The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-09-17
WOMEN IN THE NEWS

HOW neT Relatives anu uedTeSJ IT1en0S
are fighting each other, how she
hopes and prays day and night that
her own country may not be drawn
into war--al this is revealed by
Queen Marie of Roumania in a re.
markable letter received here. The
letter is remarkable, the more be-
cause Roumania is now in the bal
ance in the world war. Queen Marie
is an English princess, and her hus-
band, Ferdinand, is Hohenzollern.
How is it possible that our so-called
civilization should break into such
monstrous reaction, for never has
war been so deadly, never have such
horrors been committed, never has
so much been destroyed. Those un-
fortunate places where was has been
raging are but vast churchyards,
which no kindly hand can attend.
Sometimes / wonder how much suf-
fering can be borne. / tremble for
my little country. What will it's fate
be? l forget myself in the great de-
sire to make others happy"
London--Patents taken out by wo-
men in the United Kingdom during
1914 included "a inventions connect
ed with dress; "a nursing and med
ical patents; mechanical, "a house
hold requisites, 20; games, IA; edu-
cational, IL; cooking, O.; toilet, 8;
motor cars and cycling, Z; babies
requisites, 6; garden, 8; needlework,
8; and one aeroplane patent.
Philadelphia, PAT am engaged
but ! am not going to be married un-
til women have the vote in at least
one of the three campaign states"
says Miss Jane Myer. The fair suf-
fragist's fiance is DR.. Charles Reitzel,
the successor of Prof Scott Nearing
at the University of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania, New York and New
Jersey are the backgrounds of suf-
frage just now, and until one of these
states gives the women the vote, the
betrothed pair will postpone the we'd
ding day. But-Miss Myer does not
believe there will be any postpone
ment.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Mme. Melba,
who sang here last night to a big
| audience, is completing a triumphant
| tour of the world which has netted
| $152,500 for the British Red Cross
funds. With the exception of two
concerts which she gave in Honolulu
| every dollar earned on the trip was
given to the Red Cross. She left
New York last April, going to Lon.
don and then to Melbourne, her
native city.
New York-Miss Dora Gruich, q
Serbian girl educated in the United
States, and Miss Elva Reed of Ore
gon, her secretary, are travelling to
Servia, where they will establish a
home for children orphaned by the
war. The institute is the gift of
John w. rockingham of New York
and his sister, Elizabeth w. Frothing.
ham, of Tarrytown, N. Y. The in.
stitution will be American in charac.
ter and the children will be taught
English as well as the Servian
tongue.
Denver, Colo.-Unless Mrs. May
Spencer Farrand, who disappeared
mysteriously fifteen years ago, is
found by the end of this month, she
will be declared legally dead, and
the fortune here awaiting her will &c
to Mrs. Louise A. Ryder of New York
Mrs. Farrand was the second wife OF
the late Capt. Charles 4. Farrand, U
S. A. A nationwide search has been
secret service men, since she left Ar
vada, a Denver suburb, shortly after
her husbands death. Neither rela
tives nor friends have heard from heI
since.
New York-A gigantic movement
for the publication of the human race
has been launched by Mrs. f. ii. Har
riman, widow of the railroad king
A group of the most able scientists
in the United States will undertake
to ascertain what is the matter with
the human race" and to formulate
the plan for the elimination of de
fectives. The vast fortune Of Mrs
Hartman is at the disposal of the
movement, which contemplates the
pushing of eugenic legislation in
many states. Several states have al
ready made elaborate experiments
with money furnished by medical ant
| &c,