The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-06-22

Grand Keeper Of Records and Seal Of
the State Grand Lodge of Knights of
Pythias, Fred Douglass Morris. he
shook hands and said he would be
pleased to see me at the Grand lodge
next July and would be pleased to be
there myself.
Over to North Little Rock to see the
new building of Shorter University in
Bishop ]. N. Conner's automobile car,
and then of to Pine Bluff, and from
there to Texarkana, another busy place,
and then on to Beaumont, Tex, where 1
spent Sunday with some other friends.
I was the guest of DR.. and Mrs. G. B.
Charlton, and had the pleasure of seeing.
DR.. E. b. Borden of the Baptist church.
But want to talk to you about Houston
this week and will skip from Beaumont
right where I am now.
Have you ever been to Houstoni Il
is the place Of places, and have en-
joyed so much being here. The Grand
Lodge of Knights of Pythias is in ses-
sion here and want to tell you about
it before I am through with this world.
Reaching here I had the pleasure of
meeting one of the most interesting
women that it has been my lot to meet
since have been in the world, and you
know I did not get here yesterday, but
I have been here ever since Heck was
pup and now he has died and gone to dog
heaven and left me here yet.
am talking to you about Mrs. Nobia |
A. Franklin, who came into this world |
via Cuero, Tex. dom t remember just |
when, because was not there, but do |
know that she went to school and pre-
pared to make the world know that she |
had passed through it Finishing the
public school, she took her place up in |
the busy world. She soon accepted the
hand of q man in matrimony, and when
he passed out she decided that there
was something to be done. For q long !
time she had devoted much Of her time
to the study Of chemistry, and was pre-
pared to put it to practical use. She
knew what it took to make q woman
beautiful, and went about to find it.
Something to make the hair grow, some
thing to make it beautiful Now then
this was put into practical use, and in
Fort Worth she started O beauty parlor,
fitting it up in the latest style, and it
was not long before she had to call in
more and more help, aud now every day
there are five young women busy, while
Madame franklin uses her time in teach
ing others. Then in order to be of bet
ter use to her people she is going
through the state establishing beauty
parlors until she win have q chain Of
them just like the Kress ten cent stores,
and will furnish employment to many
of our girls and have them self-suppOrt-
ing. I walked into her fine parlors in
Houston, and in charge is to be found
Mrs. Virginia Adams, and several other
young women are employed, and believe
me they are busy.
In this parlor the scalp is treated, the
hair is made to grow and grow long and
hands are put in hand shape,
and the nails fixed just like they are
made to look like young mirrors, and
Ill this is done at moderate cost, but
1 building up to other people.
Iwish you could hear the story Of this
woman, now ene started In .
business, how she has suffered until the +,
people saw her real worth and the real !
work she is doing and is capable of do
ng. Not q novice BY any means, but
The belongs in the class with Madam !
;. ]. Walker and Mrs. Annie Turnbo Q
Pope Malone. I am not going to tel
on all about her this time, but win have
omething to say in another letter. I \
viz tell you about her work.
Now concerning the Grand Lodge Of
Knights Of Pythias: it is a great big
'ody and Prof. W. 8. Willis is making
real presiding officer. He is having \
he interest of all the people at heart !
nd his whole motive seems to be to a