Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-05-05
woMAN's DEPARTMENT
MABEL II. poMERoY, EDITOR.

Twins" says English girls are ueh
Gent of charm Of manner and 90 not
try to make themselves agreeable
IL is said in ancient history that no
Spartan women was permitted TO
marry until she had given public
evidence of her proficiency IN ath-
letics, so that they might be fitted to
become mothers Of soldiers. Lycur'
gas would have made a good member
OF a modern school board.
A Kansas widow whose husband
lost caste and fortune through strong
drink, and who finally died of dellr-
ium tremens, had marble monument
erected over his grave upon which a
snake of many coils was chisled, and
the inscription upon the pedestal and
lust beneath the fiery eye and forked
tongue of the serpent: "At last 1t
biteth like a serpent and stipgeth like
an adder
The revision Of an old song by an
up.to-date poet, is "tbe hand that
yields the cooking spoon is the hand
that rules the world" We are en-
tirely IN accord with the new version,
and the remark OF Mrs, Emma Ewing
the we'll known authority upon mat
tors culinary rap The whole ter
ritory of the drink question lies con-
tigous to that of the food question:"
and that the woman who lie reformer
before she is a good housekeeper in
casting out notes before beams,
A woman's hotel is one Of the latest
projects of New York capitalists who
are ever on the alert to meet the
changing conditions of the times'
The proposition is to organize cor
poration to be known as the Woman's
Hotel CompanyJwith capital OF one
million Of dollare, the corporation to
be formed when S5O0,0OO is sub
scrlbed. Then land is to be bought
and hotel built to hold about q
thousand boarders. Plans have been
drawn, subject to change, and sub
scription papers circulated. 1t is
estimated by good authority and per-
sons who know, that there are in the
city of New York 10000 selfsupport-
ing women who could afford to live
at such a hotel as Is planned. The
minimum cost of board would be six
dollars per weeE.
Talk about feminine independence!
Where will you find more convince
ing illustration than in Miss Sadie
Webb of Porter township, o.? Sadie
is the pride of the county. and she
comes honestly by her reputation.
Barely out Of her teens for two years
she has personally discharged her
duties as contractor on Uncle Sans
mail route Nc. 81, 277, which takes in
five thriving towns. Every day she
drives 80 miles, making 1872 miles per
week, and before her four year term
has expired she will have completed
36,S64 miles. 1t isn't many young
girls who would shoulder such a con-
tract and assume such daily respon-
sibilities for such q period Of their
lives, but Miss Webb heartily erjoys
her work and has managed to make
a good living out it. Besides carry
ing the mails for four post offices,
aAe buys all of the goods for four
general stores located in the villages
along the route that she has to travel.
She also carries passengers and is a
typical hustler in every way,-Womsn-
kind.
Mrs. Alice Ives Breed of Lynn,
Masr., is most talked of for president
of the General Federation of Woman's
Clubs. AT the last election Mrs
Breed was made vice president, and
although the next election is several
months away, the slate makers are
busy writing her name and one other
that Of Mrs. Sarah s. Plat, president
Of the Denver woman's club, for the
highest honor IN the club world Of
America. Mrs. Breed Is we'll known
in Chicago, where she has relatives
and friends, and where her daughter
axe spending the winter. She Is {
western woman by birth, and clsiml
Illinois Tor her native state. Will,
Mre. Breed has spent some years il
Lynn, she has passed more in travel
and NAV be regarded "a a thorough