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Show THE WORLDOF WOMAN. A Writer Disoussea the Important Question Ques-tion of Women Working to Kill Time. ONE THING- A WOMAN CAN DO. Oxford Taken by Women So Boon forgotten for-gotten In the Editor's Chair Notesof Interest. I Kecently in Brooklyn a teacher in one of the puhlio schools received a legacy, Bhe immediately announced her resignation, resigna-tion, Baying she felt that the place ought to belong to some one who needed the compensation, which she no longer did. This incident brings up anow the sonio-ivhat sonio-ivhat delicate question of how far amateur ama-teur industry onght to go. Quite dif-ferent dif-ferent from this woman's evident opinion opin-ion in tho matter is that held by at other. She is a graduate of Vassar, and Bhe found on sitting down at homo after her college career that time hung heavy upon her hands. Her father, a man of wealth, is also a prominent member of the boai'd of education edu-cation in tho suburban town where they reside. She decided to teach, and it was easy for him to provide a place for her. Bhe lives at home in ail luxury. A handsome hand-some carriage, with liveried coachman, takes her to school every day, and on the hand which signs the receipts for her quarter' salary are glittering rings, whoae gems are worth threo times the amount of tho Ktipond, i Is this misplaced energy or only com-Jnendabla com-Jnendabla industry? Not long ago a young girl whose father was bankrupt and infirm and whoso mother was dead tried to turn herchicf talent deorative painting to account She prepared aoine work and submitted it to soveral dealers. All admired, but none cared to purchase. At length one offered her a price which scarcely covered the expense of the material, and so sha somewhat indignantly in-dignantly told him. I "It's the best I can do," he said with a Shrug of the shoulders; "I can got all I ca" -ell for Jess even than this. You see, : re plenty of ladies who do this erely for the occupation. The? "k ' ( , are fond of painting, and onlycaroto keep in material." . He further admitted that not any of them, or certainly only one or two, displayed tho skill and artistio effect which the work before him showed, bnt most of them painted with grace and delicacy, and their wares were salable. Now, ought all this to be? New York Times. A Talented IV liter. Miss Katharine Pearson Woods, author au-thor of the much discussed "Metzerott Shoemaker," is a Virginia lady, 87 years of ago. a worthy disciple of Edward Bellamy and a member of the Economio club, which progressive society she organized. or-ganized. Sho is the granddaughter of the Rev. James Dabney McCabe and the great-granddaughter of James McCabe, who fought in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. She is a pretty, pret-ty, willowy woman of medium height, with a delicate, spirituelle face, luminous lumi-nous gray eyes and very charming manners. man-ners. In IS73 Miss Woods was particularly fascinated by the life of the Mount Cal-' Cal-' vary Sisters, of the Episcopal church, who established a convent in Baltimore, in the parish where she was doing mission mis-sion work. The young girl was a frequent fre-quent and welcome visitor at the convent, con-vent, and in 1874 applied for admission, and was accepted and received as a novice. She remained in the cloister only six months, and, returning to the world, sha taught school for eight years in Mount Washington and Wheeling, W. Va. Newspaper work followed, and she contributed the usual quantity of poems, sketches and short stories to the waste basket before being recognized. With the pluck of the southern woman she persisted, and when, a year ago. htr "Metzerott" appeared anonymously her identity was betrayed und her praises 6ung. She has just published a second etory, "The Mark of the Beast," a remarkable re-markable work directed against the "sweating shops," with Vhich system the entire labor world is unhappily most familiar. Exchange. What Woman Can Do. , ''What a woman can do" is well exemplified ex-emplified by the career of Mrs. Alice Houghton. Mrs. Houghton is a tall, handsome woman with the rapid, brusque manner of one who knows the business methods of the big, booming west. She ought to know them, too, for those same methods have made for Mrs. Houghton j over $300,000 in three years. She is the real estate queen of Washington territory, terri-tory, and she handles property whose value would take away the breath of the common real estate speculator, even in Chicago. '1 believe a woman can do anything she takes a fancy to," said Mrs. Houghton. Hough-ton. "1 started out with a lucky speculation specu-lation in real estate at Spokane Falls, by which Imade $10,000. 1 didn't put it away in a safe deposit vault. I invested it and mude more. Then I hired an office and began commission deals. 1 h; ve done a business 6ince which has n.u np occasionally to the amount of 00,000 a week." Mrs. Houghton does tho biggest commission com-mission business in Spokane Falls, and is wildly enthusiastic about her home. Chicago Tribune. Oxford Taken by Women, Oxford is no longer sacred to masculine mascu-line genius only. Belva Lockwood has been there with eight of her American sisters, having knocked and gained admission ad-mission within the walls where the flower of England's statesmen have been educated. Belva Lockwood and company have been studying "University extension" with a view to inaugurating it in tho states. Three years ago Oxford grasped a new thought. It opened a summer school, liberally supplied with professors, officers, offi-cers, lecturers and readers. The sum of 5 was found sufficient to cover the entire en-tire expense of board and tuition. The summer school of '90 was opened by Professor Max Muller and the Rev. J. Bellamy, D. D., president of St. John's college. , One of the lecturers, Dr. Murray, is elaborating a dictionary in which he intends in-tends to give a history of every one of the 50,000 words that it contains. It has already taken him ten years with the assistance of three girls. About a thousand women were at Oxford Ox-ford during the Bummer, and all were intensely interested in the idea of extending ex-tending university education to the musses. Women take more interest in the idea than do the mon, and they are not frivolous friv-olous women, either. To use Mrs. Lock-wood's Lock-wood's words: "They are not all young women, nor handsome women, nor fashionable fash-ionable women. I have looked in vain for bustle or bangs or fringe or any superfluous su-perfluous adornment There is a sprink-lins sprink-lins of men, either very young or very old, and a few of what might properly be called laboring men." London Letter, Let-ter, Soon Forgotten. How soon one's good deeds are forgotten. forgot-ten. And how soon in the bnsy and moving life of a big city do the most prominent sink into obscurity when they have retired from active work. In a recent issue of the Inter-Ocean is this four line item: "Mrs. Jane C. Hoge, an elderly woman, wo-man, fell at her home, No. 1153 North Halsted street, last week and fractured her hip. She died yesterday from her injuries." Nearly thirty years ago the name of this "elderly woman" was on everybody's every-body's lips. She was one of the most prominent ladies in Chicago, the possessor possess-or of greatintellectual strength and ability abil-ity in every direction. During the war she was one of the most earnest workers work-ers in tho Union cause, and none was more indefatigable in personal efforts than she. She was one of the prime movers in the executive committee of the Soldiers' home when it was founded. About 1863 Mrs. Hoge visited the hospitals hos-pitals at Cairo and Mound City, and labored hard to solace the wounded and to see that the contributions Jo the soldiers sol-diers were properly distributed. She was also one of the members of the first woman's council of the United States sanitary commission. Her labors in behalf be-half of the soldier, to say nothing of her many sterling qualities, entitle her at least to kindly mention and respectful comment With such a career to her credit she deserved better than a passing note as an "elderly woman." It would have been kinder to have suffered her to die unnoticed and unknown. Chicago Post In tho Editor's Chair. The editress of The Woman's Penny Paper is a true lover of her sex. She and her staff work together on the most friendly terms. Not only are all the articles ar-ticles written by women, but the compositors com-positors are women, the office boy is a woman, and so are the janitor and telegrapher. te-legrapher. The editress has bnt one name for her staff dear. The assistant editor is called my dear, but the rest of the help answer to plain and simple but sweet and short "dear." At . home The Penny editress employs em-ploys a maid-of-all-work, woman cook and two "lady helps" in the "preservery," who nut ud the jellies, ianu. marmalades and fruit butters, from which She realizes real-izes half the profits of her journalistic work. Disgusted with the laziness and general worthlessness of her gardeners, she advertised for female labor, and an avalanche of horticultural loveliness swept down upon her. Many of the applicants ap-plicants for the position of gardener were daughters of clergymen. She made her (election, and has since openly declared that women make the best gardeners in the field. London Letter. Pretty Mri. Aronson. Mrs. Rudolph Aronson, the wife of the manager of the Casino, is a sort of female Admirable Crichton. She draws, she paints, she plays, 6he sings and she "sculpts." She has recently completed a terra cotta bust of her very handsome husband. The likeness is most marked, the work is wonderfully strong and wholly nnsuggestive of the amateur. Mrs. Aronson is a pupil of St. Oandens, who ranks her among his "first best." In addition to all these gifts and accomplishments accom-plishments Mrs. Aronson is a distract-ingly distract-ingly pretty woman. - Her eyes are as blue as turquoises, her skin has the transparent fairness and the tints of a conch shell, her pretty little teeth are like pearls, and all this facial perfection is framed in pale golden hair. Mrs. Aronson is little and young just i on the other side of her teens. She is an i excellent linguist, an omnivorous reader, and she has a younger sister as pretty as 1 herself, with a voice over which Theodore Theo-dore Thomas - enthuses. New Fork Press. n jixqauite AAtta. One of the most exquisite dress fabrics ever brought to this country is a Japanese rainbow crape, .which Miss Elizabeth Bisland found in Japan during her trip around the vxrld last spring. It is a silvery white, silky, daintily woven stuff, with a very fine crapy twill and a i moonlight sheen overlying it Across i the narrow breadths, in diagonal stripes, are laid faint, illusive colontpf pale rose, light gold, the blue of early dawn, faint green and shadowy lilac. These ravislnng hues, that are rather suggested than defined, seem to glimmer ' through warp and woof of the lustrous , silk, one minute burning in flames of color, to be lost the next ia vague melting lights. At a dinner given by Sir John Millais in London Miss Bisland wore a gown of this beautiful crape, and tht great artist was enthusiastic in his adr miration of the fabric, which he had never before seen. New York Ledtrer. |