market-gardens; thirty-seven manage high institutions of
learning; one hundred and twenty-five are physicians; five
attorneys-at-law; ten ministers; three dentists; one hundred
and ten professional nurses, and one civil engineer.

In the summer of 1884, the Fort Dodge _Messenger_ had this
paragraph about a Des Moines family:

Miss Kate Tupper, of Des Moines, has been in town, visiting
at Mr. Bassett's for a few days. Kate comes of a family
which is remarkable for intelligent womanly effort and
success. Her mother is Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper, the Bee-queen
of Iowa, whose work on bee-culture is a recognized
authority everywhere; her eldest sister is a very eloquent
preacher at Colorado Springs; Miss Kate is studying
medicine, having taken herself through a full course at the
Agricultural College by her own work; and Miss Madge, who is
only sixteen, is a famous poultry raiser, and an officer of
the State Poultry Association, who has made money enough in
this business to defray her entire expenses through a full
collegiate course. Mrs. Tupper's family is a sufficient
answer to the question of woman's work, if there were no
other. Let any mother in Iowa show three boys who can beat
this.

In this year Mrs. Louisa B. Stevens was elected president of the
First National Bank at Marion, Linn county. The important
position women are taking in the business world is illustrated by
the presence of two delegates at the meeting of the American
Street Railway Association held in St. Louis in the autumn of
1885--Mrs. L. V. Gredenburg, proprietor and treasurer of the New
Albany Street Railway of New Albany, Ind., and Mrs. M. A. Turner,
secretary and treasurer of the Des Moines Railway, Des Moines,
Ia. One of the gentlemen expressed the belief that fully
$25,000,000 of street-railway stock in this country is owned by
women.

As to the distribution of the cardinal virtues between men and
women it is generally claimed that the former possess courage,
the latter fortitude. Although the pages of history are gilded
with innumerable instances of the remarkable courage of women of
all ages and conditions, and oftimes dimmed with the records of
cowardice in men of a