Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-06-30
woMAN'S DEP ARTMENT'
MABEL H. PoMERoY, EDITOR.
About Women.

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The Michigan Equal Suffrage AS
ISOLATION held it's fourteenth annual
convention at Bay City recently under
encouraging auspices.
Mrs Margeret Raymond will 90 to
war as bugler with 90. II, Second
Regiment of the Nebraska National
Guard. She is a teacher of voice
culture, an excellent musician and
good shot with revolver.
officials of the W. O. T. U. received
telegram recently from Agnes Stack,
secretary Of the Worlds and British
w. Q. I, U. announcing the election
of Lady Henry Somerset to the pres
idency of the British W. {. I. U.
She thus becomes nominally the off
cial head of the white ribboners Of
the world.
Mrs. Robley D, Evans, the wife Of
Fighting Bcb,'. has larger personal
interest in the navy than most wo.
men. Her husband commands the
Iowa, her brother commands the
Indiana, her son is one Of the Massa-
chusetts' crew, her brother-in-law is
on the New York and her two daugh-
ters aud her niece have volunteered
as nurses and are taking instructions
IN a hospital.
-Four ladies, all trained nurses from
Washington, are on their way 10 the
army hospital at Key West, They
have been regularly enrolled in the
army aud are the first women to have
that distinction, They belong to the
Daughters of the American Hospital
Corps and have been selected by DR..
Anita Newcomb McGee, director of
the corps, for this duty. Two Of them
are Daughters of the Revolution;
Miss Alice Lyon Of Pittsburg and Miss
Johnetta Sanger of Baltimore.
Since New York's trusnt law went
into effect, at least one Of the new
officers has secured the respect of a
very tough locality. She is a modest,
lY dressed young woman, Mre. Alger,
who has been detailed to look up
truants in the classic district known
as "Helps Kitchen" The youngsters
howl and kick but Mrs. Alger has a
grip like steel. She shakes them Wig
orously first and then talks TO them
gently about the error Of their ways
She 10 the woman "cop," the "holy
&error," and the lady with the grip"
at first and then these youngsters be-
gin to think that Mrs Alger is a won
derful woman.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lees mother was
Miss Anna Maria Mason, a daughter
OF John Mason, Virginia, and she was
known in her glrlhood as beautiful
Mamie Mason" After she married
Lieut.. Sydney Smith Lee the couple
made their hcme In Washington
When President Buchanan gave u
state dinner TO the prince of Wales,
Mrs. Lee was one Of the guests, and
went in on the arm of the Duke of
Newcastle. After the war the family
lived on their Virginia place, and
Fitzhugh followed the pillow with his
two m ulee, John the Baptist, and Re-
beeca at The well. Mrs. Lee has been
totally blind for some yeare, but is
still cheerful and happy.
Not long since June meant the
closing Of schools for The period of
two months. The rush and hurry of
American life has overtaken even this
vacation time and it is fast being
utilized both by teachers and pupils.
There are hundreds of summer schools
all over the country from the great
universities like Harvard and Chicago
to the public vacation schools Of the
city. The teachers flock to the sum-
mer schools and mipgIe rest and re-
creation with study. 1t has been
proposed that the normal schools
should remain in session throughout
the year thus giving teachers an OPP
portunIty to study in model school
for the summer quarter. The custom
Ofsome universities dividing the school
year'into four quarters has been wide
ly commended. In many of the large
cities the public schools are to be open
certain months during the summer
In many places the school seating
will not accommodate the children of