuable telescope from Henry R Wolcott of Denver Den-ver Mrs Reed one of the lady managers of tho Worlds fair for Maryland has established estab-lished a system of classes In American history in the schools of her state and offers of-fers as a prize for the best scholar a free trip to the fair Miss Alice Cavanaugh of Dawson county Mont superintends the county schools in an area 300 square miles and Miss Fin nigan of Choteau county has an almost equally extensive territory comprising 27010 acres London newspaper remarks Two or three young ladles who live In a suburb of London have started n carrierpigeon post among themselves They have each a couple of birds and send notes to each other irrespective of the post or telegraph offices As long ago as 1778 a certificate was granted by President Ezra Stiles of Yale college to a young woman who had passed axaminations necessary to enter the college but was debarred on account of her sex Now after 114 years says the Womans Journal Yale is ready to offer postgraduate study to women It is not however ready for coeducation I is as far from it as 1 oclock is from 12 oclock One of the strongest and most disinterested disin-terested acts of philanthropy of this age has been the selfimposed mission of Miss Kate Marsden the Red Cross sister who has determrned to give her life to the study of leprosy and to the relief of those so afflicted She is now absent in the northeast north-east of Siberia In a colony of lepers shutoff shut-off from everybody to wander through the forests in that inhospitable climate with only fish from the lakes for sustenance A coworker of Miss Mareden is in England trying to raise funds for the equipment and building of a hospital |