Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-10
Concerninq Women.

Senator Davis is to introduce a bill
in the New York legislature to regulate
the practice of vivisection. In conse-
qucnce the president of the Antivivi-
section society, Mrs. Diana Belfas, is
planning fight against it. The pro-
posed bill, she says, does not prohibit
vivisection, but lcgaliZes it. 1t closes
the door and no one can see what the
surgeons and eXperimenters are doing.
There san increasing interest in the
reviva! of the plays of the Christ
time ,one of the latest evidences being
tie writing of a navity play by Mrs.
Katrina Trask of Saratoga, N. Y.
The play is based on an episode in the
life of Christ, but the figure of Christ
is not seen on the stage. There is the
clubhouse of an inn in Bethlehem, and
the city, seen in the distance, glows
with Il great light 1t is all in a rec
crcntial spirit.
Mrs Charlotte Wilbour said recently
in making q speech before the Rainy
Day club in New York that it's fame
had penetrated even to Paris. Some
of the woman cab drivers in the French
city had asked her if there was not
an American club of women that be-
lieved in wearing short skirts in rainy
weather. This club was organized for
the purpose of looking after sanitary
affairs in the city, but it has now de-
generated into purely social club.
Mrs Isaac l.. Rice of New York is
continuing her work in opposition to
unnecessary noises in New York and
has recently prepared petition to the
board of aldermen which was signed
BY 5000 teachers within twenty-four
hours Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake
asked Mrs Rice recently at a meeting
what women could do. asthev have
no vote, to stop noises, and she replied
that they can complain. 1t was de-
cIared that every man and woman in
New York is suffering more or less
from ncurasthenia, all because of the
horrible noises.
Toy spaniels are going out of fash
ion. One never sees Mrs. Alice Roose-
Welt Longworth travelling around with
her darling Manchu though three
wears ago she could not bear to be
parted from him more than an hour
at a time He went to Europe on her
tour and got his mistress in broils
through encounters with royal pets.
Mrs. w n1telaW 1telu mas a DAINTY HI
tic spaniel. DoOdles, all tufts, like a
chrysauthemum. But Doodles has
been missing from the pageant more
than a year. In Washington, since
Mrs. Roosevelt barred all visitors who
carried pups in their arms. the habit
of calling with Fido has been on the
Wane.
Queen Adelaide, the wife of William
" was woman of great piety and
exceptional humility. which was shown
in the directions for her funeral 81
die in all humility" she wrote, ''know-
ing we'll we are all alike before the
throne of God, and l request therefore,
that my mortal remains be conveyed to
the grave without any pomp or cere
mony They are to be moved TO st.
Georges chapel. Windsor. where I re-
quest to have as private and quiet a
funeral as possible. I particularly de-
sire not to be laid out in state and the
funeral to take place by daylight; no
procession the coffin to be carried by
sailors to the chapel. I die IN peace
and wish to be carried to the tomb in
peace and free from the vanities and
the pomp of this world