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WOMAN'S WORLD.
THE WORLD'S W. C. T. U, CONVEN-
| TION AT TORONTO.
New England Women — Secret of Tying
Bows—Women Have Never Done the
\ Really Big Things—A Famous Toast Re-
| sponse—A Fair Field For Women.
Miss Agnes E. Slack, secretary of the
World’s Women’s Christian Temperance
union, is a fair English girl with chest-
nut brown hair, blue eyes and the fresh
complexion which our cousins across
the water usually possess. Miss Slack is
gifted in a high degree with eloquence
and logic, which give her great power
as a public speaker. She was in Ameri-
ca last year for about four months, dur-
ing which time she spoke in nearly
every largo city from Maine to Missouri.
Philadelphia had the privilege of one
lecture, which the white ribboners
greatly enjoyed. Miss Slack is at pres-
ent a guest of Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens of
Portland, Me. She will remain in this
country until after the world’s conven-
tion at Toronto.
An outline of the programme sent
out by her announces that the world’s
foe
| 4” MISS AGNES E. SLACK.
executive committee will meet Oct. 22
and 27, the convention being from Oct.
23 to 26 inclusive. Each morning there
will be a devotional meeting at 8:30
o'clock, conducted by Miss Greenwood,
the superintendent of evangelistic work,
who will also have charge of the devo-
tional hour from 11 to 12 o’clock on
Saturday and Tuesday, On Monday at
that hour a memorial service will be
held, Miss Willard presiding. Lady
Henry Somcrset will preach the special
convention sermon on Oct. 24. Nearly
all pulpits in Toronto will be occupied
by white ribboners ‘on that day,
Miss Willard will give the prézidert’s
address on the morning of Oct. 23.
Canada is to give a banquet and recep-
tion to the delegates on the evening of
Oct. 22. On Saturday afternoon notable
people and representatives of philan-
thropioe, religious and temperance socie-
ties will be received and introduced to
the convention.—Philadelphia Times.
i A eeet—
: New England Women.
» New England women, with all their
interest in literary and educational
matters, by no means neglect the do-
mestic side. As individuals they ¥ain-
tain the early reputation of the New
England housewife, and in organiza-
tions they are making a careful study
of domestic science and household eco-
nomics. The New England kitchen, still
carried on by a group of Boston women,
is a practical example of what science
can do for the homely art of cooking.
The latest work undertaken by the la-
dies in charge of this kitchen is that of
supplying wholesome luncheons to the
boys and girls in certain public schools.
upon the obliging clerk smilingly cut
off another length. ‘‘It is no secret,’
she said, ‘‘and we only do it to oblige
our customers. See, this is the princi-
ple. ”»
She tied first an ordinary double bow
knot, quite small and rather loosely;
then, taking up an extra quantity of
ribbon, she passed it in and out through
the tie in the center on the underside,
making two additional loops; then, tak-
ing the original two loops, she pulled
the knot fast and tight and small in the
center.
‘‘See, now you have four loops and
0 ends,’’ she said. ‘Would you like
six?’’ And, loosening the knot a little,
she again passed the ribbon in and out,
forming a couple more; then, giving
the two original loops a jerk, she com-
pleted the bow.
‘“You can have as many loops as you
like,’ she explained, ‘‘and the rest of
the arrangement depends entirely on
the way the loops are pulled and shaped.
Some of the newest bows have the loops
cut diagonally, so as to form a collec-
tion of sharp pointed ends. These bows
are particularly p:ettyfor hats. It is
also advisable,’”’ she concluded, ‘‘to
take a stitch in the center knot when
the bow is finished, to prevent its unty-
ing if the right end is pulled.”’—New
York Letter.
Have Never Done the Big Things.
Hundreds of college bred women have
been and are capably and efficiently
engaged in teaching, and a few have
gained a certain distinction as presi-
dents and professors in colleges for
women, but no great and original edu-
cator has come from among them. Oc-
casionally a determined young graduate
gets a foothold in a newspaper office
and usually keeps it with credit to her-
self .and her higher education, yet the
few women editors of eminence have
not been college bred, and there is noth-
ing to be gained by concealing the fact
that the college women who have un-
dertaken journalism seem, as yet, to
have had no influence in sweetening the
flood of sensational and nasty print for
which the newspaper women of the
country must bear their share of dis-
credit with the newspaper men.
The number of college women who
have taken up medicine is considerable,
some of them, no doubt, from a real
love of science, and some for love of a
career. While their work has been able
and their success undoubted itis just
to say that they have not contributed
originally to medical science. There
are a few women collegiang in law, in
literature, in the pulpit and in other
professions, and their helpfulness and
enthusiasm have been especially notice-
able in educational and philanthropic
work. In all these fields of usefulness
the work of college women, ‘‘taken by
and large,’’ has been good, honest, com-
petent work, about like that of the
average industrious man, but it bas
been derivative, not creative; comple-
mental, not brilliant, offering little
opportunity for sex celebration on the
part of those enthusiasts who believe
that women have nceded only adiploma
and a ballot to be brilliantly equipped
for conquering all the world that men
have left unconquered.—Helen Watter-
son Moody in Scribner's.
A Famous Toast Besponse.
Somé years ago, when the New Cen-
tury club was celebrating by a lanch-
eon one of the early anniversaries of its
chartered existence, a toast was given,
a familiar one, but with slight altera-
tions. Mrs. Edward Wetherill replied
to it in a neat and witty speech which
excited admiration and merriment at
the time and which has sipce become
famous. Its fame is not allowed to die,
for every now and again inquiries are
made as to what the toast yas and how
it was answered:
Five cent and 10 cent luncheons are
provided daily to 1,600 children, who |
otherwise would stay their hunge¥ with |
the indigestible confections of soma
neighboring pastry shop. New England
‘women are making constant ‘effoits to
introduce cocking into the public
schools, sometimes through ‘one organi-
zation, sometimes ¢firough another.
Boston had the ¥rst public school
kitchen in Ameri¢a, and the generosity
‘of Mrs. Quidey A. Shaw was largely
instrumental in having cooking made
part of ‘the'public school curriculum. In
Providence the same work was accom-
‘plistied by the ladies of the Domestic
Training association. Cooking was in-
Yroduced into the public schools of
Manchester, N. H., through the Wom-
en’s Christian Temperance union, and
women were instrumental in introduc-
ing the same branch into the Concord
‘public schools. The women of Rhode
Island and Connecticut, through vari-
ous organizations, are showing an in-
terest in scientific cooking, and in Ver-
mont good work is accomplished in this
direction by means of the farmers’ in-
stitutes.
Several groups of women in New
England are turning their attention to
the ever urgent servant problem. The
belief is spreading that almost the only
golution lies in establishing well
equipped training schools. The mem-
bers of the Boston Young Women’s
Christian association for many years
have maintained an admirable free
training school for domestics. The
graduates from its six months’ course
are always in great demand, and its
only defect is that limited quarters pre-
vent its having more than a score of
students at a time.—Harper’s Bazar
Secret of Tying Bows.
| There is a certain shop in Twenty-
third street where the most fascinating
bows are tied for the asking—dJapanese
bows for the waistband, bows for the
hat, Bernhardt bows for the neck, ete.
One has only to purchase the ribbcn
and explain what is wanted, and, pres-
to, the white fingers of the pretty sales-
woman flash ‘in and cut of the loops of
‘ribbon, ard the bow is made.
“I will buy another waist ribbon if
The Househoid is glad, therefore, to
offer to it4 enders the bona fide toast
and peshalise, ‘The men—Ilovely men—
God bless Jem.”
“They double our cares, they divide
our joys. How generously and unstint-
ingly they give us—advice! How bold-
ly they stand in solid phalanx to shield
us from the rude crowds around thé
ballot box! How gladly they protect us
from the contaminating influences of
the courtroom! How tenderly they have
drawn us from the evils of equal educa-
tion and have carefully pointed out to
us the pitfalls in the paths which lead
to fortunes. At what cost, at what sac-
rifice they erect before our admiring
eyes their beautiful clubhouses! Here
they must meet, day after day, deprived
of the presence of her who alone brings
light and joy inte their lives. No miu-
istering angel to hand the cup of solace,
no fair divinity to warm the slippers
for the weary feet.
‘As fathers they ‘are indispensable;
as brothers they are open to criticism;
as lovers they are irreproachable; as
husbands we know none better; as men
we can only say, ‘With all their faults
we love them still.” ”’
A Fair Field For Women.
All we women who are active in
business or professions want is a fair
field and no favor. We ask for nothing
on the ground of sex. We are willing
to compete with and work with men on
their own ground and desire to be
measured by the same standards. We
demand no courtesy further than that
which prevails between gentlemen. We
expect no deference. In business life
men and women are simply workers,
and the more the element of sex is in-
truded the greater the interference with
the success of women.
I know of a young woman who went
into a newspaper office on a purely busi-
ness errand—to sell an article, in fact—
and was indignant because the reporters,
all of whom were busy writing, did
not jump to their feet and offer her a
geat. They were absorbed in their work,
and most of them were probably ancon-
gcious of her presence. Perhaps 26
women enter the office of a great New
York daily every day. You can easily
see how it would interfere with busi-
ness if the reporters should immediate-
Jou will go more slowly and let me see
ow you doit,’ said a customer, where-
| ly stop writing and pay them the little i
i
' attentions they are acoustomed to in the
| drawing room. The woman who ex-
pects these shows her ignorance of busi-
ness. If they are necessary to her peace
of mind, she is out of place in the busi-
ness world. —Margaret E. Sangster in
Demorest’s Magazine.
Woman and the State.
Touching a recent symposium (on
woman), ‘‘Should the Services of
Women Be Recognized by the State?”
is the following opinion from Mrs, Vic-
toria Woodhull-Martin. Mrs. Martin is
the founder and editor of The Humani-
tarian, published in London. ‘‘Of
course I believe that women should be
duly honored, and if they distinguish
themselves in any field—science, art,
literature, politics or any other figld—
the same rewards should be open to
them as men. But I do not approve of
u special order or decoration for women
only. It would suffice that they should
be eligible for all the existing orders
for men, from which women are now
equal terms with man in all spheres
and receiving equal rewards, no more
and no less. Then the best will come to
the front without distinction of sex. To
me orders and decorations matter lit-
tle. They are of no value in themselves.
‘Honor, not honors,’ is my motto, but,
all the same, there is no reason why
women should be debarred from receiv-
ing them. In a country where a woman
is ‘the fountain of honor’ this is surely
a strange anomaly. ’’
The Single Woman.
ried woman, even at her best estate, is
always more or less restricted and ham-
pered. It isnot the fault of her husband
so much as of church, state and society.
The single woman is free to make of
her life what she will. The single life
is the life of liberty and splendid
achievement—achievement which the
married woman can hope to attain
only under exceptionally favorable con-
diticns. Let those who enjoy the single
life, therefore, glory in its independence
appellation ‘‘miss’’ and make the most |
of their freedcm. The title ‘miss’ can-
not take awsy from their dignity; the |
free, gloricus woman herself is beyond
all trivialities of that sort.—Eliza
Archard Conner.
The Principle Involved.
The question how women would vote
on certain matters—whether they would
vote for temperance or against it or in
favor of gambling or prizefights—has
little to do with the main principle in-
volved. We are face to face with tne
fact that many thousands of women in
this country are thoroughly qualified to
vote, and they pay taxes without repre-
sentation. The state may or may not
need the intelligence or moral power
which they represent. But has it any
right to deprive them of this function
of citizenship? And are those who are
able and willing to perform their duties
in this respect to be proscribed from
voting because many women, like many
men, place little value on the right of
suffrage?—Roston Christian Register. |
Professor of Botany.
Miss Bertha Stoneman, a student in
the botanic department of Cornell uni-
versity for several years, who received
the degree of doctor of philosophy there
in 1895, has been appointed professor
of botany in the Huguenot college at
Cape Colony, South Africa. She sailed
from New York, July 24. The Hugue-
not college was established for the edu-
cation of daughters of the French and
Dutch Huguenot and English residents
of South Africa. Miss Stoneman wus
graduated from the high school at
Jamestown, N. Y., and before reaching
her thirtieth year attained the honors
of bachelor, master, doctor and profess-
or. She is a niece of Miss Kate Stone-
man of Albany.
The Next Century Test.
Man is not meant to be a creature of
one activity. The test of the nineteenth
century was the enfranchisement of
man and the exaltation of woman. The
test of the twentieth century will be
just the reverse—woman’s enfranchise-
ment and man’sexaltation, There is no
antagonism between the two. One river
of blood, one battery of brain, unites
the human race. Every woman is some
man’s daughter and every man is some
woman’s son, ~-Miss Frances Willard.
A Brave Woman.
Mrs. Florence Sparrel of Boston is
one of the bravest women of the cen-
tury. She attacks all the medieval
abrees which linger in the prison sys-
tems of America, and in many instances
has ‘secured the abolition of ‘‘bread and
water’’ and ‘‘solitary confinement.”
She has shown the iniquity of depriving
saint or sinner of God’s light and of
plunging human souls into darkness to
prey on their own misfortunes.
No wonder so many fellows think
that ‘‘coeduncation is a failure.” For
instance, 25 of the pupils who reached
the highest grades this year in the
prammar schools of Chicago were boys,
while 197 were girls,—Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The passage of a bill against the
wearing of high hats in theaters has
caused a split in Atlanta soeiety. It is
said that the young women are indig-
nant at the bill, while the matrons up-
hold it on the plea of comfort.
The head waiter will have to lock to
his laurels. The head waitress is dis-
placing him in certain New England
hotels. As is usually the case, the
women are doing the work well. —New
York Tribune,
Two hundred and twenty-one persons
recently took a civil servico examina-
| tion for street inspector at Chicago, and
a woman stood first in the result,
There are 215 women serving on
school committees in Massachusetts.
debarred by a mere accident of sex. I
am in favor of woman competing on!
Under present conditions the mar-'jpMyg,
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PRETTY AND PRACTICAL,
A Handsome Indiana Widow Who Owns
and Operates a Big Farm,
Mrs. Adelaide KE. Sherry of West
Point, Ind., is the owner and manager
of one of the largest farms in the Hoo-
sier State. She is a young widow of
versatile capabilities. Her farm of
1,000 acres lies ten miles south of La-
fayette and nine miles north wf the
celebrated Baden Baden springs. Two
hundred walnut trees of 50 years’
rounding the handsome buildings, giv.
ing the estate its name, Walnut Lodge.
Sherry hires and directs her large
corps of assistants, indoors and out,
entertains generously, drives over the
estate daily, buys pigs and calves, ships
Percheron horses to Germany, cattle
and hogs to Chicago, cribs annually an
average of 10,000~bushels of corn, trav-
els extensively and writes for publica-
tions. Mrs. Sherry has lately returned
from a sojourn in the Holy Land, and,
‘‘after husking done,’’ she purposes in-
vestigating occult philosophy among
the mahatmas in gheir mountain abodes
and opportunify. Let them keep the jn India,
‘Women Who Write.
Conan Doyle seems to be the especial
title ‘Mrs.’ cannot add to it. The Champion of the literary woman. Just
now he is defending and eulogizing her
style, which, he says, whether it be
plain or florid, is always clear and com-
prehensive. ‘‘No woman that I can
recollect,’”’ he says, ‘“has ever been
tempted into the heresy of preciosity.
The word style, which in France has
always been synonymous with lucidity,
has in England become more and more | arranged high when a veil is worn) un-
identified with obscurity, so that if you | der a cluster of orange blossoms.
learn a new writer is a stylist you near- | long, pointed sleeves, prettily full at
ly always find a difficulty in under-
standing what he means.
style, like the best glass, is that which
is so clear that you do not observe it.
Some of our critics are fond of talking
growth rise from a lawn of 4 acres sur- |
"| or city is perhaps quite ready for a pub-
The best | real point lace, and a frill in harmony
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Publi and private institutions.
A Broad Minded Woman.
The president of the Denver Wom-
an's club, Mrs. Sarah 8. Platt, is a
broad minded woman who believes
that the opportunities of a big, broad
department club are great. In the first
place, she instances the value of the
training in the club life, the managing
of finances, hiring and building club-
houses and libraries, arranging lecture
courses, eto., which bears fruit in the
systematic and orderly methods the
clubwoman uses in conducting chari-
table boards and the business of large
“One
great opportunity for the club,’”’ she
says, ‘‘comes from the fact that a town
lic movement for improvement along
charitable or esthetic lines if some re-
sponsible body will lead the way. When
so large a number of earnest women
propose a measure, it is quite certain
to meet with great encouragement. If
a woman's club will have the wisdom
to work slowly, patiently and reason-
ably, there is almost no limit to ite op-
portunity in every direction in any com-
munity. ’’—New York Times
Mrs. Seddon’s Opinion,
Mrs. Seddon, wife of the premier of
New Zealand, was among the honored
visitors to Queen Viotoria’s « jubilee.
While they were in London she gave
her opinion of the success of woman
suffrage in that colony. Mrs. Seddon
had been herself opposed to woman
suffrage, and it was not until after it
had been approved by experience that
she changed her mind, The votes of
women have for two elections aided in
keeping in power the Liberal party,
which gave them the ballot. Mrs, Sed-
don says that there has been no disturb-
ance or unpleasantness of any sort at
the polls, no discord of family and no
attempt on the part of priests or minis-
ters to manipulate the women’s vote.
Those formerly opposed to woman suf-
frage are now eager to record their
votes, and women attend political meet-
ings as well as men. They ask questions
of candidates, make speeches, move
resolutions, ete., and the majority of
them are temperance advocates,
Beautiful Costume For a Bride.
A beautiful wedding costume for a
bride, veil and all, is described in The
Ladies’ Home Journal by Isabel A.
Mallon: ‘‘The gown is of white satin—
that beautiful cream white that you ad-
mired so much—and it is made with a
full but plain skirt. The tulle veil, not
worn over the face, is fastened to the
high coiffure (the hair must always be
The
the shoulders, are finished with frills of
FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
SWIMMING TRICKS.
How to Float Easily or to Stay Under the
Water a Long Time. {
Plain swimming, with ite attendant
diving, treading water, floating and
rolling in the warm sand, is quite good
enough sport for most young people,
but there are a number of tricks and
games in swimming which will help to
make the sport more fascinating than
it is,
Few people realize how very nearly
the human body comes to floating. Drop
your arm loosely in the water and it
will rest near the surface, buoyed in its
place by the pressure of the water. If
it were not for the weight of the head in
proportion to the weight of the body,
a man would swim as ecsily and nat-
urally as a horse or a dog. With these
facts in mind the good swimmer or
floater keeps as much of his body under
the surface of the water as he can. On
the same principle a swimmer may keep
himself afloat by holding a very small
piece of wood in each hand, provided
he allows himself to sink deep into the
water in the position shown in the pie-
ture. Any boy or girl may readily test
this plan. It merely requires a little
confidence in letting the body so deep
into the water.
A big Swede named Stromberg, who
made himself famous several years ago
as a swimmer, well knew this plan.
Sometimes in making long practice
swims he took with him a compact
piece of cork four or five inches square
by about two inches thick. This he
fastened to the back of his head by
means of a small strap which ran
around under his chin. When he grew
tired and needed a rest, he would turn
on his back and sink deep into the wa-
ter. The cork float under his head was
almost sufficient to buoy him up.
A boy who falls overboard from a
ship, if he keeps cool and does not try
flares out at the back of the crush col-
lar. The crush belt is laid in soft folds |
and does not show its fastening, which '
of purple patches, but purple patches | is at the side. You will be wise in hav-
were never a sign of health. Now, in
ing no orange blossoms on your gown.
this respect, I think the ladies have al- | They would have to be removed imme-
ways been on the side of sanity, and I | diately after the wedding.”
do not think that any one could have a
better model of prose romance than such |
writers as Olive Schreiner or Miss Wil-
kins, ”’
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Her “Last Rose of Summer.”
Mrs. Amelia Kohler, who died re-
cently at Mount Vernon, N. Y., sug-
gested, it is said, Tom Moore’s beauti-
ful poem, ‘‘The Last Rose of Summer.”
She was, early in the century, a close
friend of Moore’s sister, who kept a
private school in London. While walk-
ing in the garden of the school with the
poet one day she, so the story runs,
plucked a rose, remarking: ‘‘ ’Tis the
last rose of summer. Why not write
about it, Mr. Moore?’ The incident
suggested the thought afterward so beau- |
tifully woven into verse, and the poem
svas dedicated by the poet ‘‘C'o Amelia.”
died. Her father was an officer under
Blucher, and she frequently spoke of
having seen Napoleon in her girlhood.
. Anna Botsford Comstock,
Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock of
(Ithaca, N. Y., has been giving a course
lof lectures on ‘‘Nature Study’’ at the
| New York Chautauqua. Her husband,
| John Henry Comstock, is professor of
entomology in Cornell university and
has .just published a book, ‘‘Insect
| Life,”” profusely illustrated by his wife.
Mrs. Comstock learned the art of wood
more delicate work could be done by
this means. She knows all about in-
S.
instincts, homes and Lab
Vandykes.
Vandykes in both large and small
points, bands of black guipure inser-
tion, silk cord appliques resembling
either braidwork or embroidery in their
patterns, slight draperies, narrow vel-
vet ribbon, accordion plaited frills, tiny
ruches in one or many rows, milliner?’
folds, gimps, galloons and stitched
bands will each and all appear as trim-
mings on the fronts, sides or around
autumn season.—New York Post.
Neckbands and Bows.
Like the skirts and sleeves, the neck-
bands and bows which have been a
| prominent feature of fashion for so
| many seasons are considerably reduced
lin size on bodices made by ‘‘exclusiye’’
dressmakers, who exclude a detail of
dress the moment it becomes general.
The new models, says a New York
fashion writer, have narrcwer folded
bands, with very modest frills of lace or
chiffon above, or else two vandykes of
moire velvet or silk. \
‘When Women Will Have Homes.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson as-
gerts that men are the only members of
the community who have homes. Wom-
{en have to sleep and live and eat in the
Iplace where they do their work. She
thinks that the greater partof the work
!aow done in the family dwelling is des-
tined eventually to be removed from its
social precincts, and when this is done,
she says, women will have homes.
A | freedom of masculine habiliments?’’
Mis. Kohler was 92 years old when she |
gects—their domestic economy, social |
|
Dr. Mary Walker's Answer.
Dr. Mary Walker was asked the other
day if she still liked trousers. Her an-'
swer was:
“Like them?’’ The counter question
was rife with meaning. ‘‘ You poor be *
nighted woman, you who have all your
life gone groping about in rainy weather |
with a skirt flapping about your ankles
and hitting the 5 of your socks—
your stockings, excuse me—as you held
it up; you who have had the wind
blowing a lot of silly lace and silk
about your knees; you who have worn | Z:
feathered and flowered headgear that |
either tilts over your eyes until you
can’t see or sits back and gives you
neuralgia in the top of your head— |:
what do you know of the comfort and |
Why, indeed?
Women constitute a large majority ot
the educators of America. At the Na-
tional Teachers’ association which met
recently in Milwaukee women were as
much in evidence as men. They read
papers, delivered addresses and made
impromptu speeches as well as the mas-
culine delegates. Both sexes shared
equally in the labor which made the
gathering such a ‘‘feast of reason and
flow of soul.”” They divided the work,
but what 2bout the honors? In the list
| : 3 : of officers elected for the ensuing year
aving for this purpose, finding that | J
ngrave Dupes 8 114° | not a woman’s name appears.
Why ?—
Union |. znal.
Mrs. J. G. Sperry.
Mrs, J. G. Sperry is one of the most
| to raise himself out of the water, as
many frightened people do, can keep
float for sowe time by paddling gen-
tly, his clothing acting as a float until
t become 11 scaked.
Que cl the ¢reatest sports “‘in swim-
" may be had with a small rub-
Ler tube 10 or 12 feet long. Two large
er ptr enools should be Lastened to the
I'y crowding the rab-
nto t le ia the middle of each,
142 22:t been enlarged with a
| We
rine
€nas of 1
) 3
{ {
vs one of
the spools tu float on
fl tle surface of the
{ water or f nus it ncur a stone or log
on shore o xt to a stake driven into
the water. Then he places the other
spool in his mouth and sinks out of
sight under the water. Of course he
can breathe through the tube and he
can remain a considerable length of
time without rising to the surface. Any
boy will readily imagine the various
pranks that may be played with such
an invention. It will also be found use-
ful in diving for lost objects.—Chicago
Record.
Busy and Not Afraid.
Longlegs, idling on a log,
watching a busy little bug
¢‘By the way, I've had no dinner,”
Said his legship, ‘‘today,
So I'll catch and eat that crisp, brisk, bus)
tle thing.”
So he stirred himself for jumping
quick, sly spring,
Old Daddy
Greedily
lit
with a
| inte: «sted workers in the west for prison When—
I refcim. For 16 years she has been con-
the hems of new dress skirts for the
n-cted with the Pueblo Benevolent
U ..ion house and hospital in Colorado,
« which she is now the superintendent.
(Ars. Sperry is a voter. By her wfla-
ence the laws of the state have been
changed so as to give women whose
husbands are miserable, drunken and
good for nothing a chance to care for
themselves and their children without
molestation, — Woman’s Journal.
Helps the Needy.
Mrs. Livermore lately said in a pri-
vate letter to a friend who asked her to
us® her influence in behalf of a deserv-
ing case, and at the same time apolo-
‘gized for troubling her: ‘‘You need
have no scruple about ‘troubling’ me
with any application for help for those
who need it. It is my business to attend
to these things and to make myself as
useful as I can.” It was a beautiful
answer, asd Mrs. Livermore lives up to
it.
| Women as Inspectors,
The women who have been appointed
by the beard of education in New York
city aschairmen of the board of inspect-
ors are: Mrs. Matilda Martin, Third
district; Mrs. Henrietta Neylan, First
district: Mrs. Phyllis Leveridge, Fifth |
district; Mrs. Minnie D. Louis, Nine-
teenth district; Mrs. Clara M. Williams,
Twenty-fourth districts Mrs, T. oJ.
Rush, Thirty-third district. Of the 174
| inspecters 44 are women.
Little Robin Redbreast, sunning on a rail,
All at once with pleasure waggled his saucy
little tail.
“Now, as I hay
br
I'll surpris
round and .
80 he fluttered up and perked Lis head
expectant way,
When—
no dinner,” said the red-
dle down Mr. Louglegs,
in an
Miss Pussy Green Eyes, stretched along a
bough,
Caught the fluttering of the redbreast’s plum-
age just below.
Says puss, ‘As not a morsel I've found to eat
today,
It's lucky such a nice, plump robin crossed my
way."
So she slowly crept along like a puss sure of
{ her prey,
When—
Down bounced an apple from anch o'er
| head,
And Only Pussy Green Ej
| as in a t she fle
i
|
Robin Redbr t looked ‘a
the air he sped,
And Daddy Longlegs seran
protecting log,
1 This all made no sort of dif
| little bug.
—Auntie Beth iu
Greenland Boys.
Greenland boys are gicat egg «
ors. As soon as the gulls and
birds that nest in the far north apj
in the spring the work begins. No 1
who has not practiced a great de
climbing the rough mountain side
creeping over the glaciers is allo
venture on the perilous task.