Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN

MEANING OF MOTHERHOOD. 66 yideal motherhood is the work II not of instinct, but of enliglit”ened knowledge conscientiously acquired and carefully digested,” writes Helen Watterson Moody in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “If maternity is an Instinct, motherhood is a profession; and yet many a girl undertakes It with less understanding of its duties and less anxiety for their discharge than she gives to the selection of the tailor who Is to make her new gowns, or the costumes of the bridesmaids in her wedding procession. It is quite the fashion nowadays, in well-to-do families, to provide the daughters with some special training by means of which they could earn their own bread and hotter If the family fortunes should suddenly fail. It is held to be altogether wise and proper to educate a daughter for a possible profession In a remote contingency, yet while nineteen out of twenty of our girls marry and become mothers, no training whatever for the real profession of tlielr lives is thought to be necessary. Any practicing physician will tell you that four-fifths of the illness among children could be avoided by proper knowledge and care on the part of the mothers, and yet our girls feel that they must take up college settlement work and scientific whist and the banjo to get a little excitement into their lackluster lives until the great excitement of marriage comes.”

Won a Wife by Wire. A happy marriage resulted from a courtship conducted exclusively by wire. Wilbur F. Cannon, the Colorado Congressman and wealthy manufacturer, proposed to Miss Fairchild, a church organist of Jersey City, in fifteen minutes after first meeting her.

Of course, it was rather sudden, and as the train bore Miss Fairchild away from Denver, the persistent Cannon began shooting love missiles at her by electricity. Miss- Fairchild entered Into the romance of the original though costly scheme of love-making. They were happily married after a courtship conducted exclusively by wire.

Fhe's a Globe Trotter. Miss Edith Van Buren, great granddaughter of President Van Buren, is famous as a globe trotter and Klondike

explorer. She has been twice around the world and to Japan four times. She is one of the best known American women in the court circles of Europe, is known In the holy land, In jungles of India, in Australia ancl-ln the

Sandwich islands. Social triumphs Miss Van Buren quitted last year for untrammeled life in the Klondike. She walked over the White pass. She roughed it like the miners. She staked a claim. She slept in a tent, trudged through snowdrifts la bloomers and rubber boots, visited dance halls and variety shows, and gave dinners with a pine box for a table, a piece of mosquito net for a table cloth, and a tin can filled with wild flowers by way of decorations.

' Factory Slavery. A mill owner not long ago issued tbe order that the girls in his employ should not wear laced shoes. The reason he gave was that each one’s boot became untied at least five times a day, and took at least five seconds to retie. When these twenty-five seconds were multiplied by 800—the number of girls In his employ—the loss of time was, he said, too serious to submit to. Another mill owner, talking over this case, said that he had forbidden visitors, because each of his “hands” turned her head to look at them. Computing twenty visitors a day and two seconds for the head-turnings of each of his 600 employes, made over six hours dally wasted In that gesture.— Chicago News.

Fashion Trifles. Quantities of lace. White pique collars. Neck ribbons by the score. Shirt waists one wants still $2. Shirt waist materials reduced in price. Buckles and buckles and more buckles. Buttoned skirts until one Is awfully tired of them. Pretty white ties to take the place of stiff collars. Shirt waists with yokes back and front very common. A Pretty Petticoat. Silk underskirts of the handsomer variety are expensive luxuries, but the woman who is handy with her needle can fashion one for about $5 that would cost her three times that mnch If bought In the stores. The petticoat itself Is made of plain taffeta, in any tint, and It Is trimmed with escalloped ruffles that are finished at the edges with a heavy button hole stitch In

black. Polka dots of the black, also, are worked In the ruffles. The effect Is very dainty, and distinctly new.

A Girl’s Darios.

If Miss Ruth Beardsley, of Derby, Conn., had realized the notoriety which she was to gain through riding her bl-

cycle across the railroad trestle from Shelton to East Derby, nearly a mile la length, she would not have attempted the remarkable fe(s of daring. Miss Beardsley Is modest. She wanted to prove to

her young girl friends that a woman could do what a man had done. Four years ago Edward J. Keeler, an expert wheelman, rode over the trestle, but no other wheelman has since dared to attempt the feat, and Keeler says he couldn’t be hired to do It again. “It was soley to prove that a woman could ride the trestle that I attempted the feat,” said Miss Beardsley.

Keantj Hint*. Drink pure water. Don’t drink tea or coffee. Don’t eat much animal food. Eat an orange every day or so. Walk two or three miles a day. Eat a few salted almonds daily. Eat grapes, apples, raisins and figs. Don’t fret, don’t worry; be calm and quiet. Bathe the whole body daily in tepid water. An egg or two a day, soft boiled, Instead of meat. A Practical Idea. “It seems strange,” says a sensible* New York woman, “that more women! who are forced to earn their own llv-l lngs do not open lunchrooms of somei kind. The first thought of a womani who has to support herself seems to be that she must do something of wblchj she knows nothing and which required a long apprenticeship and a special education.” Unnsnal Gallantry. A new phase in street car etiquette* has broken out in New York. Recent-; ly a lady who was standing was asked by a young man occupying a seat If be might hold her package for her.) She allowed him the privilege andj strange to say, not at the expense of losing her bundle. It was a piece of, alloyed politeness not often met with.

Helps tbe Distressed. Princess Marie of Bavaria has never felt any inclination for the usual pursuits of princesses, but spends her time

In succoring the distressed. Her husband, Duke Carl Theodore, has converted part of his beautiful castle Into a free eye hospital, and is assisted in his work by the Duchess, who frequently helps with some particularly deli-

cate operation, and is a very capable assistant.

The Helen Goulil Carnation. It is said that Miss Helen Gould shares the general enthusiasm for carnations, and has in her greenhouses at 4 Lyndhurst many varieties. There is one which shows stripes of red and white in particularly beautiful effects. It is named Helen Gould. There is not, however, any reason for supposing that the flower originated in the Gould conservatory.—New York Tribune.

Kllen Terry's Hobby. Ellen Terry’s favorite hobby is the collecting of eyeglasses worn by celeb- * ritles, and whenever she makes a request for a pair—a request never refused—she gets the wearer to ■write his or her name on one of the lenses. The collection is kept in a special cabinet in her house in South Kensington. John Brown. Colonel T. W. Higginson, in his autobiography, “Cheerful Yesterdays,” 1 thus characterizes John Brown: “I saw before me a man whose mere appear- 1 ance and bearing refpted in advance! some of the strange perversions which have found their way into many books., In his thin, worn, resolute face there were signs of a fire which might wear him out, and practically did so, but nothing of pettiness or baseness; and ■ his talk was calm, persuasive, and coherent He was simply a high-mind-ed, unselfish, belated Covenanter; he had that religious elevation, which it Itself a kind of refinement; he lived, as he finally died, absolutely absorbed in one idea; and it is as a pure enthusiast —fanatic, if you please—that he is t» be judged.” t A. Bablnoff, a native Russian and prominent at the Chicago bar, owns » copy of the terrible “Code of Alexis.O promulgated by the early Romanoffs over 200 years ago. This Is said to be, the only genuine copy extant outside of Russia, where It is very rare. In every city or town in the Nether- j lands you will find a Rosemary street. % In olden days only undertakers lived In them, the rosemary being, in the language of flowers, specially dedicated d the dead. I The healthiest spot in the world ] seems to be a little hamlet in Franca j named Aumone. There are only forty W inhabitants, twenty-five of whom are \ 80 years of age, and one is over 100. m The almighty dollar resembles some 1 men; it talks without saying anything; | v/* .»/•

MR. AND MRS. W. F. CANNON.

MISS VAN BUREN.

MISS BEARDSLEY.

MARIE.