The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-06-02
ocation was great.

1t is curious, but perhaps not so I'M
common as might be at first thought that
q man should go to an almshouse to get
a bride A Pottsville (Pa.) paper asserts
that the almshouse at that place is visited
almost every month by some man who
wants to find a wife among the girls
whom fortune has for the time being
thrown on the charity of the county.
Marriages OF this kind frequently occur.
1t is always required, however, by the Of
Gals, that man contracting marriage
with an inmate of the almshouse shall
give bond to support her. Experience
has demonstrated the need of this, as in
a number of cases in the past female in
mates of the almshouse have been mar
ried only to be abandoned in a short time
and ultimately to return, sometimes with
children, for the county to support.
All the eight women who acted as train
bearers 70 Queen Alexandra on her we'd
ding day thirty-eight years ago are still
alive. All save one are married. Lady
Victoria Howard is the exception, says
the Chicago Chronicle.
Holland has her Carrie Nation in Mrs.
Wasklewicz Schiefgaarde, who wages per-
petual but apparently vain crusade
against the Dutch rum demon. She has
announced her intention to visit England,
where she means to do aggressive tenn
perance work
Miss Mary Philbrok, New Jerseys first
woman lawyer, appeared before the New
Jersey court of errors and appeals re-
Gently to argue the case of client 1t
was the first time in the history of this
court that a woman appeared 1t its bar.
Miss Beale has been elected to the Sem
ate of the University of London as a
member of its matriculation board, hav-
ing received the largest numbers of votes
of the seventeen candidates for the posi-
ton. Miss Beale is the founder and prin-
cipal of the Ladies' College. Cheltenham.
Mrs. Milford Brady operates an old
fashioned water power mill In Morrow
county, Ohio, her only assistant being
boy, and she lives in a log hut adjoining
the mill and has no intercourse with her
heighbors except in a business way. The
mill, built century ago, was owned by
her father and she has kept it going since
his death.
Miss Josephine W. Chapman, who occu-
pies a high position among Boston archi-
tects, has been selected as a designer of
the New England states building at the
Pan-American exposition. The plans for
this building, according to an official of
the exposition, surpass in dignity and ar
tistic merit those of any other state
building. Miss Chapman won her appoint
ment on the merits of her plans, having
inent architects.
Miss Ethel Puffer is the only woman
member of the Harvard faculty and holds
the position of assistant to Prof. Munster
berg, instructor in psychology. Miss Puff
fer is a graduate of Smith College and
was the youngest member of her class.
After teaching few years she studied
psychology with Prof. Munsterberg in
! Freibrug, Germany, and when the profess
sor accepter a call to Harvard he appoint
ed Miss Smith as his assistant.
Miss Marie Herndl, a young artist re-
siding in Milwaukee, is winning distinc-
ton and wealth in a new field, her spe-
cialty being ornamental church windows
of colored glass.The colors are burned into
the glass in a huge oven the work be-
ing done by the artist herself Miss Herndl
was born in Munich and received her art
training in that city. She came to New
York few years ago. where she did por-
trait work and window designing. She
has lived in Milwaukee since 1899.
One of the Fifth avenue hotels in New
York has been the first to take cogni-
zance of the woman smoker in public.
There smoking is, of course, forbidden in
the main dining-room and 1t was formerly