Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
w Onen's Work

The most pathetic thing in London is
the life of the shopgirl. Her hours are
long many working twelve hours day;
her salary is small, some receiving SO
year above board and lodging, but the
majority get 81 to $3.50 and live in.
The rules of the shop are rigid, and on
| leaving work for the barracks, where she
| is warehoused for the night she is still
under the iron bound rules OF her firm
| Years ago Ruskin wrote a sweetly pretty
articel in favor of the nving-in system
! but since that time neither the English
press nor the English public seems 10
/ have had a good word to say for sys-
tenn the parallel of which can be foun
only in Russia.
Many American women are interested
in Miss Geraldine Farrar, the American
singer who created such a furore abroad
and will be pleased to note the following
from the Continental Herald, THE
crown prince and his suite called at the
Palast hoted, where Geraldine Farrar and
her mother have been stopping, and while
she was In the midst of an interview with
a New y ork reporter whisked her off
to Potsdam, as the crown princess want
ed to see her before her departure for
America"
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller and Col.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson are now
the only survivors of the eighty persons
who signed the call for the first national
womens rights convention, which was
held in Worcester, Mass, in 1850.
s.
The 16-year-old Princess Dagmar of
Denmark, who has just published a little
book on the subject of wild Flowers
of Scandinavia, has added her name to
the list of royal ladies' who have dis
tinguished themselves by their pen. The
young queen of Spain has just finished
a one-act PLAY, which, 1t is stated, is TO
be performed at Sandringham before their
majesties the king and Queen early IN
the autumn. The youngest sister of the
German empress, Princess Fedora OF
Schleswig- Holstein, has also gained fame
as an authoress by writing the powerful,
novel entitled Hahn Berta, published
in Germany recently. To Carmen sgt
va" the queen of Roumania, however,
belongs the distinction of being the most
prolific royal authoress of the day. Her
books total about thirty volumes.
s.
Philadelphia isn't so slow. When
Madame Suzanne Adams was singing
there one of her songs had the refrain
Speak but one word" and as tine final
almost whispered tones, Speak but one
word" died away, from up in the FRS
balcony an urchil4 shouted "Great!' in
voice that could have been heard
block away. He haC spoken but one
word. Madame Adams was a bit con-
fused, but just then made her exit amid
applause, and when she returned to bow
chr thanks she was laughing with the
audience over the vehement and discon
certing compliment that had been paid
her.
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Much interest is manifested in Paris in
the exhibition by American women artists
at the Students hotel. The first prize
was awarded to Miss Anne Estelle Rice.
Academy Notes of Paris speaks in the
highest ,erms of Miss Mary Cassatt, this
American artist, as the strongest woman
painter who has been associated with
the impressionist movement.
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Frau Bic was awarded by the arbitra-
ton court $3.50 for the loss of her hus-
band through an accident on board of a
ship. Not long aITerwaro on the same
ship stoker met with an accident which
cost him leg and the same court
aawrded him $4,000. Indignant Frau Bic
went to the court to complain because d
man who only lost leg got so much
more than she was allowed for the loss Of
a husband. The judge, bland and WHY
old gentleman, said: MY dear lady. that
poor stoker can hardly buy new leg with
$5000 Now a good looking woman like
you with $3.50 can easily get a new hus-
band, younger and perhaps more loving
than your late husband" The widow
wiped her eyes and smiled. She had not
thought of that.
Mrs. Arson Jones, wife Of the last presi-
dent of Texas, is stiIl living at Austin.
She was born in Lawrence county, Ark.
but DR.. Jones was native OF Massachu-
sets.