The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-06-21

cles of society in New York have
taken up the British fad of having
the arm tattooed. Butterflies. lovers
knots and intricate Oriental outlines
are stamped upon the flesh and all in
tints in harmony with the pink and
white of the flesh. The fad is a pretty
one and most likely will be limited to
the enjoyment of fashions elect, as
It is very expensive to have the work
executed by skilled tatoolsts.
Caroline N. Severance.
A clubwoman whose name is being
very much mentioned just now by
other clubwoman all over the country
is Mrs. Caroline NJ Severance of Los
Angeles, who was made honorary vice.
president for life of the general feder.
alton at the Los Angeles biennial.
While Mrs. Jennie c. Croly founded
Sorosis, and was aften called the
mother of woman's clubs" and while
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Ednah d.
Cheney and other notable women
founded the New England woman's
Club at about the same time, It would
appear that to Mrs. Severance really
belongs the credit of the club idea" {"
and that more than fifty years ago
she thought out the womans club. so
that her work antedates that of Soro-
sis and the New England woman's
Club, of which she was founder and
first president.
Club Woman to Explore Africa.
Mrs. Emma Shaw Colecleugh, a
prominent club woman OF Boston.
who has attained considerable fame
as a writer, will start June IS, alone.
on an exploring tour into the wllds of
Central Africa She will take along
two large trunks, containing a ward.
robe composed largely of pongee.
She will sail from Brooklyn for
Genoa by the steamship Allen. After
Genoa she goes to Marseilles, thence
by steamer, to Zanzibar. From there
she will go to Mambasa, and inland
by the lately.completed Neganda rail
way to Victoria Nyanza. Several
steamers run on this lake, so she will
have no difficulty until she starts by
caravan to penetrate the interior.
Mrs. Colecleugh has travelled much.
having been TO the South Seas. Cuba.
Australia, and the Klondlke, although
she has never before been to Africa.
She is a member Of the National Geo
Society ana manw women's
cubs.-Cincinnau Enquirer.
Women suffragists Hope.
The national officers of the Woman's
Suffrage Association who have been
holding business session at the
home Of the president, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, at Bensonhurst, l.. l..
TO plan for the work OF the coming
year, have adopted resolutions ex-
pressive Of rejoicing over the progress
made recently in the legal rights of
women in different parts Of the world.
Referring to the fact that national
suffrage has just been granted to
165, i07 women of Australia, by a
unanimous vote of both
houses of the Federal Parliament, the
official board added:
We believe the men of America
ire not inferior to those Of Australia
n justice and chiyalry."
Further occasion for jubllation was
ound I'm the action Of Massachusetts
n making mothers equal guardians OF
heir minor children with their fathers ,
4 Maryland In admitting women TO
he bar, and In the recent passage by
many other states OF laws enlarglng
ho personal and property rights Of
'omen
Among those who attended the
leeting We're Susan B. Anthony,
aura Clay Of Kentucky. Mrs. II. r.
'ptOn OF Ohio. Kate NJ. Gordon Of
ouisyille, and Rev Anna Shaw OF
Woman's Advance. {
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