The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-06

letter denying that she sald working
girls make better wives than college
girls, as was recently reported She
has never compared the two classes of
women in this way, but has always
maintained that college-bred girls make
good wives. She is unable to account
for the erroneous report.
Mrs. Fanny Van Zandt, formerly
known as the "Mother of the Texan
Republic, - has just died at Fort Worth
in her ninety.fifth year. She was the
widow of the late Isaac Van Zandt, who
negotiated and brought about the treaty
annexing Texas to the United States.
Mrs. Van Zandt took prominent part
in the affairs of the Texan republic
when Sam Houston was president. She
leaves 10S descendants.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt is con-
tinuing her good public work. For
wears there has been a proposition be-
fore the New York Board of Estimate
to unite the halves of John Jay Park
by closing a street, but nothing has
been done about it. Now Mrs. Van,
derbilt offers to meet the expense, and
the city officials seem disposed to ac-
cept. The effect will be to turn the
park into great public playground.
The Shivley model tenements which
she is to build lie just west OF these
grounds, and this move is part OF
her plan for fighting tuberculosis.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, at
the "Petition Tea, of the Massachu-
sets w. S. A. last Tuesday, gave
brilliant review of Edward w. Box s
recent interview against woman suf-
frage in the New York Times. Re-
ferring to his arguments D that
American women could always get
what they wanted. and (2) that their
| Easter hats proved them unfit to vote,
Mrs. Gilman said that women who
wanted sensible Easter hats had walk
ed miles in the vain endeavor to get
| one. and that today the style of hats is
designed by the man milliner. These
extraordinary creations were invented
and put on the market by men. In the
matter of hats. as in the case of most
other things, women get what is handed
out to them by men.
Dorothy Dix and Prof. Charles Zue'
bin will speak at the annual May Fes
tival of the New England and Massa'
chusetts Woman Suffrage Associations
on May 10.
Miss Nellie Revell. of Chicago, has
been engaged by the State of Michi
gan as State press agent, with head
quarters at Detroit. She will write
up State and County fairs as one way
to advertise Michigan's resources.
|
Elizabeth Chester, who has been in
vestigating the condition of womel
prisoners in England, says that skille'
workers are seldom found among them
1t is generally the woman without
trade or an education who gets int
trouble.
Miss E. L. Todd, of New York, ha
announced that her aeroplane will b
ready for flight in June. Miss Tod
is building her machine for one pas
senger and expects to drive it herself
Like the aeroplane of the Wrigh
brothers, her machine has two plane
and is propelled by gasoline engine
She estimates that it viii reach MAJ
, imum speed of 40 miles an hour.
\ Miss Mary f. Richmond, general SCI
retarv for the Society for Organizin
Charity in Philadelphia, has been al
pointed secretary under the Russo
.. Sage Foundation for the improvement
: of social and living conditions. tn
appointment is considered to be in man
ways the highest honor that could CON
to charity organization worker in tn
r country. Miss Richmond will engage
? writing teaching and organizing alon
/. the lines of social service that she hi
so successfully developed in Philade
. phia. and of which she has been
student for twenty years. She will
in charge of all the work of the Found
! tion relating to the extension OF cha
ity organization.
. Mrs. Russell Sage has Just given $2t
900 TO endow Miss Martha Berry
I. school for boys, near Rome, Ga.
:, Mrs. A. A. Anderson of Greenwic
J Conn, has given 5000 toward pa
isb building to be devoted to the ed
cation and social enjoyment of the de'
and dumb. The house is 10 be thr'
stories in height, and 10 contain room
for entertainment, handicraft al
physical training.
Margaret Marshall Saunders, Il
author of "Beautiful Joe" lives
Halifax, Nova Scotia. She writes u
. der the pen name of Marshall Sau
9 ders. She is the author Of sever