The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-08
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III LONDON nearly half of the women
earning wages are domestic servants, of
whom there is one to every twelve persons
in the population.
Mrs. Ella Fellman, of Sioux City, a.,
decided to go to the High School with her
son just to prove to him hat the work
might be more interesting than he thought
it to be. She keeps up with him and hires
some one to do her houswork while she
is taking the course.
The first woman's club to seek member
ship In the Board Of Trade is the Young
Woman's Home Club, of Fort Worth. This
club interests itself In civic affairs and
asked for membership, being very grace
fully received by the secretary of the
Board of Trade of Fort Worth.
The first woman to win the Ottendorfer
scholarship is Miss Gertrude Schopperle,
a graduate of Wellesley. The scholarship,
granted by New York University, Is worth
$500 a year for study In Germany, and
Wellesley girls are very proud of the fact
that one of their graduates Is the first
woman to win it.
The wife of the great Russian reformer,
Count Tolstoi, is of Jewish origin, a high
~ educated woman, speaking English,
French and German almost as huently as
her native tongue She prepares all the
counts books for the press, and 1t Is said
that she is the only person who can de-
cipher her famous husbands handwriting.
A great sensation has been created
throughout Sweden by the appearance on
the stage as a dancer In national costume
of the little Countess Won Nordenfelt, who
Is only II years old, and who's family,
through continued misfortune, has fallen
on evil days. According to a German
newspaper the little titled dancer will be-
fore long appear at German, French and
English theatres. She Is receiving the
magnificent salary Of $3.50 a week.
The only presswoman In the United
States Is Miss Anna Il. Peglow, and until
lately she lived In st. Louis. where she
had charge of the cylinder presses In one
of the large printing establishments. She
began ut h age of IA to learn the bust
ness and has been with them continually
for the last twenty-six years. Many wo-
men can handle the small presses. but the
only woman who could manage the large
cylinder presses and have entire charge
was Miss Peglow. She has gone TO Ia
coma. Wash. to reside.
In these democratic days The reserve that
formerly hedged about royal personages
seems almost to have taken flight and they
must often be annoyed at the way they
are gossiped about, though their annoy
ance rarely finds expression Constant
comments in the newspapers on her ex-
travagance Is said to have so offended the
queen dowager OF Portugal that she has
decided to cave Portugal forever and 10
take up her abode in Italy, her native
land. Queen Maria Pia. a princess of the
House OF Savoy, was married at the early
age Of Is TO the late Kin Lliz, hrst by
proxy at Turin and then about a week
later In person at Lisbon. She has two
sons, King Carlos and the Duke of Oporto'
Though she is now in her 60th year the
queen mother Is regarded as the most
clever and enterprlsing woman IN For
fugal and her. departure from the petty
chalet Of Mont-esturil is regretted BY
: raany.