The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-09
WHAr NJ ARE DOING.

Miss Nellie Reve1l of Chicago has been
selected by the Governor of Michigan
as State press agent. Her headquarters
will be In Detroit and she will write UP
the State and county fairs a a means Of
advertising the OF Michigan.
Mrs. wilhelmina BischoH, who died
the other day at Tamaqua. Pa. had
owned and managed an undertaking
business for more than thirty-f1ve years
and la said to have conducted more than
five thousand funerals.
Mrs. Ellen Il. Rich Of Boston was elected
president of the American Home Eco
nomio Association. the object of which
Is to improve the condition Of living in
the homo and the community. The asso-
citation is the outgrowth Of a meeting
different colleges which was held In Wash:
ington last December. IL Is intended
that the work shall be national. One
Of the things proposed is to teach families
scientific methods of spending money
for the home.
Mrs. Scott Durand has been appointed
a lecturer at the Maryland Agricultural
College, She has been prominent IN
MAI ttlu lot bcNcTdt ySnto &C
leaders, farmer and the owner and man
ager OF a large dairy. In accepting the
appointment ehe declared that there were
a number of reforms which che wished to
bring u the attention Of the farmers n
dairymen. and she knew OF no better way
Of doing it than lecturing to them or the
children.
Miss Margaret Ashton, sister-in-law OF
--.-. D. I.-tl--n nlootal n turn rOiIn-
cillor in her native town in England.
Miss Z. d. Todd Of New York expects
to have an Naeroplane ready for it's trial
flight early In June. The machine Is for
one passenger and she expects to drive
it herself. 1t is to be propelled ny Raso-
lene engine and is planned to have a max
imum speed Of forty miles an hour.
Miss Mary E. Richmond, general secre-
tarv Of the Society for Organized Charity
in Philadelphia. has just been elected
secretary of the Russell Sage
Conditions. She will write, teach and
organize along the lines OF social science
in which she has bsen successful in Phiia-
delphia during the past twenty years:
She will have charge OF all the work OF
the Foundation relating TO the extensions
OF charity organizations.
A bill giving full suffrage to women
and making them eligible for Office has
been introduced into the Swedish Parna-
ment by the leader of the Liberal party.
The bin ia said to be supported by the
whole executive committee OF tnat party.
A similar bill has been introduced in the
upper house by Albert Bergetrom, while
the Socialists have also put in a woman
suffrage bill.
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, superior
general of the Missionary Sisters OF the
Sacred Heart, has just returned to this
country from Brazil, where she recently
a college for the higher education
Of women. This is the f~fty-eighth in
established by the order in
twenty-seven years; The institutions IN,
clude colleges. schools, hospitals n
asylums.
Mrs. Sofia Loebinger was elected presi-
dent OF the new organization OF SUI
fragettes which was formed the other
In New York. II Is composed
Of wage earning women. Miss
Aus, a vender Of cosmetics and other
.oilet articles, was elected secretary;
Miss Wingers, a designer Of women's
costumes, was chosen as vice-chatrman,
while Mrs. Louise Valkmann. a real estate
was made treasurer. The mem-
is said to include teachers,
,tenographers, lawyers and doctors.
1t is said that there is only one statue
a woman in Mexico. That statue was
erected in honor Of Josefa Ortiz de Domin-
zuez, at whose house in Queretaro the
patriots often met a century ago 70 plan
means OF throwing on the yoke OF Spain:
The statue is in the City. OF Mexico and
aces the handsomest Of the Government
buildings.