The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-12-26
Mrs. Franklin Bell.


happy hours in an odd idea that is
being carried out by Mrs. Franklin
Bell, wife Of General Bell, chief of
the general staff On a fine damash
table cover she has caused to be writ
ten the names of her guests at lunch
con, with the dates of entertainment
and short quotations about the feast.
This cloth was spread only when Mrs.
Bell entertained guest for the first
time, and the newcomer was requested
to do the writing in pencil. At her
leisure Mrs. Bell overtraced the mark
ings in indelible ink, which will defy
the onslaughts of the laundress.
The business girl, in theory at least,
should make the best wife. She knows
the worries that beset man in bust
ness. She understands the value of
money, having had to work for it her.
self. She has probably learned to
dress neatly and carefully, without
extravaganza. She knows by exper-
fence one workers need of a quiet
restful home at the end of the day.
She has learned in her business career
the necessity of system in all work
She knows the unfairness of loading
the business person with household err
rands. She knows how easily it is to
be detained at the Office; therefore
won't fuss If dinner is kept watt
ing. She knows that there are big
ger things in the universe than the
trifling little personal things that hap
pen to her each day.
The Salvation Army bids fair to be-
come an aristocratic body. Major
Mary Murray, who supervises the mill
tary and naval league of the Saliva
tionists, is a daughter of the late Sir
John Murray, K. c. B., and Lieut.
enant Colonel Minnie Reid, who
recently married Commissioner
Booth Tucker, is daughter of form
er Acting Governor of Bombay. The
Commissioner himself resigned a
judgeship in India, with all the wealth
and social position attached to it, to
devote himself to Salvation Army
work.
Lady Sarah Sladen is a Salvation
list, and the Countess Dowager of Sea-
field is member of the auxiliary of
the army. Two daughters of Mr.. On
slow. late member of parliament for
Guildford, have together steadily risen
in the ranks. Intimately connected
with the work in Australasia is the
Hon. Mrs. Bird, wife of the former
Prime Minister of Tasmania. She is
said to be as ardent as any Salvation
Army lass in disposing of the "War
Cry" The daughter of the late Lady
Gait, wife of the Lieutenant Governor
of Ontario, is working in Canada; as
is also, among the daughters of mil
lionaires, Miss Macdonald at Toronto.
The following extract from an east
ern paper may possibly show harassed
mothers way out of her domestic diff
1culties. "The servant girl problem is
receiving new solution in this town
by the employment of mne nursegirls.
For years Great Darlington women
have worried along with incompetent,
careless girls to look after their chill
dren, until Mrs. Albert Barnes saw
possible relief in Wells Weaver. He
is man we'll advanced in years, who
retired from active business because
its strenuous demands were too much
for his frail health. Mrs. Barnes pro-
posed to hire him as a nurseman for
her three-year-old son Frederick, and
Weaver gladly accepted the offer. Now
the experiment stage has been fairly
passed and Mr.. Weaver can be seen
with his charge almost daily, enter
tanning the little fellow with interest
ing things in shop windows and on the
streets"