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A WORD WITH THE WOMEN

(By Elia W Peattie)

The courage, decision, effciency and system which the modern trained nurse exhibts are too well known to need comment The little white cap, the striped gown and the spotless apron have come to be the insignia of her comfortable office Physicians depend upon her in the most hazardous operations, trusting to the deftness, rapidity, delicacy of perception-the almost clairvoyant sympathy- as they would not trust in one of their own sex The endurance of these trained women is remarkable They have added to the self-control that have been aquired by their training a devotion to duty which of a feminine type. An instance of the passion for self-immoiation that occasionally appears in woman was shown by Miss Minnie Baumer, a nurs at the Jennings Avenue hospital at Cleveland, which burned yesterday Wehn she found that her patients could not be moved from the burining building she refused to leave them. and was found dead by the bedside of an old man who was in her charge Was the heroism superfluous? Perhaps so She benefited one by this comsummate sacrifice But she satisfied her own sense of duty She induilged herself in the luxury of Matrydom which after all, may be a sort of vanity But she attained her ideal That, surely, is the best one can do And she demonstrated what training for self-control can do For it takes ore than moral courage to sit calmly down in a burning building at the post of duty and wait for death It takes well-trained nerves, a masterful will and an indomitable physical courage

The woman's department of the Cotton States and International expositon is one of the most important and interesting fearures of the fair This branch of the work was organized early in the history of the exposition and has already attained large proportions The women have more than marched the appropriation allowed from the general fund, and from the present outlook they will quadruple it before the year is our The sourses of the fund are entertainments, bazars and a varity of enterprises, some of which are very unique chaacter The lastest and most notable of these is the Valentine Journal Mr E II Cubaniss, manager of the Atlanta Journal, generously offered to give the woman's department of the exposition the proceeds of the day's advertisemetns in the Journal if the women would edit They promptly accepted, and the journal of February 10 will be made and edited entirely by women Mrs Joseph Thompson, president of the womans board will be editor-in-chief Mrs Loulie Gardon will be telegraph editor and Mrs W H Felton the brillian wife of ex-congressman Felton, will write articles on the tariff and finance. An elaborate variety of special matter and a score of the brightest young women in Atlanta have been assigned to report the courts the capitol, police headquarters and cour, the railroads, the exposition and other departments The prospect is that the Valentione Journal will be brilliant number. and advertisements will be more numerous than ever

The women will invite and Daughters of the the Revolution to meet in Atlanta next fall, and is expected that they will accept This would bringto atlanta 13000 ladies prominent in their repective communities, and many of them women of national repuation

By a recent vote of the board of women managers, it was decided to ask congress for a special appropriation to make the collection of woman's work exhibits a national one Mrs William Dixon Miss Loulle M Gordon and Mrs Sarah Grant Jackson were appointed a committee to bring this matter before congress.

The new moire sash ribbons come in all colors, daintily figured in Dresden patters, or with vine of delicate flowers through the center.

Mrs Gladstone receives most of her husbands callers, and seeks to save him from the visitors actuated by curiosity, or who have some favor to ask.

Artificial flowers are developing some new varieties for decking spring bonnets, and the upretentious patato biosom is among the novelties.

Miss Crabtree, otherwise Lotta, the ever effervescent and perennial, is passing thw wunter in Cleopatra's land and is much benefitied by her prolonged rest.

The craze for English open-work embroidery has attacked the ribbons, and some fo the new varieties have a patter of very open embroidery down the center.