Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-09
NOTES OF MEN AND WOMEN.

Miss Minnie Baldwin is president of a
bank in WiSter, /. T. She is also among
the incorporators
Miss Helen Gould has purchased ground
adjoining the naval branch of the Brooklyn
Young Mems Christian Association, upon
which she will build sleeping rooms and a
gymnasium for the sailors.
Last year an Englshman spending his
holidays at lake Windermere bought for
s25 an old grandfather's clock that he had
seen in a cottage. 1t was damaged in
transit and the owner let the express
company keep II in payment of $25. The
company has just sold 1t for $500
George Adams, who came to this coun-
try from Wakefield, England, and drifted
to Illinois thirty years ago, is sought by a
Hartford, Conn, lawyer, who says that
$35, GOO awaits the man in England. No
trace of Adams has been found since he
went to Illinois.
Prof James R. Adams of Dowie's Zion
City Ministerial College has started to walk
to New York. The trip is in the nature of
a vacation, but it is also to demonstrate
that foods, such as unbaked bread,
cereals of all kinds fruits and nuts, are
more nourishng than steaks, chops and
other meats.
Richard William Jones was pinned to
the ground by a large boulder at the Liam
beris quarry, Wales, on June II. When his
comrades lifted the rock from his mangled
body he said: Lads, sing o God, Give Me
Thy Peace p" They sang it as they carried
him to a hospital, where he died.
Prof Clifton Hodge, biologist at Clark
University, Worcester, Mass, has come
out urging the determination of all cats
by municipalities, declaring they are the
worst existing enemy of bird life. I'VE
need the German method of cat traps
like those that in one year killed 10000
cats in Hamburg says Prof Hodge.
Lady Diana de We're Huddleston, who
died in London recently, left will be-
queathing $4,000 to her servants and di-
recting that her ashes after cremation
should be placed in the oak shrine await
ing them at Coutts' bank and buried
with those of her husband, which she had
carried with her wherever she went for
fifteen years.
Miss Cara DriscoN a wealthy Texas
girl, has purchased the ruins of the old
monastery of Alamo, part of the battle
field where the freedom of Texas won
from Mexico. 1t was proposed to erect
modern hotel there, but Miss Driscoll step
ped in and purchased the spot for $4,000
and will now reconstruct the ancient and
renowned edifice.
Edward Everett Hale thinks that every
body should sleep ten hours a day, going
to bed at o'clock He never engages in
brain work until after in the afternoon
and spends a great deal of time in the
open air. caring little for weather condi-
tons Never work" he says, when you
feel tagged out because you cannot do
good work while in that state. Above ev-
erything, do not worry
COQueHD, the nOteQ FreNCn comedian,
Notwithstanding his many years of brain
work and the constant strain of stage life,
possesses a remarkable store of nerve pow
er. He thinks nothing of taking a nap in
his motor car while the chauffeur sends it
spir ming along as fast as the law allows.
This reposefulness of spirit is the constant
envy of other members of the theatrical
profession.
Thomas Benton Murdoch, a Kansas ed
itor. appears to dsapprove of the United
States Senate. In recent issue of his
parer, the Eldorado Republican, he refers
to the members of that august body as
whisky drinking, poker-playing political
old Ieprobates, 'roped and branded old
barnacles," "bald-headed, gravey-eyed old
gUzzlers," and that inanimate aggregation
of bought-and- paid-for old dodgers who
blink their eyes in imbecile stupidity"
When the young King of Spain was in
London he one day saw a banner of well
come bearing these words in tolerable
Spanish--up to the last word: "Que vues-
tro reinado, senior, sea largo filez." which
was intended to mean: May your reign,
sir, be long and happy" But that last
word threw him into fits of laughter. 1t
should have been "feliz." AS it was 1t
meant nothing in Spanish, while In
French language with which his majesty
is familiar it is equivalent to the American
get out