Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-04-01
Wido4Ds Rrie In a
NsqU Hampshirs
TO1Vn--MGrriGge Age
In Foreign LGnds--A
Suffrage Pioneer.

There are more widows in the town
Of Bartlett, N. h. in proportion to its
sixe than any town In the United
States. The population is about 1000.
one-third Of which are women. One
quarter of this number are widows,
and they are all self supporting. A
widow plays the organ in the village
church; a widow is the town school
principal; there are widows on every
street in the town, and every other
house In every street contains a widow.
The ages of these widows vary from
thirty to sixty. They manage farms,
raise berries In season and crate and
ship them to the large cities. A ma
FORTY of the workers in a woodwork
er's min are widows. They also make
their own dresses and hats. Nearly
every boarding house is run by a
widow. They have recently organized
q Merry widows club Mrs. John
Mersereau is president and has the
title Of "Queen Of Bartlett Widows"
She 10 fifty years Of age and is as spry
and jolly as a girl.
Mrs. Emily P. Collins, who recently
celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday in
Atlantic, Mass, organized the first To-
cal woman suffrage association ever
formed in this country. This was
sixty-one years ago, in country town
in New York. Most of the women and
all the men the neighborhood ridi-
culed her. During the civil war she
served as a volunteer nurse with the
Union army. At the age of seventy
she took charge Of the Examiner, a
newspaper in Hartford, Conn.,, during
the absence Of the editor and conduct
ed 1t in a creditable manner.
A Maryland judge has just decided
that the wife's dresses belong to the
husband. The case came up in Bromp-
ton county. The husband testified that
he had given his wife money to buy
the dresses. She had obtained them,
but had not paid for them. The court
decided as stated.
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The marriage age in foreign countries
b as follows: In Austria. fourteen for
both sexes; Germany. man eighteen,
woman fourteen: Belgium, man eight
pen, woman fifteen; Spain, man four
teen, woman twelve; Mexico, with pa
rental consent, sixteen and eighteen,
otherwise twenty-one for both; France,
man eighteen, woman fifteen; Greece,
man fourteen, woman twelve; Hun
gary, Catholics, man fourteen, woman
twelve; Protestants, man eighteen, wo-
man twelve; Russia, man eighteen, wo-
man fifteen; Saxony, man eighteen,
woman sixteen; Switzerland, man four
teen, woman twelve.
The ballet was at its height in the
eign Of Louis XIV. The monarch
planned such costumes of splendor as
he considered worthy Of the Olympian
gods, Neptune, Phoebus and Bacchus
1ouls XIII, although known as the
gloomy king, not only loved the ballet,
put often took part in 1t.
At her Riviera villa the Empress
Eugene leads quiet life. In pleasant
weather. she is found in her garden,
There she weeds the beds with her
Wn hands. No half withered bud or
loSsom Is left on a rosebush or
liant and she knows how to wage war
insects that attack shrubs. When
rains she plays patience, laying the
ards before her on the table in a soil.
ary game.
On account Of their delicacy Of touch,
omen, in the opinion Of Edison, would
bake better electricians than men. 1t
new field for women. although II
believed that there is some danger
It
It Is the ambition of the poorest wo-
len In China to wear silk clothes. The
reatest sacrifices are made in order to
raify this desire The gaudiest silks
70 in demand.
Accompanied by natives as guides,
iss Charlotte Mansfield, an English
oman. has started on a tramp from
pe Town to Cairo. The tramp will
he her virtually across Africa. It is
hope to meet ex-President Roose-
1t at Nairobi
9R
Merry Widow" hats made In Ger
any have been worn for years by the
Omen of the Andean peaks. This
ct has been furnished by Mrs. Har-
Chalmers Adams. who recently
mbed Mount Mystic. 1920 feet