Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-07-07
woMAN's APARTMENT
MABEL II. poMERoY, EDITOR.
About women.

A marble tablet in commemoration
of the birth Of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning was recently unveiled IN
the Kello Paris church, Kello, Eng
land.
Mrs. Martha Tracey Owler an
American writer, is the only woman
who was ever been elected q member
of the "Societa Geografca Italina,"
of Rome.
La Fronde, a Paris daily political
and literary journal is edited, man
aged, set up and printed entirely BY
women. Two hundred and fifty
thousand copies were sold Of the first
edition.
II is said that the most beautiful
mosaic work done in this country ID
done by women. In the Tiffany glass
works in New York women are en-
p'oyed,almost exclusively in the mosaic
room. The superintendent OF the
room is woman and many Of the
designs are made by them.
Ofthe four hundred Thousand teach
ers in the United States, two hundred
and sixty-eight Thousand arc women.
In those parts of the country where
men teachers predominant, it IS found
that the average intelligence among
the people 10 lower. In Massachusetts
eleven-twelfths Of the teachers are
women. These facts we're culled from
a lecture on "The New Education" by
A. D. Mayo.
WARTIME CLUBS.
Columbia University has formed a
thriving Red Cross Auxiliary for the
avowed purpose Of Quitting hospi-
tai ship to be turned over to the navy
department. The shipwill be manned
with Red Gross men nurses, and wo-
men too il the government will permit.
Mrs. Seth Low, wife Of the president
of the university is president.
"Red Gross Ambulance Equipment
Society,"" q society organized by wo-
men to increase the field ambulance
force. 1t has already three fully
equipped ambulanCes including med
zeal supplies and horses. The cost of
outitting each ambulance was two
thousRnd dollars. The society ex-
poets to outfit at Least twenty smbu-
lances and to send them to the field
in perfect condition and to keep them
replenished as long as the war lasts
and to also purchase and to outfit a
portable field hospital.
1.-The Hospital Workers Mainten.
ance Society,"" is an auxiliary Of the
Red Cross and has for it's OF ject the
equipment and support of nurses and
attendants on the hospital ships who
racaiVa no salary. Mrs. James Spey-
ers Is president.
1.-THE Jewish Women's Council" has
also formed a Red Gross auxiliary,
At their first meeting of the club, the
following spirited patriotic statement
was made: "We Hebrew American
women are ready to do anything for
the country which has given to all
women, and Hebrews especially a
glorious everlasting freedom" These
women will devote themselves to max
ing sheets and pillow cases for the
hospitals and hospital ships, the work
to be given out to the families Of SOL
diers.
AWoman's Auxiliary Corps of Ma
tionsl Guards." These women are
pledged to work for the soldiers
wherever they may be in camp and to
aid the families Of soldiers who are
left without means of support.
1.-THE New York Society Of Colonial
Danes" is raising subscriptions to fit
out hospital ships with bedding, med
icines aud various delicacies. Every
thing, in fact, that the sympathetic
mind can conceive of as comforting to
the sick.
THE Manhattan Mystic Lodge" q
masonic lodge Of women has been in
stituted by Mrs. May Banks Stacey,
to which only the wives, widows,
daughters, children and grandchlld.
rem Of masons are eligible to member
chip. The society will take care Of
the families Of masons who are in
dured in the war and help those who