New-York tribune., 1898-10-17
DOTNGS IN SCHOOL LIFE.
LUNCHEON BOXES FOR SCHOLARS ONE
OF THE NEW FEATURES.
TWO GIRLS ONE INDIAN AND ONE CoroRED. WIG

TWO GIRLS ONE INDIAN AND ONE coroREp. WHO
HAVE WON HIGH HoNoRs IN THE coll
LEGEs THEY ATTEND.
A Philadelphia woman. thrown suddenly on her
resources. went to work to provide luncneons
for children attending the academies. preparing
the luncheons at her home and sending them 10 inc
schools She started with simple menu. such as
sandwiches OF brown white bread. hlled win
chopped tongue or ham: bread and butter win nara
eggs or cheese: buns and cookies and cake od a
simple. dgestble kind As her business Increased
considera bic ingenuity had 20 be exercised IN otGer
that there might be a variety of tempting Gn,oss ,s
10 offer her customers for the schoolgirIs lunch-
con appetite is ant TO he rather hckle and fastdi-
GUS This idea has heen looked upon WIN and 9reI a
ready there are several establishments whore such
lurcheons can be secured
The Board Of Education Of Edinburgh has de-
cided that the Ten Commandments be simplhed
before being taught in their public SCHOOLS
At the Abigail Free School. No loa suIvan-st.,
thi. city the following teachers have been ap-
pointed for the present school year Miss e. A.
Burd. drawing. Mrs !. G Stanley. physical culture;
MISS Clara Ballettieri. girls department. ana John
Luhrs, boys department.
In England corporal punishment Is administered
to girls well TO boys. only 1t Is not noised
abroad rho girls. feeling that the punishment Is
deserved. take IT with good grace dry their eyes,
and do not tell about It, Even their parents are
not often told that they have been birched
Jennie Hughes the onlys cOlored student In the
Idaho University, won the Watkins medal recently
in an oratorical contest.
Miss Mary Harriott Norris has been apponte ed
dean Of the Woman's Hall and assistant professor
in the English department at the Northwestern
University. The Executive Committee Of the Board
OF Trustees selected Miss Norris to succeed Mrs.
Emily Huntington Miller. who resigned from the
hall for seven years Miss Norris is well known
In the East as an educator and author.
Two Southern Methodist institutions Of Missouri
the Howard Payne College and the Central College.
are to be consolidated this year and opened 10
| both and women.
An Apache Indian girl. lately graduated from
! Teller Institute. at Grand Junction COL will con-
tinue her studies and be fitted TO return 10 her
people missionary. She is 10 have the regular
training OF deaconess and medical instruction
She is said TO be exceptionally bright young
woman
| The highest honors at the commencement exer-
cises OF the Kansas City College OF Pharmacy have
been conferred upon Miss Harriet Benton. OF
Odessa. Mo. She received diploma and also a gold
medal which was the first prize for the highest
grade In all the branches taught at the college
The Philadelphia Women's Lunch Club has It's
headquarters this year at No. LOO Sansomst.
Some OF the members felt that the association
would sustain a loss in its ranks by the marriage
OF Miss Martha Bohn. who short time ago be-
came Mrs William Wagner. But she is still loyal
and last week the day following her return from
her wedding trip. found the little woman in the
clubroom attending to some club finances quite as
enthusiastically before her name was changed
Ii is doubtful whether any club In this city can
show prettier room than the resting and waiting
room Of the Lunch Club. 1t has lately been re-
furnished in Colonial stve. upholstered in the club
nln lo1f and uglf md rfnt hn1 uif
comfortable chairs and cOuches. a collection OF
] pictures loaned by the civic Club adds to its at
fractions. while desk furnished with stationery
for the Of the members and a collection Of all
the latest periodicals and newspapers are also on
hand.
4 feature that must not he forgotten and should
commend itself to every woman's club room IL a
wcll-furnshed workbasket To the woman who
has caught the binding on her skirt met with
some similar accident this timely aid will fire.
quently prove a great boon by enabng her 10 take
the stitch In time" which may several times
the proverbial nine