The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-11

NsOic. "A CucSL VI drawers unQer Lne
closets Is necessary for keeping the
kitchen towels and aprons, besides
many other useful articles. 1t is we'll
to keep in the kitchen a bottle of
linseed oil ANA lime water, together
with roll of old linen pieces for
bandages, for use in cases OF burns.
Concerning Women.
In Tibet the law allows every woman
three husbands.
Queen Alexandra and the duchess of
Portland have brought before English
women the cruelty they are guilty OF
in wearing aigrets.
There is at present in the Mont de
Piete at Paris necklace which Marie
Therese of Austria gave to her daugh-
ter, Marie Antoinette. 1t is in pawn
for $4,000.
The princess of Monaco is the first
Hebrew woman to reign in any land in
Europe. She was related to the great
German poet Heine and is half
American by birth.
A clever Irish woman has patented
an invention called the happy
thought" 1t is a portable cage canopy
which, when adjusted on cradle, will
prevent the liveliest youngster from
tumbling out.
A magnificent hospital, to he known
as the Ho Min Ling, has just been
opened by the governor of Hongkong.
1t was built at the expense of Nine.
WI Ting-fang, wife of the late Chinese
minister to the United States.
The queen of mountaineers, Mrs.
Bullock Workman, has added one more
thrilling experience to her record OF
adventures by accompanying her hus-
band on his great climb of $4,000 feet
in Kashmir. Mrs. Workman has sew
eral times climbed over $1,000 feet
higher than any other woman in the
world.
The city of Stockholm, Sweden, can
beast the only woman's cooperative
store in the world. Shareholders,
management, buyers and sellers are
all women. Only two men are EN-.
ployed-these drive the delivery Wa
CONS. Miss Anna Whitlock, leader Ct
the woman suffragists in Sweden, was
the promoter OF this scheme.
Mrs. Agnes Lewis of England has re-
ceived the degree of D. D. in recogni-
ton OF her labors in deciphering some
ancient manuscripts of the bible which
were discovered in monastery at
Mount Sinai. She is a presbyterian
and is the most famous woman bible
scholar in the world. She also pos
sesses the degrees of Phi. D. and LII. D.
For moro than ninety-three years
Mrs. Beatty Brookes has lived in the
same cottage at Edgefold, Worsley,
near Manchester, England. Her great
est regret is that there was no COM
pulsory education when she was
young and that she was never taught
to read. Eghty-five years ago she
was carride down a local coal pit and
set to work.
Charles Bakody. an American OPP
appreciative listeners wealthy widow
singer went blind, and being reduced
in circumstances was obliged to earn
his living by singing in the streets.
SAi 1<o"ACoS udu, IuSduWullC lOSt
sight of him, but one day lately she
heard familiar voice singing below
her windows, and, going to see who
the wandering minstrel was, discover
ed him to be no other than her fav-
orite operate vocalist singing for
bread. The two have just been mar
ried in Washington.
The first patient OF the celebrated
Miss Nightingale was a collie dog,
Captain by name. Florence Nightin-
gale, when child lived at Emily
Park. near Romsey, and used to often
go out for long walks with her father,
who was squire of the place. One day
they met an old shepherd named
Robert Snelgrove, whose dog. Cap.
tain, was great pet of little Flor
ence's. Not seeing the dog, she was
told that Captain was suffering with
an incurably bad foot, and was to be
put out OF his misery in the evening"
The child was greatly concerned, and
made her way unobserved to the
shepherds hut, where she found poor
Captain" stretched on the floor. She
lit the fire, boiled some water, and
bathed the dogs foot until the swell
ling had subsidized, and the treatment
was SO beneficial that at last the ami
NAL recovered, much to the delight of
his master and kind little nurse.