The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-20
wOMANKINDS NEW DOINGS
a TRIP TO ALASKA IN ARCTIC
COSTUM ES.

Success or tho Old Emperor's Girl ProteEe-
Co-Educntton Not for GeorEin-A Woman
Trap shooter A society or Industrial
Artists-Oivet College Girls at baseball.
Two Chicago women have started on q 5000
mile trip into the Arctic regions. One of the
travellers Is Mrs. Sophie Gage, dauRhtcr.ln-law
Of Lyman J. Gage, Secretary Of the Treasury.
Her companion is Mrs. Alice Henderson,, who is
taking her two-year-old daughter. Mrs. Gage
will remain in the Yukon country until fall.
Her husband is identified with the North
American Transportation and Trading Com.
pany OF Chicago, which controls tho traffic
Of that far-on section of Alaska. Mrs.
Gage is q daughter OF the late John Wenrc OF
Chicago, and her brothers, Portus b.. and Charles
A. Woarc, aro tho chief men in the North Ameri.
can TRANSPORTATION and Trading Company. She
inherits tho family pluck. 1t is possible for men
to go into tho Alaskan country and survive the
hardships and privations incident to tho trip,
and shc argued that q woman could do the same.
And so sho is now we'll on hor way to st,
Michnel's Island In the Bchring Sea. from which
point sho will go by boat up the Yukon River to
Circle City.
Mrs. Gage and Mrs. Henderson went from
Chicago to Seattle over tho Northern Pacific
and there took passage on IN ocean steamer for
81. Michacl's Island. On boarding tho steamer
the women donnod heavy woollon underwear.
thick.solod calfskin shoes. with laced l~cggings.
and short skirts of stout cloth. These, with caps
and heavy outer wraps, vii! constitute their
daily, wearing. apparel until they return to
Seattle on the homeward trip.
AT the recent big music festival IN Minneap-
oils tho chorus of 500 voices was led by n little
woman who occupied the conductors stand.
She was Fraulcin Anna Schoen. Reno, and sho
not only led tho chorus, but 800 OF the voices
she had trained herself. Fraulein Schoen Reno
is the daughter OF a Prusstan court councillor
old Emperor had all the children thoroughly
educated. The Frlulein completed her musical
education at The ROYAL academy in Berlin, and
to America for u tour in Grau's Grand Opera
Company five years ago. but soon after her ar.
was burned. She went to Minneapolis, and has
done such. effective work In music In tho Uni
versity Of Minnesota that n chair OF music Is TO
be endowed for the university and offered to her.
The Board of Trustees OF the Georgia State
University have just voted against Chancellor
Boggs's recommendation for the admission Of
women. The trustees said that they had no
right to admit women without authority from
the Legislature.
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Not the least picturesque figure at the 500
Gun Clubs annual shoot, which has been in
progress all the week at Sioux City. Ia, was
Mrs. d. II. Day Of Duluth, who is becom.
ing famous az n marksman. Mrs. Day
has been shooting only three years, but
the Northwest. One remarkable feature. of her
work in the shoot just closed is the fact that she
istu Ounce "a rea,p OF ahd gum T fnll ios Cd ps@of by 1 the
male trap shot. She is not stoutly built. but is
strong. and from constant practice with a shot.
her arms to a degree that would do credit to a
trained athlete. She refuses to shoot live birds.
The craze for things colonial has given rise to
- ,,, t,l ,,gt rta -t l., l. I;ttln t,r, 80 Ian
field, Mass. Less than a year ago Miss Ellen
Miller and Miss Margaret c. Whiting OF Deer
field undertook the scheme OF making q bust
ness out of their long.estnblished fad OF collect
ing and copying colonial designs. They began
TO produce embroiderics after the patterns that
had accumulated in their portfolios and. finding
them acceptable, they have ADOPTED q
signature. This consists of a spinning
&c to symbolic the favorite material
u the society and the name Of the town. and
.lso 10 project the pieces marked With it from
10 the colonial sources from which it is derived.
Often. il desired; the date OF the original is
from heirlooms and family relics owned by the
msnb"Es; The society calls itself Blue and
White because the favoritc dye Of the colonial
! period was indigo in different shades.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed OF Chicago is one OF
the few American women who have been hon
ored with a membership in the Royal Asiatic
So eicty Of London. She recently received that
distinction in recognition OF her works on Hindu
and Persian literature. Some time ago she was
made u member of the International Society OF
Orientalists, and the universities o: Illinois and
Evanston have conferred upon her the degree Of
muster OF arts. ana Bethany College gave her
that OF l.. II. ID. Mrs. Reed lived in Boston up
TO her marriage to DR.. Reed OF Chicago.
The girls OF Olivet College. Olivet, Mich. have
organized several baseball clubs. and the mem
bcrs expect to have some lively times on the dia-
mond this summer. Ono club represents Ship
herd Hall ana another the Sinclair and Roche
Boarding Clubs. The captains and all the girls
In the teams are accomplished athletes. and they
all hold high records in tho class room.
On July . the formal presentation by Helen NJ.
Culver and the dedication OF the new group Of
scientific halls OF the University OF Chicago will
take place. The group consists OF four great
buildings, aud they are TO be called the Hull
laboratories. They form the nucleus OF what 1t
Is hoped Will become n great scientific school.
The gift OF 81. was presented to the
The ground was broken for the foundation OF
the buildings in The spring Of 1896.
Mrs. Frances Marie Norton Is dangerously Ill
at her home in Ravenswood. Ill. Mrs. Norton's
name WIS often before tho public during the
Guiteau trial. She was Mrs. Scoville then, q
sister OF Guiteau. Mrs. Norton organized tho
first woman's club West of Sorosis, which was
known as the Woman's Mutual Protective
League. in 1863. She also organized a society