New-York tribune., 1903-07-16


the women teachers of New-York that they may
be gradually supplanted by in the choice posi-
tons Of their profession appears to be by means
peculiar to this city. Recent events in the Nation
Educational Association show that its
members do not suspect the men of any desire to
push them to the front, and the Cleveland women
teachers greatly exercised report that
the position Of principal There seems to be con-
siderable foundation for this rumoT for at at are re-
land, exclusively masculine organization, the
in the ideal school system all the principashiPs
you'd Pe held f} Py men lie SAD @ fnat % men would would
tain better discipline among the teachers and 1t
time the change in question would be made.
A woman who has frequent occasion to move her
pet cat from city to country has discovered that
a gngham bag with drawing string tied close
around the pussys neck Is much better than
hamper. She holds the bag in her arms. and
ev~n with its head inside the animal knows that
it is not deserted. To induce the pussy to enter
the bag and avoid the scare which would result
from putting her in by force, bunch of fragrant
tination she finds some catnlp on her cushion and
feels at home at once; In a hamper cat is apt
its destination IS more likely to wish to find its
A young mother who is possessed of the faculty,
not so common might be wished, of remember
ing her own childhood, said when her first baby
began exhibit fondness for fruit that 1t should
always have just much of such food as it
wanted to Her parents had adopted a
different course and she was determined that her
children should not suffer she had done She
had no idea then how much fruit a child
capable of consuming, but she relgiously kept her
word and now the dietetic habits of her two little
girls the scandal of entire community.
When the older and supposedly wiser mothers of
the place these unhappy babies sucking
oranges and drinking lemonade they predicted all
sorts of dire results and when informed that
Of them, at the age of three four, had eaten
ten big apples in one day. and that another. at
eighteen months, had disposed of four pears and
two bananas in the same length of time, their
horror too deep for expression As a matter
of fact the baby felt little uncomfortable after
had not intended to allow her to so quite 50
far. 1t happened Sunday. when the father
the child and did not always take the trouble TO
compare notes as to the nourishment she had
taken 1t chanced, accordingly. that one parent
gave her two pears and banana in the morning
and that the other repeated the SI ooSe at nlsn
would probably have Killed any child not brousH.
up fruit eating, but in this case it caused only
These children scarcely ever have even the most
trifiing ailment. and any serious illness
One Of them during a. very nard dT sqe[ I'm IceTtajed w
within a radius of twenty mies-with the eXcep-
regime. But il never occurs TO any one to SonnerS ]
these facts with their manifest causes ana . eNgS
considers the misguided mothers very 1orlutd'e
to escape the proper results of their folly.
The women OF oregon have formed an associa-
ton for purpose OF erecting statue of SacaJe
wea at the Lewis and Clark centennial eNhinlto"'
SAGA jevea was Indian woman of the ShosilOHe
tribe who was of great service to the explorers
Lewis and Clark She smoothed their way, W. We
her own tribe and with the F1atheads ana ,jnoe me
when they would been forced 10 aOdilCe5 dnte5
the expedition but for her assistance Sne ne she
had the instinct OF n homing pigeon IN iti rosf
the wilderness The proposed memorial "-