Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-30
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women who own and conduct drug stores
in Chicago" said a man from that city
the other day Some years g 1t was
difficult for women to obtain recognition
when they sought to qualify themselves
for dispensers of drugs, but by dint Of
struggling they won their way in this as
in all the other professions until now there
are large numbers of female students in
the leading pharmaceutical colleges. As
pharmacists women have undoubtedly
proved a success, and there Is no business
where the superior neatness. patience,
tact and temperate habits of the sex
count to better advantage. Besides the
dozen and more Chicago women who own
drug stores. there are large numbers OF
female clerks who stand on an equal plane
with their male co-laborers. and to whom
the local physicians unhesitatingly intrust
the most difficult prescriptions. One of tho
lady owners has her dispensary located
on the top floor of a big office building
down town, and yet. despite its remotaness
from the street, her place is always full
of patrons. Many Of the women graduates
are now in charge of the drug depart
ments of hospital asylums, and other pub
lie institutions"
The story Of the English dude who
walked into a Spokane. Wash gam
DIlTlS-TOOtu tHc OtucI HiSut- diu. Win
500. succeeded in winning $500. Is
causing a great deal of talk. The manner
in which the Western papers are treating
the event would serve to make one believe
that such luck was unprecedented. There
have been 10000 cases Of late years." u
Times-Herald writer says, when bigger
fortunes than that have been made at
faro banks. In Santa Fe. N. NJ. during
the exposition in 1884, I saw yellow chips
representing $1,000 each piled up as high
as a cats back on a single card. Tom
Jemison. of Meridian. Miss. was playing
in Conant & Harris one night, and when
he cashed In, after a sitting of two and a
half hours. the firm handed him $4,000.
Jemison lost it the following day in Dem
ing. I witnessed the play Of a Chinaman
in the same place one evening, and he won
twenty-seven straight bets, and then
without pursuing his luck any further.
pocketed 81. coo. The limit in those days
was the ceiling. 1t would be a hard mat
ter to find a g~ambling-room now that
would allow one to bet on any single card
exceeding $3.50"
A striking example of Charles Dickens
chivalrous regard for an absent friend Is
recalled by Dean Farrar. Mr.. Sims Reeves
had been announced to sing at a small
public dinner at which Dickens presided.
and. as happened not infrequently. Mr..
Sims Reeves had something the matter
with his throat and was unable to attend
Dickens announced this. and the announce
E,ent was received with a general laugh Of
incredulity. This made Dickens very an
CRY, and he rose manfully to the defense OF
the delinquent. MY friend. Mr.. Sims
Reeves" he said quietly. regrets his ina
bility to fulfill his engagement owing" he
added with caustic severity. Ito an unfor-
,--Nl ~-l tnht oaffN
ccld."
Whenever day breaks dark and lowering
tn. suicide clerk In the coroners office in
New York prepares for a busy day. Tho
four coroner's physicians attached to the
office also know by experience that the
gloomier the day the bigger will be their
lists. The present year has been a record
breaker for suicides. In one day there were
nine cases. II is very unusual to have a
day pass by without at least one or two
cases.
Rousseau's tomb at E~rmenonville was re-
certify taken to pieces in order to have the
carving touched up. 1t was found that tie
space within the tomb was too small ever
to nave contained a coffin. Rousseau's re-
mains were conveyed to the Pantheon dur
ing the French revolution. but 1t was be-
lieved had been later replaced In the tomb.
The question now is: Where is Rous-
seau's coffin?'
Mills hotel No. I had a Thanksgiving din
ner at Is cents. and about 1880 men were
served. Hereafter the restaurant Is to be
open all night, and women as well as men
will be admitted. Women may not have
rooms In the house, but the restaurant IS
to be extended by an invitation Of patron
egc of all persons. whether dodgers or not.
New York's Waldorf of Bleecker street has
come to stay.
One of the genuinely curious sights
in New York just now Is the
exhibition OF fancy canaries at $50
Third avenue. Twenty-one varieties
are represented among the 100 on view.
Among the sweet singers are birds valued
at from SIS to $50. and one is labeled $50.
The church made a good record for itself
during the yellow fever scare at New Or
leans. Not Il clergyman deserted his post.
though congregations dwindled and in
some cases disappeared altogether. Such
a showing is as creditabie to the clericS
as 1t is disconcerting to their critics.
, New Yorker who lives in a small bed
room. commenting on the smallness of his
quarters the other day. said: II always
that IL 1 die in the night the undertaken
vent have the trouble of turning me
A don't worry club has been formed
by one congregation in New York to con-
slider the relation of the church to modern
methods Of religious thinking.