The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-09-19
Mt. Pelee in Eruption.

atrical fame as the originator of the eta
ra-ra' dance, instructing him to begin
proceedings to contest the probate Of the
will Of the late Stephen Cooney, who re-
Gently died in Saratoga. In private life
Lottie Collins was Mrs. Stephen Cooney.
for probate in the surrogates office here,
was executed September q, 1901. In it
no mention is made of his dancer wife,
who is in London. The will directs that
after his funeral expenses and all just
debts are paid the remainder of his es-
tate, including $4,000 life insurance
policy shall be given to his sister. Mary
benefit Of the daughter of the tcstator,
Helena Cleopatra Cooney.
Not all business men in New York arc
so joined to their business as to be for
much to the stranger who enters their
offices In the office of one who is at his
desk from $ O'Clock a. m. until 6 y. III.
hangs Il motto in large type: Il am
passing this way but once. l shall not
return again. 1t is my wish that l may
do some act which will be benefit to al
| meet On another wall is a motto
to the effect that any man can be placid
and courteous whenever anything is go
ing bis way. but it requires hero to be
pleasant N the face Of adversely. One
of the busy men referred to, when spoken
t" about these pleasant greetings, said:
1T y not what many would expect to
ind Very many people act as if they
thought We kept a bulldog or 4 gatling
gun in the doorway. l have often had
Il co'l CHILL upon going into an office
where the proprietor had big card on
his desk on which was printed This is
my busy day or BE brief'' -
The baled-hay widowers of the Rialto
are III high feather over the report from
Paris that a husband has a ri ght to so
on the stage where his actress-wife is
employed. The French court justifes the
ruling thus: "Stage life admittedly ex-
poses q woman to constant temptations
Or. at least. undesirable attentions. It is
legitimate desire on the part of a wife
to be protected against such things; and.
at any rate. it is the in'lisputable right
Of a husband to be her protector, whether
she realizes the necessity for one or
not. At least said one actress hus-
band-who swore that he would never
drive another street car in his life when
his wife got her salary raised to $1S-
at last we cit our recognition. Ne to
the stage door of the Casino tonight, and
If | don't get in. to the law for me-
Minnie let's mo go to the box office and
take her salary every week. remarked Il
tragedian, but when 1 try to talk to
her at the stage entrance she threatens to
run her automobile over me. She needs
| a protector, but doesn't know it,
The Professional Woman's League OF
New York city has brought out some
| curious facts regarding the physical pro,
portions Of women. The league has adj
yertised for fifty young women six feet
tall to act as policemen at the wom-
ans exhibition in Madison Square Gar
dent next October. Most of the women
who applied fell fully six inches below
| the required standard, and not single
one has so far qualified. One applicant
stood six feet high, but she was built so
| much like tape measure that the secre-
tary declined to furnish her with a mace.
Another came forward with the argu-
ment that. while she was only five feet
tall, her lateral proportions was vast
enought to make her an object. of terror
to wrongdoers at the exhibition. OF the