The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-06

letter denying tnat she sara 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 a prominent part
in the affairs of the Texan republic
when Sam Houston was president. She
leaves 103 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 street, but nothing has
been done about it. Now Mrs. Van.
derbilt offers to meet the expense, ana
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 a 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 sur
frage in the New York Times. Re-
ferring to his arguments (D that
American women could always get
what they wanted, and ~ 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 Iue-
bin will speak at the annual May FEES.
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
ouarters at Detroit. She will write
up State and County fairs as one way
to advertise Michigan IS resources.
Elizabeth Chester, who has been in
vestigating the condition of women
prisoners in England, says that skilled
workers are seldom found among them
It is generally the woman without
trade or an education who gets into
trouble.
Miss f. L. Todd, of New York, hal
announced that her aeroplane will b.
ready for flight in June. Miss Todt
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 a gasoline engine
She estimates that it viii reach max
imum speed of 40 miles an hour.
Miss Mary f. Richmond, general sec
retarv for the Society for Organizing
Charity in Philadelphia, has been ap
pointed secretary under the Russell
Sage Foundation for the improvement
of social and living conditions. TIL
appointment is considered to be in man
WAYS the highest honor that could com
to charity organization worker in thi
country. Miss Richmond will engage i
writing, teaching and organizing alon
the lines of social service that she ha
so successfully developed in Philade
phia, and of which She has been
student for twenty years. She will b
in charge of all the work of The Pounds
ton relating to the extension of chal
ity organization.
Mrs. Russell Sage has just given $25
600 to endow Miss Martha Berry
school for boys, near Rome, Ga.
Mrs. A. A. Anderson of Greenwich
Conn, has given 5000 toward pa
ish building to be devoted TO the edl
cation and social enjoyment of the dea
and dumb. The house is 10 be thre
stories in height, and to contain room
for entertainment, handicraft an
physical training.
Margaret Marshall Saunders, tn
author of Beautiful joe" lives /
Halifax, Nova Scotia. She writes NJ
der the pen name Of Marshall Saur
ders, She is the author Of sewers
other successful stories, includin
"The House of Armour "Rose
Charlitte," novel, and 'Prinees
? sukeyV; but none OF these have Al
tanned such popularity as "BeauiifI
Joe. II has been translated int
three foreign languages and has ha
aale of more than 100000 copies.
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