Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-08
In Woman's World

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! Three hundred young women of Chi
cago who are to be teachers have been
examined and found physically perfect.
This Is larger proportion that have
ever before stood the required test.
The New York Normal school con-
Quoted q series of inquiries which
showed that nineteen of girl
pupils are taller than their mothers.
Copenhagen has just celebrated the
Goth birthday of one of Denmark's most
| renarka BILE women. Ida Fable Hansen.
Her fame as an educator has spread
over all the Scandinavian countries
and her influence in educational mat
ters is pronounced. She Is considered
one of the most brilliant women in
Denmark.
Tennessee can boast of but two women
lawyers. One is a Presbyterian and the
other q Jewess. Df9the two, Miss Mar
ion Griffin was the first to be admitted
to the bar but Miss Wolf, who was
admitted only two days later. was the
first to appear before the court of civil
appeals and argue a case. Miss Wolf
argued about an hour and is said to
have held the attention Of the five
judges much more closely than is Gus
tnmary.
Miss Bessie Bernstein has just been
appointed q sanitary Inspector in Bos-
ton. The appointment is said to have
been largely due to Miss Bernsteins
unusual qualifications. She was born
and brought up in the north end Of
Boston. which corresponds with the
lower cast side in New York and she
not only understands the people and
their needs. but also speaks their Ian
guage. For several years she has been
private secretary to Meyer Bloomfield
in the civic service house.
Two considerations must be kept ever
in mind in discussing the care of In
fants. Ons is the fact that silly super
stitions. far from being confined to the
Stun mothers who give their babies
beer and dress them i'll wadded fan
nels, are rampant to an astonishing
degree among women otherwise intelli-
gent and presumably sane. The other
is the fact that the ignorance of the
mother. even when the baby passes
childhood in apparent health and safe
ty often paves the way for suffering
later on.
The collarless dresses threaten to be-
com positively epidemic this spring:
rather gruesome name when on stops
to think that the imagination of the
French sees in them II repetition Of the
barred neclss of the guillotine victims of
the revolution. III reality. they are
quite safe and hygenic, for they give
woman a chance to show a. pretty neck
If she las one, to acquire one If she
hasn't, and in Gather case to rest her
throat from the effects of the high
close collar. Madame Paquin seems
to be responsible for the fad; certainly
she is a most successful sponsor. for
her own NECK is very beautiful and she
always wears the decapitated dresses.
The charm OF the low Dutch collar
has taken the country by storm. This
is not at all surprising. as it is en-
tirely comfortable and can be suitably
made in any material that ones purse
affords, from sheer lawn with a lace
edge to hand-wrought Irish or fine
braid lace. The woman who loves pref
.ty things can easily have these collars
Of Irish crochet il she is willing TO ex-
ercise her skill with the crochet needle
and follow carefully the directions
given on the opposite page for making
them. Bits of good lace edge among
the left overs, motifs of lace or en-
broidery may be used to advantage,
and fancy tabs may complete the coll
lar or DOW of ribbon may be worn.
These collars are worn with coats as
well as with shirtwaists and dressy
bodices. and are Very smart and dainty
locking.
II you go off on frequent jnunts, it
is a great help to have the following
articles, which with machine can be
made in few moments, and after US
ing can be laid away for future use
Bind strips of linen in different colors
about a. yard wide and three-quarters
CT yard long, with white linen tape,
or merely hem them if you prefer to
save the time. In the green one. we
will say, lay your linen and plain white
II over and button or pn
together with safety pine.
In the blue one. place your lingerie
waists. In smaller ones OF suitable
sizes put your stocks and belts, in an
other your wells. with stiff square of
card hoard to hold them fiat. Bind
squares Is or 16 inches and sew tapes
10 one corner for Your shoes. which
.an be rolled up like a package. dag
,nally with the ends turned in. and
lied.
Vary these colors for convenience in
finding them, You can outline in enl-
,roidery cotton, II you care to- "Tiesn-
'Fumps IS Shoes "Rubbers"-or
merely pin written label on each