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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
TWO Women peteetive..

The largest New York "provider" en-
ploys two women detectives-Lena vor-
zemer and Eva Peyser. They are both
mere girls. They receive high salaries.
have the run Of lavish wardrobe and
completely change their attire twice a
day-so effectively that there Is hardly
shop thief in New York who is quito
sure Of the identity Of either OF them.
They have busy time of it, and they
make it practice never to arrest q THIEF
unless she-it is nearly always woman
has left the shop with the goods unpaid
for. They sometimes have to give chase to
their quarry should they arouse her sus-
picion before they can arrest hsr.--Asw
York Letter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
JACKETS FOR OUR SAILORS.
They Are Made by Sewing Women In the
Employ of the Navy Department.


The natty uniforms of the sailors and
marines of the United States navy are
made by corps of women employed by
the quartermaster of the Brooklyn navy
yard. They are we'll paid. and the posi-
ton of tailoress or seamstress is eagerly
sought for by women who earn living
by making garments. The waiting list
of the bureau of employment contains
more than 100 applicants. All work is
done by tho piece, and the wages vary
from So to S12 week.
The applicant must present her name
to the civil service board. Her applica-
ton must be signed by at least two rep
utable persons. Not only must she
come we'll recommended as seamstress,
but the condition of the workshop is
carefully considered. The quartermaster
makes it point that no work shall be
done in sweatshops or in places where
the clothing is likely to he infected.
Once appointed, the applicant visits
the tailor shops of the navy yard, where
she receives a bundle of goods to be
made up into garments. The govern
ment furnishes all the trimmings and
thread. From 30 to 80 bundles are is
sued every morning. 1t usually requires
two days to finish the garments. The
work is delivered and new lot issued.
The overcoats are made Of heavy cloth,
and the maker receives $2.8 apiece.
Drawers and undershirts for the men are
made of II ounce and ounce blue fan
nell The seamstress is paid Is cents for
each. The maker is paid Sc cents apiece
for cloth trousers and 30 cents for work
ing trousers. Overshirts of heavy and
light weight flannels pay 65 cents
apiece. Jumpers are made Of white drill
ing at so cents each.
Some of these women have been in
the employ of the navy yard from 10 to
30 years. The older employees are best
paid and make rarely less than $12 a
week.
The garments are for the enlisted men
only, as the officer supplies his own
wardrobe. The uniforms are issued at
the navy yard by the quartermaster.-
New York Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
TALE OF TWO BABIES.
True Story of Boston Life Related by
Radcliffe College Girl.

Radcliffe College Girl.
Tho car was crowded when reached
It. and there was only one vacant seat
In the front, which l was glad to occu-
py. Just as / settled back, with sigh
of satisfaction, even before ] had
chance to become curious about my
neighbor, heard from the rear of the
car a baby's fretful cry and wearied
mothers voice trying to soothe the tired
child. Mingled with these sounds came
second mothers tone, drawing but
oomplacent.
"Ned," she said, "hear that poor lit.
tie sing try. Ned Is dood baby. He
never criesp"
OF course my curiosity was aroused,
and turned to see the rival babies and
their mammas. The fussy little one was
In full sight One rosy cheek rested on
the shoulder of neat but travel stained
little woman. The pretty, baby blue
eyes were filled with tears, the chubby
little fellow was sucking his thumb and
doing his best to go to sleep, but the
time and the place were against him.
Ado pooiChos dul n CJ co VI ehO AhOeAoA
rested lovingly on the sweet, troubled
face Of her boy as she rocked him softly
in her arms.
All this saw in q moment, and
then tried to look beyond this interest
ing mother and her natural boy to that
wonderful baby that never cried and to
his proud parent. could not see them,
however, because the restless little head
hid them from me, but every now and
then there came to my ear the hush Of
one voice. followed by the proud tone Of
the other.
At last the train stopped with one of
those backing, humping motions with
which we are all familiar. Then the
terrified scream Of the thoroughly
aroused baby made the nervous mother
hasten to leave the car as quickly as
possible. Following her and close be-
hind her was fat woman, with wrin-
kles in the back Of her neck and a large,
snowy hat. She lifted her baby up with
one jeweled hand, and as she kissed him
ON the pug nose drawled out: "Ned's q
dood boy. Ned's mammals own sweet,
precious doggie. Boston Globe.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
WORKING WoMANs oRessMAklNe.
True Economy Is In Caring For Health.
Not In Saving Dressmakers' Bills.

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True Economy Is In Caring For Health,
Not In Saving Dressmakers' Bills.
Every one, so they say, has pet econ
omy, and the business woman, the work.
ing woman, always tries to economic
by doing her own dressmaking. She
likes to dress well, and it does seem SO
extrayagant to pay SO much for what
she might do herself. 1t requires a brave
woman to attack her headgear, but with
clever fingers and good taste a dress
doesn't seem such an undertaking, and
often it quite saves the price of another
gown.
But really you ought not to do it at
all. If your days work is fulfilled con-
scientiously, you ought to give the even
ings to rest and amusement. You would
only sit and read, you say3 Well. then,
just sit and read. Reading doesn't give
you that sharp pain in your side. Read
ing doesn't key you up to point Of fe-
verish excitement because you want to
get so much done.
If you like to sew you can always have
dainty bit of fancy work on hand. or
if you have set your heart ON some lux
urious addition to your wardrobe that
will give you exercise for your needle.
Then there is always your mending,
and the really dainty woman finds more
than enough to fill the time she should
give to evening employment. But, as for
dressmaking, don't try your tired eyes
with it at night. Every little worry
some quicker in the dress is going to
leave little worried wrinkle in your
face, and every new gown will increase
that miserable nervousness that preys
upon SO many American women. Even
ing is not the right time to conquer COM
plicated dress patterns, and you had
much better do with fewer dresses and
hand your material over to the profess
sional dressmaker, who perhaps just
needs your work to pay for some help
that will give her little time for rest.
A man never thinks Of attempting to
make his own clothes as an economic
measure, but woman clings to quality
and quantity Of raiinent and heads her
list of economies by making it up herself.
That does very well for the woman whose
days are her own, though often enough
1t would pay her better to depend on
some one else, but for the woman who
has only the evenings for all the little
odd jobs that somehow belong to wom-
ans life it is bad policy to add evening
dressmaldng to her daily duties and
means weary middle age, lacking en-
ergy for duty and application for pleas
ure.-Philadelphia Times.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
THE CABLE CAR MAN.
He Claims That He Faces Dangers Which
Almost Unnerve Him.

He Claims That He Faces Dangers Which
Almost Unncrve Him.
When the railroad men left the cable
car at the head of the Milwaukee ave.
nue. viaduct, the gripman threw the
lever forward with an emphatic zip"
and said: Those locomotive engineers
think they are the only men with nerve
who ride on rails Did you hear them
talking about how weak they felt after
their machine had just missed knocking
some clumsy farmer over the telegraph
wires and how they sweat a cold sweat
when the baby toddled in front of their
engine? Did you get onto their trick for a
layof because they have lost their nerve
through running fast and can't make
over 10 miles an hour until they get
their nerve back again? If those engi
neers would take this run, they would
be wet through all the time and wouldn't
have enough nerve left to sass messen-
ger boy.
''There are more kids to the acre up
Milwaukee avenue than anywhere else
in the city, and every last one of them
plays in between the street car tracks.
We have close shaves every block. just
like that. Did you see that man then?
He had plenty of time to wait for the
three seconds it takes for us to pass, but
he couldn't wait. and we grazed him.
We don 'trun 60 miles an hour, but you
can kill man just as quick at IL miles
an hour, and it shakes you up just as
much. There isn't gripman in Chicago
but breads to make the down town loop
during the rush hours. Providence looks
after babies and drunken men, and be-
lieve we have a special Providence with
us. You people may think we have no
feelings, but have seen men run their
grip cars into the barn and then sit
down, weak as a cat and white as
sheet. Their nerves had given out, and
that was all that was the matter with
them. Chicago Record.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
FINE. FRESH, RIPE OLIVES,
HELP YOURSELF.

Of course there is rush from the sta
ton as soon as the box and it's contents
are discovered. and swarms Of innocents
seize the pretty fruit and dig their teeth
into it. Then there is combined howl
and a great deal Of expectoration and
disgust, for the delusive fruit are near
ly as puckery as rersimmons.
And the planter? Oh, he takes his fun
from q partly hidden summer house
within his grounds. where he occasion
oily seats himself to enjoy the spectacle
1t is sure cure for the blues, he says
New York Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
Tho Value of Church Towers.

In lone districts such as the marsh.
land Of Kent and the fen country OF
Lincolnshire, the tall church towers
which are such prominent features in
the landscape served very important
purpose inasmuch as they were land
marks for travellers, and even today the
pedestrian has reason to be thankful fol
the guiding presence Of Boston stump
or Lydd tower at the close or hard
days walkigg.-London Standard,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
FROM THE CAROLINA VALLEY.

The moonlight lies on Pisgah's crown,
Where oak and Pine tree rear their head:
Tho nists of night have settled down
And by the whispering river spread.
But DER the VEIL against the sky,
The mighty mountain towers high.
The moonlight sheds its silver stream
And bathes the distant mountain height
Within the vale watch and dream,
Surrounded by n lesser light:
A red star sinking In the west
Seems on tho mountain top to rest.
| count the star beacon fire,
That blazes forth to stir tho heart
And move the soul to high desire
To play on earth better part,
And star and moon theirspell have wrought.
For wakes the mind to higher thought.
-Flavel 5. Mines In Harper's Bazaar.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02
Highest Fountain Jet.

The wonder of the New England
states. an oddly of which mention is,
for some unknown reason, seldom made
in print, is the monster fountain jet
at the Home Of Destitute Women and
Children, near Bennington, VT. The
column Of water in this jet rises to a
height Of 1913 feet, being the highest
known single fountain jet in the world.
st. Louis Republic.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02

The Trojan war was conflict be-
tween the mother country and some Of
the strongest colonies and would have
been fought if Helen and Achilles and
Agamemnon and the rest had never been
born. ..r
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-02

A New York dealer in mems furnish
ing goods displays = sign reading.
Shirt Constructor.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26
Sorosis' vacation.

Sorosis, the high panjandrum of wo-
mems clubs, had its last social day of
the season on Juno B, when the drama
was discussed and comparisons drawn
between Shakespeare and present day
playwrights, and then Sorosis broke up
for the summer, saying au revoir to each
other and goodby to Mr.. Sherry, who is
not to be the clubs caterer next year,
the bathrooms at the Waldorf being bet
ter adapted to the needs of Sorosis when
she entertainS.
While Sorosis is deServedly the most
powerful of all the women's clubs, it is
not numerically strong, having roll
call of only 215. Neither is it made up
of unmarketable or elderly maidens, for
$50 arc married, and it has several
times happened that a candidate has
had to hold back until she reached the
club age, which is set down as g years
Some members complain that they know
little of the working of the organiza-
ton and almost nothing of its plans
The Professional Womans league
keeps open all summer. Indeed, the
heated term finds it's rooms fuller than
ever, for then the Thespianas of the
road return and flock to headquarters
New York Herald
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26
Brides and Jewels,

bride must Wear no jewels, even on
state occasions. Her wedding ring, the
solitaire engagement ring and the neceS-
sary watch are all that are in strict cor
rectncss allowed. Some folk are saying
that this permits the young husband to
put up" the whole cargo of wedding
gift jewelry to help him keep up his es-
Establishment, but that cannot be so, be-
cause bride mornings" when the
young wife receives her girl friends and
shows all her presents, are quite tho
rage, to make up for the taboo placed on
the display of presents at the wedding
-Exchange
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26
Women Who Play Poker.

A bright little Boston woman who
has settled here said to me the other
day:
II have played my last game of poker
''To me it is more fascinating than
eating, drinking, sleeping or dancing.
1t has developed the gambling spirit in
me to such an extent that am getting
frightened.
II think you are very WISE" l said.
ooh, we'll, it isn't altogether that, ;"
she continued. I'm going to be honest
about it, It's too expensive M enjoy
ment for me.
People say: oh, it's about All even
thing in the long run. Keep little
book. Put your losses on one side and
your gains on tho other, and at the end
of tho year you IL find that they pretty
we'll balance
We'll, tried that, and it makes me
sick every time I look at it.
What amaZcs me is to see the hold
OH the community that this game of
poker has secured
called on some new ncquaintances
the other day, and they--a sweet, white
haired old mother and her two gentle
daughters--talked so beautifully of art
and science and theosophy and theology
that felt abashed as I thought:
Heavens, what would these simple
people say if they knew I played cards
for money!
Presently the younger daughter asli
ed me:
Z" Do you play poker?'
II thought that she had heard of my
shortcomings, and began to make an
awkward explanation.
But she laughed and said:
"Oh, we play! Just Il little weenic
game. Mother is quito taken with it,
aren't you, mother?'
1.-THE old lady said that she was.
So, like All Sin. We had small
game, with the usual result
II lost % cents, all Of which the
mother Won.
She didn't look as if she knew tho
difference between Hobokcn straight
and a Judge Duffy, but she did. "
told the fair Bostonese that her Ian
guage was unintelligible to me.
"Oh, pshaw!" she rejoined. "But tt
watch that sanity looking old woman
'anteing' and raising and standing pat
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26

In al interview with Anna Howard
Shaw. d. d., published in the Denver
Republican, she expresses some very
cheerful views Of the growth of senti-
ment i'll favor of suffrage. On the pros
pect for suffrage in the east DR.. Shaw
says:
y" 1t is strong enough in any northern
state to carry the measure, were it not
for the partisan attitude of tho political
parties. Each party is afraid to take it
up, and each is afraid that if tho other
does take it up they will gain some ad-
vantage from it. The main reason for
our defeat i'll Kansas last fall was,
think, the fear of the Populists, who
had heard that Colorado women were all
working against their party, that the
same thing would happen in Kansas.
Tho danger in New York is from
the foreign element. If we could wipe
out Now York city until after the cleo
ton, I think we could carry the state
without doubt. 1t is remarkable fact
that i'll tho districts where ignorance
and vice arc the strongest the vote
against suffrage is the heaviest The
public work into which the women have
entered in so many directions and in
such workmanlile manner, the inter
est women are showing in municipal re-
form, and the beneficial results of their
connection with it-all these things are
paving the way. 1 think after IL few
more western states fall into the suffrage
column there will be a perfect avalanche
of sentiment in that direction Section
al strife was formerly between tho north
and the south. 1t is now largely coming
to be between east and west, and if the
west enfranchises its women, do you
suppose the east will allow it such an
advantage? No, indeed, the east will be
forced to follow suit, but it will come
i'll last, and dear old Massachusetts, my
own state, which should have been first
to head the column, will bring up in
tho rear, I am afraid That is because so
many of Massachusetts young men have
como west and left nobody but the old
maids and old fogies behind
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26

Gle. They are affected by the conserya-
tism of the south, which looks askance
ut any novelty, and very many of them
yet think that bicycling is highly i'm
proper for woman. Wo have frequent
ly noticed remarks TO this effect in south
ern papers, and we recently learned that
women il several places there had been
brought under social discipline for BIZ
cycling.
The prodigious cycling boom of this
year Ill New York has already told upon
tho south.
BY this timo there are lots of women
bicyclers III Virginia and Georgia.
There arc u smaller number in Alabama
and Louisiana There are fewer yet in
South Carolina. There are very few in
Arkansas. We have not heard of any in
Mississippi. Tho northern women in
Florida have introduced the wheel there.
We do not believe that the conserva-
tism of southern women can much lon
ger resist the wheel. The Texas and
North Carolina girls seem to be ready
for it We think it is bound to attract
tho fair sex even i'll the Bayou State
1t is not undignified for woman to
ride the bicycle. She does not lower
herself by wheeling. To ride upon it ut
full speed does not cut into tho pride of
womanhood That pride exists i'll tho
north not less than in the south. New
York Sun.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26

Maryland court of appeals, man famed
beyond the limits of his state for his
powers of oratory, his integrity, legal
knowledge and keen intellect
Born i'll Frederick, Md. the town of
Barbara Frietchie, Mrs. Mclean first
saw the light of day in the states most
celebrated house, Prospect Hall, the
home of her grandfather, the late Judge
William Pinkncy Maulsby. 1t is man.
sion built by the famous Dulaney family
i'll old colonial times. Mrs. Mclean was
born i'll the haunted room, i'll which ira
dition chronicles the walling up of n
young girl because of romantic love
affair.
Mrs. Mclean is characterized by
broadly liberal tenets in all directions,
is an earnest worker i'll church and pub
lie affairs The founding of chair of
American history at Barnard college by
the New York city chapter of the Rev
olutlonary society, under Mrs. Nc
Leans regency, has set an example in
practical patriotism for all like societies
to pattern after. The other chapters of
the Revolutionary association, located in
every state and territory i'll the Union,
have experienced an awakening III con-
templating the weighty step taken by
their sister chapter; Il step which illus
trates its own aims and principles and
those of the parent association. the Ma
tional Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Such historical advantages ere needed
all over the land. and that the oppOrtu-
nifty for such knowledge should first be
made possible in New York, and by the
feminine descendants of Revolutionary
patriots, i'll the sister institution of old
Kings college, makes the event more
happy and fitting one than it could have
been without such associations. The
work is being sustained ut present by an
amount raised annually, while the en-
dowment fund is being accumulated for
the future permanent historical profess
orship
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26
4 Riot of CoIors.

The newest summer millinery defies
description. One may gild the lily and
paint the rose, but TO convey by words
only an adequate idea of the hats and
bonnets now exhibited absolutely sur
passes human ability. Straw millinery
of every conceivable sort shares honor
with lace and spangled textiles, but tho
former for the moment takes Drece-
dence. The oldest and most bri liant
dyes In straws are conspicuous They
are ubiquitous, i'll fact, and the eye lit
orally aches as we behold first the gay
colorcd hat and then its gorgeous and
varicolor~l garnitures. = New York
World
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-06-26
womnn,s Advent In Cornell.

The alumni Of Cornell university have
nominated Miss Mary Carey Thomas for
one of the trustees This is probably the
first time in the history of any of the
leading universities III this country that
woman has been named for trustee.
Miss Thomas was graduated from Cor
nell in 1877, and is now president of
Bryn Mawr College For Women. She
was made dean of that college when it
was opened i'll 1856, and was elected
president in 1898.
The legislature which has Just ad-
journed passed law allowing the Cor
nell alumni to elect five additional trus-
tees this year. Every year after this they
will elect two trustees instead Of one ms
heretofore. In recent years there has
been very little contest for this honor
among the alumni, rarely more than two
candidates being presented. AS soon MS
tho new law went into effect there was
a great scramble. In ALL Is candidates
for the five places were named
The alumnn of the institution mt once
decided that they ought to be represent
ed i'll the board Of trustees Correspond
ence was started, and after confer
ence of names proposed they settled
upon Miss Thomas as the woman grad
uate of Cornell best fitted by her train
ing and requirements to fill the place.
AT once a campaign was started. Won
en graduates i'll all the large cities i'll
The country were enlisted in the work.
Friends of other candidates sent ont tho
customary Endorsements seeking votes
and telling of the candidates fitness for
Che honor. Miss Thomas circular was
one of the last to appear. To the surprise
of the alumni it contained nearly three
times the number Of Endorsements that
any of the circulars of the male candi
dates had