The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-28

her court as fawlessly and with as
much judicial dignity as any of her
predecessors. Her decision held to
the United States court under bond Of
$500" was as tersc and formal as was
the prisoners plea of mot guilty.
The fact that the judge WAS Il woman
made not IA hit Of difference i%nthepro-
strictly according to the laws govern
ing United States commissioners.
Mrs. Bell is a petite and very pretty
young Before her marriage
she was Mabel Van Dyke, a deputy in
the office of the clerk of the United
States court. At the death of her hus-
band h was again made court depu-
ty. Shortly after her reappointment
the district was extended SO that Clerk
Menzies was no longer able to per-
form the dual duties of clerk and COM
missioner, which latter office in con
junction with the %clcrkship he had held
for several years. 1t then devolved
upon United States Judge Cochrane to
name a new commissioner. The ex-
perience that Mrs. Rel had gained as
a deputy clerk n her knowledge of
the workings OF a federal court made
her eligible for the position. III spite
of the fact that she belonged to the
female of the species.' she was duly
appointed and qualified.
During their last sessions the legis-
latnres of cveral state passed a new
law regulating tho number Of working
hours for South Carolina
passed a law limiting them to sixty
per week in mercantile houses and the
textile mills, of which there arc SO
many in the state. In Ohio and Mas
sachusetts Il tifty-four hour bill has
bee nenactcd. The Ohio bill applies
to everything excepting hotels and
mercantile esta blishnlents. Utah and
Missouri have also passed nine hour
laws. The ten hour law which tho
legislature OF Illinois enacted in 1909
is enlarged SO as to include practically
every kind of establishment where
women are employed. Wisconsin has
established a fifty-fve hour week. cx-
ccpting night work. which is less.
Minnesota has strengthened it's ten
hour law by extending the penalty for
violation SO as to include manufactur.
ing and mechanical csta blishments.
The states of Washington and Califor-
mia have passed eight hour day laws
for women. The law of Washington
applies t" the usual mercantile and
mechanical Establishments. restaur.
ants, hotels and laundries. but the
California act applies also tn telc-
graph. telephone. express and trans
portation offices.
Miss Fanny Crosby. the blind hymn
writer. delivered an address recently
in Cambridge. Mass. Miss Crosby is
in her ?3rd year. Miss Crosby asserts
that she is not a believer in woman's
suffrage. though she once spoke in
congress. So far as she knows she is
the only woman ever allowed that
privilege. When asked to name her
favorite song Miss Crosby replied that
she had several; for after dinner use
she liked Mr.. Dooley best. 1.-The mel
ody is good n the words-well,
like them, they always make people
laugh. I can't write a humorous piece
unless l am lacing up my shoes or do
ing something like that. When my.
thing bothers me / go to sleep. If
don't feel well l just go to bed and by
morning Pm AS right as IA cricket"
Miss A. r. Blanchard and Miss
Irene Homer arc said to be the only
women bank tellers in Boston. They
have just been put in charge Of the
woman's department of a popular
banking institution. This department
occupies an entire floor on which me
are not allowed. Miss Blanchard is
the paying teller and Miss Homer the
| receiving teller.