The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.

SCHOOL ZEAL OF FoREIGN-BORN. The fact Is that the foreigner who has come. to this country of freedom and opportunity appreciates fully the value of education as an endowment to his sons and daughters. He will suffer many hardships and privations in or der that he may send his children to the schools so freely provided for them He encourages them to study and holds out to them the prospect of the better things they may enjoy by reason of be- ing educated than fall to the lot or those who cannot read and write, and hence must always be the servants to those who can.
 The records of the public schools in the larger cities where foreigners abound have for many years shown a larger percentage of honors won in class work, in department and in punc- tuality of attendance among the chill dren of foreign percentage than among those of native stock. This fact has been often remarked upon-especially 50 the fact that in such cities the per- centage of pupils of foreign parentage, who persist in passing through the high school courses is greater than that of the pupils of native parentage.
 The number per thousand of such children who cannot read and write Is
  advantages are seantfest, than In the North and West, where schools are plentiful and where compulsory ,edu- cation and truant laws are enforced. But the responsibility for the fact that the ratio stands 9 to A in favor of the foreign derived population does not rest on the South the hardest. Tn the past ten years most or our southern States have improved their ratios in rffr lor and Central States have fallen to rela- tive positions considerably below their status in 1890.
 It is a fact. we think, that stands beyond contradiction that the foreign CTS are making better use of the pub- lie schools than are our native people. ---Atlanta Constitution.
 EXPERT OPINION OF MARRIAGE.
 But, pape," protested Gladys. T am not bit too young to marry. You know perfectly we'll that you married mamma when she was IS. and I am a whole year older than that"
 T know, but I never thought much of your mothers judgment in that re- spect. Chicago Tribune.
 BUSINESS HOUSEKEEPERS.
 A woman who has a family and Is a business woman as we'll said the other day:
 Until a woman has tried it she new CT knows what 1t means to be house. keeper and business woman combined. and few can stand the strain long.
 "I break down every little while, but just now do not see any other way to adjust matters.
 'But it is this division of duties that gives the opportunity for the criticism sometimes heard relative to women's and mems ability in business.
 "A man is not expected to do any thing else but attend to business dur ing business hours. and then amuse himself in the way he best likes after ward.
 But a woman is not only expected to thoroughly understand the business in which she Is interested. but to know how to conduct house in all Its de- tails, and, furthermore, to put this knowledge into practice. and great many business women try to do too much.
 They are at once their own cooks, dressmakers, milIiners and household managers, and follow a business pursuit in addition.
 .It naturally follows that something must be sacrificed.
 "Generally, 1t is the woman's health. as the consequence of her conscientious endeavors to do her duty inside and outside her home."
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 AUSTRIAN WOMEN.
 Austrian girls. says an exchange. are carefully taught in school until they are 15 years old. They are not during this time kept entirely out of society. but are dressed with the great est simplicity. never wearing silk gown until they have left school and f@II n tndN tNfr the school room they have one or two / years training in the kitchen and pantry either by some member of their own family or under a trained cook in anothers house. Though they may never be required to cook for them- selves, they know exactly how every thing should be done and long before they set up housekeeping on their own account are competent to take charge of a household. They make most af- fectior ate wives and mothers. An Austrian lady is said to be as accom- plished and learned as an English gov erness, as good a cook and housekeeper as a; German. as bright and witty in society as a Parisian, and as handsome as an American. In Vienna are found some of the most beautiful women in Europe. Austrian girls are brought up fin habits of industry and are rarely seen without some kind of work in hand They are famous for their great piles of linen. a certain number of yards of which are every year from girls birth woven and laid aside for her marriage portion. The grand mothers spend much of their time in knitting for their grandchildren, not only supplying their present need, but laying by dozens of stockings of every kind for the young girls trousseau. Some of these stockings are as fino as the finest woven ones.
 SNAPPY.
 Philadelphia Press.
 Borem-I hear she rejected you. I'll bet you felt foolish about that time.
 Lover-Yes, I guess I felt as foolish at that time as you look all the time.
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 BOBBY" IN THE MARRIAGE VOW. There are strong minded women who insist on the omission of "obey" from
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