r WOMAN'S WORLD. 7THE UNTROUBLED LIVES OF ARIS TOCRATIC SCHOOL GIRLS.. Leaders In New York The Wom- m Voters of Boston How to Save ) FtuBbcn' Bills How Mrs. Coster 8af- Hers Mrs. Blaine to Writ a Tfovel- ' The most expensive young ladies' Bcfaool in the country is near Philadel phia. Only the daughters of bonanza kings and railway magnates can afford to go to it; bat it is not so very exclus ive, even with euch people as patrons. Jay Cook's old mansion is turned into dormitories rather palatial, too and the fine grounds are appropriated for liide-and-aeek when the feminine Greek and Latin scholars feel so inclined. Once a month the young ladies are al lowed the privilege of coming to New Sort or of going to Baltimore or where cver their wills lead them for a day's -outing. Of course they are provided 1 -with one of the teachers as chaperon, od equally, of course, they behave them selves in a most exemplary manner. The only thing needed for as much fun as they have is money, and with thai they are well provided. Last month's excursion was to New York. They left Philadelphia at 7 o'clock in the morning and landed in Jersey City lit 9. They went directly out to the Metropolitan museum, and spent an hour r two examining all the treasures there. One o'clock sharp found them in a pri vate room at Delmonico's partaking of a vleiicious little luncheon, which had been previously ordered; a little later they 'were at Daly's theatre absorbedly lis tening to Ada Behan's' last word; the matinee over, they leisurely betook themselves to the railway station, ate their dinners in the dining room car of the train that whirled them back to Philadelphia, and 9 o'clock found them mil tucked up in their snow white beds streaming of the next month's holiday, all of thirty days away. The school entertains all sorts of celebrities as they make their appear ance in the neighboring Quaker city. EHen Terry visited the girls when she waa in this country, and although she never reads for anybody she did read for them. Privileges are accorded to them which are sometimes refused to others. They wanted to visit Mr. Wal tec's house in Baltimore, whose collec- tion is as fine as that in many museums. They got permission and went there in a body. New York Sun. should be poured down, or if the pipe is full of cold water the next best thing is to get as much soda into it as possible. This will soften the mass below and make it as Boluble as soap, and in a few hours all will pass away. This beats trying to thaw out a lead pipe with a red hot poker, which process is equiva lent to killing a man to avoid hurting him. A lead pipe will melt under such circumstances before enough heat can be got through it to dissolve ice if there is any there. Interview in St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Salaries of Housekeepers. 'The best paid women in New York city or any other large city," said a lead ing employment bureau proprietor to me yesterday, "are the first class compe tent housekeepers. There are few wo men who are really competent to take charge of households like the Vander bnts, the As tors, and so on, who are willing to undertake it The competent woman has had a large house of her own at some stage of her life and has lost her fortune. She prefers to make her living in some other way than house keeping, because it seems to her a lossof dignity. 'In England women are bred to the profession of housekeepers, just as they are taught to be cooks, housemaids, lady's maids and so on. Here housekeepers are housekeepers by chance more than any thing else. That is the reason' why big Balaries are paid to really competent women. I know one such woman who enjoys a salary of $3,000 a year, has her separate table and a servant to run her errands. It is not infrequently that salaries of $2,000 to $2,500 are paid." New York Press. . Social Leaders In Mew York. Of the people who are likely to be Ixrought forward this winter more prom inently than ever before as social leaders in New York none will stand a better chance of success than the wife of ex- Secretary Whitney. She has already given a few breakfasts and dinners that bare been attended by the best people here and in Washington, and she prom iaes to give the Astors. the Vanderbilta, and the others a very lively chase in the matter of elaborate entertainments. Mrs. Whitney is peculiarly fortunate im having a house to entertain in a house lxnlt on a princely scale, filled with rare pictures and works of art. a veritable museum of treasure. And to these may "be added a superb chef, a retinue of well drilled servants and a dining room arge enough to seat forty couples at dm jner. Mrs. Whitney is as clever a diplomat as was Talleyrand, and with a fortune that brings her an income of half million a year, she may be depended -upon to more than hold her own in the contest. One of her most intimate tiends at present is Mrs. Joseph Pulit zer, the wife of the owner of The World, -who is also likely to be heard of during the winter as an extensive entertainer. Sirs. Pulitzer is a singularly attractive woman, a delightful conversationist and as charming a friend as one need have. JJew York Letter. The Women Voters of Boston. The action of 7,018 women voters of Soston and its results show the effi ciency of women as a factor in our mu nicipal politics. In an election where the Democrats carried their mayor by 12,000 majority, with two-thirds of the council and board of aldermen, not a -single person was elected a member of the school committee who was not nomi xtated and supported by some organized body of women. The independent wom en voters nominated eight candidates and elected four of them, no one of whom Ihad the Democratic nomination. The Public School union also nomi nated eight candidates and elected four. Jbast, but not least, Mrs. Emily A. Fi Held, the only woman nominated by any party, received a larger vote and a larger majority by 2,000 than any other candi date, although not nominated by the Democrats. The unparalleled fidelity -of the women voters is shown by the fact that out of 7,918 registered women over 57,800 are known to have voted, vwth good seasons found for the few absentees. A prominent Republican politician said: You ladies can account for your ab ' eentees. We cannot account for ours." .A picturesque incident was the voting of twenty-five old ladies in Ward 9, one after another, of ages ranging from 65 to SO. Woman's Journal. walked with most aristocratic languor and apparent insensibility of the pleas ures of life until around the corner. "Let's get these plaguy things off and have some fun," said one. ' In a trice the unwieldy leggins were hanging on a fence, and the two aristo cratic darlings were only two jolly little boys, playing tag and shrieking with laughter as they chased one another up and down the sidewalk. By and by nurse appeared on the scene, grabbed the leggins and led the two .tiny, culprits home looking as unhappy as possible for two healthy .little boys. It cannot be that the two darlings got a plebeian spanking.: New York Telegram. J. M. HUNTINGTON & GO. Abstracters, Heal Estate and Insurance Agents. Brilliant Women Wanted. ' The interest and discussion which Mrs. John Sherwood's delightful paper on "The Salon and Its American Possi bilities" have evoked, hazards the proph ecy that society may take the matter seriously in hand when the pedigree fever has somewhat abated. Mrs. Sherwood puts the case very clearly. American women are equal to the task if they will rid themselves of the groveling toys, the selfish and sordid ambitions which now debase them. Their wit, tact and intelli gence, she urges, are undisputed. More perseverance in study and less pursuit of gilded follies would bring them to their birthright of brilliant intellectual leader ship. Who will be the immortal twenty to band together to establish "asalon for the purification and organization of American society?" Her Point of View in New York Times. is here and has come to stay. It hopes to win its way to public favor by ener- Land for Sale and Houses to Rent. gy industry ana merit; ana to this end we ask that you give it a fair trial, and if satisfied with its course a, generous support. Abstracts of, and Information Concern ing Land Titles on Short Notice. Parties Looking for Homes in COUNTRY OR CITY, Miss Margaret Elliott. In Mr. Warren's All Souls' choir there are some distinguished singers, chief among whom are Miss Margaret H. Elliott, the solo soprano, and Mr. Perry Avenll,. the baritone. Miss JUliott is already quite well known in New York both as a concert and "society" singer. She has been in this city only a year, having recently returned from a two years' course of instruction under the famous teacher, Mme. Marchesi, and it is to her schooling that she owes much that is beautiful in her art. Miss Elliott during her long stay in Paris' became very well known among the members of the lively American colony in the world's capital, and often sang at the houses of Mrs. Pell, Mme. Sulsemeyer and Miss Fanny Reed. Her Parisian success has followed her to New York. During the last summer season she attracted gen eral attention by the beauty of her voice and face and the artistic quality of her work. She has won several notable tri umphs. She sang at all of Miss Leary's celebrated "Thursdays," first at Bar Harbor and later on at Lenox. New York Herald. Boose Plants. Many plants taken up this fall and potted for display indoors during winter will show the want of skill in the gar dener by drooping, by change of color of leaves, and by other signs of - alowly dying. When plants get to that stage nothing will restore them but heroic treatment, as none but a gardener can restore them, and as gardeners do not hang around our houses, to be at hand in such emergencies, and as the. plants will die at any rate, we will give a treat ment which will save them if they have not gone too far. Heat water up to about 110 degrees, and with it water the plants as usual; next day use water up to 125 degrees. next day up to 150 degrees; pursue this five or six days and a fine growth will result. The rationale is that the hot water expands the sap and sap channels and thus forces the sluggish sap into vigorous circulation, and when that is established the plant only requires common attention. German town Telegraph. Bow Mrs. Caster Suffers. Mrs. Caster is one of the most widely sought women in New York society. Though by no means a society woman, and permanently saddened by the death of the general, she frequently yields to the importunities or mends and goes forth to become the life and soul of the circle that she chooses to enter. Two classes of society hold out welcoming hands to this gifted lady; the literary world, on account of the excellent books that she has added to their libraries, and the social world, because her name and family entitle her to enter its domains. It is said that Mrs. Custer suffers acutely in writing of her own and her husband's war experiences. Each pen stroke brings back the past as vividly as if days, and not years, had intervened between it and the present. - After an evening of such scenes with her dead hero and love, Mrs. Custer retires to her room to walk , the floor till morning light New York World. . .. Empress Elizabeth at Corf a. Before leaving Corfu the Austrian em press stated that on the completion of the beautiful villa she is having erected there her majesty and the emperor of Austria, with their daughter, the Arch duchess Marie Valerie, intended to pay a visit to the island. The Empress Eliza- Detn nnos trie climate or (jorfu agrees with her better than that of any other place. The empress, who appears to be recovering from the effects of the terri ble calamity that befell her in the loss of her son, the Crown Prince Rudolph, has been diligently studying Greek, and astonishes every one with the fluency witn wmca sue can already converse m the language. Athens Cor. London Standard, Energetic Women. Mrs. Douglas Gordon, Mrs. Henry Winter Davis and Miss Mary Garrett, who were mainly instrumental in secur ing the sum of money which is to open the medical school of Johns Hopkins uni versity to women, are ,now laboring to raise the half million endowment fund which is necessary to the practical suc cess or the new scheme. Women are working so generously and wisely all over the south for the higher education of women that northern colleges must look to their ways or suffer in the com parison. San Francisco Argonaut. OR IN SEARCH OF Bu$iiie$ Location?, Should Call on or Write to us. Agents for a Full Line of Leading; Fire Insurance Companies, And Will Write Insurance for on all EESIEABLE EISKS. Correspondence Solicited. All Letters Promptly Answered. Call on or Address, J. M. HUNTINGTON & CO. Opera House Block, The Dalles, Or. Health of the Queen. There is not the slightest foundation for the story which has been going round the papers that "the queen's health is the cause of some anxiety in the inner circles of the court." The queen is per fectly well, and has driven out every afternoon since her arrival at Windsor, even on the coldest days. It is only nat ural that the queen should not be quite so robust and active as she was twenty years ago, but she is in excellent health. London Truth. Mrs. Clark. . Kate Upson Clark, of Brooklyn, is the wife of E. P. Clark, of The New York Evening Post, and the daughter of Ed win Upson, just deceased. Mr. Upson in 1856 was a member of the firm of pub lishers who were driven out of Mobile, Ala., for selling one copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the "Life of Frederick Douglass." Writer. Mrs. Pering, who has been elected to the office of road overseer in Kansas, is a wide awake woman with snapping black eyes and determined mien. "When she has occasion to say No' her voice can be heard a mile away," says a corre spondent. Miss Annie Baxter was elected county clerk of Jasper county, Mo., at the regu lar election, and Mrs. Caroline Le Comte, of Columbia, has been appointed state librarian by Governor Tillman, of South Carolina. The world moves. How to Save Plumber's Bills. Directly it begins to freeze there is a demand on plumbers to open frozen pipes. ,It is strange that in nineteen cases out of twenty it is the escape pipe from the sink, and not the supply pipe, that ifreezes, although the latter is always full of water. Why is it? Simply be cause pipes indoors seldom freeze and ixoore than half the time the escape pipe as blocked with rubbish. The bend ie generally half full of fragments which .have been forced through the trap holes. (Then when it gets very cold the greasy pwater that is poured down settles quick -py, and the whole becomes a congealed tmass, which is only tightened by at- temnts to force water through it j Boiling water, in which as much sal isoda as it will take has been dissolved, Mrs. Blaine Co Write a Novel. An intimate friend of Mrs. James G. . Blaine, Jr., told me yesterday that this unfortunate young woman, who has seen so much trouble, was trying her hand at authorship, and that a novel from her may be looked for within the next two months. - Young Mrs. Blaine has had a good education, has traveled and read a good deal, and I am told that writing comes very easily to her. As the public knows, the young woman's circum stances are not of the brightest, she be ing still confined to her room, and if she makes a profit of her litnrary Venture it will be a most welcome ' one. At any rate, I understand she is going to try it, and if she misses her goal it will simply be an - expenditure of time, and "of that," as she herself says with a deep sigh, "I have so much, so much.'' Ed ward W. Bok's Letter. Leggins Are Too Cumbersome. Those undressed kid leggins which button up so prettily over the knees of the spoiled boy darling are very fash ionable and make the little fellows look so swell, you know. I saw two little fel lows come out of a Murray hill mansion wearing tan colored leggins that almost came up to the hips. The two darlings le Dalles JAMES WHITE, Has Opened a Lviiioli Counter, In Connection With his Fruit Stand and Will Serve Hot Coffee, Ham Sandwich, Pigs' Feet, and Fresh Oysters. Convenient to the Passenger Depot. On Second St., near corner of Madison. Also a Branch Bakery, Orange Cider, Best Apple If you want a good lunch, give me a call. Open all Night California and the Cider. C. N. THORNBURY, Late Rec U. 8. Land Office. T. A. HUDSON. 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We have ordered Blanks for Filings, Entries and the purchase of Railroad Lands under the recent Forfeiture Act, which we will have, and advise the pub lic at the earliest date when such entries can be made. Look for' advertisement in this paper. ' Thornburv & Hudson. Miss Flora 2. Powers, stenographer to the attorney general, is said to be one of the most indefatigable workers at the capital, frequently working far into the ght m a Btress of business, not absent ing herself on Sunday. A watch in accordance with feminine fancy is in the form of a rose with pearl colored leaves, the dial f orming the cen ter of the rose. ., This swings from a chatelaine of pearl set chains. In Ireland women tailors used to so monopolize the trade that men tailors were unknown, but of late one or two men have been allowed to enter into competition with the women. - The Pratt institute, in Brooklyn, N.Y., is to have a large annex devoted to wom en students. The cost of the building will be about $175,000, and the work on it will be begun next spring. Miss Elizabeth Cotesworth is about organizing a co-operative company of English gentlewomen for the raising of fruits and vegetables, to be delivered directly to the consumers. Mrs. Bennet Edwards, the authoress, has made a donation of $5,000 to Oen. Booth to further his scheme for the re generation of "Darkest England." Mrs. Polly Holmes, aged 90 years, of Cape Cod, Mass., has knitted two woolen skirts since her birthday in August and has nearly completed a third. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has numer ous offers for a life of the gifted preacher, but her health la too poor to permit of the task. We will endeavor to give all the lo cal news, and we ask that your criticism of our object and course, be formed from the contents of the paper, and not from rash assertions of outside parties. For the benefit of our advertisers we Health is Mlf?J?; SLST J?!?, 2 UUJJlCO J1 liCO UlOlllUUblUU, CIXXU. 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