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'WOMAN'S WORLD.

jIMEW PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL

COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

f%B Woman a Citizen?—Sorosis' Birthday l*art.y—"A Twentieth Century Girl"—Calhoun's Sweetheart—jKore Charming Than

Ever—Godet Skirt and Knee Coat.

The election of Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson as president of the National Council of Women removes the central office of that body to New York city. This, it is conceded by a majority of 'the members, will be a decided advantage in many material respects.

Mrs. Dickinson is in every way ad-•-jnirably suited to the new honor thus

MA1IY LOWE DICKINSON.

•thrust upon licr. Sho has long boon identified with the must representative educational and philanthropic interests -of the country.

Sho is best known as tho general secretary of tho organization of tho King's Daughters, which officio she has held since tho foundation of that order.

Not loii.i,' f-ince sho was niado dean of the University of Denver. She is a skilled parliamentarian, a fine speaker and a cultivated and appreciative wojuan.

Is Woman :i Citiz.-n?

In all of our colleges, academies and even common schools we lino girls gaining .higher per cents than buys of the same age, so it seems that the road is lieing paved for us to pr ivo oar equality ii not superiority overman intellectually. That we are morally has n-v*r been a question. That has been awarded us through all time. Physical endurancois something of a stumbling block, but I think if tho chance is given wo will stand tho strain of ollice seeking and holding as well as (he sterner sex.

Ii our right to citizenship is proved, there will dawn a new era politically,

A Woman of Muscle

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Tho question just now agitating *V**o:non ot Indiana is, Will we gain light to voter

Li the constitution of the United States wo find that to ho senator a person must have been a citizen of the United States fr.ine years. The statute loes not say "male inhabitant." Now wb:it is to prevent woman from filling Ibis oflice? Again, in the fourteenth intendment we find: "All persons born cr naturalized in the United States and •subject to tho jurisdiction thereof are citizens oF the United Stares and of the -rtate wherein tiny reside. No state shall iiiako or enforce any law winch shall .abridge tho privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." According to the fifteenth amendment, tho Tight of citizens of tho United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on account: of race, color or previous condition of servitude. It, seems that if we are citizens, which wo are according to tlio fourteen!h amendment, tho point is already gained, not m!y in Indiana, but in all of tho states, and tho next thing is to induce congress to enforce our rights to vote and hold office by appropriate legislation, or provo to us wo are not citizens.

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Sorosis' Birthday Party.

Sorosis, as befitted an organization which lias arrived at grandparental years and dignities, celebrated its twenty-seventh birthday on March 18 by gathering together its friends and descendants and feasting with them. Sorosis has long l^eeii ,knowii by the prond title of tho mother of women's I clubs, but ii remained for Mrs. Mary

Lowe Dickinson, the newly elected president of the National Conncil of Women, to call attention to the fact that the National Council, being the daughter of various clubs itself, made I Sorosis a grandmother.

The big ballroom at Sherry's, Thirtypeventh street and Fifth avenue, New York, where the birthday party was given, was bright with daffodils and I ferns, to say nothing of resplendent array and smiling faces. There were numberless round tables, each seating eight persons, and one long table whero the chief officers and guests sat. Oil Mrs.

Helmuth's right sat Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, on her left Mrs. William S. Rainsford. At this table were also Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, Miss Margaret Love, Miss Adelo Fielde, Countess Gilda Ruta, Mrs. Abbie Miller, Miss Maude Banks, Miss Dorothea Lummis, Mine.

Kate Rolla, Mine. Alico le Plougeon and Miss Cecelia Gaines. After the dinner came the installation of the new ofiiceiv. "I have had the honor of re-election, said Mrs. Hehnuth, "and therefore have the great pleasure of installing myself.

The other officers were drawn up in a lino before the long table and had conferred upon them the power. and privileges of their.various offices. Speeches, songs and recitations followed, and the birthday party broke up with assurances of renewed efforts for the good and welfaro of woman.

"A Twentieth Century Girl." The sphere of woman's usefulness is constantly widening. We have had niauy instances of women becoming learned doctors and famous lawyers, but until lately wo have soldo heard of a successful woman commercial traveler. Miss Ella Stewart, a modest, attractive and winsome young lady of Cleveland, has been on tho road for the past fivo years, and her efforts have been attended with success.

She is at present representing a Rome (N. Y.) company, tho products of which concern include a large variety of hardware specialties of copper material. Her territory includes the states of New York and Pennsylvania and a portion of Ohio. Miss Stewart has been employed by the company for about a year. She is exceedingly modest- about speaking of her work and the success that has attended it. "Mefnro I started on tho road," she said, "I felt very sensitive about the way in which my departure from the beaten track of women's work would be r-x'eived by the commercial men with whom 1 would bo brought more or less intu competition. I dreaded the possibility of encountering the sneering glances and remarks of commercial men, whom I thought would resent tho intrusion of a woman into their ranks. But that is all past and gone now. I found that my fears were unwarranted, for I never received anything but. tho most courteous treatment. I like my work, and 1 feel that. I am healthier and happier than I would bo if tied down to oflico work. "—Hardware.

I Calhoun's Sweetheart. There is an old lady at tho Louise homo in Washington named Miss Hartley Graham, who was a belle in South

Carolina (iO years ago and was betrothed to John C. Calhoun when ho was at tho height of his prominence, lint for some reason he married another woman, and she has remained a maiden to this day. Sho has a bracelet made of his hair,

which was a fashionable sort of keepI sake in those days, and a daguerrotypo that ho gave her shortly after they bo came engaged. Sho spent much of her I girlhood and her womanhood in Wash- I ington, whero she knew (-lay and Web- I stor and danced with Buchanan at the navy yard balls before anybody dreamed he would be president, writes tho WashI ington correspondent of tho Chicago

Record. But in her jewel box, with other mementos, arc several notes from I Mrs. Cleveland, which sho prizes moro than anything else. The last one was dated a few days after the president's I wife returned from Gray Gables last

November, and it reads: DEAR MISS GKAIIAM—I have just pathored tkeso flowers nt Woodlcy, and I thought I •would send them to you this morning

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socially and financially. As raotners and wives we would broaden our range of vision, and with the intuition characteristic of woman grasp the situation and bo master of the field. I do not think we could ever be dispensed with, and in five years men would be as strong advocates of woman suffrage as tho earnest, loyal, patriotic women now engaged in this movement. The questiou would better be decided by the United

States according to the constitution, thus gaining the whole at once simply by decision on the question, "Is woman a citizen?" It will be §uch a long time before the sum of tho parts equal the whole if we only acquire suffrage state by state.—Lizzie F. Atkinson in Chicago Inter Ocean.

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More Charming Than Ever. Mrs. Cleveland has never in her lifo looked as beautiful and as happy as she does this season. At Mrs. Carlislo's reception the other night one marveled when this woman would ceaso to grow charming, for every year sho seems to havo increased in loveliness. It may have been her gown, it may have been tho new way in which sho dresses her hair, but sho certainly looked years younger than sho did at the beginning of this administration, and her smile seemed brighter, fresher and moro soductivo than over. Her gown was made of spangled moire antique of a pinkish mauvo shado, the orchid tint now so fashionable. The bodice was low. with

minder of my return. Yours sincerely, I FRANCES CLEVELAND.

high puffed short sleeves and dangling pearl strands trimming it. A doublo strand of diamonds was woven into a coronet, and, while looking simple, she also looked superb. Sho had assumed position immediately under the large life size painting of Mrs. Washington, and the picture of this ancient lady seemed smiling upon the fairest of her successors.—New York Telegram.

Godet Skirt and Knee Coat. The godet skirt will remain in vogue, and tho fashionable modistes are inserting steels that reach up almost to the knee, setting them in the seams lengthwise to cause it to flare, writes Isabel A. Mallon in The Ladies' Homo Journal. Facings that are light, and which at the same time stiffen are put in tho back breadths quite up to the belt and in the front and side breadths to just above the knees.

What are known as "knee coats," and which button across the bust, but are cut out at the throat and below the two buttons which fasten it, so that the fancy waistcoat shows, are much liked. Vriry Often, if the waistcoat is detachable, three or four will accompany one gown, and then for a change, and, to be assumed in place of the wdistcoat, there will be a loose silk shirt waist. In the coat designs there is also anew cutaway coat which is only long enough to reach between tho hip and the knee. This is generally becoming and very smart when developed either 'in broadcloth or mohair.

Sarah McLean Hardy.

I Miss Sarah McLean Hardy, fellow in political economy in the University of Chicago, has been appointed instructor in that subject in Wellesley college during the absence of Professor Catherine I Comans in Europe. Miss Hardy graduated in ISftil from tho University of

California. The following year sho took graduate work in the University of Chicago and received a regular university fellowship in political economy. Miss Hardy is connected with several leading

women's clubs in the university. In tho current number of The Journal of Po-lit\-x\l Economy Miss Hardy has an article on "The Quantity of Money and Prices From 1800 to 1891." HOT appointment at Wellesley takes effect in September.

Dressing Fnsliion Bolls.

A new employment, which requires skill and cleverness rather than means, is the dressing of fashion dolls for storo windows, the idea having developed rapidly since the exhibit of historic French dolls at the Chicago fair. A woman with real taste in dress can thus find scope for her talent in designing pretty costumes for little figures, which must be just as chic in every detail as the full sized ones. These please the eyo and are a great help in selling goods, laces and dress trimmings, so that proprietors ani glad to make them a feature of all new displays. The models aro about 15 inches high, representing the latest fashions accurately.—Chicago Record,

A Cardinal's Views.

Cardinal Kopp has issued a pastoral letter concerning woman's rights and tho agitation in favor of equal political privileges for all. He says: "It is against the order of tho world that the emancipation of woman should mean her absolute equality witli men. God's wiil is that woman should bo tho helpmate. She is bodily unlit for man's work, and her emancipation, to the end that sho might work side by side with man, would mean the deterioration of the Christianity that freed her from slavery and made her man's social equal. Unrestricted equality would moan woman's ruin."

She I.riiris In Ohio.

Mrs. Crawbaugli of Cleveland is tho first woman in Ohio to register as a I quali'^d voter. She went to the board of elee.iion rooms in Cleveland tho other day and remarked that sho desired to register, as she would be out of tho city on the regular registration days. Sho said sho was (1 years old. Secretary Rowbottom placed tho pen which was used in the safe and will present it to the Western Reserve Historical society.

T. Cook.

Mrs. Eva T. Cook of Gloucester, tho newly elected department president of tho Woman's Relief Corps of Massachusetts, is a very popular member of tho order and has long been devoted to tho work for tho veterans. Sho has delivered many Memorial day addresses throughout tho stato and is described as a g. ntlo and kindly woman, possessing great executive ability and much enthusiasm in good work.—Woman.

Atlanta's Leading Woman. Mrs. Joseph Thompson, who has been elected president of tho board of women managers of t^o Atlanta exposition, is a very beautiful and accomplished woman and'is described as a woman of striking personality, of culture and rolinement and the possossorof an indomitable will. She has a marvelous aptitude for business and is never at a loss on questions that come before board meetings. ',

Miss Hetty Parker.

Miss Hetty Parker of Lancaster, Pa., recently reoeivod the congratulations of many friends on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. Sho was housekeeper for President Buchanan during his administration and after his retirement to private lifo. Mrs. Harriet Lano Johnson, nioce of President Buchanan and mistross of the Whito Houso during his term, was among Miss Parker's recont guests.

Tho Now Jersey assembly has passed a bill making women eligiblo to attorney and counselor examinations and licenses.

Mrs. Charles Honrotin will remain fiast in tho interest of tho Federation of Clubs nntii the last of April.

Frances Willard sailed for England with Lady Henry Somerset March 6.

A Nice Office.

Dr. N. P. Howard, Jr., ca now be found in his new office No. 14X West Main street, over the Citizens' Bank and desires to announce to his friends that he can be found at the office at all hours unless professionally engaged. We were shown through the office abd found that it was very conveniently arranged and nas all the latest, improvements for surgery work, etc. The office i- fitte.i throughout with antique oak furniture.

Any one desiring livery rigs of any kind .'.an leave their orders at the hardware store of Thomas & Jeffries and the rigs will be sent around promptly from the Fashion Livery Stable of Jeffries & Son. Good rigs and satisfactory prices guaranteed. 78tf

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