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former PRECEDENT OF the NeUonA NounOi
Of Women Of the Netherlands, has been put
in charge Of the first seaside eanitarium
founded In Holland. This institution was
opened In the early part Of April by Queen
Emma, mother Of Queen Wilhelmina, IL
h for children suffering from tuberculosis
and was founded by the Anti-Iuberoelosm
Society OF Rotterdam Mrs Van Dorp
Verdam is the first woman phyeiclan 70 Do
put in charge OF hospital In Holland
II IL related that In passing through her
husbands library recently the attention
Of the Empress Of japan was attracted py
a peculiar looking machine. On learning
that II was a typewriter and having II eT-
Dlained 10 her, she became Interested and
beRan 10 hit the keys. Now 1t Is said
she does a good deal OF correspondence
for the Emperor. ,,-
it's further repoted that Queen Alexandra
OF England, Qdeen Maude OF Norway, .thSe
Cearina and the Queen Of Portugal are al
fond Of using the typewriter In correspond.
air Of them put together do not use the
machine IA much as Carmen Silvas the
Queen Of Rnmania. who Tattles on her
poems and stories on a typewriter
Mas Ruth Durant Evans OF South Carolina
win receive her degree from the Chatta-
nooea University Of Law early in June and
a few days later her license to practise at
the Chattanooga bar. She is reported to
stand at the head Of class Of $50, although
the only girl in the class. She comeS from
q family that has produced seyeraE dls-
tinguiShed lawyers and her power OF oratoLy
is said TO be remarkable. II is proDaple
that she will devote herself TO offioe work
and make q speciality Of advising women
Annie Murphy, aged II, is being con-
graduated in Boston for her bravery IN
rescuing a three -year-old neighbor from
kidnappers. Three men were carrying the
child on, and Annie, attracted by his cries.
ran up and demanded Of the men what they
we're doing With him.
The men told her that he had run away
and they were taking him back to his mother,
who lived in the next street. Knowing that
the child did not live In the next street,
Annie very promptly attacked them, making
40 strenuo,is a fight and yelling 30 Justify
for help that the kidnappers dropped the
boy and fled.
When asked by the police where she
learned 10 uae her fists 80 effectively Annie
explained that she had been fighting boys
all her life for telling her that being girl
she was neither as strong nor as brave as
boy. Now, her chief satisfaction In saving
the child is that there were numerous big
BOYS in the street, none OF whom dared 10
come up and help her fight the men,
Miss Bellville, the official timekeeper
OF London is said 10 earn 200 q year by
peddling the time Of day once week. The
post OF timekeeper has been In her family
since 1888. In that year her father, who
was assistant TO the Astronomer Royal,
hit upon the idea Of taking the time around
TO the principal watchmakers and correct
ing their chronometers.
At his death his widow obtained the
privilege Of having her chronometer cor
rected at the Greenwich Observatory when
ever she liked. She peddled time until
1892 when at the age Of 50 she retired and
her daughter topped into her shoes.
Every Monday morning Miss Bellville
goes to the Royal Observatory at Green
Wich and gets from the keeper an official
document stating that her chronometer
differs from the mean timr nv so many
seconds and tenths OF SECONDS. This favor
Is granted to no other person 1. 1gland.
Armed with this official paper Al Hell--
Vile visits her customers, about foT,y IN
number, and corrects their time In accord
ance with the official ohronometer, From
her forty customers the rest OF London
gets its time.
Miss Blanche B. Nc Hale Of St. Louis
has been appointed to succeed her brother
as assistant city weigher, She is said to
be the first woman in the country to hold
such an office. Her appointment was made
by Mayor Wells In compliance with the
request OF her brother, who just before his
death expressed the wish that his sister
might be allowed to Ill out his uneXplred
term OF three years. Miss hcHale is,
besides, organist in a church.
Miss Jane Brownlee, the public school
teacher Of Toledo who originated a new
system Of teaching children ethics, has
agreed to give a series Of talks before the
womens clubs and teachers associations
all over the United States from New Eng
land to the Pacific Coast explaining her
system. The demand for these lectures
has been so great that Miss Brownlee has
been forced to give up her place in the La
grange School in Toledo in order to devote
her entire time to tho work.
Miss Browniee begins her teaching OF
ethics by saying; Children, have dis
covered that each Of you has little servant
who will 90 with you through life, and will
do just what you tell him to- This pleases
the children. They have to obey everybody
and arc delighted TO hear Of some one who
must obey them. Then Miss Brownlee
explains that this servant is the body.
One by one the needs and duties Of the
BODY are brought out by answers from the
children themselves.
The next day she tells them that they
have q second servant the mind This
servant is studied in the same way, and the
third day she tells them about the real child
10 whom these two servants owe obedience.
After impressing il on them that this real
child cannot grow up as he should in an
unhealthy body or with an undeveloped
mind. she takes up the virtues, devoting a
month TO each virtue: September, kind
ness. October, cleanliness; November, obe-
dience; December, self-control; January
courtesy and. cheerfulness; February, work;
March. honor; April, honesty, truthful
ness and clean language; May and June,
manners. and review Of tho year.
According % Miss Brownlee children like
TO begin with kindness because il is an
results for themselves. In her system they
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