Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-25

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and it was impossible to be always
regular. During the five months of
the schools operation 225 girls have
been trained.
The fall term of the school of
housekeeping at ST. Botolph street,
Boston, opened October 2. The new
est feature is the professional course,
intended for those who have had a uni
versity or college training Among
new pupils are holders of scholarships,
supported by the association of collie
giate alumnae.
News at Vassar college.
Miss Helen Miller Gould has estab-
lished two new scholarships of $4,000
each at Vassar college, one for gradu-
ates of the Tarrytown high school, and
the other for graduates CT the Wash
ington Irving high school at Irvington,
N. Y. Considerable enthusiasm is
aroused among the students by the in
PRODUCTION Of the English game, lawn
hockey. Miss Constance Applebee of
England is organizing teams and
coaching them. AS yet no regular
ground has been laid out, but the ath-
letic association hopes soon to have a
field of close turf, such as is really
/ needed if the game is played to best
advantage.
The college orchestra seems to
promise excellent work this year. 1t
has now the full number of strings;
there are eight violins, six second v'o-
Inns, two violas, two 'cellos, one double
bass, two flutes, one clarinet. One or
two other wind instruments may be
added, and since the interest in the
orchestra seems to be great, Prof.
Cow hopes in time to obtain the full
complement of instruments for
small orchestra. The orchestra is
now studying Mozart's G. minor sym
phony, and expects later in the year
to take up the Schubert Unfinished.
In Egypt.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, who returned
the first of September from over q
years travel in Europe, Egypt and
Palestine, was much and sadly inn
pressed by the low state, mentally,
morally and physically, in which she
found the Egyptian women. The filth
in which they lived, apparently know
ing no better, the ,slavish subsection
of their daily life, embittered the time
spent in Egypt, and from having had
but little interest in foreign missions,
Mrs Stanford now feels that mission
aries alone can help these women to
raise themselves, and she has returned
converted to foreign missions, hay-
ing viewed the work done for the ma
tives She also much admired the
work done by the government schools,
and the interest felt in America on the
part of the pupils, and was astonished
to find how much they knew about it.
Progress in Bulgaria.
Bulgarian women have just held
their first national congress, 27 soci-
cites being represented at the meeting
at Sofia, when they organized feder-
alton for "the intellectual and moral
education of women and the improve
Iment of their condition" Among sub
Eiects brought up for debate were the
industrial condition of Bulgarian wo-
men, their education and their attl-
tude toward the international move
ment for peace. Resolutions were
adopted asking that women be adj
mitted to the special high schools of
. IL Yio hot
for women be founded and supported
by government, that public schools for
girls shall be conducted as those for
boys are, with the same studies, etc;
that women be admitted to eXamina-
lions in pharmacy and be made eligi-
Bile as assistant chemists in drug
stores; petitioned the municipal cOun-
Gil of Sofia, that the brothel now
building be charged to reformatory, .
and voted that the woman's rights fed
Grafton of Bulgaria should show it's
sympathy with the international peace
movement by showing courtesy to the
women delegates during the festival
of the international peace league, to
! be held in May. 1902.
American Women Can Dance.
AS was to be expected, the invidious
remarks on American dancing by Eng
lish dancing masters and their bust
mess journals have been met by plump
contradictions and scornful counter
criticism. American women, being
questioned at watering places by inter
tested reporters, declare one and all
that, as every one knows, English wo-
men as a rule are more clumsy with
both feet and hands; that as general
thing they are not sent to dancing
IeobooI &C vOuro as Americans are.