Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-01-20
WoMAN's DEPARTMENT
MABEL II PoMERoY, EDITOR
About Women.

TlVou III ehluBJ ohN S""A
duties in the Peklng University as
lnstructress in English.
During the Toronto convention
Miss Willard invited the Original
crusaders" to come to the platform
and sing "Rock Of Ages" There
were fifteen women to respond.
Pundita Ramabai has now under
her care $50 girls, MO of whom are
famine widows. The new buildings
at her farm near Poona are going up,
and when finished will accommodate
200. Meanwhile she has temporarily
rented house within few yards OF
the place where portion of her
flock are at present lodged.
Mrs. A. II. Tannahill, a lcentiate
Of the southeast association, has re-
opened her work at Ohoctaw, Okla
homa. The field is a hard one and
was about ready to be abandoned
There is a church building and par
sonage which had been offered for
sale, but Mrs. Tannehill undertakes
the work in great faith.
Mrs. Hannah Gould and sixty.four
other women, including trained hos
pital nurses and a dozen missionaries,
sailed from New York on Dec. Is, on
the steamer City OF Columbia, bound
for the KlondlAe. Mrs. Gould in
tends to build hospital and mission
house at Dawson City. The popula-
ton Of Dawson 10 said to bs made up
at present eleven women and 1000
men; which shows there is room
there for good women. All but two
Of the women who have just sailed
possess independent means. 1t is
said that all will wear bloomers. The
steamer was accompanied to quaran-
tine by tug carrying E @. Machen,
one OF the Columbia's owners; ex.
Secretary Hilary A. Herbert and
James Gilfilian, who are interested
IN the vessel, and many friends Of the
passengers.
"AunL" Laura Havlland, whom
President Palmer introduced on
Michigan day at the time of the
Columbian Exposition as the "Mother
Of Philanthrophy," though she has
crossed the ninty line, has brought
out a fourth edition Of "a Woman's
Life-work," containing many thrilling
incidents Of her anti-slavery and un-
derground railroad experiences. She
has rust paid visit to the state school
at Ooldwater, Mich, a pioneer state
institution in the care OF helpless and
INDECENT children which evolved out
Of her orphsnage or Rsisin Valley
institute, founded in 1880. "Aunt"
Laura is living in Grand Rapids, and
has returned to the Friends, from
whom she withdrew in her young
womsnhood to become q Methodist
EDUCATIONAL
The Anglo Chinese school at Sing
apore has an enrolment OF 600 boys
with an average attendance of over
500.
A constantly increasing interest is
being shown by the Malaysian Chi
nese IN English education. In Pc
nang several new vernscular girl
schools for Mslsys have been opened
at the request of the people them.
selves.
The new training school at Yoko-
hama is finished and is by far the
most elegant building the W. f. M. s.
have in Japan.
A new school building to be erected
at Boston, Mass, will bear the name
of Paul Revere. It will cost $3.50, 600.
There are some counties in Alabama
in which the average amount spent
each year for the education Of the
colored children is but so cent?, and
ia some of these counties there is not
single public school building owned
by the state. In Massachusetts and
Illinois the average amount spent for
the education of each child 10 between
$18 and 1924 Still the condition of
things in Alabama and other states
is far from hopeless. Fifty dollars
sent to Booker 7. Washington, prin-
cipal Of the Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
will pay for the education of young
man mr. woman For q vaar VuhO whnn