Of Interest To Women

Mra. Lillie Devereux Blake thinks that "every niarried woman should have an equal share of the fainily income." Mrs. Anna M, Diggs, of Lawrence, Kan., bas just been made secretary of the prohibition state central committee. The nnmber of women engaged in active juurnalism ie constantly increasing. The latent addition to the ruuks of newspaper women is an Iowa lady who is managing a daily paper. The New York Express nays that the oredit of securing women as inspectora of factories, ïsdue mostly to the Workingwoman's sooiety, whioh has found that such inspeotors are as necessary as police matrons. Dr. Mary Willis has been admitted to a membership in the Philadelphia medical society. The voting was done quietly, but when the result was made known it is said that the physioians present broke into loud enthusiastio cheers over the snecess of their sister in medicino. Miss Whitney, the astronomer at Vassar Ooilege, and Miss Bird, the astronomer at Smith college are now engaged in establishing the longitude of the Smith college observatory. The two observatories, Smith and Vassar, are connected by telegraph wire, and apparatus bas been arranged to register the time of the two colleges at each end of the line. The first prohibitionist in Pennsylvania was a woman named Margaret Quebec, who owned the present site of WUliamsport in 1753, and named it French Margaret's Town. Sbe was a Caiadian by birth, and prohibited all drink from her domain, and introdaced other refrmatory measures at a time when snifrage was not even thought about. An account of a yisit paid to her little town by a Moravian missionary to the Indiana has been published in the Historical Journal of Williamsport, Pa., by Hon. B. Lyon. Many women show a remarkable business tact. An example of what femimne enterprize can aocomplish is found in an interesting story of a New York woman who found not long ago thut her needs were far in excess of her means. She borro wed some money and went abroad, w bere she purchased wbatever was rare and beautiful in bric-a-brao and works of art. On her return she furmshed a number of houses and advertised them for sale. With a little engineering she managed to dispose of them all at a very comfortable profit. Her fortune now is estimated at between $300,000 and $500,000. Miss Mary A. Greene, a young lady who received from Boston university in June last the degren of bachelor of Iawp, magna cum laude, has just passed auccessfully the examination for admission to the bar of Suffolk county. Miss Qreene was the only woman in her olass at the law school, and graduated from the school with the higbest rank ever attained by a woman student there. It is currently reported that her examination papers at the bar were the most perfect of any preseuted by the thirtyfiye candidateB for admissiou to the bar. Miss Oreene intends to open an office in Boston in the fall. When EdisüD, genius and inventor as he is, had given two weeks of hia valuable time to going up and down on the New York elevated railroad, trying to discover what caused ito noise and a cure for it, he gave up the job. Then a little woman took it. She rode on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed at for her curiosity and pohtely snubbed by conductors and pausengers. But fche discovered what caused the noise, invented a remedy wbich was patented and sbe was paid a sum of $10,000 and a royalty forever. Her name is Mrs. Mary Walton and she lives in New York Oity.