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I Mohammed Ameer Khan Is suffering
! from the pain In one of h!s teeth. You
! have treat him firat with medicines and
then p hi the Tooth out if you could not
succeed in curing him by the medicine.
PRINCE HABIBULLAH KHAN.
; Another one of the remarkable notes
i said:
I In the name of God! This is to certify
I that my daughter had a poisoned foot.
I causing abscesses. Our hakims tried their
! best, but she could not be cured. There-
| fore I sent for Mrs. Daly, who is one
of the servants of the God granted gov-
oriental fashion, with their fingers. This
was done that the Afghanistan ruler
and his high dignitaxies might not seem
awkward and ashamed when they had
Europeans to dinner.
A beautiful Afghan horse was given
to Mrs. Daly for her own riding. When
she went long distances she journeyed
in a sort of horse sedan chair. A cov
ered scat was fastened upon two long
pieces of wood like carriage shafts.
One horse was hitched between these
shafts in front, another behind. A man j
Yoder went to Khamgaon, province of
Berar, to take charge of a girls'
orphanage maintained as a missionary
station by the church of the United
Brethren. That was seven years ago.
Miss Yoder had studied medicine to fit
her for her work. Arrived at her post
of duty she found a station ravaged
now by cholera and plague, again by
drought and famine. Parents many a
time came to the orphanage and left
their babies, themselves going away to j
die of starvation. Miss Yoder had not!
got a windmill and American force
pumps and now has abundant water
supply for her orchards and gardens,
while the poor Hindoos’ crops around
her are dying from drought.
The Hindoo butter producing animal,
such as it is, is the buffalo cow of the
species used as a beast of burden
throughout India. Miss Yoder has a
herd of thirty of these, which her Hin
doo girls have learned to milk. There
are also goats to supply milk for the
smallest children at the orphanage. It;
burdens, at the same time enlightening
them so they will know better how to
throw oft these grievous burdens for
themselves.
Remarkable Parsec Woman.
Parsee women have more liberty and
are better educated than any others of
their sex in India. It is not strange,
therefore, that the most remarkable na
tive new woman in India is a Parsee,
Mrs. Sorabji Kharsedjt. Site and her
husband are the first Parsees ever con-
an English army officer. The rest are
teachers.
Some years ago Mrs. Sorabji founded
in Poona, her homo city, four schools
for pupils of four different religions—
Mohammedan, Parsee, Hindoo and
English Christian. Her daughter Susie,
a gifted, earnest young woman, lias
lately been in America lecturing and
collecting educational funds. While she
was away her mother, now seventy-
one years old. anted as superintendent
of ail four of the schools. Helen Gould
gave Miss Sorabji $7,000.
First Woman Orator.
Susie Sorabji is the first native wo
man that ever made a public speech in
India. It was at a meeting of the par
liament of religions in Bombay. At
the close of the last sc sion of the par
liament Miss Sorabji, trying to get out
of the crowd by a short cut, pushed
back a grating openir.; into a narrow
corridor and found herself in the midst
of fifty high caste Hindoo women who
had secreted themselves there that they
T HE last nation to be awakened
in the mailer of giving women
education and freedom has
been China. Since the awak
ening foot binding hns been aboli: bed
and a daily paper for women has been
established in Peking. Numbers of
young Chinese women are studying for
professions in the colleges of America.
Several physician^ have finished their
medical courses ..nd gone back home to
minister to women arid children. Last
year a young Chinese woman was
graduated In dentistry In this country.
As to Japan, there are nearly as
many new women In Japan ns in
America, ar.d the empress herself is at
the head of them.
The Medical Mietionary.
Medical women missionaries of west
ern nations have been tho especial
messengers of enlightenment to their
aex In tho orient. The white woman
doctor Is permitted to go into harem
and zenana, into which no whito wo
man religious missionary would be al
lowed even a peep. The western wo
man doctor has no designs on the theol
ogy of her patients. She simply goes
to relievo their bodily ailments, with
never a word about converting them.
COLOR SCIENCE.
The following statements have been
made front time to time by experts on
color science.
Children under seven years of ago
usually prefer yellow to other colors.
Women are more apt to have brown
eyes than any other color, the propor
tion of the hue being thirty-five out of
every hundred.
Colors passing through a prism can
be made to produce sounds: green and
red make the loudest noises, whereas
blue and yellow produce the faintest.
Dew will not fall on certain colors.
A yellow board will be covered with
dew, while a red or black one will re
main quite dry.
In ordinary cases of partial color
blindness, of which there are many
more than is commonly supposed, the
color sensations that remain are blue
and yellow, not blue and red or blue
and green, as Is generally assumed and
even stated in text boolts.
On the isthmus of Tehuantepec th?r®
has lately been found a flower that
changes color, bring white in the morn
ing, red at noon ami blue In tho even
ing. It roughly does this work of a
clock, the changes being remarkably
regular.
word sermon—on the worth of tho
white man's religion.
The white woman physician has In
Beveral instances become a permanent
attache at Asiatic courts. The present
Afghanistan, Habibullah
ameer
Khan, has had for some years an Eng
lish woman physician. Mrs. Kate Daly,
aa chief medical inspector and director
of his court and harem. Sho held the
same office in the court of Ills father,
the late Ameer Abdurrahman Khan.
Nine years ago the Intrepid English
woman received her official appoint
ment and traveled through Khyber pass
to Kabul, tho ameer’s capital. A house
was given to her to live in, and when
she went into tho streets tho
ameer
insisted on providing her with a guard
of Afghan soldiers. A motley looking
crew they were, resembling the original
ragged regiment. They seemed to bo
clad in tho castoff military uniforms
of a dozen different nationalities of
soldiers, nnd one wore tho coat of a
London railway porter. Their coun
tenances showed their blood to bo as
mixed as their uniforms, giving evi
dence of Tartar, Chinese, Hindoo and
various other descents.
Oriental Gratitude.
Both ameers paid Mrs. Daly much
honor and were grateful for her serv
ices. The present ruler wrote her let
ters expressing his gratitude while he
was yet a prince. He has done the
aaino since he camo to the throne. He
wrote the letters with his own hand
and signed them, then had them trails- i
lated into English by some of his |
linguists. Quaint and amusing aro !
these translations. One reads:
Bo it known to Mrs. Kate Daly: The .
eldest son of the Honorable Nalb Saiar
KBS. KATE DALY, MEDICAL ADVISER TO THE AMEER OP AFGHANISTAN.
emment of Afghanistan and Is employed
as a doctor. She treated the foot of my
daughter for a month, and tho foot was
cured. Therefore this was given to her
as a certificate. It is correct.
HAEIBULLAH KHAN.
I have written and signed it with my
own pen.
Likes Western Ways.
Habibullah is an intense admirer of
western ways and the English manner
of eating. Once Mrs. Daly was com
missioned on a trip to India to buy a
complete outfit of western tableware, I
in order that the ameer and his offi- j
rials might practice eating with a j
knife and fork instead of In the usual!
even water supply sufficient for her i takes four Hindoo girls to milk a goat,
charges. one to hold the creature’s head, an-
Yankee energy and resourcefulness other its hind legs, a third to hold tho
rose to the occasion." pail, while the fourth does the actual
Reforms Ancient Customs. . .. . , , .
Miss Yoder is accomplishing incal-
The antique custom of carrying water culablo good, not only in teaching the
on women’s heads still prevailed, pre- feminine sex in India, where 'only one
cisely as in Bible times. Miss Yoder native woman in six can read, but by
had wells dug and walled and lined practically inculcating improved farm-
with stone. She found the native la- ing methods in a region where before
borers so ignorant of the right way to her arrival men still used the primitive
wall a well that the work had to be wooden plows of Bible times,
done several times over before it was Mrs. E. II. "Wellman is an American
satisfactory. Then Miss Yoder got two woman who travels on foot often from J
oxen and made them- drive a power that place to place in India, helping the na- j
lifted water from her wells. Later she tive women and lightening their heavy i
rode upon each horse, one before and
or.e behind, and thus the queer caval
cade moved on. It was the most out
landish looking circus ever western
woman’s eye rested upon.
Husbandry Taught by Woman.
Stranger even than the case of the
western woman doctor at the court of
Afghanistan i3 that of the young
Pennsylvania woman, Alice L. Yoder,
who is actually teaching 300 young
Hindoo women and girls to farm in
India according to American methods
and with American agricultural ma
chinery.
The way It started was that Miss
| verted to Christianity. They havo
1 eight children, seven daughters and a
1 son. They ilew in the face of the tra
dition of all the ages in India by hav
ing these seven daughters educated for
professions, as American women are.
Cornelia Sorabji, one daughter, is the
first native Indian woman lawyer. She
has a commission from the British
government to look after the financial
interests of Hindoo women and chil
dren. She has taken the hapless Hin
doo widows under her especial protec
tion. Another daughter, Alice, is a
| physician and has a government ap-
WOMEN SAILORS.
"Women sailors are employed in Den
mark, Norway and Finland and are
often found to be excellent mariners.
In Denmark several women are em
ployed as state officials at sea, and par
ticularly in the pilot service. They go
out to meet the incoming ships. They
climb nimbly out of their boats. They
show their official diplomas, and they
steer the newcomer safely into the har
bor. It is the same in Finland.
pointment in one of the hospitals in
India. A third daughter is married to
the camel. Ivory chips produce ivory
black and bone black, nnd the exquisite
Persian blue was discovered accident
ally by fusing horses’ hoofs and other
refuse animal matter with impure po
tassium carbonate. Crimson lake comes
from the roots and barks of certain
trees, blue-black from the charcoal of
the vine stalk, and turkey red conics
from the root of the madder plant
found in Hindustan. India ink is mad a
from burnt camphor by the Chinese.
The— But that fashion hint will keep
until the next time, for unless the clock
on my desk is very wrong I shall be
• late for the dressmaker’s. So if you
will excuse me I promise to tell you in
my next letter about all the new dresses
she shows me.
this respect. They, enviously after the automobiles which
hildren that difficul- scurried past their door, but they didn’t
ns in fact, and lives have the energy to go out and do work
-hanged by the right which would ultimately give them an
I physical effort and automobile. Oh.no! They preferred to
’stay put” in an in- take things easy and pretend they were
ant position if a satisfied with what they had!
r desired. i don’t believe in this anti-money cant,
: mother out of ten this "money is the root of all evil"
idea of ambition in proposition. If money is the root of all
he ambition to have ev ii it comes mighty near being the
ne, but the ambition root of all hap-
dless of obstacles piness, too, since (” /
e of grit and deter- we nave to pay
good coin for iW/w.
fe. every comfort
„ .... we have in this l.V&t
all very well In its W orld. In other A ►'
ctnne easily distort- words, it is a JS) A
if the lazy. . I have powerful factor IjOfi t tsA
the simple life gaze and has to be its ^ J,
: used like other jMvv ^*5
powerful things ITSA 1
by sane people r'f j \ SpA t
in a sane way. vX J J —4
But it is a silly
affectation to
despise It or to M
pretend to de- « y^ 2 '\\ ■$)
spise it, for no LV-iiif-Tfci * ■ ■-*
one really does. picks 0U f the
I have Known icrons man.
the members of
k an entire family in poor circumstances
& kept mediocre all their lives by a moth
's er who never put it into their heads
jffc. that It was "up to them” to better
themselves, but who affected Instead to
look down upon mere money making.
Not Strictly Correct.
ilSr Then you hear a lot of talk about the
best work not being done for money
and that the earning of money is not
always a sign of the worth. Oh, but it
is nowadays!
Of course when you are beginning
any branch of business you have to
work more than you are paid for in
order to show what stuff you are made
of. but employers are very quick to ap
preciate good material, there is so
much poor ordinary stuff around, and
it’s my experience of the world that
sooner or later you get paid just what
you are worth, and if you don’t get
what you think you are worth it is
either because you haven’t the nerve to
ask for it or because you have overesti-
I mated yourself, and you must put on a
/ little more hustle:
t A Critic Answered.
Some one who reads the words of
i ii — j -i51 wisdom (or otherwise) that I write tells
Vfl me I have a grudge against the idealist
~ and the unlucky person. Well, yes: I
have, and I will tell you why. Because
^ they both stand still.
If I were an unlucky person, I would
who holds her own never rest until I found out the reason
stage. Though of j why. I would put myself under a mi-
ere her father was 1 croscope ami dissect myself. As I said
her musical debut j before, some people are really unlucky
ifcnis especially to j at guessing things, for instance the i
this role. * way stocks will go, the way everyday I ,
tiers and sweetened things to keep .the
baby quiet?
I know one bottle baby who gets a
bottle eyery blessed time it wants it.
It imbibes the nice warm milk and
barley water with such enthusiasm that
little streams run down its fat dim
pled chin. It regales itself the last
thing at night and during the night and
the .first thing in the morning and all
day when it isn’t playing with its rub
ber pussy cat
and its rattle.
You never saw
a healthier, moro
contented, gur
gling infant in
your life, and it
never even saw
a “pacifier.” The
full milk bottle
is its pacifier.
Meantime tho
mother is free
to bo out all
day in the sun-
^ shine if she
wants to be.
V Sho can cat
anything she de
sires, ride horse
back, visit her
•in a word, she is a
is as happy and
events will turn out. "When once that
is realized the thing to do is to cut out
all the elements of chance and think
out everything ninety-nine times and
take no risks whatever. There are peo
ple who were never made to be gam
blers eithei
I ll’s chiefly because I have
known so many people who were
unlucky from start to finish.
If an unlucky woman marries she
always picks out the wrong man. If
she adopts one plan out of a difficult
situation it is always bound to be the
one which turns out to be the most ex
pensive and difficult. If— But there!
You know as much about the type as I
do. I’m sure.
Of course lots of bad luck comes from
laxlness pure and simple. People won’t
take the trouble to think and act care
fully, and then they are surprised when
everything goes wrong. You can’t take
life easily and expect events to take
pinee satisfactorily without your aid,
because they won’t.
Fathers and especially mothers are
with opportunity or with
money. They ought to realize this and
confine themselves to "good hard think
ing and work.
And as for thejjdealists—well, they
ought to be made to realize, by means
of a club if necessary, that the highest
idealism consists in doing things, prac
tical things, for their own families, for
In bettering their condition they do a
man’s share toward bettering society.
A Tremendous Jump.
I don’t know if the Kate Clyde letter
is the place to speak of it, but I want to
say a word in favor of bottle babies.
The bottle baby may not be a “nat
ural” baby—whatever that means—but
it will at least always have enough to
eat.
The other day I called on an ac
quaintance who has a seven weeks old
baby. We played bridge, and 'the baby
wailed fretfully in an inner room. I
asked how often it was nursed. “Every
three hours,” was the answer, “and I
thank goodness we’re past the two hour
period."
Eventually the mother rose and dis
appeared into the baby’s room for
about five minutes.
Now that baby did not have enough
to eat. If it had been a bottle baby it
would have had, for how easy it is to
take a couple of bottles from the warm
er and lay them on the pillow with the
nipple in the little one’s mouth. But
the poor baby who depends on its
mother gets a “pacifier” to suck or a
bottle of sugar and water or some other
The bottle ba.bg.
A CROSS EYED NEEDLE.
Little Ethel, learning to sew, was
vainly trying to thread a needle.
“Mamma,” she asked, “don’t they call
the hole In a needle an eye?” “Yes,
dear,” replied her mother. “Well,” con
tinued Ethel, "this old needle must be
cross eyed!”
SOURCES Or COLORS.
The cochineal insect furnishes many
of the most brilliant colors, including
the bright carmine, crimson, purple
lake ar.d scarlet. The cuttlefish gives
the sepia, and india yellow comes from
A hat as big as a peanut.
friends overnight-
free woman anc
healthy as her baby.
Isn’t that better than the case of the
other woman who stays shut in because
she won’t bother to dress and to go out
for so short a time, who is worn out
and harried and continually hoping the
hour hasn’t come around again when
she is forced to attend to the baby’s
needs.
Times have changed. Women are
too nervous nowadays and their lives
are too full of cares and interests to
lead the shut in lives their mothers
used to.
We can’t be blamed for being differ
ent. We should fit things accordingly.
A Final Caution.
They are showing small hats again
this spring, but I beseech the woman
with a “fat face” not to wear one. It
will make her look old instead of cun
ning. There i3 nothing more distress
ful than a hat as big as a peanut
perched above an “open countenance!”
A little hat demands a small person
with a saucy turn of features and care
fully marcelled hair.
There are medium and picturesque
shapes for the others.
I fancy that a good many dark hats,
such as red. black and brown, will be
worn with light, even white, costumes
this summer, and, of course, the ever
present paraso! will match.
Brown shoes and stockings are to be
“tlie thing,” and I would buy more
than one pair of black shoes this spring I
if I were you. By the way, they should :
be patent leather to go with the best j
costume.
equally frivolous substitute for the real
thing. For of course the mother does
not want to nurse any oftener than she
has to according to the doctor’s rules.
Let’s Reason Together.
I don’t blame any mother for not
wanting to nurse her child. It wears
her out, makes her Intensely nervous
and prevents her from doing anything
but being first, last and always the ba
by’s nurse. But why do it at all. if
grudgingly? Isn’t lots of pure warm
cow’s milk better for the infant than
grudging irregular feeding with paci-
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MME. EMMA EAMES AS T0SCA.
GRANDDAUGHTER OF THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
One of the persons named among those suing for an accounting of the
property of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy is her granddaughter, Mary Baker
Glover. Her father, Stephen Glover, was Mrs. Eddy’s only child. Miss Glover
regret it if they married schoolteachers.
A few days later there appeared in the
same paper an account of a teacher
famine, owing to the fact that so many
women had left their schools to be
come wives.
Miss Alice J. Ferry has been ap
pointed surveyor of County Galway,
Ireland, to succeed her father, who died
while holding that office. Her salary is
«2.r.00. which is very large for a wo
man in Great Britain.
Mrs. John "Weens and her achieve
ments in the field of sport are forcing 1
I eclipsed the position which she holds
in the chess world. She possesses
j about fifty prizes secured in open com-
; petitions, and of them she lias said:
. “These are the product of a combina-
I tion of labor and recreation.”
j "Women throughout tiie country are
J collecting a fund of $75,000 for a me-
I morial to Susan B. Anthony. Tho me-
, morial will take the form of a college
the books of Myrtle Reed, author of
“A Spinner In the Sun" and of. “Laven
der and Old Lace.” She says she must
be absolutely alone when she writes,
and then her mind just "simmers and
explodes.” ■
To be selected to the organizati m
known as Phi Beta Kappa is OP” of the
highest honors that colleges and uni-
>w oc- i come to America to try to promote in-
Years j tere-t in the art of carving leather,
of $14 something well known in the old coun-
insti- j tries, but virtually new in America.
i The National American.Woman Suf-
'omin ; frage association now has 4S.0C0 mem-
ase of bor.-. The last convention, held at Chi-
prac- : cago. was the most successful in its
legal ; history.
! Mrs. Raird. who has been called "The
of the Queen of Chess,” has published 1.200
has' chess problems, and no woman has j
dents of the Chicago
elected to this honor,
were women.
The world seldom takes account of
unhappy sensitiveness in devout souls;
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