re of their daughters as well as of their sons.

Our legislature passed a law requiring physiology to be taught in
the public schools, while the vast majority of the teachers of
the State are women, and no college in which that science is
taught is open to them. In 1885, Dr. Chaille gave a course of
free lectures on physiology and anatomy for the benefit of the
New Orleans teachers, who, while they are doing the most
important-public work in training the rising generation in the
rudiments of learning, are denied the advantages of the higher
education that would fit them for the duties of their profession.
A fitting precedent for the action of our rulers may be found in
Shakespeare's, "Titus Andronicus," in which rude men seize the
king's daughter, cut out her tongue and cut off her hands, and
then bid her go call for water and wash her hands.

The State Pharmaceutical Association, formed in 1882 with 110
members, unanimously elected Miss Eliza Rudolph a member. Miss
Rudolph was then the only woman in the drug business. Having been
refused admission to the medical college of the State University,
she perfected herself in pharmacy by a course of private
lectures. In 1884 she was elected corresponding secretary of the
association.

The _Daily Picayune_, in closing its half-century, gives the
following of Mrs. E. J. Nicholson, its chief owner and manager
since January, 1876:

"Pearl Rivers," the lady's _nom de plume_, was already well
known in the republic of letters before she became, as she
now is, the most eminent female journalist in the world,
largely owning and successfully directing for years a great
daily political journal. The fact is unique. The fame of
Mrs. Nicholson belongs to the world of letters and her
biography may be found in any dictionary of Southern
authors, nevertheless a history of the _Picayune_ would not
be complete without some notice of one who has had so much
to do with its destiny. Miss Eliza J. Poltevent is a native
of Hancock county, Mississippi. She was born on the banks of
one of the most beautiful streams in the South, Pearl river.
She wrote over the name of "Pearl Rivers," and her poems
made her a conspicuous niche in the temple of Sout