Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-09-11

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M w Here is one thing at least |
v The women's clubs of Or
ange, N. j., secured the
appointment of sanitary inspector of
| their own sex. She is Miss Helen D.
| Thompson. Investigating unclean back
| streets and back yards and nosing in
| to unpleasant tenements seem rather
| odd work for a Vassar graduate, yet
this Miss Thompson is and does and
| the result shows her to be the right
woman in the right place. 1t has been
| proved that there are localities in
which a woman sanitary inspector is
more efficient than man and that
| the interior of a tenement house is
| one Of these Part of the region known
as ''the Oranges is noted for its emf
nently high tone and admirable sani
tary condition. This is specially true
of East Orange. But there are also
the city of Orange itself and the town
ship of West Orange and all these
are under the eye of Miss Thompson. |
Orange has a considerable population |
of Italians and HungarianS of the |
laboring classes, and what they know
/ of common sanitary cleanliness could |
be printed in large type upon ten
cent piece and leave room for an orna-
mental border. In one instance in
Orange a large block of tenements was
drained outright into swamp at the |
back of them, and this menace to life |
and health remained year after year.
Miss Thompson is working to have it
removed Her best results are OBJ |
tanned by house to house visitations. I
Sanitary reform, like charity, must be
gin at home. and the mothers of the |
poor and ignorant classes trust a wo-
man where they would be offish to a
man inspector and suspicious of him. |
Miss Thompson learned Italian enough |
to talk to the women. She has alsG |
q native tact and kindliness that |
opened their hearts to her so that good |
results from her work appeared very |
soon.
The famous school of architecture in |
Paris has 1900 American students. but |
had no American women students un- !
til now. The first one is Il California |
girl, Miss Julia Morgan. Before enter
ing the school she studied and worked |
with a noted Paris architect NJ Chaus-
semiche. Her tutor says she has es-
pecial talent for invention and concep-
tion, which are the gifts particularly |
needed in our barren and incongruous
American building schemes Miss Nor
gan will practice her profession in San
Francisco.
Deliver me from the wilmer anG
slumper!
Miss Eleanor NJ Thomas, a young
society lady, formed an automobile I
party of friends and with her own
hands steered her machine on trip |
from New York to Boston and return.
1t is the fad among fashionable ladies
to possess automobiles and guide them
themselves Well they cannot smash
up and run over people and things any
more frequently or etfectually than
men mobilists now do. That is one sat
isfaction.
The Boston hotel for women was
opened somewhat ahead of the date
fixed 1t has all the conveniences of
first class hotel, and to permanent resi-
dents 1t gives room and board, use of
library and reading room and week
ly concert ticket for from So 80 to $3.50
a week. Its name is the Franklin
Square House. 1t is managed by wo-
men, Mrs. Susan b. Bangs being su-
perintendent and Mrs Harriet A. Rob
erts stewardess
Here is q good little story which
proves that women take an interest in
politics where they have the oppor-
tunity: The women in Topeka did not
approve a certain candidate for nom
ination as city councilman. They re-
solved to defeat him. They organized
a united, harmonious. secret movement
against him and in favor of another
man who suited them better. At the
primary the women's candidate was
surprised to find himself nominated,
while the other, supposed to be the
more popular, was nowhere.
b. g.
The secret of getting your own way
is to be silent and tactful Gather
your mental force inside of you and
launch it i'll few words. Never waste
it in storm and buster or babysl
sniyeling and tears.
A leading company of model tene
ment house builders and owners has
as its renting agent and collector a
young lady. Miss Blanche Geary. She is
SO successful that out of a rent roll of
$4,000 she loses through bad tenants
scarcely more than $50 year One
reason for her success is that her
housekeeper instinct enables her to
maintain without trouble close watch
on janitors and plumbers. Her most
grievous trouble is with scrubwomen
and engineers who furnish the heat
and the hot water supply. These peo-
pie seem not sufficiently mentally de
veloped either to know their duty or
to do it.
II 10 oul pilS-A-5 tlidt 81 lew WOluen
have undertaken the house and apart
ment renting agency business. 1t
would come naturally to them, and
they could be very successful.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER
what the Hair Tells.
Women who are the possessors of !
fine black hair are emotional and of
very sensitive nerves Coarse black
hair is said to denote great energy.
but an unenviable disposition. Wom-
en- who have brown hair make the
best wives, for they are almost invari.
ably full of sentiment, ilnpassioned,
high strung" loyal and easily af- |
fected. Red haired people are nearly I
always keen in business transactions,
quick of perception. high tempered and
witty. The wo-.an who has blond
hair is impulsive and loving. but usu-
ally tickle. although an agreeable COM
panion.-Pittsburg Press
An Appetizer.
Gentleman tat restaurant)-I say,
waiter. your customers are fearfully
noisy lot.
''Yes. sir, and yet they are SO par /
ticular, you would scarcely believe. ,