Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-11-04
woMAN's DEPARTMENT
MABEL H. poMERoY, EDITOR.
Notes Of Women.

tective Association in Baltimore.
Miss Cecilia Beaux has been nam
ed as one of the ten international
Jurors who will award the medals
and honors offered at the Carnegie
Art Institute at Pittsburg.
Miss Chelier a graduate Of the IN
iverslty of Paris, has been appointed
by the governor general OF Algeria to
take charge Of medical mission in
the mountains beyoDg Bickra where
her chief work will be the care OF the
native women and children.
Miss Lizzie 0 Thomas prominent
young Florida woman has gone to
Hiroshima, Japan, to take charge OF a
school, under the direction OF the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs Eunice L W Rowbottom OF
Jersey City, N. j., is the American
psychologist of the future She has
studied diligently for ten years, aud
lectured successfully. She will in
the future devote her entire time to
translating papyri and travel and ex
ploration in Egypt. Mrs Rowbottom
is now translating papryms, which
is the story of Queen Hatasn's voyage
to the land of Punt. This queen
relgned fifty years and was undoubt'
eddy the originator Of the Suez Canal,
for when DeLesseps made excavs-
tions he found her cartouche on the
stones. ...
The three leading newspapers OF
Nashville employ women reporters.
Miss Lille Melbourne of Red Will
low county, Nebraska, has been nom.
mated for superintendent of public
instruction by the populIstq, and Mrs
Jane McCleery was nominated by the
silver party Of Gage county.
Mrs Shuteof and Mrs Thayer of
Colorado have been appointed com.
missloners 10 the Trans Mississippi
exposition.
Mrs Isabella Field Judson recently
presented valuable collection to the
National Museum in Washington,
which contains the globe which her
father, Cyrus W Field, traced the
course for the cable between New
foundland and Ireland.
Miss Roealie Loew, an attorney OF
New York city, was the first woman
TO serve as a juror IN trial suit be-
tween landlord and tenant.
A THR1TTLEss NATION
It ia but few short months since
Ian Maclaren was amongst MS WIN
ming our hearts, and incidentally our
dollars and now, with swollen
bank account, he ID yeproachiDg US
because of our extravagauce. Thrift
less" he calls us, In a recent article
in the Outlook, land far removed
from the thought of saving" He
shakes his head and says the follow
ing things, which we may ponder
over and we may resent:
1T may be allowed us 10 have a
doubt whether this prodigality IS for
the good of individual character and
the firm up building OF a people
Does Il conduce to stability and self
restraint to be quite indifferent about
tomorrow, and 10 reserve nothing of
tomorrow's earnings2 Have not the
farmers traded recklessly en- the vir-
gin resources Of the soils Have not
the forests been unprevidently cut
down? Is there not everywhere q
certain want of prudence and man
agement which cannot minister to
moral strength and material wealth."
And then Dr.. Watson recommends a
return to the habits of the puritan
living. II, however, Americans had
been addicted to PuritsnicRl ways
daring the spring of 1897, Maj Pond
woWA not have cleared $4,000 from
DIR WatSon's American lecture tour.
A WARMING WORD ABOUT CLUBS
Here is a word OF advice from one
of the most prominent clnb-women in
America: Women, do not waste yor r
force among too many clubs. With
all my heart / believe in clubs and in
the wonderful good they are doing in
the interests Ct reform and education
ard for the advancement of women.
But with some women, clubs have
grown TO be fad, and the womsn's
Ann ia IN belong to as great a number