The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06


little sugar. Put in shallov dishes and
rooms in which there are a large number
Of flies burn pyreth.um powder. This
will not kill the flies, but stuns them and
causes them to fall to the floor, where thew
can be swept up and destroyed
The opening Of a woman's club the
other day in Cork. Ireland. caused a sen.
sation. When the usual club license was
applied for the0newspapers announced
the calamity In bulletins. They drew
glowing pictures Of bankrupt husbands
sitting at home nursing their neglected
offspring when they should be at work.
while their wives In costly furnished club
rooms staked their last pennies on bridge.
The new clubhouse Is described as having
charming bedrooms. an excellent cuisine,
good livery accommodations. golf links
within easy reach and oosey rooms set
apart for bridge and smoking.
Miss Strong is the leader OF the move.
ment among the m OF Seattle to
know their home city. These women
express themselves as determined TO
learn all that 1t is possible to know abopt
S~eattle-not only the statistics but ths
things going on about them, such AZ
how poor people work, the wages Maid
the women, the kindergartens. the PLAY
grounds and every other point touching
the welfare Of the city and its inhabic.
tants. They have divided themselves
into committees, each Of which Is M.
quired to undertake personally to inves-
tigats a given field and to make a report
giving the result Of its Investigations.
Mrs. Otto Kiliani Of New York.
a daughter Of Bayard Taylor. has lust
sailed for England as r~epresentaiv.
from the New York State Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage to the zen.
eral meeting Of the English Anti Suf.
frage Association. Mrs. A. j. Georpe. Il
is said. will follow her early in June a.
representative OF the MassachusettS
branch Of the Ants.
Miss Edna L. Foley has just resigned
her place in the Boston Consumptvs
Hospital to become the head of the Chi.
Gag tuberculosis Institute. She Is
graduate Of Smith College. class Of isol.
The Chicago institute has seven dispen:
sarlss IN diierent parts OF the city and
treating the patients. Miss Foley win
have entire charge Of the dispensares
and nurses.
Miss Mary L.. Phillips has Just won
the highest honors Of the year. the uni.
versity medal. at the California State
University. Miss Almira Catherine John.
son, a student in the college OF letters,
was the first OF the student speakers At
the recent commencement exercises. Her
subject was CALIFORNIA; Spanish In
h~eritance."
Mrs. Margaret E. Iangdale Of Cam.
bridge. Mass. has just given the Phillips
Exeter Academy $50, 900 to found a schol.
arship to be known as the Charles Z.
Langdale scholarship. Mrs. ~Iangdals,s
husband. the late Prof. Charles E. Lang.
dale, was for many years the dean Of the
law faculty OF Harvard land this scholar.
ship Ia to commemorate his work.
The first annual report Of Miss Kate
Barnard, State Commissioner OF CHAR.
ties and Correction Of Oklahoma. created
a sensation in her State and led to the
Investigation Of the Lansing, Kan.
penitentiary. The investigating com.
mittee sustained every charge made BY
Miss Barnard against the institution,
Gov. Haskell appointed her to attend
labor laws, which was recently held
In New Orleans. She has been invited
to speak at the international conference
of charities to be held in Copenhagen,
Denmark. in 1911. and also to address the
international congress on tuberculosis,
which is to be held in Rome. Italy, q few
weeks later.