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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1894
Page
6
A Chicago Record piece extols women influencing dress through doll-sized models, arguing for a new era in fashion. It contrasts modern doll fashion with historic plates, urging women to tailor styles to individual body types for better-era dress sensibilities.
The New York Court of Appeals upholds Justice Williams and general term rulings that the state constitution bars women from voting for county school commissioners. The decision allows continued voting for town and city school boards and notes possible municipal suffrage expansion. The Illinois case parallels the distinction between offices named in the constitution and those not named.
London papers hail the energetic instructor Mrs Wordsworth teaching skirt dancing to about 10 000 pupils. She aims to improve grace among English girls and even tutored Princess Beatrice’s children, though Windsor visit revealed royal nerves tested by her forcible method. Also noted is Mrs Richardson Clover among young Washington women pursuing business.
A Boston Journal summary notes Mrs. Cleveland’s household management. She pays high wages, keeps many White House staff, and they stay years. Servants enjoy both nights out and in, have dedicated spaces, and attend church, while duties remain paramount.
A Boston Herald report criticizes gendered labor gaps noting unemployed women lack training and suitable tasks. Charwomen cannot sew and heavy housework diminishes sewing ability, leaving many applicants unable to sew. The Bedford Street sewing room can only employ a small fraction, while relief committees confront many in need and evident inefficiency.
The article notes the Denver YMCA and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union denying opposition to woman suffrage while recounting decades of advocacy. It credits suffragists for Governor Pope’s 1870 effort, school suffrage in 1876, and a 1877 campaign, urging continued vigorous cooperation to secure the movement's future.
The Welsh Ladies' Choir, prize winners in Chicago, are invited to perform at Osborne on February 8. The queen has been unusually gay this season with tableaux, concerts, and theatricals weekly since Christmas, and a costly Indian room annex exists. Her majesty plans to attend the Duke of Hesse's wedding shortly after Easter, likely meeting Emperor William.
A clipped item notes distress in the Prince of Wales family with somber tones and mentions color as a descriptive element. The fragment hints at solemn news surrounding royal circles without detailing specifics.
London correspondent notes the princess has avoided public duties for months and seldom appears with her husband. She rarely stays in the same house as him, with chronic melancholy reportedly affecting her. The prince’s health is described as worrisome and rumors of retirement from society are unsettled after an official denial.
Mrs Dr Wynkoop is heavily involved in charity work in New York. She serves as a director of the Bible and Fruit mission and has recently become president of the Marion Street Lying-in hospital with Dr Thomas Koch. Her most active effort focuses on prison welfare and the children left destitute by incarcerated parents.
Miss Annie R. Taylor recounts a journey in Tibet described in The Scottish Geographical Magazine. She speaks Lhassa, wears Tibetan dress, nears the sacred city within three days, is betrayed by a Chinese servant, returns to China after seven months abroad, enduring hardships but arriving safely.
The newly elected mayor of Pleasanton, Anna Austini, is urged to use the title mayor rather than mayoress. English usage assigns mayoress to the wife of a mayor without executive authority, while Austini holds the actual office.
The Chautauqua summer school has one woman member on its faculty Mrs P B McClintock wife of Professor W D McClintock. Both husband and wife serve on the Chicago university staff with Mrs McClintock specializing in Anglo Saxon language and literature.
Dr Orpha D Baldwin was unanimously elected president of the Homeopathic Medical society of Multnomah county Oregon at the last meeting. She graduated from Boston University in 1885 and has lived in Portland three years serving as attending physician at the Baby Home caring for 80 to 40 orphans.
Miss Louise Stockton sister of Frank R Stockton and a Philadelphia resident forms a Round Robbin Reading club to promote systematic study of literature. Instruction is done by correspondence and readings occur at home or in clubs and circles for the purpose.
The chief speaker at a New York revival meeting was Emma Van Norden the bankers daughter who joined the Salvation Army a year and a half ago. Several fashionable families are said to be represented at the revival meetings. England Moves Toward Women’s Suffrage in Parliament
The item surveys women in arts and society from the United States and Europe. It notes Mrs. Charles Avery Doremus, author and wife of a New York physician, and reports on temperance actions in Norway restricting women's work in pubs. It also mentions a London journalist Miss Sparrow, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, Mrs. Sheridan, women’s fiction schools in London, Boston nickel meals for women, and Michigan penitentiaries with no female convicts.
A New York Sun report describes traveling saleswomen who outpace male rivals. It cites Miss Virginia Pools selling perfume, Miss Arline Carson selling millinery, Mrs. K. B. Henry steering a firm route after her husband's death, and Miss M. A. Wilkins traveling Philadelphia children's wear. The piece notes effective hotel showrooms, frequent town visits, and substantial annual sales.
Mr Burns asked if 50,000 female workers in Belfast factories lacked a resident inspector. Mr Asquith noted inspectors are itinerant and Miss Abraham has visited Belfast. He said only four lady inspectors cover the UK and none could reside permanently in Ireland. Burns pressed but received no answer.
Miss Gertrude Sickler of Wilton suffered monthly with severe menstrual pain and fits. Doctors failed to help until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her symptoms and cured her, prompting gratitude to Mrs Pinkham.
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