The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-03-28
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Features in MHColuw,1:
Federation ef Women's Clubs
American Brides Privileges
Mrs. f irhanks andPucefood

Tex, Wednesday and Thursday.
March 81 and April l. The council
consists Of the board Of directors OF
! the General federation, presidents Of
| state declarations Of clubs and Of kim
| dred organizations and of state secre-
| taries of the General federation. One
| Of the features of the meeting will
be a reception "Wednesday evening.
March 81, by the San Antonio City
| federation. Thursday evening follow
ing there will be program OF music
and addresses by distinguished speak
ers. by courtesy Of the city there Will
be q drive on Friday to the old mis-
sions and drill 1T Post Sam Houston;
in the evening a suppey on the city
plaza. at which will be served the Mex
lean dishes for which San Antonio is
famous
There are said to be 123 Nr@aniZa-
tons advocating woman suffrage i'll
the little kingdom Of Belgium.
=
Lady Eranard, recently Miss Mills
Of New York. will have two royal car
riagcs at her disposal, and her servants
will wear royal livery, as her husband
is lord in waiting. This is one of the
.Anclo-A mcrican marria@ es in which
the wife gets as much as she gives in
the way Of worldly advantages.
Nine. 1oppova, q Russian woman,
has invented an airship which she
calls the 'annulated Dragon which
gives one an idea of its shape. The
ship has system Of hoops that serves
to Steer it and is said to adapt itself
to every sort of wind very readily.
LindSdell, 4 parish in rural England,
has not had marriage in eight years.
The men go away as soon as they are
old enough to work. The girls in the
parish likewise leave home as soon as
they get an opportunity, and the old
people fear that the time will come
when there will be no one in the Vi
entity to do the work.
The Wellesley calendar notes the
fact that there are twenty three local
organizations Of Wellesley alumnae
Only three are west of the Mississippi
river There are thirty graduate
scholarships and, besides these. the
$1,000 Alice Freeman Palmer scholar
ship ard various classical scholarships |
in Athens and Rome
American women who patronize |
street cars will be interested in know
ing that when Japanese woman en-
tiers the carriage in that country she |
slips her tiny feet from her shoes, |
stands upon the seat and then sits de- |
murely with her feet doubled beneath |
her. A moment later she lights b
cigarette or her little pipe, which holds
just enough tobacco to make two good |
whiffs Of smoke. All japanese people
sit with their feet upon the seat OF
the car. When the ticket collector. at
tired in blue uniform, enters the
carriage he removes his cap and bows
twice politely. He repeats the bow as
he approaches each passenger to col
lect ticket
Mrs. Catharine W. McCulloch Of
Evanston, ILL.,. said to be the only wo
man justice Of the peace in the United
States. has astonished the Society of
Anthropology, before which she re
f1, hv,1 |
as a loafer. She declared that Eve
was the mother of all the arts and
sciences. By data which carried her
back to the paleolithic age Mrs. Nc
Culloch sought to prove that womanS
was the originator of most Of the good
things in the world
Mrs. c. w. Fairbanks. wife Of for
mer Vice President Fairbanks. has
taken an advanced stand on the pure
food question. At a recent meeting Of
the Indiana State Federation of Wo-
men she said in very emphatic man.
ner: ut is criminal for packers of
meat and food purveyors to adulterate
the food which is taken to sustain life
and which mothers must give to their
children. You women are doing right
to take up the fight for pure food, and
when these men come to realize that
women will have none of their poison
GUS authorizations then at last they will
come to their senses"
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Mrs. Sophia Demuth, matron Of the
police station at Alton, Ill.,. is also as
sistant chief Of police. She has no
but acts by consent. She
Is the terror Of evildoers, and at the
same time she is most humane to the
suffering, whether they be human or