Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-25
Chat About women.

Chat About women.
Miss Clara Doane, teacher In the pub
lie schools Of Boston, has been granted a
years. leave of absence, with half pay,
after service of fifty-seven years.
Mile. Butticar. a Swiss, is the first Euro
pean woman to choose engineering as q
profession. She gained a diploma with
honor at Lausanne university, being sixth
In order OF merit. She Is now practicing in
Geneva
Miss Helen Gould continues her good
work in providing Young Mems Christian
association buildings for the soldiers. A
St. Louis architect has recently been at
for $4,000 building there. II will CON
tain a bowling alley, a shooting gallery
and probably two auditoriums. Work is to
be begun in the spring.
According 10 a New York physician many
young women are being treated for brok-
drcR OF 1se q ss
storing the foot to It's normal condition
and usefulness is a matter OF many months,
the patient never fully recovers, having
always TO wear specially constructed shoe
which supports the foot by steel braces.
One of the lecturers this year at Barnard
college Is the daughter OF one very wealthy
New Yorker and the wife Of another. She
was, was a student Of sociology a. the college
of society did not appeal TO her, and
as there. was nothing more in the line of
ede to s tor others MSa se
acquired.
Miss Kate Halliday Of Brooklyn is the
highest paid woman in the civil service of
New York state. receiving 5000 a year
as registrar of the tenement house depart
ment. For four years she was assistant in
that office. At a competitive examination
recently she won her present position with
a percentage OF 49, a few points ahead Of
RsF SarsT pc George Hse
d. Of Yale.
There is only one member OF any royal
fcVr f1W Ia. -. a..
has actually taken the full VOWS Of IA a num- fi
0 the LSS of that p9n
posed and driven Into exile in order to
make way for his neioe,. Queen Maria
ent king This royal nun is the superior ERROR
Isle Of Wight. u De"'0'''' nuns Oh 'H'
city who in the matter Of excluslyeness
and high charges puts all others in the
shades She has come from London for a
stay Of only three weeks bringing letters
of recommendation from persons of title,
including, IT Is said. one from Queen Ale lex
bn a. sne Zee nf t fTs rs ~
has secured a number of patients, though
because of her short stay she can treat
them only few times.
The public boring Of young girls ears
Is in Burmah the equivalent of her com
ing out, according to the Alahabad Pho
of the two daughters of Maung Tin, of
Mandalay. They sat side by side on a
platform, attired in the richest and dainti-
est costumes imaginable, both of them
pretty girls and decked, of course, with
flowers, while on the head of each was a
massive crown of pure gold, studded with
gems to make ones mouth water.
Mrs. Jack" Gardner the eccentric rich
woman of Boston, has added one more to
her list of surprising accomplishments. A
few days ago 1t became known that she
has become an expert at jiu jitsu, Jap
anese professor of the art having given
her a series of lessons The instructor
says he is astonished at the aptitude dis
a burglar should invade her splendid Bos-
ton home he would likely receive a short
shrift. Mrs. Gardner, he said, could throw
the intruder across the room and bump his
head In such a way that he would be out
Of commission.