The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-18
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

New Jersey women have saved the beautiful Palisades on the Hudson River. For ten years the New Jersy State Federation of Women's Clubs have been working to this end and now see the fruits of their labors in the commission appointed by New York and New Jersey to get hold of enough of the Palisades to control and protect them for an interstate park. For this the New Jersey Legislature appropri- ated $50, 900 and the New York Legisla- ture $400.00 The women raised money for a public memorial park on the top of the cliffs with a lookout tower. The land has been bought and the interstate commission has been asked if it would accept the ground for a park. The commission has replied that desiring to show it's appreciation of the efforts of the women of New Jer- sey and of the country in connection with the Palisades" a site for the me- morial park would be bought without expense to the federation. provided tn @ federation would use the funds col- lected for erecting a suitable monu- ment. The federation now Is obtain ing competitive plans for the lookout tower to be built on the summit of the cliffs commanding a superb view of the Hudson and the celebrated Pali- sades.
 
 Miss Mae Murray, a pretty actress. who plays a small part in a modern play. is going to retire from the foot lights to check hats and coats in a Broadway hotel. Recently while din- ing in a fashionable New York res- taurant she noticed how prosperous were the men who had charge of the coat room and on inquirins found that there was. money in the coat and hat nhaalr4nO hgrafnaaa only for the proprietor, but for the attendants, who are given liberal fees by the wealthy patrons. Miss Murray decided that this was a more profitable business than scintillatIng behind the footltghts, and being a practical person. she de- G,ided to adopt 1t. Her attendants will be young women, and 1t iS expected that susceptible young men and senti- mental old ones will fee the fair ones very literally indeed.
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 Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, supervi- sor of the reading course for farmers wives conducted by the Agricultural College of Cornell University, believes that there should be a woman judge in juvenile courts where girls are tried She bases her opinion on personal ob- servation of various juvenile courts. notably those in New York city.
 She believes that there are many questions which girls would answer truthfully if tn ere was woman on tho bench. but which they now invariably lie about when questioned by man. This Is one of the very few instances in which Miss Van Rensselaer, believes se- gregation of the two sexes would be beneficial.
 Thirty thousand dollars is a pretty big fee for a lawyer-even a man law yer-yet this was the sum paid to Miss Mary E. Miller. a Chicago woman at- torney. who won for her clients sat isfactory decision in a case involving an estate of &3.O00,000 By will the money was to be held in trust until the testator's youngest graundchild, who was 22. should be 30 years Of age An IniusticA would be done the other heirs should any of them die before this time, so argued Miss Miller. and the judge agreed with her and ordered an immediate distribution of the estSte.