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Show New York's Women Notaries. There are four women notaries in New York, and one of them is the private secretary of Commissioner Ueattie. During Ids illness she superintended the work of 1,500 men, and personally investigated in-vestigated the details of its accomplishment. accomplish-ment. She is a western woman who came to New York to join the ranks of the women custom house inspectors, and is a distinctive type of lie self made woman who is now asserting herself her-self so generally in the world's work. By making her home each year in families fami-lies of .different nationalities she has learned to speak with a good accent four of the most important tongues one hears in this very cosmopolitan city, aud in addition to her duties as inspectress, managed to spend three hours a day ia special study at one of the city colleges. Sho is quite the reverse of strong minded mind-ed in appearance, low voiced and bright in conversation, sings delightfully in a deep, full contralto voice, dances like a dream, ami has the happy faculty of making a successful social evening out of tho most undesirable and hopeless of materials. Her name is Miss Westover. Tho woman Ben Franklin is a most interesting in-teresting phenomenon wherever you encounter en-counter her. New York Sun. |