Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-11 | Page 5 | For Feminine Readers

For Peminino Readers. The cornerstone of the Memorial Continental Con-tinental hall to be erected by tho D. A. R. Ir. Washington, D. C, was laid on April 13. The gavel used was the same used by George Washington in laying the cornerstone of the capltol in 1793. Tho Invocation was by Dr. Edward Everett Ev-erett Hale. It was followed by music; . and then there was the impressive spectacle spec-tacle of the salutation of the Hag by tho children, Mm Charles W. Fairbanks, as president-general, delivered the chief address, and the ceremonies of laying the cornerstone followed. Mrs. Tcuifla S. Hamlin, chaplain-gcnornl. made the dedicatory prayor. Continental hall i3 to be built of whlto marble and will cost ?400,000. a The contract for cleaning the streets of the business section of .Kalamazoo, Mich., has been awarded to the Women's Wom-en's Civic Improvement league for three months. Alabama has established ten agricultural agricul-tural high schools supported by State funds. These are intended for boys and girls from the farms, and will make the .study of agriculture and other industrial subjects the basis of their work. It is claimed that tho work of the city high schools leads away from farm and home life. a ti Queen Amalio of Portugal, who has s.et an example of natural and sensible living to her people, and is known as one of the most energetic and busily occupied oc-cupied of women, haB lately taken her degree of M. D. She has long been interested in-terested in medicine. Every day she vlBts one of tho Lisbon city hospitals, and sometimes takes the office of nurse upon herself. She has written a number num-ber of treatises on scientific subjects, also poems, and a volume of anecdotes on animals. a i Selma Lagerlof, the Swedish novelist who has Just received a gold medal for literary excellence from the Royal Swedish Academy, Is the second woman to be so honored by the academy, tho other being Frederlka Bremer. Mrs. Priscllla Bright McLaren, a sister sis-ter of John Bright, and one of the oldest old-est and most beloved of the advocates of equal rights for women In England, Is the mother of Sir Charles McLaren, the member of Parliament who moved tho resolution In favor of full suffrage for women that has Just passed the House of Commons by a vote of 182 to 68.