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Show - and a kiss for the children are what is We have, more old people needed. , hospitals, endowed" rooms in several hospitals, erected monuments to mark all of Virginia's battlefields, founded thirteen Mrs. Laura ErCook, 55 years old, has built herself a house with her own hantls. Sixteen months ago she bought a lot for $r,ooo on a bleak hillside in Elmdale, Calr "She has transformed it into a scene of beauty with a terraced gardenrflowers among us than they have among other peoples; we caif attribute this to the of the Word of Wisdom; related instances showing that those who refrain from stimulants are the strongest and the and shrubbery. She planned the house, brightest men and womerk My heart laid the foundations., built .the retaining brethren andsisters! wall, .sawed and fitted the lumber, erect. 7 President Lindsay reminded tne sisters ed the chimney, and put on the shingles." of erecting granaries for storing wheat; The place shows excellent workmanship, also suggested that each association fur and she has been offered $5,000 for it.but to at- - will not sell. .. nish the means attend conference. Ann Shreeve, who lately died in EngPresident Richards spoke. of the impor- land at the age of 89, had been 51 years tance of the teachers, that their great to a in the service of the Countess of day but means to is not only gather" object Swhrewsburv; The obituary announce to teach and expound the principles of ment said she had been for 51 years the the gospel to cheer the Saints. Prayed "friend and faithful servant of the Dow" God to help all who are engaged in this ager Countess" of Shrewsbury." Lady great organization as "many are not yet Shrewsbury seems to have had no trouble converted to this great work and do not in keeping her servants. A maid who know what is being done by the sisters. countess et is the work, my entered her service when the Choir was a girl of fourteen stayed with her tjll God, my King." the infirmities of old ageforced her. to Closing prayer by - Counselor - Mary rest. Her cook also has spent a lifetime Bagley. in her service. Louise Tueller, Cor. Sec. Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the earliest and a woman physician, now eighty-si- x half years old,'was taking a pleasure trip through Scotland this summer with her NEWS. AND NOTES adopted daughter, when she met with a "The Indiana Lsgislature has passed a bad fall down a , flight of stairs and was bill providing for the State care of the foundinsensible atlthe bottom. Such an serious grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, the accident was likely, to , leave her.'age, and mother of Abraham Lincoln. her friends at onbe seat for a trained The Empress Eugenie at 8i still takes nurse. 'But Dr. v Blackwell, who had a long walk everymorning and still luckily broken noAones, scouted the aid entertains her friends at the endof every- - of -- the nurse, emyiatically refused to be "week. "made an invalid of' and on the second day came down to meals as usual. She MissHelen McKinlev, niece of the late has since returned. to her home at Hast- president, will unveil the statue at the ings, England. dedication of the McKinley Mausoleum, Mrs. Sheldon Leavitt, the wife of one September 30. But there will not be a Mcwoman among the speakers, although of Chicago's most noted physicians, has started a circulating art gallery for 3he Kinley was a suffragist. patients of that city. She has Nowadays even ..women of title engage hospital a large collection of paintings, and in trade. The Duchess of Sutherland, made when she visited Russia, packed her these, through a central agency, will be moved .from hospital to hospital for the trunk with samples of highland twreed, of the needy sick. "I have and used them to drum up a market for enjoyment socshe has, been called grown tired of the aimless round of the goods, iety," Mrs. Leavitt is reported as saying, the "drummer duchess." 'and have withdrawn, to devote the test A. new woman's paper, has been started of my life to work that will improve the in St. Petersburg, called "The Woman's lot of the sick poor. I thought a good It is published by the Russian start might be made through having them Union Union of Defender's of Woman's Rights, see beautiful pictures. Pictures do so and is edited by its secretary, Mrs. Tche-kof- f. much for the sick room and for a desponThe new periodical is welcomed by dent invalid." the progressive papers of Russia. Mrsv Thomas F. Ryan, wife of the The call is issued for the Annual Exec- noted financier, has received the title of t utive Session of the National Council of Countess from Pope Pius X, in recogniWomen of the United States, which will tion of her numerous benefactions. With be' held in the Woman's Building, James- unlimited means at her command, she is The local said to give away a million dollars a year town Exposition October ' arrangements are under charge of Mrs. in a practical and systematic manner, Kate Waller "Barrett. ; maintaining an office and -- a- corpsof who is spending the season at the clerks, who attend to the details of disExposition in charge of the Headquarters tribution. She has built one cathedral, five churches, numerous chapels, and two at the National Council. scholarships for boys.and scholarships for poorgirls-a- t sixteen colleges, and has given generously to. many other religious,educa-tionand charitable institutions. Ex. al AN OBJECT LESSON. -- ' . . nt sang-"Swe- . . ; . - -- . l' from-whic- h . 1- -5. . vice-president-at-la- R. K. THOMAS DRY GOODS CO. 67, 69,i71 Main -- WB-ARg as mutu IN , St,Salt at pusaiuic iw.yuur muncyt Utah. Lake-Cit- y, patronage. giir JJ WimTt5 TDV I IO ill Philadelphia, when the schools opened this fall turned away 5000 children entirely, for lack of .seats, and put 1 5,000 on chilhalf time an injustice both to-thalf the schooling dren, who get only they ought, and to the teachers who have the double fatigue of teaching everything twice over, to two relays of pupils. The schools fall short by 20,000 seats of being able to accommodate the children who actually apply. If the compulsory education law were carried out the shortage would be much greater. . And what sort of accommodation do those childrenwho succeed in getting into 'the schools. In his report last June to the Board of Education the new Superin-den- t of Schools, Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh said: "It is a fact that the children are sitting on broken benches, that they are sitting on boards in the aisles between benches, that they are sitting on boxes, that they are sitting on window sills and that in some cases they are actually sitting on the floor, in the schools in Philadelphia. All of these conditions I have personally and with great 'distress to "myself, been obliged in the last four months to witness. We are prepared at any time to lay before schools which have furni- yo a list individual ture which any would pronounce unfit for the use of the children. Speaking well within the facts it is' safe to say that there are at least $25:000 such desks in the schools of Philhe fair-mind- ed . adelphia' Yet Philadelphia has money enough to spend on luxuries. Only two monthsago the city fathers voted $50,000 of public funds to entertain the - Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and. then gave $10,600 more to make merry with the Patriotic Order of the Sons of America. A large part of the, $60,000 came out of women's tax money. If the city mothers had had any voice Jnthe spending of it, they would have provided seats and desks for the schools before needless launching! out into lavish and - entertaining. : r - Philadelphia is one of the richest cities in the worjd. She fsquahders millions on graft, and scrimps on the children's Most of bur big cities do education. - V . the same. . Are women's wishes : "represented" in the way their tax money is spent? ' A. S. B. in Woman's Journal. . . ... REUEF SOCIETY. NURSE CLASS. The several stakes of 'Zion are hereby notified that the Relief Society Nurse Class for this year will begin in September at the first session , of the L. D: S. - University. ;;:VV v - The important work is under the auspices of the general Board of the Relief Society, who desire .the earnest of all ward and stake presidents. co-operat- ion Ellis R; Shipp, M. D., Instructor. . -- |