The Advocate and news., 1898-11-09
Items of Interest.

Topeka by the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon.
He has established a social settlement
in what is called Tennesseetown, a sec
tion of Topeka where great many ne
grOes live. Rev. Sheldon has done ever
so many helpful things for them, such
as Offering prizes for the best kept lot
in the neighborhood, thereby teaching
them habits Of cleanliness and inciden-
tally cleaning up the town. But think
the best thing he has done is the found
ing of training school for colored peo-
pie where they can be taught to do work
in the right way. The girls are to be
taught everything they should know in
order to make competent kitchen SER
wants. Is not that good idea? We all
know that good house maids are very
scarce; we also know that there are hun
dreds Of girls who want the work to do,
but because they have not been properly
taught they are not wanted. am sure
that many busy housewives will be de-
lighted with this plan Of Rev. Sheldon's
training school for house servants.
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There is coming to this country in Jan
uary a great pianist; Emil Sauer is his
name. l have been reading so many
wonderful things about him that wish
Topeka were not so small place, and
that he would come here and we could all
go to hear him. They say of him that
his genius is so great that the wonder
full Paderewski pales into insignificance
beside him Sauer, in appearance, Is
very much like Paderewski, his mode Of
wearing his hair being the same. 1t is
said that this greatest of living pianists
received his first lessons from his
mother.
The "Leedy Guards" is the name of
company Of colored girls which has just
been organized in Topeka. There are
100 who have already Joined the organic
alton, and there are 500 more who are
soon to join. The girls think that the
thorough drill will be very beneficial to
their health.
had the pleasure the other day Of
meeting Miss Emma Kelly, the young
lady who recently returned from the
Klondlke. She is very pretty and modest
and does not at all look as If she could
endure all the hardships she must have
encountered during her stay in the
North. Miss Kelley's claim is said to
be worth $4,000.
Miss Kelley said in an interview:
Dawson City Is great place to live.
Civilization Is bore after the absolute
freedom of the Klondike town. There
everyone stands for just what he Is.
There are no shams, no affectations.
Everybody knows everybody else in the
whole district and when the mail comes
in we all trade news. A mans word is
all that is necessary in Dawson. II his
word isn't good his note isn't, and men
who were trusted could borrow $4,000
without giving the slightest security.
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"I think it is foolish to bring up those
children like Gagged canaries," said a
woman speaking of the family Of one OF
her acquaintances. "They are beautl-
fully educated, and what are called ad-
mirably brought up, but they are bound
to be narrow to the end Of their days,
living their contracted lives in their
small world with perfect content, never
realizing that there are larger possiDil-
tiles within their reach. My little daugh-
ter came home lately from a class which
she attends with the Tiptop girls quite
in disgust.
"'Only fancy, mamma, what an imper-
she exclaimed. Clara Tiptop,
who has hardly spoken to me all winter,
came up to me to-day in the most genial
way, saying: al am so glad to find out
that my mother visits your mother !
always thought you seemed different
from those Browns that you go with so
much"
Imagine her speaking that way OF
dear Nelly and Tilly Brown, who are
Just as clever as they can be and so splen-
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