The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-20
wHAT WOMEN ARE DOING,
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg has
been reelected to the Parliament OF Fin
Land.


Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg has
been reelected to the Parliament OF Fin
land.
Nine. Maroelle Tinayre. author OF
la RebelIe' and 'La Maison du Peche.'
Is among the recently elected chevaliers
OF the Legion Of Honor. Mime. Gabrielle
Dumonnet's marble statue entitled 'Tri-
boulet d'Enfant" has been bought by the
French nation and will be. put In the
Luxembourg. At present b works OF
only two women soulptors are repre-
scented In this museum.
Mrs. Agnes Knox Black, wife Of Prof.
G. Charleton Black OF Boston University,
has been appointed to the faculty OF the
College of Liberal Arts OF the university
as Shaw professor Of %elooution. Mrs.
Black succeeds Prof. Malvina M. Bennett.
who recently resigned. Mrs. Black is a
ZIONIST. She was graduated from the
University Of Toronto. afterward taking
a course In Philadelphia. She was at
one time head Of the school OF elocution
Of the New England Conservatory OF
Music, and later connected with the En-
erson College Of 0ratory
Miss Ruth Carrel has Just been ap-
pointed assistant professor in the de-
partment Of baoteriology Of the Michigan
State Agricultural College. from which
she was graduated last June. Miss Mar
garet E. Cross. professor OF education at
the Sophie Newcomb College Of Tulane
University, New Orleans. had charge
Of the work in psychology, and educa-
| tt0n AT the 4tlfnmar aOhQO OF Tulan6,
Although still a young woman Miss Cross
has been identified with the educational
work OF Louisiana for several years.
She holds the degree OF M. A.. from Co
lumbia University and q masters diploma
from the Teachers College OF the city
Queen Eleonore OF Bulgaria 10 planning
to open q school for her blind subjects
similar to the one In bucharest. She
is described as a very benevolent woman
and deeply interested In everything that
promises amusement or comfort for the
blind.
Among the women announced to speak
at the annual conference Of public edu-
cation which takes place In Washing
ton the last part Of September and the
first part Of October Ia Miss Emma ]. Grouse
who will talk on the eyesight and the
general health OF school children. She
will be followed by DR.. Rebecca stone
road on physical training In schools.
Miss Julia Richman on school health
in school districts; Mrs. Wilbur F. Craft
on Esperanto, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey
on mental health in schools.
Miss Marteina Kramers OF Rotterdam,
Holland. Is one Of the most accomplished
of women linguists. She can read and
speak thirteen different languages. She
is the editor OF Jus Sufrdgii, the official
organ Of the International Woman Suf-
frage Alliance. She receives reports
from the different countries affiliated
with the International Alliance and trans
lates them for her paper. which is printed
in English.
DR.. Ida Kahn, q Chinese woman physi-
| clan who took her degree several years
ago from the University Of Michigan, has
returned to this country to take q post
graduate course in Johns Hopkins. Miss
Kahn is a missionary for the Methodist
Episcopal Church and opened the city OF
Nanchang to missionaries after 1t had
been forbidden ground for some time.
She accomplished this by curing h wife
Of Tastai Taco. the viceroy.
According to the latest reports there
are but two professions that the persis-
tent American woman has failed to
enter. She has not as yet got In the
Marine Corps or tho ranks Of sailors, nor
are there any female telephone or tele-
graph linemen. There are said to be
I.O4i m architects, S.373 clergymen.
7ss dentists, 400 electricians. 81 engineers,
z. ise journalists. 1910 lawyers. 32I.ei4
teachers, 1853 bookkeepers. IS, 246 clerks.
e4o commercial travellers. 1907 officials
packers and shippers. Ills stenogrephers
Ia. $50 telegraph operators. S2S UNDER
takers, 5t5 carpenters. 1877 masons. l.750
palnters and glaziers. 1926 plumbers, 1909
miners and 1873 blacksmiths.
Miss Mabel F. Morse Of Haverhill, Mass,
leaves next month for India. a volunteer
In the service Of the American Board Of
Foreign Missions. Miss Morse Is q grad
uate nurse OF the Massachusetts, General
Hospital, and while connected with its
staff won for herself a prize which now
makes her comfortably independent.
For this reason she will not accept a salary
from the missionary society. While she
expects to take a position on the stan OF
a hospital her chief purpose In going to
I0Qla is W tCoSt tLO
to care for their sick. She intends to
devote seven years to this work.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant and Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller Mccormick are among
the leaders OF the child rescue campaign
which is now being carried on. The
plan Of this movement is to take chill
dren ont OF the institutions and find homes
for them in private families.
There is a choice of several ways OF
taking n child into ones home. The
child may he taken on q limited proba-
ton, after which II may be legally adopted,
or II may be subject to only a limited
adoption, which seems to mean giving
il an education and a start in business
when II reaches maturity. Az the prese t
time II Is reported that there Is a greater
demand for little girls among families
wishing to adopt children than for boys.
During the past summer several little
girls we're sent to England by. a New York
Institution and we're adopted by well to
do English families.
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