Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 2 August 1895 — Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.-

SHE IS AT THE HEAD OF THE WOMAN'S BOARD AT ATLANTA.

Miss Willard's Romance Ti*y Scientific Shirking—Woman's Part In Banking Affairs—Not Merely a Household Caretaker,

iii' The Brooklyn Five.

Li As president of the woman's board of managers at the Atlanta exposition Mrs. Joseph K. Thompson has appeared in a new role. Hitherto she has been a social leader, noted for her brilliancy, beauty and wit, but since she has been installed in her new position she has shown so much executive ability, tact apd talent that even her friends are delightfully surprised. Those who are working in conjunction with her say that she has the same admirable qualities which made Mrs. Potter Palmer £nch a power at the Chicago exposition.

Mrs. Thompson is the only daughter of Colonel Mimms of Atlanta, and before her marriage she was an acknowl-

J1KS. JOSEPH K. THOMPSON.

edged belle of that city, a distinction which she retained after she became the Wife of Joseph Thompson, the proprietor of the Kimball House. Both as Miss Mina Mimms and Mrs. Thompson she is well known in social circles in this city and is a particular favorite in the southern colony here.

In appearance she is tall and statuesque, with beautiful brown hair and eyes. Her personal beauty is enhanced "by the vivacity and grace which are characteristic of southern women. Like all beautiful women, she is fond of pretty gowns, and her costumes give practical evidence of taste, which she has the means to gratify, for she is a woman of •wealth. Although finely educated and with advantages of extensive travel, Mrs. Thompson has never devoted herself to any particular artistic or literary pursuits. While evincing an interest in everything, she preferred to enjoy the pleasures which her social position offered rather than to become wholly absorbed in any one thing.

The duties attached to the position she fills are onerous, but she has discharged them faithfully and well. With the natural enthusiasm of her nature she has thrown her whole soul into the work. This interest is quickened by the spirit of pridt) which southern women have in regard to the success of any project which is of southern origin. Mrs. Thompson has been in communication with the heads of the different departments under her and knows, either from personal interviews or through letters, just what is projected for the success of the Woman's building.—New York Press.

Miss Willard's Romance.

The recent rumor regarding the engagement of Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union, to an elderly English gentleman of means, who uses a large part of his annual income in the furthering of reform movements, has recalled to the minds of many of Miss Willard's friends in this country the romance of her early womanhood.

Miss Willard's devotion to the temperance cause is by no means coeval with the great crusade of the early seventies, whose outcome was the organization of hundreds of women's Christian temperance unions. Miss Willard's parents were among the pioneers of the great northwest and brought up their daughter with very strict, not to say narrow, views as to the use of liquor and tobacco. Miss Willard prepared herself for teaching, and while pursuing' her studies met a young man who was studying for the ministry and who gave promise of attaining great prominence in his chosen calling. Their»common love of study attracted them- to each other, and tho young mar), felt that in Miss Willard he had found tho one woman- tvho, as his wife, ."would help h'im upward and would .gracefully share the honors of the lofty position-at which lie: was aiming. N'dr- wjaa Miss Willard's heart untouched, tajul the young man's matrimonial hopes might have been realized but for 'discovery feh at he' was addicted to the iise 'of tobacco. She' very promptly told him he could choose between tobaceo 'arid -herself, and to all his pleading^ dpposed-the one cty "If you io'tertofeacco more.:than you -do me, find gome other, worn an who will tolerate such a habit V.

At length he ceased to urge her-, and they went their separate ways,.-she to remain single and become'president of the National Woman^ Christian Temperance' union and one of tho best parliamentarians in the United States, and he to marry some one else and become one of the most prominent bishops of the Metb jelist Episcopal church.—NeW York World.

Try Scientific Shirk! fs.

I' The "Writer of a recent magazine artiadvising overworked women to try "scientific shirking" knows what she |l talking about. No woman's strength equal to the demands made upon it by oJalms—domestic, social and intellecnfthese latter days, and since this ifm*t ig indisputable why not look the ordblem squarely in the face and decide Silmly when to shirkf The question of course chiefly concerns the homekeeper,

she who endeavors to keep a house tip to concert pitch of tidiness and not just occasionally and in spots either, but all over and all the time. Besides the mere sweeping, dusting, arranging and menu providing to be superintended, there are, too, the hospitality that she must be ever ready to offer smilingly and the duties to herself—not to speak of church and charitable work, club life and the claims of society. One cannot do everything. Why try?

Of course the question at once presents itself, Where shall the remedy be applied? In answer to which common sense, system, a right estimate of essentials and self control may be suggested as the best aids to the conscience in deciding what shall be le^i undone. Of course each woman must decide for herself what is of the greatest importance. There aro housewives whose standards of bliss are measured by the amount of real estate that their family and friends bring into the house upon their boots others to whom the glory of belonging to every club in the community is all in all, and yet others who revel in "keeping up" a calling list of several hundred. Some one has said that "the spirit of homekeeping is lost because of discouraged housekeeping." With a judicious application of "scientific shirking" there need be no lasting truth to this statement. However degenerate it may sound, "shirking" is the only thing by which a woman can, under the pressure of present living, hope to keep her health and to escape a care crazed brain. —Chicago Post.

Woman's Part In Banking: Affairs.

The women of this country play a more important part in its banking affairs than they perhaps realize. They have a largo interest in the bank capital and figure as employees, shareholders, directors and officers.

James H. Eckels, comptroller of the currency, has compiled some interesting figures showing in part the interest of women in banking. The statistics cover both the national and state banks and were obtained in response to circular letters of inquiry.

According to the showing, the number of shares of national banks is 7,099,418, representing a total valuation of $688,642,876. Of these women own 1,783,772 shares of a value of $130,681,492. The percentage of shares is 24.4 and of capital 18.9. The number of individual women holders of national bank stock is 70,697.

It is rather curious to note that the women apparently have greater confidence in national than in state banks. The total shares and capital of the latter class of institutions are 3,618,804 and $307,151,716 respectively. Of this number 481,098 shares, representing $38,074,712, stand in the names of women. The percentages are respectively 13.3 and 12.4, end the individual holders number 23,146.

The women employees in the national banks of the country are 883 and of the state banks 584, They receive a total compensation from national banks of $185,797, and from state banks $262,847. The average annual compensation in the former institutions is $185.11 and in the latter $450.42. Estimating the average dividends from bank stock at 6 per cent, the women of the country for a year would receive an aggregate annual return from their investments in banks of more than $10,000,000.

The Safety Purse.

One of the summer girl's chief responsibilities, next to her summer outfit and her summer campaign, is her hot weather allowance. Sometimes it is $3,000 and occasionally only $30. Usually she manages to spend $300 on organdies, smart shoes, frills and flummery. And she carries most of this sum with her on all her shopping tours, at the risk of being robbed and losing all her summer frills as well as hearing papa remark after the catastrophe, "Humph, that's so like a woman The most old fashioned of modern women despise to be compared to other women, so this sea­

son's shopping girl has adopted a new wrinkle. The invention as illustrated here was the invention of a fair Irish woman, the Hon. Mrs. P. Pery of Kinwarra county, Ireland. It is simply an attachment consisting of two small straps, one to fasten round the wrists and the other terminating in a ring to be worn on the middle finger. The purse, which can be made any size required and can be carried in either hand, rests securely in the palm of the hand, where it is convenient for frequent use. All hail to this new protector of summer wardrobes.—New York Advertiser.

Not Merely a Household Caretaker.

"Woman," said Dr. Foote, "is not merely tho household caretaker. She has aright to all the pleasures, all the work and all tho cares which the laws of her nature will permit her to assume, and not only those which are laid down as suitable, as sufficient for lior by the artificial laws of man. She demands an identity of her own, and she wishes to be not alone an individual, but a voter and a citizen. In 1891, according to tha census, there were millions of women in America occupied in work other than the care of their homes. One was a river pilot, several were steamboat captain?, others were undertakers or clergymen and medical women."

Dr. Foote then went on to show the dangers—in fact, he even' hinted that the race might suffer complete extermination—if all the women embarked in professions. He quoted Grant Allen, who has a unique plan in order to carry on the 'population of the world jmd still allow women to enter the pro-

fessions unhampered by children or domestic care: "Havea queen bee let the others do the work, build the hives and bring the honey, leavfhg the queen the sole duty of reproducing her species and supplying generations to work or be queen bees in her stead." But we have, he said, unfortunately, or fortunately, no queen bees, and the question is still, Is it right that our mothers should have both the cares of rearing the children and winding fame and wealth, or should she devote her time solely to producing citizens or producing wealth?—New York Advertiser.

The Brooklyn Five.

The five women appointed on the board of education by Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn are all of some prominence. They are Mrs. Emma Pettingill, Miss Elizabeth H. Perry, Miss Isabella M. Chapman, Mrs. Mary E. Jacobs and Mrs. Henry A. PowelL Mrs. Pettingiil is a graduate of the Massachusetts State Normal college and was for some years a teacher in Brooklyn. For the last ten years she has been a successful stenographer, having been employed in many notable cases. Miss Perry is a graduate of the Packer institute and was president of the class of 1886. She is president of the Fortnightly club, which is engaged in benevolent work in the eastern district. Her father and one of her uncles served on the board of education. Miss Chapman is a daughter of the late Dr. Chapman and an alumna of the Packer institute. She is the president of the woman's branch of the League of Royal Citizens. Mrs. Jacobs is the wife of Andrew Jacobs, a Sixth ward merchant, and is a vice president of the Woman's club and active in the affairs of the Second Unitarian church. Mrs. Powell is the wife of Rev. Henry A. Powell, who resigned the pastorate of the Lee Avenue Congregational church about ten years ago and became a lawyer. She is president of the Girls' Improvement club, on Bedford avenue, and a director in the Health Protective association. Mr. Powell was a member of the constitutional convention last summer and made an eloquent speech in support of woman suffrage.—Philadelphia Ledger.

A Point Conceded.

Southern conservatism in regard to women has conceded one point. The University of North Carolina has conferred the degree of LL. D. on Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer, who is the first woman to receive the honor from that source.

The distinction is the well merited reward of many years of faithful service on Mrs. Spencer's part. Although the university has just celebrated its centennial anniversary, it barely existed during the rebellion, and soon after, like Wordsworth's famous Lucy Snow, it "ceased to be," but Mrs. Spencer succeeded in arousing enough interest among its alumnae to reanimate it.

She has taken a prominent part mall efforts to increase the efficiency of the university, and some time ago an attempt was made to recognize her services, but the southern feeling was not ready for such radical action, and it is only lately her friends have seen that the conferring of a degree is a suitable manner of expressing to her their gratitude and esteem.—New York Press.

Heroic Little Woman.

If there is a heroic little woman in this country, one of whom, every American should feel proud, it is Mrs. Josephine D. Peary, wife of Lieutenant Peary, the arctic explorer, and also a first class arctic explorer in her own right. She had a terrifying experience in the icy latitudes of the far north not so long ago, but is now making ready to try another voyage. She is also raising the funds wherewith to equip the ship with which to rescue or aid her husband, who seems to be icebound far up in north Greenland. She has already lectured before large audiences and raised a goodly sum of money and has now a second lecture with which she hopes to produce the amount of money required for the expedition.—New York Advertiser.

Mrs. George William Curtis.

Mrs George William Curtis, the widow of the lamented editor, essayist and scholar, may be seen almost any of these fine summer afternoons driving a spirited team of horses on Richmond terrace, Staten' Island. Among her neighbors Mrs. Curtis has won almost as. much renown for her good horsemanship as she has for her deeds of charity and kind-

Women Surgeons In Austria.

Whether women shall practice as surgeons and physicians in Austria is a question now under consideifrationby the government inconsequence of a'petition to be allowed to practice presented by Baroness Possauer. Prussia has just decided to throw open medical studies arid degrees to women.

Anew kind of cloth is being made in Lyons from the down of hens, ducks and geese. Seven hundred and fifty* grains of feathers niake rather more, than a square yard of light and v6ry warm waterproof cloth.

The women of Albany are working hard to convince the citizens that there should be in that city police matrons, a house of detention for women and women on the school board.

Utah women certainly ought to have the right to vote. Let the pendulum swing as far as it will from the barbarisms of the past.—Boston Transcript.

A Ramsey county auxiliary to the Minnesota Woman Suffrage association has been organized in St. Paul with 82 members.

The Humane society of Pittsburg has decided that young girls nfast cease selling papers on the streets. .- 'A' :i

A prominent Philadelphia gtocer has replaced his male by female clerks.

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Flowers, Feathers and Ribbon Where Children Are of Some Consequence.

White Cashmere Cloaks—Percale, Print

and Zephyr Ginghams.

[Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, July 29.—There are two milliners in New York who deserve well •f women, for they always make a point of importing something new and fresh along in the hottest days of the year, and these go along way toward freshening up a toilet already worn twice or thrice at functions where each woman is on tho alert to see what her rival wears. Roses in deep, dark and decided colors are set on hats of every kind in profusion. "Jacks," red damask roses and the small red rose of

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our youth, with its splendid color and its prodigal clusters, are put upon the hats as if thoy wcro growing from somo invisible source hidden away in the ribbons. These flowers stand up on long stems, nodding and bonding with every movement and every breath of air. Many of them give the hats atop heavy appearance, but that doefe not hinder their use. In some cases, however, they are trailed gracefully and naturally around a wide brimmed rice straw or leghorn hat, or they are mingled with bows of ribbon. The foliage is of quite as much account as the flowers, and it is surprising to see how carefully each leaf is copied after nature, some leaves even appearing to be faded and worm eaten. This last is quite appropriate this season, as all sorts and kinds of "critters" are at work on the plants, 60 that few remain unscathed.

There is a new straw openwork having serrated edges of split straws which glisten like gold. This forms an admirable ground to plant the artificial roses on, and it is also an effective background for almost any kind of trimming. Ribbons or bias pieces of silk are used as drapery, and a tuft of bronzed feathers adds all the color needed, though roses may be added ad libitum. For an elderly lady I saw a queer little black satin straw capote, with a very full ruching of white edged crcpe lisse in front. On the back was a fall of fine white lace, and on the top of the crown there was a tinsel butterfly topped by a curled tuft. There were black ribbon strings. There was a novel hat for a young lady of black plaited silk muslin sdged with lace. On the left side was an enormous bow of gold colored silk muslin and back of that a full black osprey spray. Some of tho flexible leghorns and fine clips have clusters of roses tucked in under the bent and twisted places, and somo have bunches of two to throe roses set on tho tiny capes, or on tho collars of tho dresses or the rovers to the fancy blazer jackets. One milliner showed a great "flat" hat which she claimed to bo the exact prototype of that worn by tho ex-Empress Eugenie on her iirst public appearance in Paris after her marriage. There were roses trailing around tlio crown and others set on tho under part of tho brim, so as to trail down just behind the ears. The silk mull and muslin hats are very popular foxlawn parties and such requirements.

There is one house in Now York which is devoted entirely to children's garments, and hero you feel it borne in upon you that children are of some consequence after all. I noticed among many other things that tho pretty white cashmere cloaks for "long babies" aro embroidered richly not only in white silks, but also in delicate colors. Palo tints of green form vines and foliage, and there aro delicate pink flowers on tlioso for girls and blue for boys. Batiste, cambric, jaconet and linen lawns are employed for the little dresses, and tucks in fine clusters, hand run, together with the old fashioned stout embroidery, are used for trimming. For several seasons lace has taken the place of tho embroidery. I should say the cloaks aro made in two pieces—ono a snug coat with flaring long skirt and a cape reaching two-thirds the whole length. For summer "long babies" —that is, babies in long dresses—have elbow sleeves, and the necks of the dresses are cut out slightly. For fall long sleeves and entirely high nocked dresses aro necessary for the proper protection of tho child.

For tho wee toddler tho percale, print and soft zephyr ginghams aro the best for every day. These, edged with embroidery, aro quite fine enough for all occasions. Still puro white is more dressy. For small boys pique and cotton bedford cord aro gjod, because strong. These may be in

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solid colors or printed, and the skirts are better kiltod. There are dozens of different cotton goods suitable for everyday Bummer frocks for little girls, but of them all the ginghams are the most serviceable. A pretty way to make them Is to shin the skirt to a yoke, In Hubbard fashion,.with a pierrot ruff around the neok. Bishop sleeves are by all means best for ohildren. Nearly all small children's frocks button til the way down on the back for the sake the overworked laundress.

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LEARNING THE BICYCLE.

Juntas Henri Browne Gives

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Practical Experience. [Special Correspondence.]

CHOCORUA, N. H., July 29.—As everybody at home and abroad who does not ride on a bicycle seems determined to learn to ride, the subject can hardly fail to be, in the widest sense, popular. Volumes on volumes have been written on the theme in the last year or two. Nearly every newspaper and periodical has more or less of it. Nevertheless it continues to be interesting, especially to those who have just learned, who are learning or who intend to learn.

My own personal experience with the wheel has been entirely different from what I have understood others' experience to be. And then I have gathered many facts from talking with cyclists and frequenters of "academies" that I did not know before and that others may not know.

I can scarcely remember when the bicycle has not appealed to mo as a delightful form of exercise and recreation. I felt sure I should enjoy it, but I made no attempt to acquiro the necessary practice. I was assured that it was easy, but I felt that it would not be easy for me, who never have had the least mechanical skill of any sort. I have hoard my father and paternal grandfather say that as boys they could not make a kite for themselves that they could do almost nothing useful with their hands. And I am convinced that this peculiar incapacity has been transmitted to me. In a word, tho tiling appeared to be too much trouble. So years passed. Cycling became contagious. Persons of all grades, ages, colors, conditions, bestrode the wheel and spun over space as they chose.

At last even I was infected. In the immediate vicinity of my home in New York I never looked out of the window or went into tho street that I did not see shoals of children, lads, girls, men, women, young, middle aged, old, whirling by as if they were part of their machines. And how they seemed to revel in it! It must., I thought, be glorious fun. I still had doubts of myself, notwithstanding that I heard that anybody could learn that nobody who had tried had ever given it up.

My skepticism remained. Hope forms a very small part of my composition, particularly of what I wish would happen. As to what I am in any way indifferent, I am hopeful enough. I am generally hopeful for others, but despondent concerning myself. It may be the egotism of distrust, tho conceit of self underrating. Call it what you may, it is an existent, unmistakablo property of mind. I knew how very anxious I must be to master the wheel from my inability to realize that I should be able to do it. If I had not cared about it, I should have regarded it, as the mass of people do, as requiring only a few lessons.

I determined to make a persistent effort to learn bicycling. I carefully abstained from saying that I could learn, but I promised myself that I would learn, if I should live. I intended to devote myself to it as if it were an enormous task, a labor of months, of years, instead of, as commonly happens, a labor of a few days. I consulted a number of cyclists who had bccomo such within a year and inquired about tho character of tho leading "academies," conscious that I should need superior teaching. You see how very seriously I considered what the many hold to be a mere trifle and what really is such. The result of my inquiries was that, by excellent advice, I selected one of the poorest of all tho 80 "academies" in the city of New York. Much depends, as I discovered, on one's selection. Many of tho instructors arc rough, illiterate lads who know how to rido themselves, but are incompetent to teach anybody else, and into the hands of one of the worst of these I chanced to fall. They are not, I understand, paid by the week, but receive 1:3 cents for each lesson they give, for which the pupil is charged 50 cents, or 3 for live lessons.

I tool live lessons (the average pupil is generally said to learn to ride in live lessons) and then know less about the wheel than I did before 1 had ever mounted one. I ascribed this to the unintelligenco of my instructor, though it may have been owing to my own stupidity, for I am awaro that I am abnormally stupid about cycling. At least I did try, however, and tried hard, and the harder I tried the less I learned. That indeed was tho trouble, I suspect. I put my mind into it rather than my body. I reasoned entirely too much about it. I lacked faith in myself and in my wheel. I do not believe, however, that I should have got control of a machine in 50 lessons from such an instructor. I certainly was not afraid of it or of falling, as men are often accused of being, for I fell frequently, and sometimes quite hard, during my initiate—so hard as to arouse solicitude in my nob very sensitive teacher. But I was not hurt in tho least.

I have always exhibited remarkable alacrity in falling without physical injury and still retain this exemption from accident. I havo fallen out of trees, swings, from balconies, roofs, horses, cliffs, embankments, into open cellars, yawning pits, all sorts of excavations, numberless times for years and years, long after tho, usual suppleness is lost, and have noviir broken a limb. I should by right liaye, fractured most of my bones and skull long before reaching manhood, and still am wholo. I don't attempt to account for ii. Iam merely conscious of the fact. Why.. should I hurt myself by a tumble from a bicycle, pray?

After tho fivo profitless lessons I decided to seek another academy, and I looked into half a dozen critically, choosing one that seemed satisfactory and was warmly recommended. It deserved to bo. It has mado cyclists out of some very obstinate cases and may have done so evon out of mo. On tho seventh lesson I was actually ablo to go round tho hall a number of times alone. I was amazed at my proficiency. I had not expected to do that for weeks. I was almost as surprised as if I had suddenly learned to fly. Tho sensation was ravishing. I furth A improved in two more lessons, though I still occasionally shot ol'f at a tangent and did not feel at homo on a wheel. I was assured that with a little moro practico I could go on tho road, and I am bound to credit tho assertion. I liavo sinco como to tho White mountains, bringing a wheel with mo, and havo begun practice on tho unoven, sandy roads with animating prospects. I expect to bo seen dashing over tho Boulevard on my return to town in October without reminding any ono of my excessive clumsinoss in adapting myself to the wheel.

I havo learned authoritatively that some tnen and women need 25, 80, 40, even 60 lessons, and that others despair of learning alogether. That the majority of people require but five or six lessons is only the encouragement of instructors. But I am convinced that any man may be a eyclist If he will persevere. I am a case In point.

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