Show THE WIDOW SHEARS EI AND ALL SHE HEARS You frequently frequently- find women in Damascus Damascus Damascus Da Da- mascus doing the hardest kind of manual manual manual man man- ual labor as in Bohemia and Hungary They carry the hod hd they dig trenches they haul carts and are employed in inthe inthe inthe the most menial Jabor abor In Damascus factories where brass bras's work ork pottery inlaid and oUter other oth oUt er r characteristic c merchandise merchandise of the country Is produced produced women artists work side by side with men producing similar results b but t receiving only half hail hailas as much wages Such is the rule the world over No matter atter whether a wo woman wo- wo oman o- o man works In Chicago or Damascus in Fall River orin Constantinople in Sweden or or in Spain in Japan or Bolivia Boli Boll Vila via she is never never paid more than half as much m as men mea receive for fOT the same I kind of Work A rich and eccentric m man n who died the other day i in Berlin left a will vilI which was to be e opened Immediately and a a. codicil to be opened after atter the funeral The will win said iad id Every member of of- my family who shall abstain from atte attending ding my funeral Is to receive marks maiRs As s a result the funeral was attended by his housekeeper a distant couin cousin On the codicil being opened it was found to tc enact that the residue of his fortune was to be divided among those who notwithstanding the loss of the marks attended his funeral Hence the housekeeper gets all but butth th the h heirs irs threaten to dispute the will wiil Some bright young bright young women are considering considering con con- n- n the of a company for providing lady guides to the sights of New York a as as traveling companions shopping assistants etc The idea Isto is isto isto to charge a stranger entering the city a a. f fee of for meeting her at the railway station statin and escorting her to her hotel or boarding house A similar association has been In successful operation I in London for fourteen years American ribbon looms are being imported imported imported im im- im- im ported by Swiss manufacturers These looms loonis are much more expensive than th those s made mad made in Switzerland even leavIng leaving leav leav- ing lag freight land end duties out of account but the manufacturers find it profitable to use them because of their great solidity of Construction construction and the much larger amount of work they do French has been made nade the official language of ot the Quebec Legislature City Council and Board of Trade En En- speaking glish members will be beal al allowed allowed al al- allowed lowed to use their own language age of course but all the records are to be kept in itt French The change Is due to the growth g of the French element Inthe in inthe inthe the three bodies named A small b boy bo Y In London was asked to give the various meanings of the expression ex ex- written bulls ey eye H Having down all Il the ordinary meanings quite accurately he continued There is yet another bulls bull's eye a as when you go up in a 3 balloon you are said Eald to have hat a bulls bull's eye view of everything A m motor tor omnibus may now b be seen operated in London streets The vehicle vehicle ve ye- hicle hide is running as an experiment by bythe bythe bythe the Road Car company between Hammersmith Hammersmith Ham Ham- Broadway and Oxford circus |