The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-27
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
What Women are Deing.

Mrs. Mary J.T illinghast. of Provi- dence, R. R., has seen thirteen years continuous service as police matron In that city. She is on duty from 6:3o a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Twelve hundred women and girls and over, 1,600 boys have come under her charge during the past twelve months.
 One of Uncle Sam's youngest mall carriers is Miss Grace Morgan of Ashtabala, Ohio, who successfully de- flyers the mail on a rural route twen- ty-five miles long. Miss Morgan Is a substitute carrier. herfather being the regular postal department representa- tive. but she takes his place so often that she practically fills the position She-covers the route in fair and dis agreeable weather and Is we'll liked by the people in the district where she serves.
 In order to be eligible to a position in the United States mint at Philadel- phia, Miss Millie Holmes, an English woman, who has lived twelve years In this country has just taken out nat uralization papers.
 At Inveresk near Edinburgh. Scot land, a school of gardening for women is conducted by the Misses Barker and Morrison, who for several years work ed as gardeners at the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh. The curriculum of the school includes the principles of botany and horticulture. bee-keep- ing, book k-keeping, bouquet making and sundry minor details of the work. Miss Caroline L. O. .Ransome of Washington, Is the first woman from whom the United States government purchased a painting for the walls of the capitol Miss Ransome. who has lived in the national capital for up- wards of score of years, enjoys the distinction of having painted the DOT traits of more statesmen than any oth- CT woman artist.
 Chicago now has several restaurants for the accommodation of the business woman exclusively. Writing on the subject in the Advance, Miss Mary H. Krout says:
 There have been for many years in Chicago a series of restaurants which were clean, admirably donduc- ted where men could get coffee. rolls, eggs, fruit and the like at extreme ly low prices. They were for men on- ly, but the young business women looked on wistfully from afar, then gradually drew near, then invaded these culinary strongholds bodily. They did not chamber upon the long, legged stools and sit with their broth CTS at the counters. A place was made for them, tables put in, few at first. Then more and still more. Now it has been found necessary to reconstruct them altogether. A great airy balcony has been added, with a broad stair case leading to it. White capped maids serve the customers, and serve well. The bill of fare is the same at the counters below. the prices the same, and the accommodation much better in several particulars. Here too, at the noon hour there are crowds
 
 ed, and well behaved and certainly having at least an outward appearance of cheefulness and prosperity. It is the last decisive proof that the busi- ness woman is here, that she has come to stay, at least until she marries Self-respecting and useful, she will be no longer flouted or neglected"
 To be-or Not to be-Fat.
 Youths Companion.
 The tendency to uut on fat may he congential or acquired; that is to say. 1t may be due to some inherited nutritional fault or it may be the di- rect result of overesting, or the eating of an undue proportion of fat-forming foods. It may manifest itself in child hood or early adult life, and Is then in most cases an inherited condition but usually 1t first shows itself in troublesome form in middle life. when an excess of food is not needed for growth and when the vital pro- cesses are getting slower. so that this excess cannot be so rapidly eliminated as 1t was earlier in life. and is thus stored up in the tissues as fat
 There are two kinds of obsetity, called usually the plethoric and the anemic. The plethoric, which Is the common form in men. is due to the taking of too much food of all kinds the anemic from which women suffer more often than men, is due rather to the eating. not of too much food but of improper kinds of food-of sweets candy. cakes and the like.
 It Is almost always possible to re- duce flesh and to prevent Its further accumulation. but it is not always easy and is seldom agreeable. A curb must be put on the appetite. whether for quantity or quality of food. Hab- its of indolence must be overcome and often the struggle must be kept up for the rest of life. A good fig ure, like liberty. is to be had only at the price of eternal vigilance.
 Passport to Newport Society. Philadelphia Record.
 spendthrift ancestors have left many of the nobility with vast establish ments which they are not able to maintain. and 1t has become their ann bition to rent their country homes to rich Americans. The number of the latter who care to spend any long time in England is limited, and other means to extract dollars from aspir- ing Americans have been adopted For example. the lease of an English mans yacht may contain the provision that the nobleman and certain of his titled friends shall visit the vessel at stated times This Is the simplest road Of the parvenu millionaire to swell so- clety. To have had as his guests per- best circles of Newport.
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 Sending a Telegram.
 Youths Companion.
 Mrs. Lane was young and inexperi- enced, but certain principles of econo- my has been instilled into her from oh