The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-04

MISS Mary Il. Nooliey, president OF
Mount Holyoke College, has written a
letter denying that she said working
girls make better wives than college
girls, as was recently reported. She
has never compared the two classes of
women in this way, but has always
maintained that college bred girls make
good wives. She is unable to account
for the erroneous report.
Mrs. Fanny Van Zandt formerly
known as the q Mother of the Texan
Republic, = has just died at Fort Worth
in her ninety fifth year. She was the
widow of the late Isaac Van Zandt, who
negotiated and brought about the treaty
Mrs Van Zandt took prominent part
in the affairs of the Texan republic
when Sam Houston was president. She
leaves 103 descendants.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt is con-
tinuing her good public work. For
fore the New York Board of Estimate
to unite the halves of John Jay Park
by closing a street, but nothing has
petD QQHe dDoub H. 4NO8 ~AiSs
derbilt offers to meet the expense, and
the city officials seem disposed to ac
eept. The effect viii be to turn the
park into a great public playground.
The Shivley model tenements which
she is to build lie Just west Of these
grounds. and this move is a part of
her plan for fighting tuberculosis.
the s9Petition Tea, /" of the Massachu-
sets W. S. A. last Tuesday, gave
brilliant review of Edward W. Box s
recent interview against woman suf-
frage in the New York Times. Re
ferring to his arguments ID that
American women could always get
what they wanted, and ~ that their
Easter hats proved them unfit to vote,
Mrs. Gilman said that women who
wanted sensibleaEaster hats had walk
ed miles in the vain endeavor to get
one, and that today the style of hats is
designed by the man milliner. These
extraordinary creations were invented
and put on the market by men. In the
matter of hats, as in the case of most
other things, women get what is handed
out to them by men.
Dorothy Dix and Prof Charles Zue-
bin will speak at the annual May Fes-
tival of the New England and Massa-
chusetts Woman Suffrage Associations,
on May 10.
9 Miss Nellie Revell. of Chicago, has
been engaged by the State of Michi-
gan as State press agent, with head
quarters at Detroit. She will write
up State and County fairs as one way
to advertise Michigan S resources.
Elizabeth Chester, who has been in.
vestigating the condition of women
prisoners in England, says that skilled
workers are seldom found among them.
1t is generally the woman without
trade or an education who gets into
trouble.
Miss E. L. Todd, of New York. has
announced that her aeroplane will be
ready for flight in J4fne. Miss Todd
is building her machine for one pas
senger and expects to drive it herself.
Like the aeroplane of the Wright
brothers. her machine has two planes
and is propelled by a gasoline engine.
She estimates that it will reach max
imum speed of 40 miles an hour.
Miss Mary E. Richmond, general see
rotary for the Society for Organizing
Charity in Philadelphia, has been APP
pointed secretary under the Russell
Sage Foundation for the improvement
of social and living conditions. The
appointment is considered 10 be in many
ways the highest honor that could come
to a charity organization worker in this
country. Miss Richmond will engage in
writing, teaching and organizing along
the lines of social service that she has
so successfully developed in Philadel-
phia. and of which she has been a
student for twenty years, She will be
in charge of all the work of the Founda.
tion relating to the extension of char
ity organization,
Mrs. Russell Sage has Just given S25,-
600 TO endow Miss Martha Berry s
school for boys, near Rome, Ga.
Mrs. A. A. Anderson of Greenwich,
Conn. has given 5000 toward a par
ish building to be devoted to the edu-
cation and social enjoyment of the deaf
and dumb. The house is to be three
stories in height. and 10 contain rooms
for entertainment, handicraft and
physical training.
Margaret Marshall saunders. the
author of "BeautifuI Joe.'' lives in
Halifax. Nova Scotia. She writes I'M
der the pen name of Marshall Saun
ders. She is the author of several
other successful stories, including
"The House of Armour. - Rose
Charlitte." a novel, and princess
Sukev'; but none of these have at
tanned such popularity as "Beautiful
joe Tt has been translated into
three foreign lanouao0s and has had
a sale of more than 100000 copies.
Florence Nightingale. who has lust
entered her ninctieth year. received
manv eon0ratulatorv MESSAGES and
bouquets. She is now so feeble IS 70
b. confined to her room. Miss Night
ipgale has been a lifelong advocate
of woman suffrage When asked to
give hey reasons she wrote: 'fIt seems
10 rae almost seIf-evident an axiom.
that nveTv householder and taxnaver