The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-05-21
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


about $100,O00,000 year.
Princess Albert Of Belgium is said
to be the happiest wife in the courts
Of Europe.
There are more doctors per capita
In New York city than anywhere else
in this country.
Trial Marriages" were discussed at
the recent congress of Russian wom-
en- at st. Petersburg.
1t is only within the last ten years
that tropical fruits like bananas and
plneapples have had large sale in Ger
many.
The foreign commerce Of this coun-
try fell off about $50O,000000 last year.
The greatest decline was noticed at
the Atlantic ports.
Mrs. Keith Spalding, of Chicago, has
given $4,000 and forty acres of land
to be used In establishing a tuber-
culosis sanatorium at Naperville, Ill.
The Australians eat an average Of
129 pounds of sugar each year, the
United States SO pounds, Germany 36
pounds, France 80 pounds and Great
Britain 81 pounds, but in the latter
country the ratio is going up.
Owing to recent raids upon blind
tigers" by the police authorities, the
city Of Savannah, Ga, is the possessor
of about 10000 gallons Of whisky, be-
sides much beer, wine, champagne,
etc. 1t can neither be sold nor given
away.
Figures issued by Manchester Uni
versity point to the fact that women
graduates rarely marry. Out of $50
women who have taken degrees only
sixty-four have married. Twelve of
these married graduates of the same
university.
Mrs. Russell Sage is said to pay the
heaviest tax Of any person in the city
Of New York. The tax books show
that twenty New York women are as
sessed for upward of $170O0,00O, and
more than a score Of others are re-
quired to pay for $250,000 to $780,
900.
Mrs. W. J. Beggs, now of Seattle, is
said to have produced the only rose
absolutely without thorns. She was
for several years a neighbor of Luther
Burbank in California, where she
studied his methods. The bloom Of
this thornless rose is reported to be of
unusual beauty.
The Grand Duchess Sergius of Rus
sia Is to found an establishment in
Moscow which is to supply district
nurses for the poor. The grand
duchess, whose husband was killed by
the terrorists, Is to live in one Of the
buildings devoted to the work, and
other titled men and women will also
dwell near her and help In the work.
A bill has been prepared by Charles
Francis Adams and introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature to provide
that there shall be no alteration or
change in the name Of any public way,
street, place or square, OF of any pub
lie park, where the name altered or
changed has been In use for twenty-five
years, without the consent Of the High
way Commission of the State At a
hearing on the measure representatives
of many patriotic societies favored 1t.
The women of Paris have discovered
new method of stimulation in the tea
cigarette. To make one about as much
tea Is required as would make two
strong cups of tea. AS many Paris
women are reported to be smoking on
an average ten a day, it is easy to see
why the doctors should be taking meas
ures to nip the fashion in the bud.
They describe 1t as q horribly easy
method of stimulation and sure to un-
dermine the strongest constitution In a
few months.
Canton, China, at present Is full of
robbers. 1t Is said that in some parts
the people are really afraid to go to
rest at night, inasmuch as it is certain
that thieves will enter and rob the
place. Accordingly some one sits up,
while others sleep. The following is
a queer criticism of China's policy by
correspondent: I'VE have police
force, whose work consists mostly In
sleeping at post or helping the nearby
to chop wood or neigh
boring blacksmith to blow his fire."
Mrs. George F. Lowell received more
applause than any of the other spedk-
ers at the recent meeting of the Massa
chusetts Press Association Her ad-
dress was on woman suffrage, and in
reply to statement made by a speak
er preceding her that the women of
America could get the ballot or any
thing else they wanted, Mrs. Lowell
said they could, provided they waited
long enough. She reminded them that
II took Massachusetts women f1fty-fve
years to obtain the equal guardianship
Of children, and almost as long to get
that Of equal inheritance between hus-
band and wife.
The legal adage de minimis non
curat lex was apparently reversed in
the Glamorgan County Court, held at
Cardiff, Wales, recently, when work
man seriously sued his employers for