Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-30
Notes of wOman's work.

taDle.-NeW York Herald.
Notes of WOman's Work.
Miss Margaret Edmunds has established
Corea-
Miss Bessie Balm who lives near Chat
ham, N. Y, has been appointed oVerseer OF
highways in her district.
Mrs; Annette Mills, formerly of Roches-
ter, N. Y, Is the founder and manager of
the only deaf mute school in China.
KY, will be enrolled among the benefactors
of her race. She has invented a means OF
lacing shoes without STOPPING
Helen Keller's book has been translated
into twelve foreign languages, including
Japanese Russian, Roumanian, Finnish,
Bohemian, Danish and Swedish.
Miss Elizabeth X, Brown, eldest daugh-
ter of the late David Wolfe Brown, who
for many years was chief official reporter
OF the house of representatives, has gone
into the mining business in Colorado.
Pundita Ramabai has secured a new farm
OF eighty acres; where she rescues and
cares for the miserable child-widows OF
India, upon whom no one seems to take
pity except her.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whose contributions
for the development of pedagogical science
have amounted to more than 100000, will
be appointed a member of the Chicago
Board of Education by Mayor Dunno, who
will make departure from custom by
doubling the number OF women on the
board.
There died this spring in Paris the Wis
countess d'Aquado, aged 49, She had been a
lady-in-w waiting at the court Of Louis Napo-
leon and was renowned for her great
beauty. The former Empress Eugene, now
feeble and aged woman, desolate and I'M
happy, was represented at the funeral by
Prince Murat.
Seven women physicians and dentists,
successful practitioners in New Orleans,
will combine in a free medical and dental
clinic for women and children, which will
be located in three rooms of a house in the
most thickly settled portion OF the city,
where the most destitute people are found.
The doctors interested in this undertaking
are Sara 7. Mayo, Susanna Otis Elizabeth
Bass, Cora Bass. Clara Glenk. Clothilde c.
Jauquet and Fassy (dentisO.
Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson Of New
. York is an unknown woman-in a public
sense, that Is to say-who is doing hand
some things with her money without the
/ erected a physical culture building for the
! Teachers college in New York costing $3.50
co., A library building which she gave Vas
sar took 10000 and a college chapel build
| ing for Williams college, costing $4,000.
Will be dedicated in q few days
Tho New York Council OF Jewish Women,
| Miss Sadie American president, has re-
ceived an anonymous gift OF $4,000 10 found
house for friendless young women In
need of temporary assistance. Mrs. Maud
Nathan will furnish one of its rooms In
| memory OF her daughter Annette. II is ex-
pected that the benehciaries OF this house
/ will be mostly young girls who have just
! emigrated to this country with no acquaint-
| ances here. Such girls will be met at Ellis
| positions. An excellent adjunct will be the
/ Clara de Hirsch house for w6rking girls,
where girls will be trained for trades and
| professions.
Feminine FriIls and FancieH.
New sweaters hint at fall sports.
| For the palmer shirtwaists have come
linen, fairly heavy, and embroidered with