Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-07-24

Miss Frances Day has done more
for the poor children of the state OF
New Jersey than all the charitable so
~cieties put together. She is the state
superintendent of the New Jersey
board of children's guardians. This
board looks out for the pauper children
Of the commonwealth. When Miss Day
was appointed she found the unfortu.
nate little ones herded in the county
and city poorhouses. They were neg
lected and Ill educated. Miss Day
does not think an institution is the
best place for a child. and so she set
to work to find homes for wards of the
state. That was twenty years ago.
Now she has worked a revolution.
When a destitute child has relatives
she looks these up and usually induces
them to give the waif a home. If there
are no relatives, she finds some lonely
household In which a child would be
welcome and places 1t there. If the
child is still on her hands after all
these means have been tried, she finds
some worthy person who will take 1t
TO board at the expense of the state.
So this little woman In a quiet and un-
obtrusiye way has gone on lettering
the conditions of New Jerseys home
less children. So everywhere noble
hearted ONE are giving their time
and lives to making the conditions
about them better.
Mehmed All Bey, the Turkish minis
ter to this country, is a man Of adj
vanced ideas. His wife, who is young
and handsome, is also progressive
that is, according to Moslem standards.
She greatly admires the French-wears
only the smartest of French gowns and
speaks that language in preference to
English. The legation, a colonial resi-
dence on Calvert avenue, Washington,
Is furnished with the most up to date
American furniture, seer against a
background of priceless oriental rugs
and hangings. The household has five
children. The Oldest little girl. who
takes piano lessons, is said to have
quite q talent for music. To an inter
viewer Nine. Mehmed said recently:
1.-THE schools of Constantinople rank
very high. French, German, English,
art. manual training. nursing and many
other useful things are taught" The
most intelligent Turks now send their
children to these schools that they may
be able to cope with the foreigners now
invading the orient. All wealthy Turk
ish ladies' send to Paris or Vienna for
their dresses, all highborn damsels are
Gu1caTed IN the English schools, and
the women of the country are becom-
ing thoroughly modernized. Although
the Turks seldom marry outside their
w religion and race, Turkish men of
the better class nowadays have but one
wife, and in her home the influence of
the Turkish woman Is supreme.
DIR. Susan La Flesche Picotte of
Walthill, Neb., is a successful physi-
clan, although a full blooded Indian.
DR.. Picotte wa the first woman of her
race to study medicine. She was edu-
Gated at Hampton, Va, and the Wom-
ans Medical college of Philadelphia.
Out in Nebraska the Omahas are now
peaceful farmers and business men.
Their children attend the white mans
schools, and they themselves are thor
oughly A~mericanized. When Mrs. Pr
cote took up the study of medicine
this was not so, and the reservation
Indians who refused the services of a
white doctor would accept the minis
trations of n of their Owl race, par
~ticularly when experience taught them
she was able to effect prompt cures.
DR.. Picotte's husband is an intelligent
and enterprising business mar Of the
Sioux tribe. She has two children,
boys, the oldest of whom hopes to be-
come a physician.
Society-with a large Sis at pres
ent enjoying a revival of interest in
amateur theatricals and tableaux. The
roles in which some of the elderly So
ciety danes of New York disport them
selves-in the sweet name of charity,
of c~ourse-are truly astonishing. So
Der matrons frisking as dancing girls,
respectable gray haired matrons repre-
senting lively young a~dventuresses
and, last, but not least, the introduc-
ton of a real live python at a recent
affair engineered by theDsmart set are
eccentricities that amaze ordinary folk.
If society wishes to play such FRANKS
as these, there is no reason that il
should take the public into its con-
idence. If when fashionable folk are
willing to put themselves on exhibition
for charity they would do so frankly
and without frills, the curious would
flock to gaze upon them just the same
After all, If these ladies contributed to
the charity what is spent in getting ur
such a show it is quite probable that
the charity would be much better of In
the end.
A man car haw-haw at the idea Of
woman walking up to the polls on cleo
tion day n droppinR her vote int