Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-12-26
WoMAN'S DEP ARTMENT.

augrsted by Mrs. Alexander Graham
Bell and Mrs. George KEENAN, Of
Washington. This work among the
natives is similar to the University
Settlement work in large cities. They
encouraged the Carpet-weaving indus.
try, established a school with a KIN
dergarten for the little ones. A
teacher was hired to instruct the fish
er-women in lace making, the girls
especially have developed great skill
and produce beautiful work. There
is club room aud free library, and
10 the summer, lectures are given be-
fore the "OuTrent Events Oluh," by
distinguished men from Boston and
Washington who visit the Bel's at
their summer home.
Miss Frances Abdulla, the daughter
OF an Arab chief established Jan. /,
1895, the Northern Dairy Farm Com
pany. at Allahabad, India, which has
achieved remarkable success
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote
"Curfew shall not ring tonight" lives
10 San Diego county, California.
Mrs. Carr of Pasadena, California,
has proved herself to be the stuff that
heroines are made, to read q descrip.
ton Of her present home and it's sur
rounding grounds reads like a story
Of fairy land; but in 1877 it was forty.
three acres Of barren pasture land, in
tested with rabbits, gophers, and
squirrelP, with the merest shanty Of a
house, to which she took her invalid
husband. Without assistance this
delicate women planted every acre
herself Working early and late, the
first year she planted seven acres with
citrus fruits; the next year ten with
walnut trees and pomegranites; and
continuing the work, at the close Of
four years the last trees we're in Che
ground. Five years from the time
Mrs. Carr bought the barren acres
the property had increased in value,
by the fortunate laying cut Of Pasa-
dena, from $75 to $4,000 per acre.
In the forests Of Gallicia, Austria,
trees are felled by electricity. The
tool used is in the form of an augur,
which is mounted on a carriage sup
piled with small electric motor, the
sugur is revolved and moved to and
fro at the same time. The work pro-
crosses very rapidly and with little
labor.
Another noble life ended through
che death Of Mr.. L. P. TibbaIs Of New
York. His was a life long Christian
career, philanthropist, and friend to
all christian missions, he was identif-
ed with the bowery mission Of New
York, and the originator of the modern
improved cheap lodging houses in the
bowery, the first one opened was at
No. $50, which was made clean and
furnished, it cost him about ore thous-
and dollars, he was q warm advocate
of temperance, and a great lover of
little children.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. O. Kinney mission
aries for the Sunday school union, in
Vermont are doing a good deal Of
good with the help Of a small ''tele-
scope organ" as music will often
touch where words will fail, this little
organ can be folded and carried in
the hand or put under the buggy seat
When open it stands about four feet
high.
Realized facts are more convincing
than many words of arguments aud
many a temperance lesson is brought
out in startling Incidents:
This is not temperance treatice,
but it has a bit Of fact in it that the
total abstainer may show to the beer
drinker, whenever occasion offers, says
the New York Mail and Express.
The attention of the New York hos
pital surgeons has been called to the
big number of bartenders that have
lost several fingers Of both hands with
in the past few years.
The first case was that OF an en-
ployee Of Bowery concert hall.
Three Of the fingers Of his right hand
and two of his left we're rotted away
when he called at Bellevue one day
and begged the doctors to explain the
reason. He said that MS duty was TO
n raw hpar for the thonaanda who viz