Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 February 1898 — Page 2

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HEROINE OF ALASKA.

ESTHER LYONS, FIRST WOMAN CROSS CHILXOOT PASS,

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Her Life Girlhood.

She Hfil Bcpn a Traveler All and Climbed the Alps In Visited Alaska in 1894—Her Literary

iMies Esther Lyoue, the young woman who has lately sprung into prominence because she was the first woman to cross the Cbilkoot pass, is a retiring, refined, quiet woman of medium height

MISS ESTHER 1.YOSS.

and slight of Luild. No one would give her credit for having climbed the Chilkoot as early as the spring of 1894 and of braving the perils and terrors of the interior of Alaska when strong men shrank from the trip, fahe was born of German and English parentage in New York city and* climbed tho Alps before the age of 14.

Miss Lyons was educated in Philadelphia, being a graduate of the Girls'Normal school. She was a great chum of her father, and together they visited many climes, shrines and ruins. His ideas, thoughts and descriptions no doubt had much influence over her later life. She says that when in early womanhood sbe stoc*! on the summit of Chilkoot pass and alone enjoyed its grandeur and sublimity she sorrowed that ho who had stood on the pinnacle of so many mountains with her was not there to voice bis admiration and enjoy that wonderful sight.

Miss Lyons, although boasting some of the bluest blood of England in her veins, is thoroughly American in her tastes, desires and habits, and in her lectures lays great stress on the fact that Alaska, the American land of the midnight sun, is well worthy the attention of the tourist. Miss Lyons declared that she has never known a siok day in her life. Her perfect health she attributes mainly to her outdoor exercises. She is fond of both tho wheel and horseback riding and is an untiring walker.

She is a pleasant, magnetic and in teresting talker and, being a great traveler and of an observing nature, of course has quito a fund of interesting information at her command. She is very much interested in tho Cuban question, also that of the Russian refugees, and bocomes much enthused on either of these subjocts.

She has just finished a story of Mary Tudor, known as Bloody Mary of England. When asked why of all known women she choso her as the heroine of her novel, Miss Lyons said: ''Poor Mary! So littlo a queen, so much a weak woman, I dug her out of forgotten bistovy, I have wiped away tho blood, brushed the cobwobs from her mind, enveloped her with an all absorbing love, aud consequently some horoism, and have surprised even myself with the woman that. I have portrayed." She is now nt work upon an Eskimo romance. Sho calls it "Tho Eskimo Slave Girl."

Miss Lyons has quite a collection of pets. She is very fond of dogs, her library is full of choice books, aud she has an interesting cabinet of curios. When asked whether sho preferred public or domestic life, she answered quickly,

MISS 1.YOK8 JNJOti'PRD FOR CUMRIXO.

MOUNTAIN

"Domestic, hut unfortunately I am one of the army of breadwinners, and my desires, of course, are stifled by my necessities but some day in some cosyr little nook near New York city I hope to have a little home surrounded by those that I most care for, where I can read, dream and write* cook if 1 so desire, and yet be n«ar enough to New York ft

occasionally come in and get anothor glimpse of the mad vortex of public life that once held me enthralled. "Will I ever return to Alaska? Yes, indeed, I am going back to Alaska this coming summer, going to return to see the changes and, I fear, desecrationj that have been made by the mad rush of gold seekers to that faroff land. -I will then get more pictures and newer material for another lecture tour of the United States." While talking she was arranging a beautiful bunch of flowers that had just been sent to her, and hold ing them up, said: "Would you believe that flowers every whit as lovely as these grow all summer along the banks of the Yukon, and yet by many Alaska is termed the 'nation's icebox.' 1 think we should now name it our 'treasure box."' LYDIA P. BRADLEY.

THE NEW WOMAN.

Some

Suggestions That May Be Useful Here and There.

I have admired southern girls very much ever since 1 saw so many of them when our International league of press clubs visited Atlanta and the south in 1894, Because I like them so well I am going to say a word to them here. They are among the most talented young newspaper women we have when they come north. Everybody else likes them as well as I do. No matter what business they go into they are apt to succeed. But, my dear southern girls and women, when you write for publication don't begin by saying your family fortunes were ruined by the war and that you never would have thought of earning money only for that. We have heard that statement so awfully many times. Don't inform us either that "southern gentlemen" are bitterly opposed to the ladies of their families working for money. We have all known for a hundred years that some "southern gentlemen," like some other gentlemen everywhere, are almost as much opposed to having their women folk work for a living as they are opposed to working themselves. Don't mention that your family is one of the oldest and most important socially in tho south. We all know that too. We have heard it several thousand times. Every southerner's family is. You need not say in yoijr writings that you are "thoroughly feminine." We take that for granted. Don't be particular to mention or to have somebody else mention for you that you do not belong to a woman's club, that you are opposed to woman suffrage and that you have a horror of the new woman. Why, heaven have mercy on your ignorant, ungrateful soul! It is exactly the pioneer labors of woman suffrage women, the clubwomen and the new woman that have made it possible for you this day to come comfortably out of your chimney corner and earn your living at some of the occupations only lately opened to our sex. Finally, do not bring into the foreground your own or your family's per sonality. The unfeeling publio does not care a rap about them. Just take up your work quietly, bravely, grittily and joyfully, as though you are proud of it, as you are, and go on to conquer, and the Lord bless you!

The Woman's Journal tells tb$ story of how one of its subscribers, a brave Colorado woman who did her own thinking, had a husband that just hated woman suffrage. She softly and silently laid The Journal on his library table after she had finished reading it every week for a year, and every week he burned it without opening it. The second year she did the same, but during this twelvemonth she caught him reading it occasionally whe!n nobody was looking. The third year he read it openly, and tho fourth he was an outspoken and able advooate of full suffrage for women. Tho arguments of the paper had soaked into him psychically apparently.

There is a place in the world for you to fill. Find it for yourself. Do not allow yourself to be pushed or scolded or coaxed into any place chosen for you by somebody else if you do not like it. Do your own thinking.

Three respectable and plucky young women are making a good living canvassing in cities for a boot and shoe polish. The way they manage is this: They go from office to office, carrying bottles of tho polish. They open one of these, stoop down and with their own hands black the gentleman's shoes. The polish is an excellent one, and nearly every man buys a bottle of it.

Wo are wearied to death of hearing bigots dogmatize and say this or that occupation is not fitted for women or that women are not suited to a given task just because they are women. The individual man or woman is exactly suited to anything he or she wants to do and can do, no matter what it is. Thus an individual man may be an excellent milliner, while an individual woman may find her exact sphere in conducting a cattle ranch. Some men are this day earning their living trimming bonnets. Several women are successfully herding cattle in the west. For heaven's sake let the individual choose his or her own work. It is the individual who is to be considered in every case, not the sex or the race. Jtust keep your mouth shut and don't dog* matfcee. I

Display of strong emotion on small occasions is a sign of weakness and childishness.

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Women will be degraded by being allowed to go to the polls and vote. Oh, yes! But it is no degradation to have men approach them and try to bribe them to use their influence to induce their husbands to vote for a United States senator when bis ballot is badly wanted by one of tfre superior sex, as. is openly claimed to have been done in *1- The gown is the case of Mra Griffith of Ohio. That: green mull, and is all right and high minded and honor-1 a fringe of iridesable and exalts woman to Jfc&t high oent glass beads pedestal which she should ever occupy reaching to the faiky qukxx. in the masculine mind. Oh, yea, again hem of die skirt ties around the waist £usa Akceuurd Conxeb. with a ribbon. A short bead fringe is

IN QUAINT COSTUMES.

CHILDREN GAYLY ATTIRED AT FANCY DRESS BALLS.

Definite Characters the VognatThls Season! Little Guest* Impersonate Flowers, Birds, Fairies, Heroes and Heroines of Fiction.

Some Washington Parties. [Copyright, 1898, by the Author.]

And now begins the reign of the fancy dress ball, so dear to the children's hearts, as it gives them the opportunity to indulge their taste both for dancing and "dressing up."

Characters that are bright and fantastic in sentiment and require simple costuming are in high favor with Dame Fashion. Many of the -fancy dress balls will have a definite character this -^season.

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MAY QUEEN.

fairies, gay little Japs or the heroes and heroines of juvenile story books, just as the taete of tbe hostess may dictate.

A May ball is the fancy of a young matron celebrated for her entertainments. Potted plants, flowers and light wicker beuches will give a' summery appearance to the ballroom, and a pole with garlands and ribbons will be erected in tbe center for the May dance, the blond Queen of the May's dainty costume is chalk white sillc mull over a silk slip. The sunburst plaited skirt is attached to a full waist with puffed elbow sleeves. A bunch of apple blossoms is tied at tbe ends of the ribbon streamers from tbe girdle, and a garland of blossoms encircles tbe neck of the gown. The hose, gloves and slippers are white, tbe wand silver tipped, with ample blossoms and long ribbons. The two little pages who are to carry the queen's crown will wear—one arose satin suit, the other an apple green, set off by huge muslin cravats. Tbe little guests will come as the queen's attendants— flowers and sunshine.

A Buttercup dress has a yellow tarla tan foundation, thickly covered with crape paper buttorcups. The deep &<*** neck frill and sleeves are sun- "*aB: burst plaitings of yellow gauze Hose and slippers are yellow. This is a very effective costume aud one that is easily got up. Morning Glory is another oharming llower costume that can be made of crape buttercdp.-v? paper. The foundation may be either white tarlatan or crape paper. The skirt is barred with green to form a lattice, which is intertwined with- morning glory vines. The flowers are white with delicate pink, blue and purple markings. Bunches of them are fastened on the shoulders and a wreath twined in the hair. Two littlo sisters are going as Daisy and Pond Lily. Their dresses are green tarlatan. Daisy will wear a garland of the pretty field flowers across her shoulders and a fillet of them on her golden hair. Bunches of daisies are sewed around the hem of the skirt. The little Pond Lily's cor^umo is equally dainty. Lilies and buds a*e gracefully grouped on the front breadth of the Bkirt aud at the top of the puffed sleeves. Green hose and slippers will be worn by both children. The beys represent Sunshine. Their fellow page suits are thickly spangled and dusted with golden flitter aud their gold leather slippers ornameuted with sparkling buckles.

At another pretty ball the girls will be dressed as fruits and the boys as bees. aT A charming costume just finished for a Cherry has a sunburst plaited skirt of chewy hued india silk, tbe bod ice and sleeves formed of overlapping green satin leaves.

Kit HE HAUTE SATURDAY JKVE^LNG MAIL, FEBRUARY 19, 1898.

Stockings and slippers are cber ry red. Bunches of cherries will be tied among the little maid's dark locks on each side of her

CHERRY. roguish face.

Very winsome will the little Peach look in her skirt of yellow and pink changeable silk and her green velvet jacket Clusters of artificial peaches and long ribbon streamers form the shoulder garniture, and the hose and slippers are yellow. Many of these costumes are of white or delicately tinted tarlatans and mulls, with the fruit idea carried out in tbe trimmings. Tbe bees have jaunty suits of black and yellow and very small wings of gauze.

Probably the prettiest fancy dress ball of all will be the one to which 60 children have been asked to come as fairies. The hostess* little daughters will represent Dewdrop and Crystal, the queen's attendants. The Dewdrop costume Is particularly nor-

sewed around she neck and over the sleeves, giving a sparkling effect Strands of the beads are bound around the hair. The slippers aro entirely covered with beads. Crystal is a white costume A coarse meshed net, thickly cuvered with clear glass drops, is used for the whole dress, which is made over a white silk slip. A bead necklace, cap of net for tbe hair, white hose, gloves and slippers will add to the effectiveness 'of the character. The Fairy Queen's gown is of pale dull blue tulle, spangled with green and silver. The tulle wings have bntterfly markings, formed with spangles and disks of ruby tinsel. With this costume goes a spangled belt and wreath of blue blossoms powdered with diamond dust. The other little fairies' costumes vary in color and are spangled in blue, gold and crimson.

MARIE E. MORAN.

Washington.

In stead of the usual assembly of peasants, flower girls, Punches, etc., the little guests will coiie dressed as birds

TRIUMPHANT WOMANHOOD.

Mrs. Russell Sage Sees Equal Suffrage In the Near Future. [Copyright, 1S98, by the Author.]

The movement towiard woman suffrage which so agitated the country four years ago is supposed to be dead. I have been asked to give my opinion in regard to the truth of this supposition. I answer frankly and to the best of my knowledge, no. I have just sent to the New York legislature a letter standing by my opinion expressed in the petition of 1894 for suffrage for women.

The very silence in which the question now lies is portentous. Thousands who frowned on Susan B. Anthony are now working for the franchise. Schools to teach women politics are quietly forming all over the country. Hundreds of petitions to strike out the word "male" from the constitution are all the time being prepared to present to the constitutional convention of 1914. As amendments to the New York constitution can be made only once in 20 years all are locking forward to tbe great campaign of 1914.

I believe in using any instrument that benefits mankind. Suffrage is one of these instruments. In a woman's hand the ballot will be a tool which she will use for the good of her nation.

Woman is no longer part of man's goods and chattels. A wife owns property in her own name, can buy and sell real estate as sbe pleases, knows her own mind and asserts her own will. A few years ago when woman suffrage formed the most popular topic in the daily press, the pulpit and the household women in various cities—the very women who own property and who, therefore, ought to wish to be recognized as citizens and have their voice in the making of the laws of the land which taxes them—opposed the movement. Luckily they are in the minority. Once we went to war because of taxation without representation. Are not women who own property subjects of taxation without the corresponding representation? In New York state alone women own $1,000,000,000 worth of taxable real estate.

With women as lawyers, doctors and even as clergymen, with women merchants and women manufacturers and women marching steadily upward in the arts aud sciences, it does not seem strange that women should now take up politics.

In fact, with limited opportunities American women have shown such skill in political diplomacy that I draw the justifiable inference that before long they will have a powerful influence in state and national affairs.

The present silence into which this great subject has fallen is simply the necessary period of. preparation. Just as the greatest silence precedes a storm and the most ominous stillness forms the prelude of a great battle, this present silence is tbe calm term of thought which always precedes aotion.

When women vote, we shall have wiser government and cleaner politics. When men and women labor together, there is a compactness, a completeness, a thoroughness often wanting when the sexes work separately.

If men have experience, women have insight. Men use logic and reason, women instinct and intuition. If men are hasty, cruel, brutal, women are diplomatic, merciful, refined. Combine these qualities, and yon have a unit that approaches perfection.

If the movement effects any reform, it will be the reclaiming of national buildings and thoroughfares from their masculine uncleanliness. I anticipate a national house cleaning such as this country has never beheld, and the cleaners, a vast army, fully armed with mops, brooms and buckets, will be made up not of men, but of women. Why not? In private homes the housekeeper is a woman, why should not the housekeeper in our national home be also a woman?

Woman suffrage would first reform women. The reformation would be in converting women from a condition of apathy and indifference to her absurd condition to a state of lively interest in which she would claim recognition in all departments of life.

A vote in tbe bands of women will do more than reform, it will revolutionize. Moreover, it will bring the present period of unrest to an end.

No advocate of woman suffrage considers the present year any too soon to begin work. Every moment is precious, every day brings new recruits, every year adds new regiments to an already vast army. Mrs. Russell Sags.

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