The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-12

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sudragists has just cleared $500 a. q
suffrage bazaar held in GlaAgoW. Tbs
members made about half a. much by
their recent self-denial week.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been re-
elected president Of the New England
Women's Club. Mrs. Judith W. smith
was elected honorary vice-preaide1t In
recognition Of her lonR and faithful SER
vices. Besides these two ladies' there were
four other members present who at
tended the first meeting Of the club forty
years ago.
The Ladies' Literary Society Of 0barlin
College has cOmpletSd a scholarship fund
10 provide a graduate member with q
years foreign study. The organization
u said 20 he the oldest woman's literary
society in the world. Lucy Stone and An
toinette Brown were among its members
sixty years ago.
Prof Frances Squire Potter has &C.
cepted the Office Of general lecturer for
tho National WomAn's Trade Union
league. Prof Potter will make q tour
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In the interest u the league.
Or. Mary Pierson Eddy was the only
woman TO speak az the foreign mission
airy gathering Of the General Assembly
Of the Presbyterian Church held In Allan
tic City Dr. Eddy Is a granddaughter Of
the Rev. ". ". Eddy, ID. D.. ons Of the
first American missionaries in Syria
She was horn AZ SidOn and has spent all
her life IN the Ottoman Empire except
the time devoted 10 study in the United
States. Germany and England. She has
practisst In almost every part Of the
Ottoman Empire. has established the only
sanitaTium Tor tuberculosis in Pales-
tine and on her return will organize Rad
Cross societies In various cities in Syria
and Palestine.
Miss Elizabeth Nourse the American
artist who lives in Paris. has just had one
Of her paintings purchased by the French
Government II - called The Closed
shutters and has been bought for the
Luxembourg Gallery Miss Nourse bs-
gan her art career N Cincinnati a. apupil
81 her brother in Law, Benn Pitman. q
shorthand She has long been an
active member Of the Woman's Art Club
Of Cincinnati.
Mrs. Jtdia Ward Howe testified the
other day before the Massachusetts,
legislative COMMITTEES which 10 investi-
eating the milk situation While giving
her testimony she refused the chair offered
by the COMMITTEES and remained standing
az the head o. the witness table In
making her plea for pure milk Mrs. Howe
said
There are several parties 10 the milk
situation. and think the principal party
h. the child in the cradle There h no
substitute for milk In rearing children
u - a matter u Me and death and should
not take long % settle 4 do want that
those who produce this important food
should have suitable compensation |
stand for justice 70 all parties and mercy
% one the infant
Miss job % Queenstown. Tasmania. is
aid 20 be the only woman who has ever sat
within the bar a. a Wesleyan Methodist
When she first took her seat
one minister protested that the confer
ence was composed only of ministers and
lavmen and that they had no power %
admit the best lady In the land All
others. including the president % tho con-
ference. took the position that women
we're included a. layrnen and Miss Job re-
tanned her seat within the bar.