Strong-Minded Women.
* Lkura*"John«bh, a Milwaukee gir 1, became f: . io indignant on reading a letter from her be« trotbedjid which ;he expressed the desire to break:off their engagement;, that she t ritd to ■natch the engagement ring from her finger, bat it was BQ-^rml; fixed that she could not .-"* retnoye-:it-. Seeing a hatchet near by, Bhe^, ?.. . then deliberately chopped.the fiager off and < - lerit it, tvitK the riog attached, to the faithless - +■:■■ lover. '■':■■'■'■.--. .Mrs Helen I/. Gapel, of Pleasantown, '< "Kansas,' ■'has abandoned the newspaper busi- * * lieasrftersonie years of aucceasful managemeat. In her valedictory the says, 'As the editor and business manager of: a newspaper my bosiness is more with men than with women, and my wort to be done snccessf ully viouskba.dona-.aa men do it,. If I do hot fol "low the .beaten patb, the business must suffer. If I-do my work like a man, lam made the -;- : inbjcct of such a continual funlade of maiicioi s gossip that I choose to abandon a profitaWlQ^busiaess rather than to bear it any longer, 1 '" " .'. $
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Southland Times, Issue 8095, 25 August 1885, Page 4
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172Strong-Minded Women. Southland Times, Issue 8095, 25 August 1885, Page 4
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