The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-25
OF Interest to Women

The chief hostess of the British en-
bassy at Washington will command
admiration by her vivacity, charm and
high intelligence. Mrs. Bryce dislikes
publicity and has not coveted distinc-
ton as one Of the 'smartest" enter
tainers whose doings are chronicled
by the photographers of the society
papers, but she has the old-fashioned
habit of making her guests feel at
home.
In Oregon, Mayor Lane of Portland,
has appointed Mrs. Sarah A. Evans
president of the Oregon State Feder-
alton of Women's clubs, a special po-
liceman. Mrs. Evans has been regu-
larly inspecting the city markets for
tainted meat and spoiled fruits and
vegetables and she has sometimes
been denied admission to places where
she had reason to believe spoiled
food was being sold because she was
unable to display a police badge.
Mayor Lane made her member of
the police department and bestowed
upon her the insignia of office.
The spider-web dress may soon be
reality, for the threads of thousands
of spiders are being carefully gather
ed, unwound and woven into SHIN
mering silken fabric On the island of
Madagascar this odd industry is car
ried on under the direct management
of the governor, who has been ap-
pointed by the French authorities
manager Of what is perhaps the
strangest factory in the world. Here
spiders toll day and night and die
from overwork, and from ignorance
on the part of the attendants. There
in lies the chief difficulty. The spider
seems perfectly willing to spin out in
the mango groves of this native. land,
but 1t grows sulky when transplanted
to the specially prepared cells in the
silk-spinning factory of Madagascar.
Indiana claims the youngest child
notary public in the United States in
the person of Miss Jessie Johnson of
Kokomo. She Is but IA years of age
and has filled the. appointment now
for more than two years acceptably
both to the state officers and general
public. At the time she made the
application for appointment the case
was carefully considered by the state
authorities because of the tender age
of the child, but there was no law
barring the age limit and she had
splendid education and good char
acter, which are the only two neces-
sary qualifications in Indiana. The
application was granted and the COM
mission made out by Geo. Hanly and
Secretary of State Storms. Miss John
son is employed in the Office of Attor-
ney B. c. Moore as stenographer and
typewriter. She is quiet, unassum-
ing girl and is familiar with legal
documents of every kind. She is the
youngest person ever commissioned
a notary public in Indiana and is no
doubt the youngest notary public in
the United States.
In most of the British colonies the
men outnumber the women very con-
siderably. In western Australia, for
example, taking the immigrant poplt-
qation, there are $4,000 males and only
$4,000 females. Queensland has fifty
six men to every forty-four women,
the Transvaal fifty-five men in every
forty-five women and the Orange Riv-
er colony fifty-four men to every forty
six women. These figures refer to
whites. Turning to marriage and to all
races, the uiversality of marriage in
India is strikingly brought out by the
statistics. OF every 1000 males aged
15 and upward there are unmarried:
In ireland, 497; in Scotland, AS; in
England and Wales, 1916; in western
Australia, 1888; in India, As. The con-
trast is very. striking, even when al
lowing for the earlier age at which
the natives Of India marry One fact
of interest is that Ireland is the coun-
try of old men and women. Out of
every 1000 of the population of that
country there are sixty-four men and
sixty-three women 65 years of age and
upward.
How to climb stairs, how to sit
down, no VITO walk, how to lie down,
no VITO sleep, how to sew are just a
few things that most women do not
know how to do. Even a woman of
grace and refinement will be seen la
boring up the stairs in a posture that
would indicate some invisible burden
on her shoulders. Her body is bent
forward, her head in advance of her
feet perhaps six inches. Going up
stairs Is an act one seldom takes note
of in another, other than to know
that one is doing it. Perhaps If this
were not so women would be little
more particular about it-just for
looks save. Watch a woman some
time, and If she is going up in this
improper fashion, body bent forward
and swaying from side to side, note
how awkward is her progress. More
over, to preach a little, it is actually
injurious. The heart and lungs are
cramped just at time when they are
specially active. If one ascends the
stairs with body erect and moving
straight upward without lunges for
war dand sideways, she will not be
nearly so much out of breath when she
reaches the top.
A pretty scalloped edge for under
wear may be done on the sewing ma
chine Turn the hem Of the garment
on the right side instead of in the us
ual way; haste carefully and mark
scallop at the edge, or near it, rather