The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-02-26
With the Womenof the World

Miss Fanny crosby, the blind hymn
writer, delivered an address recently
in Cambridge. Mass. Miss Crosby is
in her 9Srd year. Miss Crosby asserts
that she is not a believer in woman's
s~uffr1ce, though she once spoke in
congress. So far as she knows she is
the only ever allowed that
privilege. When asked to name her
favorite song Miss Crosby replied that
she had several; for after dinner use
SIZE liked Mr.s Dooley 3est. The mel
ody is good and the words-well, / like
them, they always make people laugh.
/ can't write a humorous piece unless /
am lacing up my shoes or doing some
thing like that. When anything both
ers me I go to sleep. If l don't feel
well / just go to bed ind by morning
I'm as right rs a cricket"
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch is in
charge of the plans for the big parade
which the suffragists of New York
state are aiming to give in New York
city early next spring. Mrs. Blatch
has already received word from the
state delegations Of Maryland, Kan
sas, Connecticut, Ohio, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania signifying their in
tention to take part. One of the fea-
tlires already arranged is the driving
| Of a tandem down Fifth avenue by a
we'll known New York horsewoman.
She is to be standing in a gaily deco
rated chariot, from which her two
companions will scatter dodgers an
nouncing the suffrage ball and other
literature.
Mother Mary Joseph Stanislas of
the St. John Wood convent, England,
and Mother ST. George Of the convent
Of the Faithful Virgin, Norwood, are
said to be the only survivors of the
band of young nuns who accompanied
Florence Nightingale as nurses to the
Crimean war. Forty years after this
war there were four of the Catholic
sisters alive, and when Queen Vic
toria found it out she summoned them
to Buckingham and decorated each OF
them with the order of the Red Cross
Mother Mary Joseph Stanislas is now
in her seth year and Mother st. George
is only a few months younger.
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Miss "A. r. Blanchard and Miss Irene
Homer are 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 in
~stitution. This department occupies
an entire floor on which men are moi
allowed. Miss Blanchard is the BAY
Ing teller and Miss Homer the receiv-
ing teller.
Miss Margaret MacLean of Glasgow
6 tland, left $4,000 to carry 0 N the
work at the MacLean Memorial and al
the Metet station in South Africa
Miss MacLean is said to have giver
more toward improving the condition
of the dwarfs Of South Africa thar
any other individual. In 1896 sh'
gave 1000 pounds to establish Thu
work in the regior west Of Batanga
Besides many special gifts, such as al
organ, bells, furniture and equipmen
for the stations, she is said to hav'
given more than $4,000 to the work.
During their last sessions the legis
Iatures Of several states passed nev
law regulating the number Of working
hours for women. south carolini
passed a law limiting them to sixt,
per week in mercantile houses and TIL
textile mills, of which there are s.
many In the state, In Ohio and Mas
sachusetts a nifty -four hour bin haI
been enacted, The Ohio bill apple
to everything excepting hotels an
mercantile establishments. Utah an
Missouri have also passed nine hou
laws. The ten hour law which til
legislature of Illinois enacted LIP 1870
!, is enlarged so as to include PRACTICAL
every kind OF establishment wher
women are employed Wisconsin ha
established d ffty-nve hour week, ex