The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-04-18

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especially interested, securing the: ap-
polntment of forester to care for the
forests in the vicinity.
The Maine Federation has a COM
mlttee On forest preservation. Mary
land and Delaware are trying to save
their eyergreens, of which the states
are beng denuded at Christmas time.
New Jersey wants to raise fund of
$1V'o0o for forestry parks alonk the
palisades. Club women in Wisconsin
have planted hundreds Of trees dur
ing the last flew years. Minnesota
women, says the Detroit Free Press,
have labored increasingly to secure a
permanent forest reservation at the
headWatres Of the Mississippi.
II
In New Orleans there is law firm
having a large practice known to the
the general public as Wickliff & Falls,
Few save the initiated are aware of
the fact that the junior member of
the firm is woman. This modern
Portia is Miss Rosa G. Falls. She is of
the opinion that the practice of her
profession is wholly BETTING her sex.
Summing up all the points in favor of
the woman lawyer. she rates first and
above all else the recognition Of equal
1ty with other members Of the bar as
lawyer and fellow. practitioner before
the courts. And, what is only second
IN Woman's demand, the utmost cour-
tesy and consideration from the other
sex. These two things assured sue
CESS, has been but consequence, the
natural inevitable.
More than fifty girls are studying
scientific, farming in. the Minneapolis
College of Agriculture. The course
they take includes botany. chemistry,
physics and geogoly, requiring in the
first two years two terms of each.
They pay special attention to cooking,
laundering, household economy, fur
nlshlng houses and social culture. They
learn to plan buildings and lay out
grounds. BY this means it is hoped
that farmers can be: provided with
wives who will know enough about
making life in the country attractive
to keep the boy from emigrating to
towns and cities,
The. woman of the world, in the trues
The woman of the world, in the
truest sense, is, one of the best fitted
for successful home-making. Tact, in
sight, dignity, grace and ready SYM
pathy characterize her dealings with
others, and nowhere are these puali-
fications of more value than in the
hto1nat W}omen's clubs are women
opportunity for much that is ennobling
to herself and to others. Like MANY
other useful things, the privilege may
be abused and;,zdegenerate into mere
dissipation, but such cases are excep-
tional. :, g..
The servant giEl question, which the
good club women are trying :5tof. solve
will. Be settled by The serv girls
themselves. That la If "a settlement
can be had. :Af eight o'clock to-mor-
row evening fifty servant girls will
meet with the organizer Of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor at g. local
hall and form a trade union to be
chartered by the A. F. of L.
A committee of servant girls waited
upon the organizer this week and tol5
him of a cart load of grievances. The
new rules adopted by the employers arr
proving unbearable, and the girls NEAR
to make a united effort to have then
revised.
The suspenders workers, all of then
girls, at West Duluth, are to organize
next week. They want the suspende,
workers labelfor Duluth manufac.
turer Of suspenders.