p. 428 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 1, 1913

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— The financial backers of the British suffragettes, Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, have left the suffragette organization because of their opposition to its extreme militant measures.

— One of the latest patents issued by the German government is for a process producing a substance said to be a perfect substitute for leather. This substitute is prepared from a special mildew or fungus grown on gelatin or a similar substance.

— The total amount disbursed of the British “Titanic” fund is $2,066,000. Five hundred seventeen claims have been settled for all time at a cost of $143,135. There remain 733 cases, which receive periodical payments at a cost of $105,000 yearly.

— More than 400,000 men have joined in the manhood suffrage strike which is now in progress in Belgium. Many of the largest industrial concerns have been forced to close down, owing to fuel shortage, and newspapers have suspended publication indefinitely.

— A patient in a Philadelphia hospital has been there, as an incurable, since 1854, a newspaper paragraph asserts. Going in when twenty-one years old, she has just celebrated her eightieth birthday. This is thought to be the longest sojourn in a hospital ever recorded.

— As a part of his policy to give the enlisted men of the navy a liberal education, Secretary Daniels has announced that the entire Atlantic battle-ship fleet will make a three months’ cruise in the Mediterranean next winter. The itinerary of the fleet will be so arranged as to give every man shore leave in all the principal ports of the countries visited.

— The Young Women’s Christian Association is considering the posting in railway stations and street-cars of a warning to young women travelers. The chief emphasis is put on avoiding the advances of strangers, “even when the strangers wear the dress of sisters or nuns or are in clerical attire,” or are dressed as hospital nurses; for these disguises are common among the emissaries of the underworld who seek to entrap girls traveling alone.

— The officials of the Department of Agriculture have just issued their report on agricultural training for girls. In this report they affirm that girls are more of a success as practical farmers than boys. More than twenty-five thousand girls are enrolled in the clubs of the department. The girls have been specially instructed in the art of raising tomatoes and in the art of canning them. A group of girl students in the River Falls (Wis.) normal school are earning their way by digging potatoes, splitting wood, washing windows, doing family washings, putting in order the yards of prominent homes, and working in restaurants.