Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
Some eWOnnen

EED INGS on my fingers and bells on
X, my toes!"
AZ Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth
has aroused the city of New York by
coming out to the footlights and whis-
perlng the suggestion that bells be
placed, jingling bells and tingling, upon
the necks of cats, SO that little brides
may have warning Of danger and fiut-
ter away. She says a surprisingly large
number of birds are killed annually by
cats in the towns and cities and that
she believes that the birds would soon
learn what the bells meant. Humane
society workers have evidenced interest
in the idea. II bells are successful on
cats there Is no good reason why the
thing might not be tried in other ways.
Anarchists might be made to wear
bells to warn public officials to scamper
away from the deadly bomb. Porch
climbers, bill collectors and borrowing
friends
There is a sign at the lower entrance
to little stairway in the city of New
York with gilt letters reading as fol-
lows: Miss Harriet Howard, Dress
making"
A week ago it probably would have
been possible for anyone seeking a new
gown to have gone up the stairs and
had Mrs. Howard chop one out. If
anyone were really in need of a new
garment today they might do well to
pass up the sign and the little stairway
and hunt another establishment farther
down the street. Mrs. Howard was re-
| Gently informed by letter from Dub
lin, Ireland that fortune of $12,000,0 900
in realty and cash, left by the late
Margaret Savage, awaited the latter $
descendants. Mrs. Howard is one OF
the descendants. She might be induced
to fix you up with a mother hubbard or
a tea apron just now until she has a
chance to see one of the cleaning
goldens, but no doubt she is insisting
upon vacation at the present time on
the strength of the communication.
Florence Roberts, who recently APP
peared here in THE Transformation
and Gloria" and DR.. Cyrus Townsend
Brady. rector of st. Georges parish,
1927 Tracy avenue, Kansas City, have
been mixing it in the middle west city.
DIR. Brady first took a swing at "The
Easiest Way" Then Miss Roberts
came back with a criticism of his criti-
cism. She maintained that the people
should be given what they want. "They
ferent," she said. "They are average
good people who lead monotonous
lives"
Then DIR. Brady came back with an
other from his pulpit the following Sun
day. "Give the people what they want!
Rot! Bring to me the head of John
the Baptist! Take the Son of God to
Golgotha and cruelty him! Give the
people what they want. Give the peo-
pie what they want and what is the
result-chaos?"
He devoted an entire sermon to the
subject and to vivid description of in
stances of the people getting what they
want.
In spite of a weak knee, which she
has put out of joint twice, Empress
Augusta Victoria of Prussia has taken
again to horseback riding. The COM
ing out OF her daughter, the Princess
Victoria Louise, is not far off, and the
empress is riding that she may accom-
pany the child she is about to lose.
Emperor William and the empress are
doing everything in their power to de-
lay the coming out as long as possible
and to see as much of their daughter
as possible while they have her with
them. The governess has been dis
missed and the proud father and mother
have divided the job between them
Princess Louise is the only daughter OF
the couple, and naturally they desire
to shield her as long s. possible from
the worries which usually annoy a
grown-up princess royal.
Persis Bartholomew of Worcester
county, Mass, looked into stenography
and decided that she wanted to be a
farmer. Most girls wanting to become
farmers would look first for a farmer.
But Miss Bartholomew wished to be a
real farmer not a farmers wife. She
decided to be scientific farmer as well
as real farmer. so she took a course
in agriculture at the state agricultural
| college at Amherst. After she obtained
her degree, she rented an old abandoned
farm ahat the neighbors would not
have kept goats on, and cleared $3.50
on the five acres the first year. She
raised nothing but garden things and
she sold them herself in Worcester.
This year she expects to make 5000
an acre.
She did things in her own way, in
spite of the rude laughter of the ex-
perienced hayseends in the vicinity.
She now has three horses and 200 hens.
Her father cares for the horses for her
Her help consists largely of schoolboys
who are glad to work after school hours
for 10 cents an hour Her most profit
able crop last year was tomatoes, but
she also induced a considerable crop
! OF peas and corn to mature.
Miss Mary cambridge Spiers, who for
twenty-three days has been private
secretary to Mrs. Taft, has resigned
and will resume her former position in
the treasury department. She has not
given any reason for her departure.
Miss Spiers, prior to April l. was for
ten years employed in the office of the
surgeon general of the army. She is
native of Halifax county, N. c.
Lima Cavalleri admits that she does
not love Winthrop Chanler She is
going to marry him in bleak November,
and she thinks that there is no need of
love in matrimony. She said that there
is nothing exciting about her marriage
and that it is not a romance Peculiar
woman, If she is telling the truth, and
woman, oh woman, if she is fibbing.
'I like him and L hope that our mar
riage will be a happy one," she says.
Is Lima telling 1t to us straight or is
she stringing us?