The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The late Frances Wizards ~favorite room
in Rest College, near Evanston, H.. has not
been changed a particle since her death in
1898. The cottage is the national headquar-
tiers of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
Mrs. Lily Braun, author of a recent work
on the condition Of women in Germany,
has succeeded in getting a sort of phalar-
stery started near Berlin. A cooperative
society will put up a building for thirty
families, with a common kitchen and din
ing room.
An English sailor In Singapore was
watching a Chinaman who was placing a
dish Of rice by a grave. 'When do you
expect your friend to come out and eat
that?' the sailor asked. Same time as
your frien' come out to smellee flowers you
fellow put" retorted Ii.
Jean De Reszke has reconsidered his in
tention to take a long rest from the stage,
and will sing during the Covent Garden
season in London next June. II is under
stood that this Is due to an expressed wish
by King Edward VII, couched In such
f1attering terms that no singer could re-
fuse.
The latest theory in connection with
drowning is that no water enters the lungs,
and that heat, properly applied, with arti-
fetal respiration, will resuscitate persons
who have been under the water an hour.
This feat has been accomplished by the
doctor who advances the theory.
The Travellers Aid Society Of Philacel-
phia is an organization established by
large-hearted and charitable women, which
employs women agents to meet all trains
arriving at railroad terminals. The object
Is to care for women, and especially young
girls, who are strangers and who may re-
quire help or direction to suitable board
ing places.
Congressman Littlefeld. of Maine, is
quoted as saying: 1.-The newspapers are
right. If 1t were not for the newspapers,
are terrible to contemplate. If there were
no newspapers at all. l don't believe I
would be willing to trust myself alone in
the House OF Representatives for fifteen
minutes"
Crematory companies would do well to
note the statement of a chemist who has
determined. by painstaking analyses. that a
human body Of average size contains three
pounds and thirteen ounces of calcium.
The current quotation of calcium Is $500 an
ounce. which would give US each a value,
In the ~retort. of $4,000. or one-fourth our
weight In gold.
Churches which are under the burden OF
a heavy debt may well envy the congrega-
ton OF st. Luke's at Yarmouth. Eng. The
clergyman, the organist, the cnoir, the or
gan blower. the bell-ringer, all contribute
their services, and the total cost Of carry
ing On the church is just $3.50 a week,
while the church, a new one. has been built
by voluntary contributions.
miss Azalene Earle, formerly of Port
land, but latter,y a hello girl of San Fran.
cisco. is now Mrs. William Halleck Dem.
ing. and will travel in Europe with her
husband this summer" says the Portland
Oregonian. MIR. Deming, who is a man OF
wealth. was attracted by her soft and gen.
tie voice In calling Number through the
telephone, and acquaintance and marriage
followed. II the voices OF the telephone
girls in this city have lately become indis-
tinct through mufded sweetness, the above
announcement accounts for it,"
When William E. Chandler was secretar,
Of the navy he issued an order tina officer.
should not permit their wives to reside a
the foreign stations to which their hus
bands were attached. The order wa.
promptly rescinded upon the receipt by thu
secretary OF the following from Commodor,
Fyffe, in OF the Asiatic squad
ron: 1T becomes my painful duty TO re
port that my wife, Eliza Fyffe, has. II
disobedience TO my orders, and In the fac,
Of regulations of the department. taken uI
her residence on the station and persist
emily refuses TO leave"
President Pritchett. of the Institute o
Technology. Is having more trouble Will
some Of the Congregational ministers o
Boston over the Tech Kommers." II,
said recently before a meeting OF min
listers: THE drinking OF beer and win
Is not q crime. 1t Is not q thing that 4
even immoral. It IL q question for eacl
J mar to judge for himself. ! should prsfe