The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-24
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 Miss Ethel Dickens granddaughter Of the novelist, presides over fourishing typewriting establishment of her own in
 Tavistock Street. Covent Garden, Lon don. She makes speciality of copying plays and book manuscripts. and her work is of such excellent quality that she has Tho difficulty in commanding high prices. In connection with the office is training school for typists, who must be girls of good education Miss Dickens will not take an ill-educated girl into her school | or her employ.
 The branch of the family to which Ethel Dickens belongs goes in for busi- ness. One sister, Miss Mary Angela, who | is beginning to be favorably known as writer. owns a. shirt-waist shop In Ken lssington. Another sister, Miss Cecil. IS secretary to the London School Board Of
 Health while fourth sister. Miss Eve | lyn, is a kindergarten teacher.
 A clever Parisian woman. Madame de Boutreiles has built up unique busi- ness which consists of photographing | dresses and hats to pc sent out as fore runners of the seasons fashions Sne | has at her command a number of beauti- | full girls most of whom she has selected l from small theatres and music halls. All | the dressmakers in Paris send models oI | their creations to Mme. de Boutrelles six | months in advance of the season. and l hats. boots, fans and parasols to complete | the picture are sent by the various man. | ufacturers. Two photographers make speciality of photographing the models in | their borrowed splendor and the pictures are sold to dressmakers all over the | world. commanding from s10 to s25 The | SirIs get about sl 25 for a mornings work | of posing in a dozen or more costumes. Miss Laura Rose, a graduate or an az
 riculturak college, conducts traVehhs | dairy school In Nova Scotia. Miss Rose travels in a big covered wagon. takihs
 with her churns, separator, mix tester | hutter worker everything in fact neces-
 sary to the making of butter. except the | cream. which is supplied by the agricul- turaI societies in the different to"ns' Every farmers wife who can possibly at | tend goes to Miss Roses school. wherever | it stops. and the quality of the butter I made in that part of the country IS saiu to have been greatly improved. The | travelling dairy school was conouc'e" | with success in Cape Breton year ago. l An American woman, says The Pnlia- l delphia Press, Mrs. Fannie Workman ! has made the ascent of the LoonsHa 1 Glacier. beating all climbing recoros III I the Himalayas. She has already mace
 name for herself as mountain chmper'
 having succeeded, in company with her
 husband, Dr. William Hunter workman
 in ascending Kosher Gunge, one oi .he | great peaks of the Himalayas. At that | time she attained an altitude Of A,oVo
 feet which Is greater than any other
 woman ever reached. Three or Tour | EnsIishrnen have gone higher in the linn
 aIavas than Dr. and Mrs. Workman, put
 no woman has ever been so high.
 Mrs Anne Besant, fellow of the Theo-
 sophical Society recently completed her
 fifty-ffth year. She was co-eoitor oi 1 The National Reformer. with the iate
 Charles Bradlaugh. and has been prom,
 inent member of the Fabian Society ana
 of the Social Dem ,cratic Federaton'
 with Herbert Burrows she had much to
 .,r with bringing the match strike" 10 | successful conclusion, and fought III the
 hattie for free speech in London MT
 Resant was a member or the LoIiuoii
 School Board from 1887 to 1889, when she
 became a devoted pupil of Mime Blavat- sky and occultism. She has Wrltten "iahS
 books of theosophic subjects
 An ;nnortant part of the craft or ola-
 r,ond cutting is now done almost exclu-
 sixeIv by women. The first process oi
 diamond splitting, that is separating d 1oroe stone full of flaws into several l eo vyless stones, Is done by men. women
 then handle the diamonds, Wnlch they | round with little pear-shaped tools uppeo 1 with diamonds, removing all angles AS | scrne of the diamonds are so small thd' | sayoral hundred of them weigh less than
 Q carat. the work is very hard on .he
 eves Tn e last process by wnlch 'he tetones are facetted is done by steam'
 Onota Watanna has been much peioIe
 the reading world since she came 'o | T[y work less than two years ago. be-
 fora that she was newspaper woman III ! Cbiraeo Her mother was Japanese nei fatber an English consul at NasasaAi
 -,,h1ra she was born. Later he was trans | farred to Canada, and so she gra1leo an
 hn,erican training and education upon Jananese gi:.hood.-New YorK Suh'
 While travelling Miss Helen Eouiu | l oonstanlv attended by man named ut
 U,bo acts as her bodyguard. one or ms | snacial functions is to keep kodak nehos
 f,om taking pictures of Miss Gould. Dur ,nr his long service he has been arrested | .everal times for smashing cameras put l Miss Gould. of course, always gets mn
 o,,t of the trouble. He is giant Ill s'a'-
 ure and weight
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