Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-04-12
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Features in this Column:
Federation y WOmen's Clubs
American Brides Privileges
Mrs. Fairbanks and Pure Food

1 Marcn 81 ana April i. The council
consists Of the board Of directors of
the General federation, presidents of
state declarations of clubs and of kin.
dred organizations and of state secre-
taries OF the General federation. One
Of the features Of the meeting will
be a reception Wednesday evening.
March 81. by the San Antonio City
federation. Thursday evening follow.
ing there will be n program of music
and addresses by distinguished speak
ers. BY courtesy Of the city there will
be drive on Friday to the old mis-
slons and drill at Post Sam Houston;
In the evening II supper ON the city
| plaza. AT which will be served the Mex
lean dishes for which San Antonio is
famous.
There are said to be 1913 organiza-
lions advocating woman suffrage In
the little kingdom Of Belgium.
| Lady Granard, recently Miss Mills
of New York, viii have two royal car
riages at her disposal. and her servants
will wear royal livery. as her husband
is lord In waiting. This Ii one Of the
| Anglican erican marriages In which
the wife gets as much as she gives In
the way of worldly advantages.
Nine. Poppova. a Russian woman,
has invented an airshlp which she
calls the 'annulated dragon" which
gives one an idea of its shape. The
ship has system of hoops that serves
to steer II and Is said to adapt itself
to every sort Of wind very readily.
99
Lindsdell, parish In rural England,
has not had u marriage In eight years
The men go away as soon as they are
old enough to work The girls in the
parish likewise leave home as soon as
they get an opportunity. and the old
people fear that the time will come
when there will be no one In the vi
cinity to do the work.
The Wellesley calendar notes the
fact that there are twenty three local
organizations of Wellesley alumnae.
Only three are west Of the Mississippi
river. There are thirty graduate
scholarships and. besides these, the
$1,000 Alice Freeman Palmer scholar
ship and various classical scholarships
in Athens and Rome.
9R
American women who patronize
street cars will be interested in know.
ing that when Japanese woman en-
tiers the carriage In that country she
slips her tiny feet from her shoes.
stands upon the seat and then sits de-
murely with her feet doubled beneath
her. A moment later she lights a
cigarette or her little pipe. which holds
Just enough tobacco to make two good
whifSs of smoke. All Japanese people
sit with their feet upon the seat of
the car Wien the ticket collector, at.
tired in a blue uniform. enters the
carriage he removes his cap and bows
twice politely, He repeats the bow as
he approaches each passenger to col.
lect ticket.
Mrs. Catharine w. McCulloch of
Evanston, ILL., said to be the only wo-
man justice Of the peace in the United
States, has astonlshed the Society of
Anthropology. before which she re-
Gently appeared. by denouncing Adam
as lOafer, She declared that Eve
was the mother Of all the arts and
sciences. BY data which carried her
back to the paleollthic age Mrs. Nc
Culloch sought to prove that woman
was the originator Of most of the good
things In the world.
Mrs, @. W. Fairbanks, wife OF for.
mer Vice President Fairbanks, has
taken an advanced stand on the pure
food question. At a recent meeting Of
the Indiana State Federation Of wo-
men she said In very emphatic man
ner; ut Is criminal for packers OF
meat and food purveyors TO adulterate
the food which Is taken to sustain life
and which mothers must give to their
children. You women are doing right
TO take up the fight for pure food, and
women win have none OF their poison
GUS authorizations then at last they win
come to their senses"
RQ
Mrs, Sophia Demuth. matron OF the
police station at Alton. Ill.,. Is also as
sistant chief Of police. She has no
commission. but acts BY consent. She
Il the terror Of evildoers. and at the
same time she Is most humane 70 the
suffering. whether they be human or
animal The police cali her ma" De
muth and take orders from her IN the
absence Of the chief. The thing she
most enjoys Is to arrest a professional
''masher" when on duty her weapon
b paddle made from barrel stave.
The queen OF portugal hs. +, .h.r,t..