The sun., 1908-03-08

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DR.. Mary Stone after an AbOencs OF ten
years has returned to the United States for
medical treatment. DR.. Stone is graduate
of the medical department Of the University
of Michigan, and for the last ten years has
been practising In Central China. at the
head OF tho great hospital system OF kn-
kiang. She is said to be the only physician
of Occidental training in this province con-
tanning 8, 100000 inhabitants.
Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson OF Cam
bridge, England. recently received the
degree Of LII. d. from the University ol St'
Andrews. Scotland, and that Of ID. ID. from
the University Of Heidelberg for their re-
search and discovery OF Biblical manuscripts
in the Syrian m0nasteries. Mrs. Lewis had
previously received a Phi. d from the
University OF Halle. Germany, These ladies'
are sisters, both born in Scotland
Three women have just been appointed
on the tenement house committee OF New
Orleans by the Mayor Of that city: Miss
Eleanor McNIains, the head resident OF the
social settlement known as Kingsley House;
DIR. Edith Foeber, daughter OF q well known
physician, and Mrs. Graco Chamberlain
president OF the Era Club
The Van Dyke League OF Lynchburg. Va.
since its organization not quita four years
ago has maintained low priced boarding
house for women wage earners which u
has made self supporting. While all oc-
cupatiOns were represented among the
occupants Of this house, the majority We're
factory girls whose wages were SO low w
| ~ aha.- have
| obtain respectable lodgings elsewhere.
| During the last year the league has also
| conducted a downtown coffee room where
| it's members get food at cost. Ihe good
home cooking and attTaStsVe S;OaSs TSOs naso nasn
and women, and 1t has proved boon 10
| the girls of the Macon and Randolph Wo-
mans College, and Of the Sweet Brlar
| Institute, as well as to the out OF town shop-
pers In connection with this conee room
| there il a woman's exchange. Besides
! this the league has induced the Councn
| of LynchburR to contribute $500 yearly
| toward the support OF two visiting nurses
the league making itself responslDie Lor
| the further maintenance Of the work. These
nurses not only visit the sick poor OF the
| CITY but teach the well members Of the
household how to care for their invahds'
The Chicago Public Policy Clubs woman
| suffrage evening was so successlul that
! Mrs Fitz-Jones and the COMMITTEES tnaC
1 furnished the programme have been IN
| vitod to have a similar meeting with a union
| Of carpenters and jOiners. As soon as
their invitation was accepted the organlZa-
| tion voted that handbills should be printed
and distributed so that the meeting wouio
| get the largest publicity
Two of the novel features Of the militant
/ suffrage movement as 1t ia Practlsed IN
| England are the Scouts on Wheels and
| the Sandwich Brigade. The scouts on
| wheels are young women clerks who nave
| their Saturday afternoons free. They line
up in Sloane Square. where they receive
I orders from their energetic captain, who
| appoints them to go anywhere WITHIN
| radius of twenty miles of London to some
village where there is no branch OF the
Woman's Social and Political Union. When
| they reach the village assigned to them
they introduce themselves TO the police
| and then proceed to hold meeting IN the
! village square.
The sandwich brigade is r..rAe up of
young women belonging TO I leisure
! class who are willing to parade th, 'Net :
sandwiched between two huge pla, )
! bearing tIs legend "Votes for Women. ~
announcements Of meetings or any other
information the club may wish to get before
the public.
jackson, Miss, has an unusual woman g
| club. Its aim is to stimulate married
! women to keep up their music, and It prides
| itself on being the only club in the country
| that has started a matrons' musical con-
test. Ii has arranged with the managers
| Of the Mississippi Chautauqua Assembly
| for such a contest, to be held at the meeting
OF the assembly at Crystal Springs next
July. The contest is open to married
| women throughout the State. Two prizes
will be given, one for piano selection and
the other for a vocal solo.
Miss Amy Bernardy, professor of Italian
at Smith College, has made study OF con-
ditions OF Italian immigrant women and
declares that of the girls who leave Italy
before they are 81 to work in American
| factories one-third die from the effects Oi
| the change. The proportion OF Italian
| women in this country to men ia one &c
| four; the proportion OF mortality Id four
to one. Industrial schools, in Miss Ber-
nardy's opinion, would do much toward
changing conditions. With the assistance
| of a prominent Italian banker Miss Ber-
nardy is trying to interest American women
in Italian girls as domestic servants.
The first contribution received for the
| Sufrag ge Fair which Is to be held in Boston
| during April is an unsolicited gift from Mrs
Esther Wattles OF Oberlin, Ohio who is 50
For the past six months Mrs Wattles has
| been busy with her knitting needles, and the
| results OF her labors, three ~fascinators"
and q shoulder cape, have just been re-
| Ceived in Boston consigned to the secretary
| OF Lno MasSaCnuBeJJS woman . suffrage
| Association. The fair is TO open or
April 10, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has
promised to deliver the opening address.
Nine. Laurence Fielder, who was sent
by the French Government about a yeaI
ago to this country to observe our schools
and philanthropies, declares that the
! American public school system is the best
In the world She also commends our hos
pitals and sanitariums, especially our sys
Naw,N hswv .g..g.. -
connected with eaoh large hospital. II
her opinion this is n much better arrange
ment than the separate training schools
abroad. Nine. Fielder expresses the
greatest enthusiasm when speaking Of tn,
settlements, clubs and other means by
which the American women work to9ethel
| for the general welfare. She declares tha
there is nothing like II in France, and hopei
on her return to inaugurate movement
that will teach the omen OF her countr,
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