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Show Kansas has four. cities in which j the vote of the women is larger than that ut the men. One entire set of 'eouncilmen" is women. The empress of Germany has requested the minister of public instruction to prevent the admission admis-sion to the art museums of Berlin of young girls unless under the guidance of teachers or parents. Queen Victoria has not worn her royal crown since she opened parliament many years ago, and her imperial diadem has lain in ; diBuse since it was first placed on her head as Empress of India. The first Indian woman to prepare pre-pare herself for nursing by a scientific training is Nancy Cornelius, Corne-lius, of the Indian school at Carlisle, Car-lisle, Pa., who has just received a diploma in the Hartford training school for nurses. An old maids' insurance company com-pany has been opened in Denmark. Girls can insure themselves for a small sum on reaching the age of 13, and if still unmarried at 40 are entitled to a regular allowance. If they marry, however, they forfeit all clai ins. There are probably a thousand women in Pittsburg who work in j iron mills making bolts, nuts, 1 hinges and barbed wire. It seems almost incredible that girls should be employed in an occupation which is associated only with brawn and muscle, but such is the case. Cincinnati lias an institution, founded by women for women, which rejoices in the double distinction dis-tinction of being the only hospital, woman's medical college and free dispensary combined, and the only one in the United States founded, managed and controlled by women. Special provision is made for preparing pre-paring young women for work in medical missions. Read Th.-j Bugler's offer to subscribers sub-scribers and take advantage of it. The New York Suji estimates that the wealth of the United States exceeds that of Great Britain by more than thirteen thousand millions of dollars, and that Great Britain being richer than any other European state, we are warranted in describing our own people as the richest in the world. Now is the time to pay in advance ad-vance and secure the benefits of our big offers. Every subscriber should have the "American Farmer" Far-mer" and "Woman's Work," They are splendid monthly magazines. |