Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-27
cLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

can become rule Of the denomina-
ton.
The women of Chicago are urging
an increase in the number Of milk
inspectors for that city They say
that it is impossible for the eight in
spectOrs now on duty to make sure
that even small part of it's supply
is in wholesome condition.
Making, selling or exporting OF red
ginseng in or from Korea is now for
hidden. under fines OF from $50 to $500
and cOnfiscatiOn of equipment to all
parties except the Korean government
or firms specially authorized by it.
It is highly valued in the orient for
medicinal use.
Brazirs foreign trade In the first
four months of this year totaled a
value of $14S,776,000. an increase o.
SIS, 800, 900 over that of the first four
months of 1903 Imports were $4,000
900, decrease of $9,000,00O and cx-
ports S93, 900, 900, an increase Of 1000,
600 Coffee is our principal purchase.
A new Japanese steamship service
has been put on between ports Of Jap
an, via Hong Kong and Valparaiso.
Chile, by the Togo Kisin Kaisha Com
pany of Yokohama The three steam
ers are subsidized by the japanese
government. Other ports of the west
coast of South America will also be
used.
Americans have discovered a de-
posit of whiting in the state OF Cam
peche, Mexico, which the Mexican
Herald says is to be mined and ship
ped for refining to Mobile, Ala. where
a factory has been erected. American
imports of manufactured chalk
amount to about 125, 900 tons a year,
mainly from England and Germany.
The girls of the Boston public
schools are to have an opportunity OF
taking part in outdoor sports on the
same terms as their brothers. Out
door games and gymnastics will be
made 4 part of the curriculum just as
soon as Fairgrounds for girls can be
fitted up. Baseball, basketball. run
ming, jumping and all sorts Of other
games will be taught.
The county judge of Cook county,
Illinois, has recommended the ap-
pointment of a woman as inspector of
all institutions to which delinquent
and deficient children are committed
He suggests a salary of $500 year.
Heretofore club women of the state
have conducted examinations of such
institutions and where remuneration
was necessary the money came out
of club funds.
The industrial census of Germany
for 1907 Gust published by the German
imperial bureau of StatisticS) gives
4,025,591 industrial concerns. employing
1434&, 3S9 persons, of whom 3,310 466
We're women. The increase in twelve
years is 4079,120-a ratio about four
times as great as that of the employ
ing concerns. These figures do not
include railroad. postal. telegraph and
telephone employees.
One of the American diplomats re-
ports that great business is springing
up at Calcutta in securing and prepar-
| ing the skins of brown rats which are
| used for book binding. gloves and pur>
ses. Already the trade is said to
amount to s250,000 year. and as the
rat supply at Calcutta is practically in
eXhaustiblc. it looks as if some one
would get rich.
The cZarina takes great pride in hav-
ing a better kitchen than any other
queen. Her two French chefs are CIV
en- moro consideration than her huS-
bands ministers. ard under them are
~ assistants and 20 helpers with as
many more tootmen. The imperial
wine cellar is about the finest in the
world, and while the car and cZarina
drink but very little. their guests are
given the best and all they want of it.
The Philadelphia School for Nurses
| is said to be the largest of the kind
| in the world. In the last year nearly
| 900 patients We're supplied with
nureses. Fully four fifths of this SER
| vice is said to have been gratuitous.
At present large number of two-year
| scholarships or available to young wo-
| men throughout the country, the pref
I erence being given to applicants from
small towns and rural districts These
scholarships include room board. laun-
| dry work. uniforms. all necessary in
| struction and railroad fare paid to the
students home town on the compile
ton of the course.
| Fifty years ago the countess of Car
digan, who has given English society
| thrills by her book of ''Recollecti6ns,
! was a reigning beauty in London and
now, although more than fourscore
years old, she still is light of foot and
I interested in the life around her and
| in the world at large. OF course, she
has long since given up fencing and
yachting. which We're her chief amuse-
! ments, but she still rides regularly
and seldom let's day pass without
walking several miles. She lives up tC
her belief that ''woman is only as
old as she feels" and it is one of hel
tests, with much truth at the bottom
Of it, that she has been too busy to
grow old, or even to think about it.
The women of Victoria, Australia
recently received the right to vote for
! members of the state parliament
1 They report that although they had
previously been petitioning for the APP
pointment of police matrons they could
not get them, but that with their first
use of the ballot they elected men who
promptly had matrons appointed for
the prisons and police stations. The
| Womens Political Association is said
| to have guided the women of Victoria
in selecting candidates. This associa-
ton is organized to work for the
| that women of all n9rtiaS want