Arizona republican., 1910-09-11
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toast, "The Pathfinders," and Dr. ! Clara Marshall, dean of the Woman's
 medical college of Pennsylvania, de- i livered an address on the advantages of women's medical colleges over CO.,
 educational colleges for the medical education of women.
 Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superinten- ! dent of the public schools of Chicago, 1 has accepted for the schools the use
 of the natatorium belonging to the ] Chicago branch of the Young Mems 1 Christian association. In this nata- I tOrium the children of the neighbOr- | ing schools will be allowed to cool off during the summer days and to take ] swimming lessons. It is also an nounced that a swimming pool is to be included in the plans of the new gymnasium for the Chicago teachers college for the purpose of instructing prospective teachers how to swim and give lessons in the art to their pupils. The women of Detroit are preparing to vote on a very important question. The franchises of most of the street 1, railways have run out and the com mon council is charging the compa
 nies $500 a day for the use of the streets. The companies say that the amount is excessive and the question
 is to be settled by the voters.
 Miss Rose Pitonef of Boston recent ly swan from Charlestown bridge to Boston Light a distance of nearly twelve miles in a little less than seven hours. Seven men who at tempted the feat had to give it up. Miss Pitonef was accompanied by five men in. two rowboats and her only rests were obtained by swimming on her back She is just a little past 15
 Miss Caroline F. Wenzel of Boston has the only school in the country in which the pupils are all street ven ders. The object of the school is to teach these street merchants a more musical way of calling their wares Instead of abolishing the cries of these men as the members of the Anti Noise society proposed Miss Wenzell believes they should be turned into music. With this end in view she started a class in an alley in Boston much frequented by street peddlers. At first she had only four pupils which number has gradually increased. Miss WenZell reports that she finds her class respectful with genuine desire to learn, and under her instruction they have progressed ra- pidly.
 Mrs. Winnie Ream Hoxie has just completed a statute of Governor Kirk wod for the state capitol of Iowa. Mrs Hxie is now 63. She was only l5 when she saw President Lincoln and was so struck by his face and bearing that she modelled him in clay. A friend took her model to President Lincoln who liked it so much that she was commissioned to execute life-si statue for the rounda of the capitol This statue so pleased him that he sat for a bust at the white house It was after the commission was completed that cagress aproint' her to make the statue of Admiral Farra gut. These two statues of Lin coin and Farragut are said to be the only ones ever ordered by the United States from a woman.
 Miss Albert Hill secretary of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women. is said to have discovered a new feature for the suffrage parade planned for the last week in ctober. It is a carriageful of babies-all suf- frage babies. The carriage will lead the parade and will be decorated with a large picture of a ballot box and the leegnd Children cry for it." It is intended as a reply to the anti-suf- frage assertion that if the ballot is given to American women America will become babyless land.
 Miss Ellen Le Motte has been put in charge of the tuberculosis work under the health department of Bal timOre Miss Le Motte has fourteen nurses under her who make about two hundred visits a day. Her work is said to be thorough as well as ex- tensive She has nearly three thou sand persons under observation. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses.
 Miss Helen l. Smith who is giving talks on the recreation piers of New York and telling the mothers of the tenement houses how to care fo~ their children during the hot weather, va