The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-03-28
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Prof Won Bergman, the great Ger
man surgeon, who attended Emperor
Frederick during his last illness, says:
II am decidedly against women enter
ing the profession" His reason is that
80 long as women are unable To beat
cooks and tailors at the vocations
which women are apt to regard as their
specialties, 10 long viii they be unable
to compete successfully with men doc.
tors, / have TO high regard for women
to encourage them to become doctors. \
Under the win of John Stock, mas
ter painter III one of Queen Elizabeth's
dock yards, 1872 blind persons from all
parts of the kingdom have recently
visited the Painter Stainers' company
hall in London, where they have each
received $50. Stock left $500, 900 to
relieve such blind persons, over the age
Of 60, who had not been inreceipt of
poor law relief, who had been resident
ia their parish over thee years, and had
not an assured income of more than
$50 year.
In British penitantiaries the prisoners
arc not allowed looking glasses or even
to see their faces. Jabez Spencer Bal
four, in his newiy-published My Prison
Life tells how in 1904, nine years af-
ter he had last Seen his features, he
caught sight of himself in looking
glass in the library al Parkhurst pri-
son. He says n started back, for
did not know nv own face. 1t was
one Of the most amazing and terrifying
experiences in my life. ! had changed
past recognition
Aire Hetty Green IS regarded as a
good Chemical national bank in New
York. This does not Worry Mrs Green
q great deal, however, and every day or
50 she appears inside the ratings and
asks a few incicive questions of book
keepers and clerks. Az she keeps a
balance there of somewhere near So
100000 all the while, the employees care
fully conceal their lack OF reverence
fol the richest women in America, shah
| billy dressed though she is invariably.
Secretary Taft may visit Alaska next
| fall He is going TO leave Washington
for the Philippines about September l.,
and it is very likely that he will make
a side trip to Alaska, sailing from
/ Seattle for Manila after his return.
Mai Willis P. Richardson Of the quarter
master generals department is making
the effort to have the secretary of war
make the Alaska visit. Mr. Taft would
/ ike to go very much, and it is merely
question of time. When he has seen
Alaskia the secretary of war viii have
visited every dependency of the United
States with the exception of Samoa.
a young lady who taught Sunday
school class OF young boys often non.
/ plussed BY the ingenious questions
sometimes propounded by her young
hopefuls. ne Sunday the lesson touch
ed on the story Of Jacobs dream, in
which he had vision Of angels descen-
ding from heaven to earth. One in
quiring youngster wanted to know why
the angels used a ladder, since they all
/ have wings. At loss for reply, the
/ teacher sought to escape the difficulty by
| leaving the question to the class Can
any of you tell us Why the angels used
lyadder?n she asked One little fell
low raised his hand. please. ma'am,s
be said, "p'raps they was moultinglp
r-Harpers Weekly.
John d. Rockefeller has his private
benefaetions IL giving reduced TO a
| system. 1t Is in charge of his almoner,
Frederick J. Gates Mr. Gates was for
merry Babtist clergyman, but be has
none of the manneTisms or the appear
ance OF a man Of the cloth. He is al
ways attired in an up-todate business
suit, and his manner Is brisk and in
cisive. He has an Office on one Of the
| bppr floors vi the Standard oil building
IL rs Broadway, where he sits for a
| large part Of the day at a great roll.top
desk, Clerk al d stenographers are with
in call, and everything about him moves
with the regularity Of clockwork.
HiEvery application for charity or for
any purpose is considered on its own
merits, irrespective of sentiment.
The best strings for violins are Of
Italian make, and are from the mites
tines Of spring lambs, killed nj Septem-
her. The process Of drying and bleach
/ ing OF the woods and strings by the hot
Italian sun, rather tnan by the artiii
| cial method used in other countries. ac-
counts in q great measure for the super
ioi quality 81 both materials This in
tense heat was also the reason for the
slow distilation al the oils used by the
Italian makers which always remained
at high temperature, and the varnish,
slowly soaking into he wods of the
yiolins beneath the heat Of those TIA
Ian summers, produced, in part, the
nellowness of tone that gives to a
Cremona instrument its value after a
lapse of 200 on more years.--Mareh
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