The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-25
" orld's " omen;
Paragraphs showing Progressive
Activities of Women and
Feminine Org0nixatiOns.

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delegates to the annual convention to
De held at Portland. Ore, next month
will spend Sunday. October Is. in St.
Paul. The delegates are due to arrive
from the east in two special cars Sat
urday evening. October IL. II as
they do not desire to travel on Sun
day the specials will be parked in tho
rear of the Northern Pacific general
offices until early Monday. October IA.
when they will be started westward
OF the Northern Pacific.
The executive board of the genera!
federation of women's clubs. in it's
first meeting under the new admins
tration at French Lick Springs last
week, confirmed former reports that
Chicago will De the next place OF
meeting. That will prevent the friends
of Mrs. Francis ID. Everett of Chicago
from campaigning for her as presl-
dent. as there is an unwritten law
that the hostess city must not name
the president. Several appointments
were made at the meeting, one of in
terest especially being that of Mrs. NJ.
F.. johnson of Richmond. Ind, as
chairman of the art department, sue
ceeding Mrs: Everett W; Pattison of
Of Evansville was appointed to the
legislative committee and Mrs. Ida
Gray Scott of indianapolis to the music
committee.
Feminine activity in Paris is o o
to be made manifest by the production
In October next of a halfpenny daily
newspaper for women. The forthconn-
ing publication, which is to be called
the Journal de la Femme. will en-
deavor to meet the needs of all
classes of me and after providing
its readers with the latest news will
science. drama. fashions. and recipes.
1t aims also to keep in touch with the
feminist movement in France and
foreign countries.
Buried in a provincial town for
generations. a priceless historical relic
has just been brought to light in
France. 1t is Marie Antoinette's pray
er book. which she took with her into
prison and in which she wrote her
last thoughts. The volume was print
ed in 1857. and was entitled, "ofice
or the Divine Providence for the Uses
of the Royal House of Saint Louis st.
Cyr. and of All the Faithful"
The book is richly bound in olive
green morocco and stamped with
gold lace-work. fleur-de-lis and cross,
Dul tHe pllulnS nEiS suffered severely
from revolutionary zeal. much of the
gold ornamentation having been
roughly defaced with a knife.
In order to remove any possible
doubt of its authority Georges Cain,
the Well known Paris antiquarian. has
had the writing examined by one of
the principal French handwriting ex-
perts, who declares there is not the
slightest doubt that the office" con-
tains the last words ever penned by
the unhappy queen. They are:
oct. 16. 4:3O morning. May God
have pity on me! My eyes have no
more tears to weep for you, my poor
children. Adieu. adieu.
Marie Antoinette."
This memento of the last of the old
French monarchy belongs to the liz
brary of Chalons-sur- Marine, to which
town 1t was originally brought by the
daughter of Citizen Courtier. tho
deputy who was charged with the ex-
animation of Robespierre's papers
after the latter's death.
Don't take so much time hunting
little faults unless you are a LAWYER
and can win a case that way.