Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-04-02


yea. She is an expert at bridge and
has made pocket money b. giving les
sons in the game to fashionable Wash
ington. One of her pupils was Mrs.
John r. Mclean, and rumor has 1t that
It was through the good offices of Mrs.
Mclean that Mrs. Relyea secured the
appointment referred to. Mrs. Relyea
was appointed to a place in the wal
department in 1907. She is the widow
of Albert Relyea, formerly a chief of
a division In the treasury department.
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Miss Rose Fritz, the American cham
pion typist, who accepted the chal-
lenge to type 100 words in "a minute
In a Londc1 newspaper office, went
through the ordeal tr~iumphantly. She
accomplished the remarkable record
of tipping 1852 words from an article in
the newspaper before her in two min
utes twenty-six seconds, or at the rate
of 1915 words a minute. The type
writer used had been operated for two
years. Time was taken by an expert
timekeeper ON a chronograph.
The head maid of Queen Margherita
makes about $4,000 a year from the
sales of the old gowns of her mistress.
This is one of the maids perquisites.
The sales are held twice a year. Amer
lean women are the best customers.
To quote an English Journal, Ameri-
can women are willing to pay the
highest prices for the souvenirs OF a
queen.
AS most women in the United States
know. Mrs. George CORVALLIS West
was the widow of Lord Randolph
Churchill when she met her present
husband. When Churchill first saw
the piquante Miss Jennie Jerome he
resolved that he would win her for his
wife. The same evening, so it Is said,
Miss Jerome told her sister that Lord
Randolph was the man she was des-
tined to marry. 1t was some years
after Lord Randolph Churchilfs death
that she became Mrs. George Cornwall
lis West.
The bottom scale of prices is reached
by the poor seamstresses OF Paris.
They toll from dawn to dark In the
making of children's clothes. One cent
an hour is the estimated stipend, but If
the work is exceptionally clever they
can earn 35 cents for twelve hours
work. Female house servants receive
about So a month. Safeswomen in the
largest department stores earn about
$50 a month.
More than 5000 patents have been
issued by the United States office to
women Some of them are for car
couplers, night signaling, life RATS, car
wheels, machines for manufacturing
ozone, and one is for a typewriter for
the blind. Nearly all the patents are
for something practical.
A visiting card on which appears a
silhouette of the person who offers 1t
and which may have a design appro-
pirate to the owners station In life is
a fad in Germany. 1t has been intro
duced here by Nine. Gadski. Her card
has a laurel border, and a harp at the
bottom of the card is her design.
An ancient bed valued at $4,000 is
the property of a well known French
actress. 1t is In al excellent state of
preservation, and its adornments car
~ out to the full all the lavish beauty
of the bed itself. Draped at the back
from a ring in the ceiling are beauti-
full curtains of antique brocade, plumes
of ostrich feathers looping them up at
the corners The bedspread Is of rich
est satin, yelled with valuable lace in
exquisite design. Several old English
homes W antique beds which are the
envy of connoisseurs.
The only woman jailer in the world,
1t is believed, lives In Switzerland. Her
name is Jenny Porchet. She is gov
ernor of the prison of Algie, in the
Rhone valley. Thirty years ago she
married the chief warden of the pris-
on and soon proved to be a valuable
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with proper ideas of discipline, she
soon made herself valuable, often TAX
ing her husbands place when he was
absent or when he was i'll. When he
died the authorities offered her the
place and she accepted. All the year
around the prison contains from ten
to twelve prisoners, sentenced to terms
OF Imprisonment ranging from three
months to three years, and, although
she has no assistant, she has never
had any trouble with her prisoners,
except on one occasion, many years
ago, when a burly ruffian attacked her.
She taught him a lesson in good be-
havior that confined him in the hos
pital several weeks. Many a prisoner
has been set on the right path again
by her wise and kindly advice.