Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-09
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Servant girls hire for six months at
time in Norway.
New York society women have adopted
as their latest fad the playing of baseball
A flannel wet with kerosene oil will re
move fly sp"cks from brass. Polish will
chamois.
The japanese have dug seventy ships
out of the harbor Of Port Arthur, and the
digging is reported to be fairly good still
The old-fashioned mutton tallow skin
food, made sweet with lavender and
| creamy with almond oil, is the best thing
known.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the, noted
poetess and editor oil st. Nicholas Maga.
zine since 1873, died in New York, Aug
ust 22d.
The president of the London Society oi
Women Journalists is Mrs. L. P. O'Con-
nor She was born in Texas and educated
at Washington.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
ask Congress to amend the law requiring
the unloading and feeding of live stock
each twenty-eight hours.
The women of Wilmington, ILL.,, took
the matter in hand of closing the saloons
on Sunday and had the proprietors ar
rested. Everything is lovely now.
A company Of girls, the daughters Of
Boone county, No., farmers, has been Or
ganzed into military company. They
are very proficient in the manual of arms.
The lean and faded face can be made to
look almost young with proper attention.
The face must be massaged every night
and with food which plumps it out.
For five years ending with the new
year, desertions from the United States
army footed up 7,3O5 according to the
Forthcoming annual report of the Judge
advocate general.
Pearl Bernard and Aza Nichols, both OF
St. Louis, started out to see the world in
box car and ended their journey at
Leavenworth, Kansas, where the police
nabbed them.
If the housekeeper ofs these days
doesn't have more leisure and an easier
time generally than her mother or her
grandmother had before her, it would
seem to be entirely her own fault.
In Detroit the clubwomen have under
taken very important summer work in
furnishing modified milk at cost to
mothers OF babies. Those who can afford
to pay are to be charged small price.
Where we gain penny in saving old
trash, thinking we may use it sometime,
we lose two in work and patience, stor-
ing and handling it.
The largest saw dust pile in the world
is to be found at Cheboygan, Mich. Ii is
a veritable hill ,0S0 feet long, S75 feet
wide, 3,625 feet in circumference, ranges
from 20 to so feet in height and covers II
acres of ground. 1t is the accumulation
of one lumber company since 1877
IF women would spend more time at
housework and less time at nonsense" !"
says Mrs. Elizabeth Hunt, aged los, Of
Brooklyn, "they'd be better off," If
Mrs. Hunt could produce proof that
women might keep young by doing house
work the domestic problem would be
quickly solved.
Gov. Herrick of Ohio few days ago
received from Miss L. Neal" of Bedford
a request for permit to don mems wear
ing apparel. The woman says she works
on farm and that skirts interfere with
her usefulness. She wants to know if the
governor can not give her permission to
get into trousers. At present such re-
quest can not be granted, but the letter
was referred to the attorney general with
the suggestion that perhaps he would
recommend an amendment to the law to
suit such a case.
Dorothy Dix says many cute things
that are true. She also says some true
things that are cute, but when she set out
to write about "Work" she certainly
made queer work of it. Listen to this
from her pen: "The most delightful
amusement in the world is working.
The best time that nybody can have is to
be found in doing good work for good pay.
There is no other joy equal to the clean
JOY OF being swallowed up in some con-
genial occupation that keeps the hands
busy, the mind alert and active and that
fills the hours with absorbing plans and
interests. Certainly work is the great
national American sport, and the reason
that American men keep on in business
long after they have accumulated fortunes
is because the fascination and fun. of the
game is SO great that they cannot bring
themselves to the point of laying down
theft hands and dropping OUT