Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES.

The day’s news shows women e» gaged in a variety of strenuous activities more associated with masculine than with feminine endeavor. A woman aviator rescued two men from drowning in the Delaware River, and another passed the severs qualifying tests on the Hempstead ayjatlon field and with the distinction of being the first of her sex to receive an air diploma. A girl polo-player by her good playing won a victory for hee team, and another swam the mile-and-a-quarter stretch from Bailey’s to Hazard’s Beach at Newport in 38 minutes. A New Jersey girl risked her life to save a girl ahum who had fallen into a cave, and a Newark wo man of a practical bent achieved local fame by laying her own sidewalk. Meantime women of more serious ideas have not been idle. One ha* given her sex a new prestige by winning at Paris the coveted Prix de Rome sos sculpture, and another ap pears before the public eye as examiner of mints and the highest salaried woman In the Government service. A Newport girl acted as counsel for he® chauffeur, arrested for speed-law violation; and have not women been sitting as Advisory Judges in the Tacoma courts? ....... . ....... From the polo field to a Judge’s seal is a far remove, but no wider than the range of feminine activities in the era of “emancipation.”

In the Egyptian department of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art may be studied pictures and sculptured reliefs portraying th® princes of the House of Ramese® 3,000 years ago patronizing the dance® and dancers of that epoch along th® Great White Way of the Nile. Th® hieroglyphics on the obelisk and elsewhere take account of this devotion to the ancient muse Terpsichore. Now we are informed that the Russian dancers who in the last two season* have won such sensational popularity in both European and American capitals are actually presenting revival* of these steps, pantomimes and posturings that are as old as the Pyramid®, They are setting the hieroglyphics to music—-“converting a section of th® obelisk or a few yards of Luxor fries® Into the living poetry of motion.”

The sad plight of an old couple driven from the home they had given to their daughter is pitiful testimony to the heartlessness of children who are humored, petted and pampered into selfishness by indulgent parents. The daughter who turns her aged parents into the street is like the husband who borrows his wife’s girlhood savings and spends, them on other women. In each case the fault Is in fathers and mothers who permit their children to grow up selfish. Barents and wives who are tempted to sacrifice the little substance which guarantees their independence should beware. Love is blind, and there is danger in intrusting, common sense to a blind guide. Under the headline: "The name is a good one,” a writer in the Prague "Presse” says: : “The latest news from Stockholm leaves no doubt as to the award of at least a part of the Nobel Peape prize to Alfred Fried, the founder of the German Peace Society, and a writer for over twenty years on the subject of peace and disarmament Fried is only forty-seven years old. Some years ago an article on peace signed ‘Fried’ —German for peace—appeared in a magazine, in the same number of which there was an article op war by Gustav Krieger—warrior.”

Charitable associations in Frankfort, Germany, operate lodging houses, restaurants, eating rooms, canteens, etc., for the benefit of the poor. They are conducted on strictly business methods. Dinner —soup, meat, vegetables—4s provided for a fraction more than eight cents. Until the recent increase of prices for foodstuffs the meal was given for less than eight cents. Lodging is provided at from 38 to 60 cents a week. f

The new woman in China, Instead of following the example of her English and American sisters in railing against the tyranny of men, has revolted against her relatlons-in-law. One of the women’s clubs in Shanghai proclaims as its object “rebellion against mSther-ln-law.”