The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-29
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Heel ARE DOING . .
Tho outlook is instituting a series
Of articles on home-making d q pro.
~fession. and is soliciting lcttdfP fypm
return on the investment of til Q aud
strength and none that is pd into
1t? "As q factory for the prod ction
of citizenship. is It a SUGGEST" - That
is Is it d. thai, "a, You you, really Re expect our ime
Tho first of the series has been Mb-
home for?" In it the writer deals f1rsN
with a family by tho name of Wells.
whose annual income was $1,000.
These people worked and saved and
finally got their two sons educated for
clerical positions. n ut $50 and the
other at $3.50 a month. Tho daugh-
ter is still being educated. Now so
Vt profitable to produce them at that
price? The honey that made these
boys clerks and stenographers cost
twenty years of their parents brain
and muscle.
Then the article tells of the Par
nelrs. Mr.. and Mrs. ParneU with their
two babies settled Al farmers on the
their income amounts to $4,000 a year.
Their children are being sent to the
agricultural college OF the state. Their
parents thinking that they have the
best chance Of happiness and prosper
i:y on the farm. Reversing the stand.
ard of the Wcllses. the Parnells are
rather splashing through life having a
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expecting their children to do the
same thing after them. Was the home
Of either really efficient? What is an
efficient home. anyway. and how are
We to produce It?
n writer Of the article reaches no
conclusions: can you?
n Sage foundation states that in
New York families having from 5000
to $1,000 a year arc able in general to
get food enough to keep body and
soul together. and clothing and shell
ter enough to meet the most urgent
needs of decency."
Miss Mary E.. Wadleigh. who is in
charge of the social service bureau
at Bellevue hospital. New York city,
recently delivered an address at the
work in her department is conducted.
AS outlined. the object of the social
worker is to aid the doctor in his
diagnosis and treatment by becoming
familiar with conditions in the homes
OF his patients. When the department
was first established at Bellevue there
was only n nurse. but within a short
time several others were added. and
the corps is being steadily increased.
Miss NJ. W. Osborn. superintendent of
the Brooklyn hospital. is trying to
form q regular band OF social workers
III h a institution.
DR.. Eliza j. Dadm", is the first
woman to be appointed school ply
celSed her medical training in the
Massachusetts, general hospital, Tufts
medical school. Harvard medical
school and under DIR. Richard Cabot
and DR.. Putnam. She also studied in
Vienna and had considerable expert
ence In the Spanish a DR.. Dadmun
VIII receive the same salary as is paid
to male school physicians. $500 a
year.
Inc women Of the teachers assem-
bly, of North Carolina have Just taken
what is said to be the first step toward
the Acknowledgement of women in that
state. They appointed a committee to
investigate the rights of women teach.
SAo " IiOlO dUHlINlStTdtlNC OmceS IN
both the county and the city.
Miss Amelia Forbes. daughter Of
Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes Of Milton.
Mass. left the other day to enter DR..
Grenfelrs hospital in Labrador as n
nurse. Miss Forbes began her train.
ing in the Waltham training school
for nurses and will enter DR.. Gren.
ielIs institution on a six months pro.
baton. during which time she expects
to decide on her life work. Miss
Forbes is a young woman Of large
wealth and social prominence. She
has declared her intention of devot-
ing her life to the alienation Of the
hardshtps Of the inhabitants Of Lab
rador and Newfoundland. the field of
Or. G%renfelrs labors.
The Congress of Mothers, the FEEDER
ated Women's clubs and the Twenti-
eth Century club of Massachusetts, are
taking active steps to have the lcgis-
lature of their state pass a law pen
siontng widows with young children
depending on them for support. Mrs.
Robert Ezra Park has been working
on the idea for more than six months
and a public meeting has been called
to take place in Huntington hall. Bos.
ton. early next month. Rabbi Stephen
5. Wise is to be n of the speakers.
At the recent annual meeting of the
board of trustees of the New England
hospital for ON and children il
was announced that Miss Alice stone.
Blackwell had given her home. in Dor
chester. Mass, to the hospital. This
gift is in memory Of her parents, MI.
and Mrs. Henry B. Blackwell. The
Blackwell home is one of the largest
and most beautiful in Dorchester. on
~ a short distance from the Black
we'll estate are the Daily Industrial
home. the Salvation Army home and
the Jewish home. The new institution
will be used as a home for the con-
valescing patients Of the New Eng
land hospital for women and children,
Mrs. Henry P. Kidder of Boston was
elected first vice president Of the Ma
ttonal Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage at the convention recentlv
held in New York city. Mrs. Kidder
has already served as second vice
president of the organization and was
at II time spoken Of for the presi-
dency. The other officers elected at
the convention were Mrs. Arthur NJ,
Dodge Of New York. president; Mrs.
Horace Brock of Pennsylvania, second
vice president. and Mrs. Robert q.
Garrett of Maryland. treasurer.
FUNERAL OF JAMES KELLER
jamestown. n. D.. Dec. 29-The fu-
neral OF the late J. E. Keller will be
held Saturday afternoon at 2 O'Clock
at the Congregational church. Burial
Will be at Jamestown cemetery,