The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-16
SOME POINTS.

The statement that the child labor in- humanities are only practiced in the South is mistake, as shown in the ,hear- ings before the Anthracite Coal Commis- sion, where the fact Is brought out that child labor prevails in Pennsylvania un- der horrid conditions and that the laws for the protection of children are inade- quate if they were rigidly enforced where as they are openly disregarded. The last report of the State Factory Inspector shows that LAO children were employed More than 17,0O0 girls between IS and 1s years old were working in the manufac- turing establishments of Pennsylvania. Of these between 5000 and 5.OO0 work all night in textile mills.
 That big celebration of King Edward in India, where the gold and silver car riages and diamond studded harness lined the passways for miles might have wrung our hearts with envy if the reports of frightful famtnes in his part of the coun- try had been suppresseuss The Chtcago, girl, who sat in gorgeous magnihcence upon. that fine elephant and was known to the gaping multitude as vice reine. sould not have altered the famine con aitions if she had tried, but somebody of the human race ought to work over that job.
 The new education act in England. re- uuires that there shall be at least one woman on every Education Committee.
 The only Finnish woman journalist and newspaper publisher, in the United States, Miss Maggie Walk of Calumet, Mich, has Just completed $5O.0OO business block. She and other women are organizing a stock company.
 Ir khara ara rna0v tax paying women as men, and exclusive. of the taxes paid by corporations, women pay nearly half the taxes of the city In Hornelisville in the same State 700 of the R,10O tax payers are women. The entire property valuation Is $4366,11S. Of this amount, women pay taxes on $1,SS6,s40. The women vote on tax propositions. Why not7
 The new licensing act of England, which went into effect January l, grants either husbaiid or wife a separation for habItual drunkenness and allows the po- lice to arrest an inebriate anywhere.
 The Era Club of New Orleans is. plan- ming mighty things. It is to entertain the National Suffrage Convention which will meet there in March. Among the promi- nent speakers will be pr, Julia Holmes Smith of Chicago, who was raised in New Orleans, but when she chose the pro-
 
 fession of medicine she had to leave that city because the medical school is not open to women. She has been a success full physician and has reared her family in elegance and comforted an invalid hus- band during years of infirmities, and Is an ornament to the high circles in which she moves. That convention will have some fine. differentiations which will be worth reading. All wisdom did not evap- crate with the departure of Jobs advis- CTS, nor Is 1t lying wis inertias. in any single head of either hemisphere. It Is the one thing upon which no trusts can be formed and about which Solomon, when. he was surprised in the conamittal of some unusually foolish act, would utter unimpeachable panegyrics' "Get wisdom,> and with all thy getting, get understandings For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to 1t.
 A Contributor.