The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-13
With the Womenof the World

Miss Mary w. Rae has been APP
pointed by Bishop Brent to take charge
of the new school for boys which he
is establishing in the Philippines. She
has for many years worked among the
boys in the south enc of Boston in
connection with st. Stephens parish.
She is said to have a wider personal
acquaintance with the boys of Boston
than any other living person. The
school for which Bishop Brent has Sc
lected her as matron is for the sons
of Americans in the Philippines.
" Al group of American women in Paris
have established a woman's rest called
the Cantine MaternelIe. where any wo-
man with a baby in her arms may get
all she wishes to eat without any ques-
tons being asked.
Miss Castina c. Swanson has been
appointed acting superintendent of the
Franklin Square house in Boston to
take the place of Mrs. Alice Gray Teele,
who resigned because of ill healthI
Miss Swanson is a native or Cambridge,
Mass, inc after studying at Radcliffe
took her degree at, the Massachusetts
state college. The Franklin Square
house is said to be the model home
for working women OF only in this
country but in the world. The prices
for room and board range from $40
a week down to fit the salary of the
girl. h house pays it's w running
expenses. When an applicant for room
amount of her salary and only such
rooms as she is entitled to are offered
her. Aside from that there are no
rules not customary in the usual high
priced hotel for women.
Miss Musa Rawlings of Los Angeles,
Cal, is expected by her friends to be
the first woman member of the con
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secretary OF a woman's Champ Clark
club during the recent campaign be-
fore the Baltimore convention. AS a
candidate for congress she has receiy-
ed the endorsement of the democrats
of the ninth congressional district OF
California, and those behind her de-
clare that her campaign will be made
with vigor n every intention of win
ming. According to the latest reports
voting hasn't hurt the matrimonial
market in California. During the year
just ending there were 1000 more mar
riages than the year before.
Mrs. Mary Ashton, said to be the
oldest living army nurse I'm this
try, has just celebrated her seth BIRTH
day. Dr. Annette Buckle, another wo-
man who gave her services to the
country during the civil war, died re-
! Gently at her home in Piedmon, Cal.
She was born In Warsaw, N. w., in 1888
and was graduated from the Woman's
/ MEDICAL COIISBEE VI ISIIiSylNdIlId DHS
volunteered for hospital service at the
outbreak of the civil war and accom-
| panied the union troops through sew
| eral battles. She was known as little
major of the union army"
Miss Beatrix Jones is a pioneer
among women landscape gardeners IN
this country. Her most wideiy-known
work was the restoration of, the George
Washington gardens at Mount Vernon.
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Miss Adeline M. Walker OF New York
is said to be the only woman gem
expert in this country. Mrs. Ellen Ross
OF Buena Vista, Pa, is said to be the
| only in this country operating
a dredging and pumping business.
| Though in her 10th year Mrs. Ross di-
reefs her force of fifteen men to the
spots in the Susquehanna river where
| coal and sand are to be dredged for.
Mrs. ELMER Nutting of Cambridge.
Mass, is said to have the largest col
lection OF postcards in the country. 1T
numbers more than 10000 specimens.
| The United States navy presented Mrs.
| Nutting with a set of souvenir post
cards collected when the fleet made its
cruise around the world. Mrs, Nutting
has herself been around the world more
/ than oire and many Of her cards show
the spots she has visited. Her friends
, remember her birthday by sending
postcarus and on one occasion twenty
1.-TWO different n~ationallties were repre-
! scented. most of the cards being written
in the language of the sender. These