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l 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- ^mmuuiiuuuuuUiHmmiuuimiiiimmiiuuiimuuJii CUN LDIN ST.WASH IHGTCN-Q.C. 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; 2* 'i ft /}{; \ K- : V-iT. / • y % V- *. - -C v •> 0% : ; f r |J . ■ . : A ; i. r '--? ^ . ' ; .'V X