What Women Like To Know

Crace S. Hurwood edits the Woman'a Department of the Henry (111.) Repub ican. The Woman's Congress, of whioh Mrs. Fulia Ward Howe ia president, will hold ts next meeting in New York City, Oot. 20, 27 and 38. Eaoh girl in Wellesley college perorms forty-fiye minutes' work each day. L'licro are three hundred girls, and every girl ia trained to do one kind of work quickly and well. The New England woman snffrage issociation may be oongratulated on ïavinjf held a very interesting and useul convention in Newport, on Thursday, Aug. 11, afternoon and evening. Miss Charlotte Morrill, of Brooklyn, whose paper received suoh universal notice at the Mount Holyoke Semicentenninl, has been spoken of as the jossible successor of Miss Freeman as iresident of Wellesley college. However mach the giving of political )ower to women may disasree with our lotions of propriety, we conclude that mng required by that first prerequisite o greater happiness, the law of equal reedom, such a concession is unquesionalby right and good. Mrs. Crawford, Paris correspondent of the London Daily News and Truth, s said to earn $10,000 a year by her pen. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has received i set of silver f rom the Sons of St . 3eorge, as a testimonial for her services the lodge on the occasion of the jueen's jubilee. Miss Kate Field lectured in Alaska to a large and attentive audience. Her subject was "An Eveniug with Dickens." t wüH a strange sight in the Mining camp of Juneau, the largest town in Alaska, to hear a woman's lecture. Mrs. Dr. Ellis, an American lady, is jhy8ician to the queen of Corea. 8he ïas apartments in the royal palace at 3eoul, and receives a yearly salary which is equal to 818,000. She is expected to visit the queen daily, and ■emains in cali when Her Majesty is ndisposed. Mrs. Mary Duane Humphreys has jeen presen ted with a magnificent gold medal f rom the Life saving benevolent association, of New York, tor her hsroism ii saving a young girl f rom drowning on :he llth of July. These little girls got jeyond their depth and were drowning. Mrs. Humphreys, who is an expert swimmer, was driving past. She saw at once ;hesituation, and, without a moment's .ïositation, plunged in with all herolotbes on. In twenty.eight feet of water she teized one of the drowning girls, and coming towards shore was met by a rowboat, which offered to take her in. "Never mind me," she cned. "Throw me an oar and go after those two other children." The presentation was an entire surprise to Mrs. Humphreys, who said, on receiving it, "I'm sure I don't deserve this honor. The little boy in the boat is the one who should have got a medal." Ought not such a woman to have a right to vote?