Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
Concerning Women.

Lady Warwick, who among other
qutliIicatiunS is Il irst-claSs business
woman, has established gardening and
agricultural schools. and has done
mrcn toward opening up new fields of
work for women.
y Chicago professor recently predict
ed that the industry Of the tW.nty-iirSt
centary would be- controlled by women:
and Supreme Court Justice David a.
EreWer. in AN address before N:iSSar.
suggested that tile next half-century
may extend fun suffrage Throughout
the Union.
a now industry that has been sue
cesS!ullv organized in Ireland by Lady
keimarr is III" making Of iiIlaid furli-
iurp
The narchioncSS of Hrtadalbane r,iu-
Gates orphan boys taken from the
poorest classes. :tnd without AN cXctp-
tion her plotrgcS have turned out we'll.
In Lapland as soon as a girl baby is
born and has been duly rolled in the
SnOw-a ceremony which seems 10 take
the place of baptiSm-Shc il lowered
by her father with certain number of
reindeer, which are branded with her
initials and kept apart as her special
property. In proUoftion as they IN
crease and multiply does her chance of
making Il good match improve.
Two English girls were recently an
rested i'll Paris While picking pockets
in IL most ingenious way. one Of them
carried IL paraso!. in the handle of
which was a spring that worked Il pair
Of niI'pers concealed i'll the point of the
ferulc. As she strolled along with the
paraSol under her arms she would cut
Il watch chain with the nipperS while
the o,her one would deftly relieve the
victim of his watch.
Miss Florence Staepoole. the we'll
known lecturer to the National Health
Society. writing on the evils of excess
SiNe smoking for women, says:
"W'hethrr we like it or not. we cannot
get away from the fact that women
cannot STAN, smoking so we'll as men.
If this We're frankly .,cknoWledged-if.
in fact, the common sense of the mat
ter was thoroughly understood-it
would be of great benefit to the rising
generation of women"
The Legislative committee in the New
York state federation is 1T work on the
bill indOrSsd by the federation To
equaiiZe th" Inheritance laws relating
to husbanG and wife. Half a dozen
women lawyers are assisting in draw
ing up the bill and they are being as
sisted by several eminent men lawyers
among whom is j. NJ. Williams. who
c"dilicd laws on dover and courtesy
rights for ohio and is q specialist on
The subject.
1t WAS Il graceful action on Queen
Alexandra : part to make her present
10 til" housekeerer of Sandringham. on
the occasion of her marriage tn the
head e;Imekeeper, a handsome piece of
jeWcIry instead of a merely utiiitarian
gift. The pearl ana diamond pendant
on Il platinum chain which her ma jeSty
presented Ia her faithful servant might
read u lesson tn some mistresses of less
exalted rank. who take it upon them
selves To grumble if they see the do
mcStic helpers wearing ornaments.
Princess Victoria. with the prince of
Wales children. attended the w,,i,iins;
ceremony.
Mrs Crai%ie. the novelist, who re-
Gently completed Il lecture tour in this
country and has returned /" her home
in London, says that the worship of
wealth is still carried TO excess in
American cities, although She found
fewer idle rich in New York and
Chicago than in other great cities of
the world. She found that American
women spend more for clothes and
gems than any women in the world cX-
cept the OrentalS. In temperament
the Americans We're not a day older
than in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. The press governed the
country, and its keynotcs We're hu
manenesS and individuality.
A New York society woman of Mas
sachusetts birth has recently estab-
lished a free clinic for the poor in Man
hattan-better STILL is personally super
intending it and practicing in the
same. Mrs. Harry Wallerstein-now
known as DR.. Adelaide WallerStein. is
n wealthy woman Of many purposes
we'll directed. and her name has for
several years been associated with sew
eral worthy charities and undertake
,ings. She is a society woman with a
Very large following, always we'll
groom2d. and an ornament at any
function-yet the serious side appeals
to her rather more strongly than the
fashionable. She is the first woman
Of any considerable social prominence
In New York who, without neglecting
hrr nome nr iiIends. has actually
S.ta