Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1910-03-18
MISS JANE adams.

a high degree of citation. 1t proves
that woman has arrived. Miss Adj
dams, by the way, is an Ii. D. DIR.
Taylor bases his opinion as to Miss
Adams first citizenship-though she
doesn't vote, of course-upon the rec
ognition granted to her work in har-
monizing the races and ame~liorating
the tenement conditions. He says
Miss Adams certainly is the best
known Chicagoan and adds: almost
from the day she was graduated from
Rockford college, for nearly twenty
five years, she has devoted all she was
and could become to this wide range
of human service. With the simplicity
of sustained sincerity, regardless alike
of pecuniary emolument and the ex-
penditure of her always overcrowded
time and often frail strength, she has
Nesponded to the demands of almost
very good cause for her winsome
Asence. persuasive speech and the
ra&Eihntinn-o of her pen to the best 50.
eial literature Of day"
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Among occupations for women, what
do you think Of stage driving? In
northern Illinois Mrs. Mary Caldwell
is becoming rich through investments
of her earnings as the driver Of a
stage for the past twelve years. She
drives from the railroad station at
Crystal Lake to the lake of the same
name, carrying summer visitors, tour
lists and other pleasure seekers. Mrs.
Caldwell is said to be q fine CONVERSE
tionalist, entertaining her passengers
SO well that they ride with her every
time they have a chance. She has In
vested her savings in summer cottages,
land and boating properties. She says
she sees no earthly reason why a wo-
man shouldn't drive a stage If she
likes the job.
If you had a million dollars, would
you try to write poetry? Miss Ellen
Marie Sinclair of Boston is said to
have the million, and she has just pub
lished q volume of verse called Ran
dom Shots" She does not claim that
all Of them hit the mark in either
rhyme or meter. Specimens quoted
by the considerate press fail to indi-
cate that Miss Sinclair is a feminine
Swinburne, though many of her
verses deal with love topics. 1t is
quite possible that If Miss Sinclair
were not a millionaire she wouldn't
horo p1rhIichn6 this hAnE of UnrGa
However, it shows signs of a talent
that may lie cultivated If the young
woman doesn't conclude that poetry
is not a paying industry. Miss Sin
clair already has won high honors in
athletics. She is the only woman
member of the Boston Yacht club.
She is a rife expert, shooting no ran
her target.
New Zealand sent an envoy eXtra0r-
binary to England and Canada and
then to the United States charged
with the duty of finding a woman COM
petent to occupy the newly established
professorship OF household economy in
the University of New Zealand. No
woman was found in England or Can
ada who was considered competent.
Finally a Missouri girl, Miss Anna G.
Hedges, born in st. Louis, but at the
time of her discovery principal of
the Hebrew Technical School For
Girls In New York, was selected for
the post. She was notified by cable
Of her appointment. Miss Hedges will
teach the New Zealand girls the gentle
but glorious art of keeping house. Her
efforts will be directed toward the
elimination of kitchen drudgery with
out the sacrifice Of any essential work
toward making home happy and the
body healtllful. She will travel a year
in Europe first, preparing herself for
her new duties, then go $4,000 miles
away from home to become the first
professor of household economy in the
world. MARY DALE.