St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-14
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FEATURES in this Column:
Federation of WOmen's Clubs
American Brides Privileges
Mrs, Fairbanks andPure Food

Toy Wednesday anu thursday,
,torcb 81 and April 1. The council
consists of the board Of directors Of
.bo General federation, presidents of
stoto declarations of clubs and of kim
arod organizations and of state secre-
tories of the General federation. One
- the features of the meeting will
In reception Wednesday evening,
March 81, by the San Antonio City
federation. Thursday evening follow
inc there will be program of music
ond addresses by distinguished speak
ORG By courtesy Of the city there will
no y drive on Friday to the old mis-
sions and a drill at Post Sam Houston;
IN the evening a supper on the city
noza at which will be served the Mex
team dishes for which San Antonio is
famous
There are said to be 1913 organiza-
tions advocating woman suffrage in
the little kingdom of Belgium.
" "
Lady Granard. recently Miss Mills
of New York, will have two royal car
riaees at her disposal. and her servants
will wear royal livery, as her husband
is lord in waiting. This is one of the
Anglo-American marriages in which
the wife gets as much as she gives in
the way of worldly advantages
Ssts
Nine Poppova, a Russian woman,
has invented an airship which she
calls the "annulated dragon" which
gives one an idea of its shape. The
ship has system of hoops that serves
to steer 1t and is said to adapt itself
to every sort Of wind very readily.
Lindsdell, a parish in rural England,
has not had 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
entity 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.
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
cigarette or her little pipe, which holds
just enough tobacco to make two good
whiffs Of smoke. All Japanese people
sit with their feet upon the seat Of
the car. When the ticket collector, at
tired in 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 astonished 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 paleolithic age Mrs. Nc
Culloch sought to prove that woman
was the originator Of most Of the good
things in the world.
Mrs G. W. Fairbanks, wife of for
mer Vice President Fairbanks, has
taken an advanced stand on the pure
1000 question. At recent meeting OF
the Indiana State Federation Of Wo-
men she said in a very emphatic man.
ner: ut is criminal for packers OF
meat and food purveyors to adulterate
'he food which is taken to sustain life
ana which mothers must give to their
children. You women are doing right |
TO take up the fight for pure food, and
When these men come to realize that
women will have none of their poison
Gus authorizations then at last they will
come to their senses"
Mrs. Sophia Demuth, matron of the
police station at Alton, ILL.,, is also as
slstant chief of police. She has no
commission, but acts by consent She
~ the terror of evildoers, and at the
same time she is most humane to the
suffering, whether they be human or
animal. The police call her ma" De-
muth and take orders from her In the
aoSence of the chief. The thing she
most enjoys is to arrest a professional
luasher." When on duty her weapon
d paddle made from barrel stave.
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Inc queen Of Portugal has chemist
onop IN Lisbon, registered in her own
name. ME establishment is cOnduct- |