New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-07
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from China 10 which it would be difficult to find a
parallel Mrs. William II. Logan is the wife of A
medical missionary in China. and when living in
the far interior OF that vast country. eight hun
dred miles from the nearest doctor. her husband
was stricken with appendicitis DR.. Logan saw
that his only chance of recovery lay in an opera
ton. which he asked his wife to perform accord
ing 70 instructions which he save her. \ more
in could scarcely be imagined: but this heroic
woman, VINO might perhaps, have screamed if a
under an anaesthetic and with her unskilled hand
when he had rallied sufficiently to be moved she
took him eight hundred miles by wagon and rail
to a physician, who completed the cure.
Southern Louisiana has eight more varieties of
mosquitoes than any other State in the Union. and
yet the people are not worrying much about the
mosquito plague as are their Northern compatriots
The reason is not that they love mosquitoes more
but that they love ants less In New-OrIeans
they are having plague OF ants in comparison
with which any ordinary mosquito plague would
seem a luxury. Ants nothing new there and
housekeepers have been fighting them for genera
lions Not only housekeepers, but grocers and
dealers in edibles of any kind suffer from their
;nroads, and the very houses which built most
wahened in the nigh night by swarms of insects crawl
lug over zen races ana mecks' ana II rs neces-
off. for they are ready to sting if disturbed The
Of the city. The insects formerly found difficulty
in finding suitable places for their nests, owing TO
water and Rising the grades, Of the streets with
feet breeding ground
Much fun and considerable profit were derived
from a business enterprise carried on last year at
a well known seaside resort by two enterprising
young women who happened to know something
of kindergarten work. They rented large tent
decorated it with seaweed kep and shells. spread
few rugs the sand with plenty of pillows. and
concealed two large trunks with all necessary ac-
Sessories behind a couple of bamboo screens, and
Bang out single bearing the legend DAY
most sanguine S' Pafehts goin for
sail checked At, their whole family mothers ready for
answering questions shifted their responsibilities
tbe tf Sbait voIn aTnts si oi1 %oteH it
their 'steadies" checked their little nepheWs and
in the tent than they would have been with their
relatives the latter were infinitely relieved to get
rid of them. and the enjoyed both the
work and the money it brought them.
The truth of the old saying that "a guilty con-
science needs no accUser' is wildly illustrated by
the bad time a woman has been having with
bill for $50 which she ran up for groceries twenty
seven years ago and left town without paying. It
seems that one E B. Gonzales conducted large
grocery business in East Orange y. J.. about thirty
years ago. one OF his customers was the woman
who UP the $50 debt. Mr.. Gonzales died sud
denly in 1877. leaving many accounts outstanding
Gonzales moved to Illinois. As the years on
fances afflicted her She could not seep In fact
for twenty-seven years she did not enjoy a single
night of sound, unhroken slumber SO much did
that $50 get on her nerves At last she consulted
a lawyer who told her the only way to get a good
nights rest was TO pay her bill The check was
handed \ receipt was given. and the woman
slept soundly till 10 o'clock the next morning.
Don't You think the modern woman is in dan
ger of getting busy she has 10 time TO be
kind?' asked sweet old lady the other day.
We hear much about making every minute
count and always having some work course of
study for spare hours and systema tizing our
activities that there is room left for wayside
own affairs. self-centred intent on not miss
ing anything that Is going that pass by a
ilVIHs iiIJy years PACK instead OF now We should
have thought Of 1t isn't only the lame. the halt
dreds who never fan by the way or ask publicly
for the cup Of cold water, who Vet are perishng
had the advantage over the sO-caled woman
in Quickness Of sympathy and responsiveness
At the meeting of the National Association of
Charities and Corrections in Atlanta, Ga. not long
ago Mrs. Frances c. Curtis. of Boston said she
believed il was more important TO prevent men
from becoming tramps than to try to make them
good citizens after they are tramps. 1t is the
women or the country. sald Mrs curtis, VINO
make the tramps by giving meals. If the womens
clubs in all parts of the country would take up
this question and discuss it, believe much good
would result
The Mayor Of Oneida. y. Y. recently appointed
Miss Florence kirkpatrick 10 be OF the five
library trustees who are to erect and afterward
TO manage the new Carnegie library in that city.
Following his example. the Mayor of Toledo. Ohio.
appointed Mrs. Bissen. a prominent clubwoman
member OF the board OF library trustees The ap-
Generals office even going far TO declare the
appointment Illegal under the city charter, OHIO
clubwonen are making ar earnest effort 10 have
the appointment sustained