Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

ing said that he did not think the
present industrial age. in which wom-
en- take part in the work of the world,
will last a century. Nor did he think
it desira Bile that it should. He did not
tell what he thought would replace this
Industrial age, nor what It to recon-
pense the Woinen Tor the pleasures they
will miss when they shall have some
one else to work for them.
New York is quite well satisfied with
the nurse in the schools and no doubt
another year will see more of them in
stalled AS one instance Of the work
OF the nurse it is reported that $50
children supposed to be mentally de-
ficent We're found to be so only be-
cause they We're physically unable 70
do the work required Of them. No
doubt in the schools of the future the
school nurse. taking To the homes the
best ideas in regard to health and
hygiene, will he considered as much
part of the school system as the teach
ers.
The women of Louisiana have been
declared legally eligible as witnesses to
wills and other legal papers. When the
constitutional convention of Louisiana
in 1885 gave tax-paying women the
right to vote on questions of taxation
it provided that they might vote either
in persons or by proxy. A woman
wishing to give a friend a proxy to
cast her ballot must have the docu
ment signed by two witnesses. 1t was
then that it was discovered that a
woman in Louisiana could not witness
legal document The women raised
a protest but it took them ten years
to have this anachronism remedied by
the state legislature
A number of women of Seattle were
asked what they would do if mayor.
and, according to the replies, there
would be no deferment policy if a
woman occupied that position in the
western city. One woman said she
would limit the height Of buildings,
tear down all the billboards and APP
point a committee of civic decoration
and architecture Mrs W. P. Harper,
president Of Seattles Federation Of
Women's Clubs, said that she would do
exactly as the present mayor is doing,
the very best to be done under the
circumstances"
Miss Josephine Louise Reynolds of
Hull, Mass, a telephone girl, has de-
monstrated that one woman at least
can drive a nail straight and saw
board vertically and to line. She drew
the plan of a small summer cottage
and with her own hands, fearless of
callOus and splinter. constructed it, the
workmanship being good in every de-
tail from foundation to rooftree. With
her own hands Miss Reynolds will
paint. decorate and furnish the cot
tage, the accommodations being for liv
ing, cooking and sleeping. When it is
completed she and her sister Grace
will occupy il.
While it is well known that Mrs.
Corvallis West, formerly Lady
Randolph Churchill, was a New York
girl. it is not SO generally known that
there are two others Of the pretty
jerome sisters, now English matrons,
Mrs. Moreton Frewen and Mrs. Jack
Leslie. They We're the daughters of
Leonard Jerome and were educated in
Paris. Mrs. Frewen is the wife of
we'll known authority on finance and
is not SO active socially as Lady Ran
dolph, as she is still often called. Mrs.
Jack Leslie. the third Of the Jerome
ciSlNlH, - cat ldNolIt VI tilC
queen The daughters Of Leonard
Jerome have done as much as any one
else to assure position to American
girls in English society if they are
fitted by wealth and education.
With mothers disregard of danger
when her offspring is in peril at the
risk of her own life, Mrs. j. b
Stephenson of Fulton. Mo, frail little
woman, lowered herself into an eigh-
teen-foot web, saved her 2-year- old
child from drowning and climbed to
the top. holding the child in her teeth
by its dress The babe was playing
near the well top, which had been left
open, and stepped off backward. Mrs.
Stephenson heard the child'S cry and
turned in time to see it fall. Rushing
to the We'll, the mother graSped the
rope and without a moments hesita
tion shot to the bottom. The father Of
the child was not at home, nor were
there any male neighbOrS near by
Fearing that she would be seized by
cramps if she remained in the cold
water, Mrs, Stephenson in desperation
fastened her teeth into the baby's
frock and climbed the jagged wall Of
the Well with the aid Of the rope
There is only one official woman Jail
| er in the world. Her name is Jenny
| Porchet and she lives in Switzerland
| She is governor and Warder of the
| prison Of Aigle in the Rhone valley. 1t
| came about in this way. Thirty years
| ago Nine. Porchet married the chief
warder Of the prison and soon proved
! to be a helpneet, indeed for being a
| strongly built woman. and with proper
| notions Of discipline. she made as good
| a .iaier as her husband and more than
| once did his work when he was i'll or
| away So when he died the authori-
| ties asked her IT, take his place per-
| manently ana she accepted. All the
| year round the Aigle prison contains
| from twelve to twenty male prisoners.
| sentenced to terms Of imprisonment
| ranging from three months to three
| years and although the woman jailer
| has no assistants she has never had
any trouble with the prisoners-except.
| indeed. on one occasions many years
ago. when "a burly ruffian attacked
| her. Nine Porchet taught him a les
son ia good behavior that confined him
in the hospital for several weeks
Il Strict disciplinarian though she is the