The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-07
ABOUT WOMEN.


Miss Estelle Reel national superin-
tendent of Indian schools. points out
i'm her last official report that there
has been marked progress during the
last few years i'm the general field of
Indian education. Good results have
been obtained through industrial
training and the encouragement of ma
tive industries
Mrs. William f.. Annis. who is APP
pcaring i'm a musical speciality at a
New York theatre because she was
called upon to support herself and
her two children since the staying of
her husband by Captain Peter G.
Hams. Jr., announces that she is to
be married to a prosperous real es-
tate broker.
II have been on the stage only
week" she said last night. after she
had responded to several curtain calls,
land it is all very nice and the audi
ences are very kind to me. but | want
my own home. where | can have my
children and be with them. The hope
for Il return of happiness which was
mine before Annis was killed is only
a dream, but the man whom | am to
marry sympathizes with me thor
ouEhly, and | know that If anything
is possible he will accomplish it, I
will not be married until my thcat-
riCal engagements are ended"
Mrs. Annis refused to reveal the
name of her fance
Miss Billie Burke has now with her
in Paris the tcn-year-old daughter of
her dearest friend, Mrs. Thomas Wat
son. and she states she will legally
adopt the little girl, Cheridal Wat
son, on her return to the United
States.
After Miss Burke left for London
her house at Yonkers was occupied
by Mrs Watson. Just before she went
on thes tage for the opening per-
Torrance she received cablegram
that Mrs. Watson was dead. Her
friend had taken cold on the dock
when she went to see her off. Pneu-
monia rapidly developed and death re-
suited. This message affected Miss
Burke deeply and her acting before "A
first night audience lacked her usual
gayety and briskncss. Miss Burke
Immediately sent for the mOtherless
little girl who was brought to her i'm
Paris. "She is my little girl now"
the actress says.
A large rat" in her hair saved the
life of Mrs Richard Frost in an au-
tomobile accident here today, says a
Flint Mich, report. Mrs. Frost and
her baby were both thrown from the
machine when it colided with tele
phone pole. Mrs. Frost struck on her
head with such force that hairpins
were driven into her scalp. At the
hospital the surgeons who attended
her said the rat" saved her head
from being crushed. The baby was in
June about the head.
Josiah Collins, chairman of the
entertainment committee of the A.
Up. exposition, has invited the dele
gates from the International Council
of Women and the National Council
of Women, now in session at Toronto,
Canada, to complimentary dinner
on the fair grounds July IA, from
$50 to 3 o'clock. The delegates will
come here on a special train leaving
Toronto July /, and stopping at the
cities on the route, arriving here July
10. Seventy-ninc international and
sixty national delegates are expected
Miss Jane Adams. of Hun House,
Chicago, has just been elected presi-
dent of the National Congress of
Charities and Corrections for 1910
The election was unanimous. This is
the first time in the history of the
conference covering thirty-siX years
that woman has been at the head
of the organization. The other Off
GERS elected are: First vice president
f. II. Nibccker. Glen Mills, Pa: sec
ond vice president, Ansey Wilcox,
Buffalo, n. Y; third vice president
Judge William II. De Lacy. Washing
ton, ID. G., and general secretary.
Alexander Johnson, Fort Wawnc Ind.