New-York tribune., 1905-08-28

Dr' Alice B. Condict writes interestingly IN .-T-he
Ne"-10Fk observer OF new work by women for
women at Ludhiana- In North India II is a hos
pltal or seventy-fve beds and large dispensarv in
which forty young Hndoo women are baing edu
Gated as physicians. trained nurses and even sur
geons Ihe need of this sort of training is easily
seen. when the impossibility of the admission OF
male doctors to the sickrooms Of Hindoo women
Is remembered. The only medical care the zenana
women receive is from ignorant and superstftious
women OF the lowest caste. Childbirth brings pol
luton for certain term OF days to an Indian
ana gentle attendance and skilful nursing that
need. the Indian mother is regarded for the time ne
being as unclean and unapproachable by the mem
native midwife is allowed to attend her. matted
m she'd is al han or ana sU
able for the young mother. Everything she touches
saries are given to her Often in state of ap-
Palling insantation. without proper attendance
neglected. i'll fed and sometimes unfed, the young
pass through their time Of trial Is it any wonder
that India, Of all countries. has a much larger
hmanityTe ''''''e0' ''''-'''N anu O'7'''
Over thirty thousand women organized In the
United Presbyterian Church OF the United States.
Last year they raised and administered 100000
They support two hospitals two dispensaries and
a girls boarding school in India and dspensary
port in addition sixty-four women missionaries, Of
teen home missionaries among the Indians and
freedmen.
Cats licensed in Berlin, and every cat in that
city must wear metal badge bearing number.
Dresden is one of the few cities possessing a
municipal newspaper. and this was bequeathed to
the city by the late DIR. Cunt. The bequest is a
valuable property, and consists of a daily news
paper. which. in consequence of its extensive cir
the neghborhood The profits are applied to the
identifying and improvement Of the city and TO
charity.
Many little things which most people would
think hardly worthy OF attention contribute to the
spread of tuberculosis" said DR.. William s. Balm
bridge, Of New-York. at a recent Chautauqua ad-
dress. How about the common roller towels. the
common pencils in school, the common water pail.
with its common dipper, in home school? How
many from dust the water that is to be
used the teeth in the morning and that has
cover the IN milk when it is set aside % for the cream
TO e % @ 9w many use o leather a dgsteT tbt TO scat
ments in the living room or clean their shoes and
Miss Elizabeth ONeiu is supervisor OF the school
summer Fairgrounds of Philadelphia. There are
thrty-fve Fairgrounds. annually attended by $4,000
children.
Speaking of the appontees the Chicago
Board of Education. The Boston Journal of Edu-
cation" says editoriaIly:
OF the fifteen members who remain upon the
Board of Education some progressive. indie
members appointed on June I9 while of those six
three at least superb leaders in civic righteous
ness Mrs Emmons Blaine is notable and en-
inent woman as there is in America. Her gifts
training of children have been larger than those
of any other man or woman in the world.
and she has personally interested herself in
the working out of all the educational problems
with which she has been identified Jane Adams
has done more for the social civic and educational
uplifting of young people locally and by way of
environment and through philosophy than has any
other American man or woman. DR.. Cornelia
De Bey, for twelve years with Colonel Francis
w Parker in the famous Cook County Normal
School. a successful practitioner of medicine.
thinks in larger educational units and VitalZes
the professional thoughts she projects more than
any other I have known.
All this reads like a fairy tale, like account
of what deast wishes might be, rather than
a plain unvarnished statement of what actually
is Fortunately, it is as much an accomplished fact
the harvest reaper. OF course it is accidental
There a Morse behind the telegraph. and a
Bell behind the telephone, Whitney behind the
cotton gin and a Mccormick behind the harvester
reaper There has been somebody behind this edu-
cational ennoblement in Chicago.
81 tried kick the first earthquake ever en-
,ountered" said a man in conversation recently
1T was down a West Indian island. The table
I was writing began to joggle, and thought It
was the dog rubbing against the leg. I launched
kick at him. and found I trying to kick
earthquake"
We'll. 1 did worse" said who had
spent several years in Mexico. TT boiling
the middle Of the day. I wanted my two young
to take It with me. as wished to keep them