Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-01
Concerning Women.

The woman school teachers through
ont the country are looking longlngly
toward Colorado, Wyoming and titan,
as in these states women teachers re-
ceivo tl,c same salaries as Go men
teachers.
In Switzerland they seem to nave
more foresight than in America and
auv woman. wearing a hat with di-
ar,,ctcr Of more than eighty centlne-
tcrs must pay for it as if it We're BIZ
cycle or cart. But really the, worst
foes Of the big hat are the women
when the hats are worn by other wo-
men, and nothing could be funnier than
the way they glare at one another
wien the hats dispute the spac, OF
street cars or sidewalks.
bishop Keane says that he is not
prciudictd against the conditions that
change has produced in the work OF
women, nor is so narrow as to conslgn
them to the Work of folding and I'M
folding their clothes, but he asks them
never to borgct their "God given dig
nity' and beas them to choose their
individual opportunities. The early
women OF the church, he says, welded
a great power. although they never
stood in a clubrOom nor clamOred on
the streets.
The Chldrens Aid Society of New
York city is to establish new health
home for children. which it plans to
keep open both winter and summer. 1t
is to be situated on the site of Chappa-
qua mountain. in Westminster county
in TIE buildings known as the Chap
paqua Mountain Institute. boarding
school OF the Society of Friends foun-
1ed in 1870. Three hundred children
can be accommodated ar one time in
the Sanitorlum. There will be no age
limit ard room will always be made
for mother; Of sick children and 70:
sisters and brothers. and even TO,
whole families. where the doctor Sc
advises.
1t is estimated by IL New York wo
man shopper that the time lost each.
day in one Of the large department
stores Ill waiting for change IS equal
to the time Of one person for seventy
days.
t'ne Of the least known women III
NV York is Mrs. David Warfield. She
is us retiring as is her distinguished
husband. She was Miss Mary Braat,
S!rlish in appearance. she is an Ell
thusiastic collector of oriental rugs and
is an authority OIL the subject
Nine. Henrietta Ronner. who died re-
Gently in Brussels aged 80, had most re-
cyesight, which she &ttrhu-
ted t. the wisdom of her father. He
lost his eyesight when quite young and
So. required her to remain an hour each
day at noontjme in Il totally dark room |
She kept ul: the custom as long as she |
lived
Mrs. Madeline Luccttc Ryley. the |
American playwright. presided at the |
meeting of the Actresses Franchise |
League which was recently held in Lon
Ion. In opening the meeting, Mrs |
Ryle% made Il neat little sneech in !
which she declared that actresses he
longeG to Il favored profession mas
much as they worked side by side with
men and received equal pay with men
for their work
How many people know that Miss
Elizabeth Marbury. the pioneer play
croker and Sardou's representative.
'nce- ran poultry farm? She earned
1er first dollars from chickens raised at
OYSTER Bay While thus employed
she gave rein to her literary ambition
~ adapting French plays, several of
"flch were successfully produced
Through her friendship with Mrs. Bur
let when Little Lord Fauntleroy' was
lrametized Miss Marbury managed the
production and thus got the start that
las made her factor in the theatre
al world
On an average each resident of Ber-