mfKHraffrw & jr ' ' C r -J? s " "rVfiSEKfar;; " - 10 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1891 IN G0LD1D GLORY The Ladies of the Cabinet Stand Be holden to the People at Wednes day's Receptions. BEAUX AMONG THE STATESMEN. A Call at Mrs. Wanamaker's Home, Where the Gay Gallants Get Pnnch of the Soft Tariety. 21 ES. MOETOK'S HANDSOME HUSBAXD. dele Em Is trcilly Relied Upon TOitn It Cents to Eetunurg the CE. tCOEBESrOMJENCK Or TUB XMSPJLTCH.I "WASniXGTOjr, Feb. 7. ENT begins next "Wcdnesdar, and Washington soci ety ior the next 40 days trill, meta phorically speak in?, put on sack cloth, eat fish on Fridays and squat in the ashes of re pentance. The season has been a gay one, and din ners, teas and re ceptions have been numerous and extravagant. The Cabinet recepbns gave a chance to the ourists and the bridal couples to see the noted women of Washington, and the Cab inet ladies tell me their callers were num bered by thousands. These Cabinet recep tions are peculiarly an American institu tion. . t All the wives of President Harrisons counselors are supposed to be at home every Wednesday during the social season, and "the doors are thrown open to all. I sup pose it would be a small estimate to say that Mrs. Wanamaker has shaken hands with 20,000 people at her Wednesday recep tions this season, and you could hardly crowd the cards she has received into a two bushel babket. Calling; on Mrs. Wanamnlcer. Let us jcin the crowd of tourists and make a call upon her. The streets are dry, the day is pleasant and we walk, going past the "White House, by the Corcoran Gallery, past the Metropolitan Club, where Count Arco Valley with his monocle tightly pinched by the flesh around his left eje, looks at us and on up to Farragut Square on the south side cf which is now rising the cream-colored brick mansion on the ruins of the fire which caused the death of Mrs. Sicretary Tracy. At thecorner of Farragut quare we turn to the right aloug I street and stop before a big square three-story mansion of red brick with a sort of a Gre cian portico over its front door. The street is filled with carriages and coachmen and footmen in livery, with bugs on their hats, sneer at us as they sit stiff and straight on tne carriages of the nabobs. A wide awning extends lroni the front door to the edge of the roadway, and there is a car pet laid across the sidewalk and up the steps in order that Dame Fashion may not soil her feet in coming in. A portly butler stands at the head of this, and the door has apparently opened by magic, swinging noiselessly back on its big brass hinges as we walk up the steps. A Cordial Greeting. He takes our cards on what looks like a collection plate, and motions us to the right. We keep on our wraps and go in as our names are announced in loud tones. A handsome lady in evening dress stands near the door. It is Mrs. Wana maker. She is straight, well formed and fine looking, and the smile with which she shakes our bands is a genuine one. She tjys a wed or so about the beautiful day tnd then passes us on to the other ladies of tne reception party who are also dressed with trains and who are among the distin guished women of the country. 1 note that one of them is very prcttv and ttiat her dress is a corn-colored silk and that another has on a light blue crepe with a gold girdle and trimmings. This lust lady is quite young. She has a beautiful form and her face has strength as well as beauty. Her name is slurred over as we pass by her and my friend asks in a Whisper who she Eidy be. "Why that," is my reply, "isMiss Jlinnie Wanamaker. She is the daughter of the Postmaster General, and she is one of the Iff t &:J s. -S t t Air iff jf A " mmiM i i hWti ii wffJ mm i I wll WA0- f A SCENE AT tVAKAMAKEP.'S BOSS. brightest girls in Washington. The diplo mats are crazy over her and she is one of the best catches in America, Wanamaker is worth at least 58,000,000 and he has only four children." Some of the Callers. These vords are whispered and we move back under a beautiful painting, and I give ""a muning comment on some of the visitors ns they enter. "That gray-haired lady in black with the bright eyes and fresh face is Mrs. General Loean. She is well-to-do now, and she is just beginning to go into so- . ciety alter her husband & death, bhc drives one" of the finest turnouts in Washington, and there is no more popular woman in the country. The pretty dark-faced little girl behind her is Mrs. Major Tucker, and that tall, fine-looking man is her husband, the Major. 'Ton see, men call here as well as women, and the old call as well as the young. That tall tbin old man who is sow shaking hands with Mrs. Wanamaker is Horatio King. He was Postmaster General over 40 years ago, and when Buchanan was President and Jeff Davis was a society beau he had the place that Wanamaker has now. He is 75 years old, but he is as hright as a dollar and he especially likes young girls, and I will give you an introduction it you want it." My friend replied that she did not care to be introduced just then and I went on: Tears Sit UjUtly on. Her. "That tall lady with the rosy cheets and brown hair is Mrs. Senator Sherman. She is fine-looking, isn't she? She has been in society here longer than Horatio King, and she came here with John when he was elected to Congress away back in 1854." "Before you were born?" "VTei, 1 know, but she likes to go calling as well nowas she did then and this Wash ington society is a thing that grows on you. What a lot that woman has seenl She knew Harriet Lane. She was a noted lady when Lincoln was P-csident and for four years she had the si me place that Mrs. Wanamaker has now when John Sherman was Secretary of the Treasury. She has been one of the leaders of the Senatorial circle for years and years, and she presides over the Senator's big mansion on K street That girl with her is her daughter, Mary. She will probably be as big an heiress as Minnie Wanamaker, and she is one of the best-liked girls among the daughters of the Senators. We seem to have struck the rich people to-day. That plainly-dressed lady there who is just coming into the drawing room is Mrs. Stanford. Sirs. Stanford's Jewels. "She don't look like the wife of the richest man in the country, but you ought to see her at a big dinner or at a White House reception. She wears jewels at such &&K f) A A -3 LU 'i u KiV ar ?i-t ;v.i rz Bjini n 'A l rwWY AmJk W ( (vrfx I 'M I "Alt will. I AT THE VICE PBESIDEXT'S MANSION. times that are worth a fortune, and I have seen her when she had a necklace said to be worth $100,000 shining out below that char acteristic chin. She is a woman of great common sense, and shc believes in dressing rightly at the proper places. No one makes afternoon calls except in street dresses, and you see that all the costumes to-day are simple in the extreme. "That white-haired man behind her is an other Washington character. Note his jolly Bacchus-like face, his white hair, his rotund form and his courtlv airs. That is the greatest old beau in Washington, and his name is General "Van Yhet. He and General Sherman are great chums, and they used to make their calls together. That fine looking lady behind him is Mrs. Senator McMillan, who is another rich woman with bcantifnl daughters, and there is Mrs. Sena tor Wolcott, who is also rich and pretty. She is a newcomer in Washiucton, but seems to be growing very popular." "Wanaznakcrft Art Gallery. "But let us go on to the dining-room," said my friend. And with that we walked on through elegantly furnished apartments into a Ion? room so big that you could turn a wagon load of hay in it without touching the walls. This room was lighted from the lop and its walls were decorated with some of the finest pictures in the country. The paper on the walls was of satin good enough to make a dress and it was of such a tint as to throw out the pictures. The Postmaster General has perhaps a hundred thousand dollars or so invested in the canvas which is hung on these walls.and it is the same throughout the other rooms of the house. The dining-room is also hung with satin and as we came in here, I saw General Van Vliet taking a glass of Beth any punch. As the cool, lenionade-iike liquid flowed down his throat. I noticed a spasm of surprise crawling from his chin on up toward his nose and on until it mantled his fair brow and reached the roots of his frosted silver hair. The General, like most of the army officers, likes punch, but he does not approve of the article when not made with the best of Jamaica rum or some other spirituous liquor. The Famous Bethany Punch. "Mrs. Postmaster General Wanamaker is a temperance woman. She does not permit wine to be served at her Cabinet dinners and she has inaugurated this Bethany punch, which is a combination of lemons and oranges flavored in some peculiar way that makes it actually appetizing. Itjhas become quite popular in Washington and you find it everywhere now, even though the Simon-pure intoxication article is served from a different bowl at the same time. swe munched over indigestible salted almonds and took a cup of tea from a piece of china that was worth its weight in gold, I asked my friend to take note of a man standing on the other side of the room. It was a tall, well-formed, fine-looking man of pei haps 35. "I see him," said she in a whisper, "and who is he?" "That," replied I, "is the Ward McAllis ter of Washington. He used to be even more of an authority on social matters when Mrs. Cleveland was here than he is now. He is considered the handsomest man in Washington and his name is Dr. Ruth. He has been the best man at M) weddings, and he is one of the old standhys ol the navy. He is a bachelor, however, notwithstancl ing. Mrs. Socrotary Noble's Receptions. Leaving the Wanamaker mansion and crossing Farragut square, we next went past the residence of Senator Stanlnrd and in a few minutes stood before the big house of the Secretary of the Interior. It is a red brick, facing Franklin square, and it has the same awning and carpet leading out to the street. There was the same swell butler at the door, and Mrs. Noble looked not un like Mrs. Wanamaker at the right of the hall as we entered. She greeted us just as cordially, and my friend said she made ex actly the same remarks about the weather in the same tones as those wc heard at Mrs. Wanama Ler's. The crowd was almost as great as that at the Postmaster General's, and my friend seemed surprised at the number of public men she saw, and asked me who were the chief beaus among the statesmen. "Fully one-halt the Senators and Repre sentatives," said I, "like to be considered society men. That tall man with the big head, the beefy shoulders and the face like a great Chines'e doll is Speaker Eeed. This is the first time I have seen him out this season, but he usually goes to the receptions and hi looks like another man when you see him in a dress coat. Tho Korean Minister. "The Vice President makes the regular round of calls and nil the naval officers are fond of society. The diplomats all call, and they are among the most popular of the society beaux. The Chinese Minister and the Korean Minister are among the callers, and the Korean Minister always brings his wife with him. I met him last night, and noting that there was some change in his clothes I asked him what it meant. He re plied he was iu mourning. ' 'Oh, said I, 'I suppose you are in mourning for your little child who died the other day?' " 'Oh no, said he. 'I am sorry for my child, but I do not mourn for her. I mourn for our Queen Dowager, the greatest woman in Korea, who died a few months ago.' " From Secretary Noble's we went to Mrs. Secietary Proctor's, and thence called upon Mrs. Busk and Mrs. Attornev General Mil ler. It was, however, the same thing of handshaking and chatting about little nothings, and my friend at the end agreed with me that it was awfully nice, but that it must get awfully tiresome. Cabinet Calling "Will last. Will Cabinet calling last? Yes, I sup pose so. Mrs. Secretary Blaine is the only Cabinet woman who has, so far as I know, ever objected to it. She will receive none hut her friends on most Cabinet days, and callers are told that the wife of the Secre tary of State is not at home. Why shouldjive have Cabinet calhs? Why should our Cab inet officers' wives have to dress up and put themselves on dress parade to be looked at by people about whom thev don't care a cent every Wednesday afternoon? The expense of the receptions is some thing. I know of some Cabinet officers who spend three and fonr times their salaries. and can't afford to spend once the amount they receive. I know of others who would drop Cabinet receptions to-day if tbey could, and of still others who say they like "them. The returning of the calls is quite an item of trouble and expense. Let me tell you how tliev do it. It used to be that all calls were returned in person, and the time was when the President's wile was exnected to return all calls made upon her. Mrs. Fair child, who received as many as 8,000 calls on one day, tried to return all of them. She found it impossib'e, however, for many ot the cards had no number upon them, and upon looking for the names in the directory they could not be found. A Squabble Over Rank. We have in fact a merry war here every year over who shall call first, and the rank of the Vice President, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Cabinet Ministers and of the Congressincn'is by no means a settled one. Mrs. Vice President Morton receives on the same day as the Cabinet Ministers, and after leaving Mrs. Busk's we called upon Mrs. Morton. It was about 5 o'clock when we entered the immense, many-sided brick mansion which constitutes the Vice President's home, and we found that the Vice President was in the reception room at the time we were presented to Mrs. Morton. What a fine-looking couple they arel Mr. Morton is straight, tall and well-formed. He has a big head thatched with short wavy, iron-gray hair, which comes down upon his forehead in a sort of a Itoscoe Conkling curl, and his face smooth shaven, looks as though it might have stepped out of one of the paintings of the men of our colonial days, which you find on the walls of the rotunda of the Capitol. This fare always wears a smile, and the Vice Presi dent is considered the prince ot entertainers. She Trained In l'arls. The Vice President paid over 5100,000 for this house, and he bought it from Bell, the telephone inventor, and this dining room which he added is said to have cost almost as much as his entire salary during his Vice Presidental term. It is the finest din ing room in Washington, and the dinners given in it surpass those of the White Huosc. " Miss Gkuudy, Jb. A Steam Phaeton. A steam phaeton has appeared in Paris resembling an ordinary phaeton. It car ries under the body of the carriage a boiler which cannot explode, with a funnel bent down and discharging smoke under the back seat. FAIR WOMEN'S WORLD. Tho Club Organized at Washington Recently a Great Success. J0TTIXGS ON FASHIONS AND PADS. Feeing Maids of the Hostess and Toints on Trivate Dinners. KE17 PAKCIES FOE TI1B E0SEBDDS Wimodaughsis of Washington is no longer an experiment. This woman's club was or ganized last June and is now so prosperous that it will build its own clubhouse. Anna F. Shaw is President and Adelaide Johnson Vice President. Wimodaughsis is organ ized as a joint stock company and will issue stock not to exceed 200,000. The first issue of 5,000 shares at 55 each was immedi ately placed on the market and 200 shares were at once subscribed. When 51.000 of these sub scriptions are paid in Wimodaughsis will at once put that amount to their credit in the purchase of a suitable site, where the iuture home of the club will be built. That building is the object for which the organization in tends to work zealously. It is a great idea.and does credit to the minds that have planned it. Wimodaughsis wants a building with an auditorium large enough to accommodate all the large gatherings which come here year after year for their annual sessions. First of all they want a place where the annual conventions of the National Ameri can Woman Suffrage Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance "Union, the Association of Collegiate Alumna;, the Woman's Belief Corps, the Woman's Press A Hat of the Day. Association, the Bed Cross, labor and Indian associations, federations of clubs, and all the other societies of women, can meet for their stated deliberations. As a purely business speculation the scheme is a good one. In connection with the auditorium there will be committee rooms for the executive sessions of the above organizations, where they mav keep a permanent headquarters. The building will also contain a library, reading and reception rooms, an art gallery and rooms for classes, a thoroughly equipped gymnasium, a natatorium and nny other modern facility for instruction or amuse ment. The parlors and the library may be come the meeting ground for the members and theii friends and especially for that constantly increasing class of working women who have.no homes of their own nor suitable accommodations where they live to talk with their -friends. In fact, Wimo daughsis wants to provide itself and all women who care to enjoy its advantages, whether they are permanent or but transient residents of Washington, with a headquar ters where they meet women for mutual im provement and mutual help, and from which great ideas lor the lurtherance of all good projects may be disseminated. . The club now has its home at 140C G street. Here the Woman's Suffrage Asso ciation and the Woman's Christian Temper ance "Union hold their business sessions and have a permanent headquarters. These par lors are rented nearly every night in the week to some club "or organization. The Indian Association meets there once a month, the French Club every Friday night. A musical club and a literary club have also nights in every week. Organizations of women who have laudable purposes in view and want a chance to discuss them are welcome to these parlors when they are not otherwise occupied, and there is no charge if thev cannot afford it. Wimodaughsis has already in successful operation a series of classes in which the following specialties are taught: Art needlework, French, Spanish, German, shorthand, typewriting and paint ing and drawing. The club is a grand suc cess, and will be a grander one. Latest advices insist that all boas shall be flat, somewhat broad and very lonp, reaching to the hem of the skirt The model dinner toilet illustrated is of pink bengaline decorated with embroidery, says Harper's Bazar. The embroidery surrounds the edge of the demi-trained skirt, and is carried upward on the sides. On the right side is a narrow embroidered panel edged with deep fringe. The skirt is drawn up slightly by cross folds on the hips and hangs in straight folds at the back. The smooth-fitting short-sleeved bodice is covered with embroidery. At the heart-shnped throat is a flaring Medici col lar of black velvet edged with gold beads. Folds of pink chiffon are in the neck, and frills of it hang from the short sleeves, veil ing the arm to below the elbow. A question which in these days of strug gling to do everything according to the ac cepted form may have puzzled some other women, perplexed one briefly the other day, says the New York Tifnet. A guest at a re ception needed an extra service from the maid in charge of the dressing room. A grievous rent required some minutes' labor to repair. The lady whose gown was torn, as she stood helpless while the maid worked, signaled a friend to find her purse for a coin to bestow, hat the friend promptly vetoed 11 tg3o a',V -. Jfilll the intention. "Never, my dear," she said, with an air ot authority, "fee a maid in your hostess' house in these circumstances." Many mistresses, indeed, forbid a fee to the servants when a guest of several davs' stand ing is taking leave. The essence of hospit ality is undoubtedlr the cause. "I and mine at thy service," is the Arabic inter pretation of entertainment. Considerable difference of opinion and custom prevails here in the matter. In "England the tip for the servants' hall amount to a consider able tax, but they are well-nigh obligatory. Lady Salisbury's ball has-been the most talked-of event in the world of fashion says Miss Mantilini in the rail Mall Budget. At a lady dressmaker's I was shown several handsome dresses that were worn there For a young lady there was a dazzlingly pretty gown in silver and white brocade. The skirt was draped over a flounce of white chiffon, and edged with a silver fringe, and the fantastic bodice (which was not very decollete) was trimmed with dew drop ne't and silver ball fringe. The sleeves reached to the elbow and were made of transparent stuff. It was a most fairy-like costume, and must have looked gorgeous under the electric light. Another gown, for a young married woman, was of pearl gray satin, covered with a veil of beaded net, and ornamented here and there with tufts of soft yellow and gray feathers. Satin is the material most to the fore for expensive ball dresses this season. , All smart gowns, whether for old or young wearers, are being decorated with ostrich feathers. It is the most becoming trimming imaginable. Another gown destined lor the function jnst mentioned was of dark green silk, brocaded daintily with bouquets of pale pink flowers. There was a quantity of flummery on the bodice feathers, chiffon velvet and what not, but the skirt was per fectly plain save for a ruche at the foot. A dance dress that had been made for a bru nette beauty to wear at a less important affair is worlh mentioning. It was of red bengaline ornamented at the waist with a garnet girdle. The sleeves were of white chiffon, and the bodice was more than half hidden under a diaphanous cloud of the same stuff. Egyptian ideas in house decoration are already talked of. The Egyptian fireplaces which are shown as huge massive affairs in which the lotos flower in relief forms a feat ure of decoration. A new drapery net in old ivorv tint is also called after the land of the Nile. Mrs. Anna C. Fall, who was admitted to the Suffolk county bar recently, makes the third lawyer of the fair sex in Boston. The others are Miss Alice Parker and Mrs. Lelia Bobinson-Sawtell. Mrs., Fall's husband is already a member of the bar, and she will praotice with him. The two will not be in partnership at the beginning, as the law does not permit contracts between husband and wife. But it is their intention to petition the present Legislature for the passage of a special act which shall allow them to form a copartnership. Pretty dark-eyed Miss Marie Lentilhon has designed for herself a costume for Mme. de Barrios' hal masque to-morrow evening, says a New York exchange, Pretty Maid of Arcady. which will make her look like a fair little maid of Arcady. The petticoat is of shell pink satin, quilted in diamonds, and the shepherdess polonaise is of white brocade flowered in apple blossoms; around the throat and down the front fall a full fichu of rose pink chiffon. The back has a Watteau plait which falls into a graceful demi-train. The bat is of white crepe trimmed with apple blossoms and tied un der the soft, white throat with pink velvet ribbons. She will carry a white and gold crook with apple blossoms tied at the end. Mrs. Flamboyant i n her box at the opera I tell you, dear, he must be a perfect gentle man or a perfect blackguard. None other could stare at one through his glass so im pudently. A young and blushing bride from Con' nccticut, with a Yankee husband at her side, went to Central Park to see the ani mals the other day, says the New York Morning Journal. The couple were very much engrossed in each other, and the ani mals did not receive the attention to which they were entitled until the pair strolled into the elephant house. Old Tippoo Sa hib, the pouderous five-tonner, seemed to be quite pleased with the pretty bride. He ran out his great trunk and was fed barber pole candy and peanuts by the delicate fingers of the bride. When the elephant had eaten all the dainties the visitors had, the animal wanted more, and the trunk was persuasively thrust forward again. Just lor a joke the bride pricked the end of the sensitive trunt with a pin. 'Twas only a little puncture, hut it made Tip very angry. Still, he didn't show his anger. His small eyes twinkled a little more brightly, and he kept a close watch of the couple while they remained in his vicinity. He stopped eating hay, and, moving over to a big bucket of water which stood in the corner, he slowly filled his trunk with its contents. Tne bride had left her waterproof at home. This was un fortunate, as Tip elevated his trunk and blew the water upon the bride with such force that she would have fallen, but for her husband's assistance. The torrent struck the woman lull in the breast and deluged her. She resembled a dishrag. She gasped for breath and was carried into the engine room to dry. Among the "rosebud" colony of pretty maids few jewels and but little jewelry of any kind is worn. Still, the young deb utante has her jewelcase, and it is usually filled with unique chic trifles, says the New York Morning Journal. Tne newest scent bottle carried by Miss Maude Jaffr.iy is of ruby glass, after tne form of a hot water jug, the'stand, neck, spout and handle being of heavily chased silver. Solid silver spurs, donned when the demoiselle is upon an equestrian trip, are dainty trifles, which are still expensive, costing as high as $70. 'Gold thimbles, encircled with small brilliants, is another article that Dame Fashion declares necessary for a "bud," also a pair of silver knitting needles. The youngest members of society are still supposed to do some bit of fancy work, perhaps for church fair or other charitable affair. Safety pins for children hare undergone inch an evolution that now they can be had in either gold or silver, enameled, polished and jeireled with preoioui stones. , FIELDS E0R WOMEN. Their Own Fault if They Submit to Injustice and Bulldozing. HOUSEHOLD SERVICE STILL OPEN. Intelligent Womon Can Bring Dignity to Any Calling on Earth. THE SIjATEEI OF LIFE IN EOCIKTT rWBITTES FOB THE DISPATCU.J The world is constantly being called upon to extend sympathy and aid to a class of working women, many of whom themselves elect to "endure every form of outrage and oppression known to workers." By exercise of their own will they, so to speak, make their own beds, and tben with a recital of blood curdling woes they call upon the world to interfere and compel their employ ers to give them shorter hours, more wages and less oppression. "There must be hearts still, and they'll see soon, and then things'H be different," is what one woman pitifully says. These poor people put their-trust in pity, benevo lence and symp'athy. But there is no sentiment in business. They should be taught to understand v-jat they evidently do not know, that they have the remedy in their own hands. What sort of a woman is she who will sit from morning till night makiog button holes at 6 cents a dozen, at which she cannot earn more thau 52 or $3 a week, when she could have her choice of a dozen places with healthful work and good pay? The woman wage-worker, says one, has fallen upon evil days. But it is uot true. Forty years ago or more women were restricted to about four trades. Now the Doors Are "Wide Open. They can go into anything they desire, for which they are capable and fitted. If they have no taste for housework, they have the world before them to choose from subject, of course, to their brains, their character and their circumstances. Wow n who have found small pay and poor promise in teaching have gone to farming, gardening and ranch ing. Women in the South who by the hor rors and sorrows of war were reduced to poverty, "run" plantations with great suc cess. They have gardens in which they cultivate early vegetables and flowers for the Northern markets. They no longer give their time to society, but find health and wealth in work. Women who are getting poor wares at anything need to do as men do, keep their eye out for something better. If they have the spirit of independence in thei 'make up" they put their pride iu thi " oocket and lake the best pay going for anything thev can do. and tben do it well. Years ago in New England when factory work paid better that any other, and yet was considered pretty low down the spunky girls of New England went into it, and so dignified the position by their aptitude and intelligence, that the women of the Lowell factories became famous. The Factors' Her Alma Mater. Mrs. Bobinson, one of the newspaper writers of Boston, tells how she went into the factory when a slip of a girl and worked 14 hours a day. She gradnated there, and considers the factory her alma mater. As far back as 1841 a number of the girls formed an organization for "the purpose of improv ing their gilts from God." They estab lished a magazine. This society was the first woman's club of New England. Among the notable members was Lucy Larcom, so well known now as a writer. Another was Harriet Farley, whose father was a minister and whose relatives were among the best people of New England. She tells how from the age of 14, she had to work for her living. She plaited straw for hats, bound shoes, taught school, sewed at tailor work and worked in the factory, which he liked better than anything else. She was the chosen editor of the magazine estab lished by the factory girls, assisted by Miss Curtis, another of the operatives. The contributions to this work of "Mind Among the Spindles" were written alter factory hours by the workers, whodid not spend their leisure hours parading the streets and making "mashes" as a recent report tells us the girls of the factories do nowadays. Miss Farley says she took up her work in the factory in oppo sition to her friends, and in defiance of the idei that she would lose caste. She received good waees, as compared with teaching. By economyin dress she assisted in giving her brother a liberal education, and endeavored to reconcile her. relatives by devoting ber spare earnings to them and their interests. She becme the editor and proprietor of the &K "vDt3l vd Y. r ""vHTV2 bad, observing that a diplomatist's first duty after a congress was to take care of his liver." This sentence, besides ex pressing the wit of the great statesman, also shows his be lief in the virtue of the Carlsbad mineral waters, which are unsurpassed for the cure of all diseases of the liver, kidneys, and bladder, catarrh of the stomach, diabetes, rheumatism, gout, chronic constipation, and other diseases requiring a mild st nm . sjsj 1 C laxative, diuretic, or Diooa-punrymg remedy. Imported direct from Carlsbad by Eisner & Mendelson Co., 6 Barclay Street, N. Y. Pam phlets sent free upon application. New England Offering, with over 4,000 sub scribers. A Praiseworthy- Object. The contributors and workers upon this magazine thought out their articles while working 14 hours a day attending to their looms. "They started with no lance or spear to hgnt battles, not even their own. Their aim, as announced,, was to elevate the humble and show that good could come out of Nazareth." They had taken a low position as then thought to make money, and manyflf tbem achieved fame a? well." Their energy and enterprise have furnished examples for others to follow. The women df to-day have advantages far beyond those of half a century ago, and it ill becomes them to sit down by thousands and tens of thousands in miserable tene ments and garrets and make shirts for 6 cents apiece. The song of the shirt should now be a hack number that nobody sings. A lot of girls in Chicago solved their own problem, as stated by Mrs. Barry. Thev worked in a tailoring shop and, contrary to orders, they attended a picnic on Labor Day. For this breach of discipline they were "fired." Thereupon they set to work and solicited subscriptions. By considerable effort they raised 5100. They paid a month's rent in advance, and in company with a few of the brethren tbey started a co-operative tailor shop. Inside of nine months, as the report goes, those few men and women did $36,000 worth of business at their establishment ou Fifth avenue, in Chicago. "Waiting to Marry. Some girls have gumption enough to "strike out," but the most of tbem have "getting married" in view, when, as they fondly picture to themselves, they will have a husband to support tbem. But these find perhaps that Life's fairest things are thoso which seem The best is that of which we dream. They are willing to work along somehow until marriage opens fur thern the gates of bliss. But only too often they have to work harder, and even under worse conditions than before. Too often they realize the difference between the sat isfaction of earning money and bearing their own dollars jingle in their pockets, and the humiliation of begging for a quarter for pin money from a stingy husband. One writer upon the sufferings of "the slaves of the slop shops" seems to think that the remedy lies in a "change of ideals" in a refusal by people who are "better off" to own anything that cannot be shared with then. But he should remember that this is a very queer world. If a "change of ideals" would raise wages there might be something in it. The practice of the Golden Bute has been the ideal for thousands of yean, but the inexorable law of supply and demand is still in full effect and likely to be until Bellamy's "Utopia has been established by course of evolution. If the good ladies who are so arduously en gaged in toiling for the heathen in foreign lands, and who are everlastingly sending millions of money out of the country iu their behalf, would devote their brains to a study of the industrial question, they might do a vast deal for the enlightenment and improvement of these slaves at home. Con template in comparison with the heathen the amount of prayer and fasting and end less effort it will take to convert the most pious of business men and the straightcst of deacons to the idea that competition should give way to co-operation and an equal share of the dividends. Other Hard-Worked Women. There is a .class of wording women who receive even less consideration than the slop shop slaves, thonzh tbey are continually claiming it. These are they who are driven by the demands of society. Like the others, they have the remedy in their own hands, but are subjugated and held by an intang ible force to spend their time in the la borious pursuit of keeping tally with calls, and "doing" receptions and dinners and other fashionable affairs. That they have to work, and work hard, is very plain to see. With a house to keep, a nursery to see after, a lot of incapable servants to manage, with butchers and bakers and candlestick makers to bother with, with shopping to do, dress makers and milliners on hand, with a half dozen or more social engagements every day, to say nothing of their soul-saving church duties, it is no wonder they keep always say ing they have hardly a minute to themselves. The working-women have no time to train their children. These must be given up to the care of others, who may or may not be up to the mark in morals. Society women have no time to stay at home. Every even ing is full of operas, and dances, and recep tions and "goings on" that are usually more ot a bore than a pleasure. They have no en joyment of the delights of home because thoy are called to be ever on the "gad." How Society Bores. "I always mate calls upon a pleasant day when I can, said one of these desperately driven sisters, because I usually find so few at home I can get through 20 or 30 people in an afternoon, and get them off my mind." Some of the most perfect moments of ex TALLEYRAND'S MEMOIRS m J to .j " , 1 1 'I "- - - - '" ' - 'A (Portrait of Talleyrand from an Old Print.) FTERthe treaty of Vienna," "says Sir Bulwer, in his biography of lalleyrand, lalleyrand declared that his health required the waters of Carls CARLSBAD SPRUDEL- SALT U not a mere pargatrre, it is an alterative and a constitutional remedy. Obtain the irauina imported article. Do not be imposed upon by unscrupulous dealers. The genuine must have the signature of "Kbner& Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, 6 Barclay St, N. Y.," on every bottle. istence are described by a famous author it sitting at home by the fireside with a book, with the curtains drawn, and just enough wind outside to make a suitable accompani ment to indoors comfort. But few of these halcyon seasons are ever enjoyed by the working women of society. Emersonsays "the domestic man who loves no musio so well as that of his own kitchen clock?, and the airs whicli the logs sing to him as they burn upon the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of." But these have no music for the fashion' able working women. They mnst be off to the opera, ostensibly to take in the barbari ties of Wagner, or the slush of Sullivan, but really to be a part of the show as to decollete dress and diamonds or to the ball at the Blanks to exchange inanities per haps scandalous whispers with their fellow workers in vanities. The most wordly, tho most senseless, the most objectionable of men and women are the workers in tha treadmill of society, says a learned doctor of divinity. Society "women work hard, but to what intelligent aim or useful end the) heavens above only know. A letter tells me I am hard upon the working women, who, in doference to their prejudices, submit to oppressions. They have been brought up with them and can not easily east them off, says the writer. True enough, and all the more reason that these fool notions should he preached and pounded out of existence as soon as pos sible. No honest work is degrading. A sensible and independent woman would no more sit down and make button holes at & cents a dozen and work 14 honrs a day for. 52 a week and submit to bulldozing by a ' brute of a foreman than she would make an endeavor to fly to the moon. She would rather go out and break stones on the road at f 1 SO a day as did some women in Eastern Pennsylvania or submit to the dire iai dignity of receiving wages for doing house ', work. Bessie Bramble. A Sketch "Wound Up. Harper's Bazar. 2jfe "Ha! Now for a little action, and tht; effect will be simply immense." "Hit G'langl" "W-w-whoal" illlllll! The gold dollar is worth 100 cents thi world over. Pi. ?n; iIV Henry Lytton t3-87-T ivi VN ITT ZJ-JmM?d&m pg&jt jf i
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