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Show Ladies' Corner. Notick. The Womnn's StillVage meeting will be licld in the Court House next Friday, May loth, at 3 p. in. All interested in the cause are cordially invited to attend. CIknia S. Pkikce, President. There are 58,000 women in England Eng-land enrolled in Trade Unions. Rosa Bonhcur lias just completed a painting for which she has refused refus-ed $00,000. The exhibit which Illinois women will make in the Woman's Building Build-ing at the World's Fair will be a model hospital, conducted entirely by women. Mrs. Harrison directs that no foreign for-eign goods arc to be used in the furniture of the White House except ex-cept when it is impossible to find the needed material in America. The London women who make shirts arc no better than they were when Hood wrote his "Song of the Shirt" for them. They are paid four cents for each shirt they make, and they average six in seventeen hours. A prominent New York physician physi-cian asserts that the constant chewing chew-ing of gum has produced weak minds in fourteen cases of young girls now under treatment, the constant con-stant moving of the mouth causing too great a strain on the head. Womcux's Work. It is not economy to spend hours over fancy work or fine needlework, if it leaves no time for reading. Drawn-work tidies, and hemstitched hem-stitched and embroidered table linen do not bring the cheer and plaesureto one's friends that does the companion ship of a bright, cultured woman. A case is reported of a specimen of the stronger sex who fell in love at sight and arranged with the young lady for an immediate elopement. elope-ment. The girl confided in her twin sister who locked her in her room, met the young man, married mar-ried him herself and then asked them both what they were going to do about it. She seemed to be the best man of the three. If the legislature should succeed in absolutely suppressing prostitution prostitu-tion in New York City for one week, . 20,000 women would be reduced to the verge of starvation, and there would not be room in the morgue for the corpses of those who would have drowned themselves; and the same is as true, in proportion to size of every other city in this great and glorious American republic. Ex. Frances Willard urges women to read the newspapers. She says: Women are a set of passivities on that subject, as a class; and I am never more annoyed for my "sext" than when the newsboy goes trotting trot-ting through at full speed, if he finds the car contains chiefly women, never dreaming that they want a paper. I clutch his sleeve with a vim, and buy one of every variety he has, and ask him what he is thinking about to lose patronage in that way. Gossip is nothing but small news the nickels, pennies dimes while the newspaper deals in dollars and fives and tens; so it widens the mind more to read the. newspaper than to gossip about the neighbors. |