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Until within thelast 25 years a "Woman's
Club" was unknown in this country. Wo
fcien bad their "Dorcas" and missionary
societies their benevolent end charitable
association and prayer meetings. At this
last,,in conformance with other ideas, a man
bad to be hunted np to preside. For a wo
man to take the chair at a religious meet
ing, or to lead in prayer, would have been
en nntolerable breach of the proprieties.
Many will remember how not many
years ago in the Third Church, Miss
Emiley, the noted Bible reader, was not
permitted to even stand upon the platform
of the chapel for fear of its being construed
as stepping upon orthodox toes or sticking
a pin into the prejudices of good Presby
terians. Many, too, will remember the Dr.
6ce trial, which tore up the whole Presby
terian Synod of 2Tew Jersey and so pro
foundly shocked and acitsted the General
Assembly, because Dr. See allowed two
ladies to speak from his pulpit upon the
subject of temperance.
Some will recall the picture as pre
sented upon the occasion of this famous
trial of Dr. Craven pounding the cushions
end shaking his fists, as he pronounced the
remarks of Mr. "Whitney and Mrs. P.obin
ron from the pulpit of Dr. See as an "in
decency in the sight of Jehovah," and with
what fiery eloquence he said that the hand
kerchiefs on the heads of the pea&ant women
of Naples, and the bonnets of the women
sittini; before him, were worn in token of
the subordination of women. It will be re
membered, too. that Rev. Dr. Cox, of Clif
ton Spring's, a few years ago, refused to ad
minister the sacrament to some of the
patients without bmnets on their heads,
cad that Jane G. Sirisshelmalwaysremoved
Jier bonnet in church in token that she re
fused acceptance of all such balderdash.
TSVurins; Rennets Sn Church.
But while women still wear their bonnets
In church, it is, in these days, very much
more as a measure of convenience than a
token of subordination. If thev chose to
take them off, he would be a bold bishop or
a rash clergyman who should demand they
put them on again, as any such token.
Fashion would be much more powerful than
any dosma or decree upon such matter to
ray nothing of common sense. It is true
there are some fanatics and weak-minded
ronen who would submit A prominent
Pittsburg woman of wealth once told tho
writer that she would crawl from the Union
station to "the Point" on her hands and
knees, if her Bishop commanded her to do
so, but such women are scarce among those
who possess any degree of enlightenment
Times are chanced. A union ot women
calling themselves a club would have
shocked the rood old srrandmothers to say
acthing of the crandfathers. But clubs
organized bv intelligent women to cultivate
their powers of thinking and reasoning to
increase in knowledge and wisdom to con
sider the great problems of life, and the
promotion of the highest good now excite
marc Interest than opposition, command
more respect than reproach, and inspire
more praise than censure. The lessons of
history, the discussions of principles and
systems, the study of character, the knowl
edge of the world, the interchange of views
en the great questions of the day in these
clubs make women wiser. They redeem
them from insicnificance and ignorance;
they strike out the idle gossip and silliness
that mark the weak and empty mind; they
enable women to manage all of their affairs
with greater capacity and skill.
TVhxt Clubs Do for Women.
There woman's clubs give to women auin
ierest in socsetv, an intelligent comprehen
sion of affairs of state, an insight into science
which tends to the better education of chil
dren, to improved housekeeping, and to
better judgment in the organization and
maintenance of benevolent enterprises and
charities in which so many now take so
larce a part Many of the memb'ers of the
"Woman's Clubs throughout the country are
engaged in church work, in kindergartens
and working-girls guilds, in sisterhoods and
mite societies, in aeed women's homes and
hospitals, in associations for the protection
nnd education of the Indians, in temper
ance unions, in missionary societies and all
manner of philanthropic" enterprises, but
the clubs are committed, as a general thing,
to no h.ob-y, or pet scheme for reform. They
furnish the wide field tor discussion, for
criticism, for investication that serve the
purpose of separating the chaff from the
heat, that call for the consideration of a
subject without bias or prejudice, that tend
to break down superstition, and to substi
tute cool, sober judgment for the rash en
thusiasm by which so many are led to do
cv:l that good may come.
"Women are said to be more emotional and
i.rntimental than men. They are more ready
to be imposed upon by frauds and tramps
lean men. They are more liable to be led
away bv impulse and extravagance in feel
ing than are men, who exercise their brains
end are thought to steep their sentiments in
snow and ice. But the discussions in the
"Woman's Clubs are playing havoo with
these ci iticisnis.
Grave Mistakes In Chanty.
A very good Christian woman said one
day ths-t she never had the heart to turn
away a beggar from her door. Asa conse
quence she was besieged by beggars, and
there was hardly a night in the year that
her barn was free from tramps. If this
good lady had possessed a knowledge of
political economy, or had given her brains
fair play rather than her prejudices, she
would have known se was doing harm
rather than good. She would have realized
she was encouraging men to be
Idle rather than industrious, and that
by such encouragement she was
doing an injury to the community in
which she lived by supportins a set of lazv
loafers whose moral sense was weakened,
and perhaps wholly destroyed by such mis
taken charity. Much of the poverty and
evil "bf to-day has been produced not by
misfortune or visitation of God but alto
gether by the charitv of the misjudging of
the good people in days gone by. This will
seem hard hearted to the sentimental, but
It is the teaching of common sense of a
lesson which a vast number of women
greatly need to learn, and are learning, in
their clubs.
A knowledge of history is opened up to
women in their study as club members that
comes in the light of a revelation. At
school thev, of course, studied history, but
It was in the barest and most uninteresting
of outlines, confined mainlv to wars and
political changes but giving little or noth
ing toJtromei), social life, or manners. In
some of the American school histories not a
woman is named, save, perhaps, Isabella of
Spain or Pocahontas of Virginia. In pass
ing, it may be said, that nothing more dis
closed the poverty of Pittsburg as to libra
ries and historical works, than the studies
and discussions of the Pittsburg "Woman's
Club.
The Old Idea of Settling Down.
Before the stimulus and impetus of
"Woman's Clubs were given to women the
idea was accepted that when the girl quit
school she was done with study and had
henceforth nothing more to do but to
get married and setflo down. This
settling down meant that she was to bury
Tier talents in the kitchen, smother her am
bitions in the nursery, and kill all her
hopes and aspirations upon the domestic
altar. If her husband happened to be a
smart, well-doing prosperous man and a
good provider she was pretty well off, and
had nothing to complain ot But if he was
a "stick-in-the-mud," it was her bounden
duty to stick in the mud too. If he had no
gumption or "git-up-and.git" about him
him she had no option save to struggle
along in the slough of despond.
Her education fitted her for nothing in
the way of making a living, save by mar
riage, and when that was a failure the
world became a "gulf of dark despair." In
the days of the grandmothers for a woman
to read was considered a waste of time. It
was consistent with the proprieties and
notable as thrift and good form for her to
have some 'pick-up work' always at hand,
in the way of knitting or fancy work to
preserve her from mischief that Satan
might suggest in the line ot reading a book,
a paper or a magazine.
"Wives ?fo Ioncer Companions.
The, dull, stupid, empty-headed wives of
distinguished men come in for a cood share
of criticism in these days. They never
have been educated by reading, bv contact
with the world, by "daily experiences in
business. Thev have outgrown their
wives and find in them no congenial com
panionship. The domestic infelicity of
Charles Dickens and his wife is a case in
point She, as accounts so, came up to the
requirements of the model British house
wife, while he rose to be a star in the
literary world and intolerant of dullness
and inanity. "What a tragedy he made of
her lite is well known. Had she lived in
these days and beenamember of a "Woman's
.Club she would have known betterthan to
have starved her mind and buried her
talents in the service of one, who, when he
became inflated with pride and vanity,
scrupled lot to wreck her life and cast a
blichting blot upon her fair fame.
Thomas Carlyle had a creat contempt for
"scribbling women." "Without- apprecia
tion, or apparentlycomprehcnsion, upon his
part his wife sacrificed herself for him.
Toiling in her kitchen, scrimping, stinting,
removing every stone from his path, meet
ing his constant growling with cheerfulness,
concealing her own trials and troubles with
heroic patience and courage, she stands
now before the world as a domestic martyr.
It was not until after her death that Carlyle
discovered her "nobleness of mind and in
tellect" or manifested any appreciation 'of
her brilliancy, penetration, wise discern
ment, just enthusiasm, humor, grace, and
literary talent," which, as shown in her
letters, he sadly says, when too late,
"equal and surpassed for genius anything
of that kind known to existjj' If Mr3.
Carlyle bad lived in these davs, she could
have coined her talents into gold, and made
more money than her husband, who by his
ponderous worts rarely made more than
51,000 a year. Had she not lived so rigidly
up to the standard of the British housewife,
she would have been spared the many years
of pinching poverty and domestic infelicity.
On Criticism of Clubs.
The objection is made to "Woman's Clubs
that "thev tend to separate men and women
who should work together and supplement
each other." That such may seem to be the
case at present is admitted, but the ten
dency is all the other way. The ideal woman
in past ages was an "ignorant bigot" Men
had a horror of learning jn women. Martin
Luther said "no gown or garment worse be
comes a woman than that she will be wise."
John Milton refused to educate his own
daughters. Hypatia was torn to pieces bv a
Christian mob because of her learning. Tae
Church in past agps discouraged the educa
tion of women, and does to-day. The Puri
tans, while appreciating the value cf educa
tion for boys refused it to girls. In the
first public schools established in this coun
try cirls were refused admittance. Mary
bomerville was publicly abused and read
out of chirch by Dean Cockburn because of
her study of astronomy and mathematics.
Annie Besant was deserted and divorced by
her husband and deprived of her child be
cause she dared to Etudv the Bible and in
terpret it for herself. Even to-day women
are denied admittance to schools of learn
ing. In every relation of life Abigail
Adams, the first lady of the "White House,
showed herself "a pattern of conjugal, ma
ternal and secial virtue," and yet her appeal
setting forth that for the best interests
of men, women should be educated, was
set at naught "A woman that knoweth
how to compound a pudding is more de
sirable than she who skillfully compound
ethapoem" says an old writer. It does
not seem to have occurred to this pudding
head that plenty of smart women could do
both.
Men Do Not Admire Ignorant- Bigots.
Determinedly, however, as men held onto
the "ignorant b'got" as the ideal wife, they
did not enjoy her society. They left her at
home to dig and delve while they found
their congenial companions in men who
were their equals in knowledge. "Women
were shut out of the conventions, the clubs,
the anniversarv dinners where men aired
their wit and displayed their eloquence. If
there is to be auy blame or responsibility
for the separation of men and women in
their pleasures and the supplementing of
each other, it rests wholly with the beloved
brethren.
The new club movement among Women is
a force in modern progress that has scarcely
been realized as yet Not a quarter of a
century has elapsed since the first woman's
club was organized, and yet the advance in
intelligence, the development of talent, the
increase in knowledge and moral noun rc
without a parallel in the history of the
world. Neither the cradle nor the kitchen
suffers. Indeed, they gain as the wisdom
of their controlling power grows. The club
takes women out of their daily groove and
furnishes rest and refreshment
Club TTork Is Recreation.
The President of a far "West woman's club
gave aiittlc of her experience at a meeting.
She said: "I do mr own work hrnntn T
can get no help, and have six little children.
"When I can get to "the club" it does me
more good than anything else. It brightens,
refreshes and makes me cheerful. -"When I
come home I talk to the children and tell
them all about the club and its doings."
The usefulness of woman's clubs, not
alone tp their members, but to the commu
nity, lrhot hard to demonstrate. The in
vestigation and discussion of moral and
social questions of city government, of vil
lage improvement, the study of the poli
tics, social conditions. literature, science
and art of countries, all go to form aa edu
cational influence of immense value.
In the Confederation of Woman's Clubs
there are now represented 150 clubs. Some
of these contain as many as 500 members
notably in Chicago and San Francisco.
These constitute an army of intelligent,
thinking women. Among'these clubs the
Pittsburg Wbman's Club is one of the old
est and is second to none, save in numbers.
Tts historv yet to be written will form
an interesting chapter in the record of the
women of Pittsburg in days to come.
Bessie Bramble.
She Asked for Information.
Detroit Free Press.!
The play was one-third over and he was
chewing a cardamom seed as the curtain
went np on the second act
"George," she whispered, softly.
"Yes, darling?" he answered, auestion
ingly. "George," she murmured, "why do they
put cardamom seed in whisky and other
spirituous and malt liquors?"
Just as Though It Were Cash.
Detroit Free Tress.
Hilow I have discovered another proof
of the adage that time, is moncv.
Gofer Well?
Hilow We frequently spend the day.
An Instance of It
Detroit Free Press.!
Mrs. McCorkle (showing her new house
When we came to look at this lot J fell in
love with it as soon as I saw it
Trs. fcCrsclcle Ah. a riuA tit Invit
first site, J perceive.
THE
THE TABLE. TIE
A GIRL'S SLEEPING ROOM.
Bow the Home Instinct First Slakes Itself
Felt Simplicity and Daintiness the First
IteqnlBitei Hints for the Arrangement
Divans, Chairs and Trifle.
rwnrnEX roa the dispatch. 1
When a girl is past her loth milestone,
when she first begins to assert herself as
something more than a child, she often ex
hibits it first by falling into dissatisfaction
with the little sleeping room in which she
has slept since she left the nursery. Sho
begins to beg for another room, which she
may help to furnish, or, if that isn't possi
ble, to have new things in her old room.
The point she is apt to insist upon is that
she wants things she has selected herself.
She wants a chance to express her own in
dividuality in her own way and to have a
room that she can feel to be a part of her
self. It is the first bndding of the home-making
instinct in her heart, the instinct that
bye and bye, when the time comes, will
A White and Brass lied.
blossom out into the desire and the purpose
of making her own home what a real home
should be, "a little sunny spot of green in
the great wilderness of the world."
And so she should be allowed to have her
own room very much as she wants it It
may not be to her mother's taste, but in her
own little sleeping room the daughter
should have the right to decide. The writer
here sets down the advice she has to offer in
just the same spirit of submission which
she exhorts in the mother.
She Needs Air and Sunshine.
The first desideratum for a sleeping rrfom
is that it should not be elaborate, but
should be capable of being thoroughly win
nowed each day with fresh air and sun
shine. And a young girl's room more than
anybody else's should not be stuffy. Its
key note should be simplicitv. It should
be dainty and light and simple, with no
look of conscious striving after effect,
about it The floor should neither be cov
ered with matting or shellacked, or painted
a delicate grey or buff or a dull red. No
sleeping room should have a carpet, and
every young girl should know enough in
these enlightened davs, about microbes and
disease germs, to prefer bare floors. A
few rugs here and there are best a fur rug
in white, or gray, or black, for the bare
feet to touch the first thing in the morning,
a rug before the dressing tab'e, and one or
two in other places about the room. The
walls should be tinted in pale shades or
papered with a small and" indistinct pat
tern. It isn't likely that there will be'any choice
about the bed." The white iron beds with
A Simple Window Drapery.
brass mountings are so exactly the things
for a young girl's room, in their simplicity
of detail and lightness of effect, as to pre
clude almost any other choice. A good
single bed with brass rail and knob can be
bought for $10 without mattresses. For the
single bed, a single pillow is sufficient, and
the prettiest covering in the world for such
abed is not of white, but of some dainty,
figured fabrics.
Around a Sunshiny Half.
Maid Marian has her little white and
brass bed dressed with soft French sateen.
The ground work is a sunshiny buff and all
over it dance pale pink primroses and tiny
blue and ecru forgetmenqts. Around the
iron frame of the, bed, she fastened, by tying
it to the framework with tapes, a gathered
flounce of the sateen just deep enough to
to reach the floor. The cover of the bed
was made of two widths of the sateen edged
Zlald Marian's Dressing Table.
all about, except at the up'per end, with
cotton ball-fringe whose colors repeated
those of the sateen. This cover was wide
enough to fall over the top of the flowers on
both sides of the'bed and long enough to bo
tucked under tho lower edge of the pillow
and then brought over it, so as to moke one
covering answer for the' whole bed. This'
sunshiny buff is admirable for a bedroom
because it always makes one remember that
the sun is shining somewhere even if it isn't
in just that spot Butotlier colors are also
very pretty. Cotton crape in white and
dull blue is exquisitely dainty, and the same
fabric makes beautiful curtains also.
Maid Marian has a Vernis-Martin dress
ing table in the quaint Louis XV." design.
Vernis-Martin isn't always expensive. This
special piece cost only 25. and the dull cold
ground, with the group of fine Wattcau
idles and gentlemen displayed npon it was
Tery enecuve.
Before it stood a light, low
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bamboo dressing chair and a tiny foot stool,
where the little maid knelt when she wanted
to get an intense view of the top of her
head.
How to Make a Dressing Table.
Something almost as pretty as the Varnls-
The Table and Bookshelf.
Martin can be made by any girl for herself
at about one-fifth the cost of the first The
big box upholstered and draped with muslin,
has had its possibilities exploited many
times. The girl who made this dressing
table for herself began by buying an un
painted white pine table, with slender, well
turned legs, ifext she got the' carpenter
around the corner to have two small pine
posts, or stanchions, turned for her, as near
like the legs in pattern as was possible.
These posts she had screwed at the back ot
the table shelf in position to support the
mirror which she had already bought and
measured. Then she gave the whole table
three coats of white enamel paint, with a
light line of gold about the shelf and on the
legs and posts. The mirror was low and
wide, with a two-inch white frame, and to
hang it with big brass screws between the
upright posts w3s an easy matter. When
it was done and the big brush and fat pin
cushion and all the little Dresden pieces
were set about its top, it was as pretty a
dressing table as Maid Marian's.
There is nothing prettier for a young
girl's dressing table than the white china
toilet pieces, powdered with tiny flowers in
the Dresden patterns. There are trays for
brushes and combs, powder boxes, manicure
boxes, jewel boxes, cold cream boxes, pin
boxes and ring tiers, and they seem to be-
The SmaU Selongtngu
long to girlhood more than an elaborate and
expensive service of silver.
Beantlfylns the TVashstand.
Washstands are not so inviting for a dis
play of ingenuity as dressing tables, but
thev are necessary, and now that tho light
open stand is substituted for the cumber
some closed thing we used to know, there is
no reason why it should be a blot even in
the most beauty-loving eyes. Alight stand
of oak or of painted pine, perfectly open
below and just large enough to hold the
toilet ret, is what our girl should have.
The toilet set should be of some light and
daintily decorated ware. Some of the most
inexpensive sets are decorated with tiny
sprays in Dresden designs, or with dull
pink or blue all over patterns on a white or
ivory ground.
The window draping is sure to be a source
of pure delight to every girl whose sweet
fortune it is to have windows to drape. They
can be made so very pretty at so little cost
Whatever draperies are ,nsed should be
light, so that plenty of sunshine may filter
through them.
One of the daintiest little rooms that any
girl ever laid her head down to sleep in, had
curtains of cotton Japanese crape in dull
yellow draped on a brass pole set down
about a foot and a half from the top of the
window. Across the" upper pane.which was
left bare, was a piece of fish-net in its
natural color smoothly stretched and fas
tened with tiny nails to the wood work at
the sides. All the cotton crapes make beau
tiful window curtains, and white muslin
finished with a simple ruffle of ball fringe,
and draped straight from the top is always
pretty.
Bllnor Fittings of the Room.
Of course there should be a divan or
.something on which a girl can throw her
self for a few minutes rest, without disturb
ing her bed. Of making divans in these
days of feminine household ingenuity, there
is no end. A cot bed frame with a mattress
covered with cretonne is perhaps the
simplest. A thick wadded comfortable
placed directly upon the springs of the cot
will answer admirably for a mattress. But
an ordinary husk mattress can be bought
for 52 or i
One lounging chair in which she can
"cuddle" any girl must have. And a girl
can make almost any chair comfortable if
it is only big enough no matter if it hasn't
a spring or an ounce of upholstery. A
wide willow chair is a good lounging chair,
and cushions of cretonne will make of it
the coziest little nest that any girl ever
curled up her toes and fell to dreaming in.
So, too, will a steamer chair with a bright
rug folded lengthwise clow n it.
A little, low chair, without arms, she
should have, the kind knoun. among girls
as a shoe-and-stccking chair, and one or two
others beside; simple, all oi these, and light
in color and structure.
Table for Lamp and Books.
By the head of the bed there should be a
little stand, just large enough to hold a can
dle or night lamp and glass of water, per
haps; and there should be a larger table for
boons ana papers ana ine things that mace
a room lovable. A desk, too, if that cau
be. Mahogany is rich, but its dark tone is
not so much iu keeping with the brightness
of the room as oak or cherry.
And as for the smaller things, the trifles
that are dearest to the heart of" its happy
occupant, who can tell of these? There
will be gay little bits of color on the walls
in picture or hanging. There will be hand
fuls of friendly faces grouped about on
walls or mantel. There will bo bits of
glass and china painted by her own deft
fingers, or others that love her, and needle
work and mirrors, and surely a wide rack of
well-read books and a little white cabinet,
perhaps, with irregular shelves that hold
choice bits of bric-a-brac. It will be full
o dear, whimsical, pretty helpful trifles",
this room of hers, because it is' the nook of
a dear, whimsical, pretty girl. And be
cause her whole heart and part of her whole
soul have passed into it, through love of it
Helen Watteeson.
A FbanT IJttle Gam;,
Generally foiled by legal measures ero It has
attained any degree of success, and that Is
the palming off of fiery local bitters and
trashy tonics as akin to or identical with
Hostettera Stomach Bitters- The genuine
bears a vlfjnctto Of St. George and the dra
gon with a minute note of hand, with direc
tions jor use on a uronze- xasei. noste&ter'S
Stomach Bitters eradicates dyspepsia, liver
ratmnlAint- IrfrinAv LndThimmHn tvnnhlav
malaria and la grippe. '
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 17,
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THE WORLD'S FAIR BOARD.
Sketches of the Two Women Who Repre
sent Pennsylvania Both Noted for Tire
less Work lor Sweet Charity's Sake
The Office Is Not a Sinecure.
IWBITTEX FOB THE PISrATCH.1
The two women ust now most prominent
in the State of Pennsylvania are those rep
resenting us on the World's Fair Board.
In the choice of Mrs. John Lucas, of Phil
adelphia, and Miss Mary E. McCandless, of
Pittsburg, for lady managers our Na
tional Commissioners, Hon. John Wood
side and General William McClelland, have
selected wisely and well. Other women,
and many of them, this great State has
reared who could do themselves, the com
missioners and the cause much credit, but
others better qualified by reason of social
standing, natural attainments and large ex
periments in public enteipriscs could not
have been named.
Miss Mary McCandless is a native of
Pittsburg, her distinguished family having
been identified with Western Pennsylvania
for fully a century. Her father was Judge
Wilson McCandless, for many years Judge
Mary E. IfcCandUss.
of the United States District Court, ap
pointed by President Buchanan. Her
mother, who, prior to her marriage, was
Miss Sarah Collins, belonged to a family
the daughters of which have been celebrated
for their beauty and accomplishments, and
is related to many prominent Philadel
phians through descent from the same illus
trious ancestor, the Bev. Elihu Spencer, D.
D., ofTrenton, N. J., a noted Presbyterian
divine of colonial and revolutionary times.
Working In Two Capacities
While active in society, Miss McCandless
has also taken an active part in the manage
ment of the most prominent benevolent in
stitutions of this city, and in such capacity
her associates have highly appreciated her
good judgment and rare executive ability.
Besides her connection with the State
Board, she was appointed by Governor
Pattison a representative from Pennsyl
vania on the National Board of Lady Man
agers, and is also a member of 'the Execu
tive Committee of the last named board.
Capable, "earnest, careful and tenacious, a
woman who docs nothing by halves, who
sticks to a point until she has gained it;
genial, lovable, mirthful, a bright personal
ity charged with all the pro verbial? breezy
rordiality of the West; a woman whose very
presence is galvanic, she makes you glad of
having been born.
Barring other evidence of her ability to
lead with these characteristics, who can
doubt her fitness for the important work of
ladv manager for the western part of our
State on the World's Fair Board?
Some one has said the real woman is only
discoverable at her own home. I have had
the pleasure of knowing Miss McCandless
in her home, every nook and corner and
alcove of which contains treasures of art and
law and literature that warm the heart,
thrill the soul and stimulate the mind of
an appreciative guest. Her's is a home
abounding in rich, old-styled furniture,
ancient plate and historical china.
The Member From Philadelphia.
The association of Mrs. John Lucas'
name with the National Commission of the
Columbian Exposition has opened the way,
with that of other women, for a public re
cognition of the great work she has accom
plished in the many charitable or publio
enterprises with which she has been identi
fied continuously since tee Centennial year.
Prior to that time her heart and hands were
quite full of care for her large family of six
teen children.
Mrs. Lucas is of English parentage, her
father having been a nativo of Portsmouth,
and ber mother of Derbyshire, and 'having
married early in life an English gentleman
from Staffordshire she naturally combines
the early conservatory spirit which exists
Mrs. John Lucas.
in the midland counties of England. In ap
pearance she is as dainty and finely colored
as a bit of Dresden china, atristic, cultured
and petite.
As We cannot judge of the quality of
goods bv the size of the package, no more
can we determine a woman's endurance by
hpr physique. Mrs. Lucas is a woman o'f
whom it may be said, she is married to a
capacity for "hard work. Her brain never
rests unless when asleep. She has proba
bly been identified with more local chari
ties and public enterprises than any other
woman of her citv.
A Wonderful Capacity for Work.
Since its first inception she had been
Chairman of the Tenth ward Philadelphia
Society for Organized Charity, which ward
has put itself upon record for continuous
and effective work. She assisted in organiz
ing the .Infants' Homo and the Woman's
Homeopathic Hospital Association; was as
sociated for many years with the Newsboys'
Aid Society, the Indian Hope Association
and with the Italian Protestant Episcopal
Mission of Philadelphia, which work she
has seen grow to most successful issue, there
now being a beautiful guild house and
chapel for the instruction and comfort of this
alien race.
At the time of tho World's Cotton Ex
position at New Orleans, Mrs. Lucas was
appointed Commissioner of Pennsylvania to,
collect woman's work, and exhibited there a
fine collection as the result of woman's
work throughout the State. Her interest.
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HYGIENE.
in the Woman's Silk Culture Association of
the United States is well understood. In
deed, she may be termed an enthusiast on
silk culture in America, and she has full
faith in its complete development as a great
national industry. With the help of her
assistants on that board she has been the
means of establishins silk culture in every
State of the Union south of Maine, and this
native raw material has been tested in all
known manufactured fabrics with the best
results.
FIa;sof Home Grown Silk.
Flagsof our nation have been prepared
from this native silk and sent by the associ
ation into every republic on the continent,
to the Senate and House at Washington and
at Harrisburg, and to the textile and in
dustrial schools of England and Scotland.
Mrs. Lucas ranks the efforts ot the Silk
Culture Association as among the best at
tempts at "woman's work for women" be
lieving the best way to assist people arid
preserve their self-respect is to direct their
minds into such channels and instruct them
in such manner as will enable them to help
themselves. '
With her colleague, Miss McCandless,
Mrs. Lucas has attended the two meetings
of4he National Commission at Chicago,
and at the last meeting she prides herself
upon having succeeded in getting a good
majority vote from the National Committee
of Women in favor of closing the Expo
sition on Sunday. To this effort Mrs. Lucas
is sincerely and personally pledged; while
her colleague more afraid of 'robbing the
wage-earners of a privilege they might not
otherwise enjoy, would be more in favor of
a compromise by leaving tne grounds open,
but machinery silenced and work suspended.
Women at Work Everywhere.
The progress of work in Pennsylvania
has now reached a position in which activity
is the watchword. Every county in the
State has its committee of competent
women who are ready as a channel to give
and receive information among women of
kthe State on all subjects pertaining to the
exhibition of woman's work at the World's
Fair.
The lady managers are anxious to work
up a thoroughly system nf statistical reports
from the three channels in which women
are so actively though so silently
engaged, and in which tho result
is not always seen in the form of
matter. Statistics of the work 'done in
churches for missions, in Sabbath schools,
in charitable efforts, statistics of the results
of hospitals, dav nursaries, orphanages and
all the various lines where woman labors to
palliate the sorrows and relieve the distress
of the mass of people requiring such help.
Also, in industrial lines where much of her
handiwork passes to the world without the
knowledge of what her hands have wrought.
Lots of Work to Be Done.
Our lady managers believe the State of
Pennsylvania in this work is well up in the
Mary Temple Dayard, Press Representative,
scale of advancement, and they ask the
hearty co-operation of all women who may
be able to advance the general interest of
this splendidopportunitv which the National
Government and the World's Commission
ers have so generously conferred upon all
women!
The place of the lady managers is not one
of restful posing, not a sinecure. The po
sition is full of arduous care and great re
sponsibility. It entails work from start to
finish; it taxes the time, patience and
strength of the incumbent to the limit of
endurance. They are expected to under
stand the merits of each person's work on
the auxiliary committees and exactly how
it should be done.
They must be able to decide upon all mat
ters that come up, and, of course, new and
unthoucht-of questions are continually
growing out of the work. You readily see
the thought and investigation required to
meet these demands, and that exceptionally
capable women are required to satisfactorily
fill the place. In the appointment of two
such women Pennsylvania is most fortunate,
and to the National Commissioners our
thanks are due.
Maet Temple Batabd.
HEIPDIB OUT THE HEH0BT.
Women Ji'cfd a Slate nr Notebook for the
Mind Can't Do All.
IWBITTZJT FOB THE DISPATCH.!
The fear lest she shall forget, is one of, the
terrors of any busy woman's life. It is pre
cisely the forgotten thing that proves most
disastrous. The mistake is that women ex
act of their memories such trustworthy ser
vice as they do,starting from the supposition
that the memory ought to be as infinite in
its capacity as space and a3 exact a table of
logarithms. But the capacity of the mem
ory is limited, like the capacity of the
stomach. It knows, if its owner doesn't,
that it can't hold everything, and so, some
times it bolts, as any self-respecting mem
ory ought to at having such conglomerate
and apparently unimportant lot of things
thrust upon it for keeping.
These are the occasions when Mr3. A for
gets Mrs. B's tea and doesn't even send
cards, or when Mrs. B. forgets her appoint
ment at the dentist's and has to pay for it
just the same.
It is the wise woman who, after a few
such occasions as these, learns to locate her
memory somewhere outside of her where
she can depend upon it to give her some
kind of monition, in short, to make pencil
apd make a memorandum book do the work
of memory, regulating to that precious
capacity of the mind only such things as are
worth rcmemoenng lor tneir own sage,
such as the argument in a new scientific
work, or the criticism of a new painting. If
there are odds either way. the slate is better
than the book. A slate hanging in the
kitchen upon which the cook' or the mistress
can jot down the household things she needs
as fast as she knows she needs them, sim
plifies wonderfully the ordering of grocer
ies. A little slate hanging near the dress
ing table, on which all matters of a personal
kind are set down, is the same comfort to
any wo'man.
How Ladles Can Slake Money.
There are so very few ways a lady can
make money and so few chances open to us,
that I know all your lady readers will be
interested in hearing of my success in plat
ing watches, table-ware and jewelry. I
make from 510 to $20 per week, and raj
customers are delighted at my work. It is
surprising how easy a lady can take a plat
ing machine and plate old knives, forks and
spoons. This machine plates with either
nickel, silveror j;old and will generally
plate any of these articles in a few minutes.
I hope my experience will be as profitable
to your lady readers as Mrs. Wilson's waa
to me. Anybody can get a plating machine
by addressing H. E, Delno & Co., Colum
bus, 5hio. The plater sells for $5, or yon
can get circulars by addressing this firm.
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ENTERTAINING THE BOYS.
The Wife of the Fnthflnder Writes on liter
ature for Xouth Different Natures De
manded Different Stories Incidents of
the War of the Rebellion.
JWBITXIX TOU THE DISPATCH. 1
'What did my boys like to read? That
seems an easy question to answer, for at
once I see again the limp books with their
loosened covers which had made the boys
.delight in their earliest day. There were,
not all the usual books of their ager "Mr.
Greatheart." "Balder the Good," and
"Harounal Easchid the just Calif, "arc not a
usual "Soldiers Three" in the same com
pany. Yet they fitted together har
moniously as champions of the
week, tnroush the natural selection
Mrs. Jessie Denton Fremont.
of one boy, while his elder brother held fast
to "Eobinson Crusoe," "The Kedgo An
chor," much from "Froissart's Chronicles,"
and knew, literally by heart, the "Ancient
Mariner," and Longfellow's "Building of
the Ship."
From 6 to 10 years of age these were inev
itable to us, "sister" and myself readers in
ordinary to Their Majesties, the little boys.
Beloved of them both were Hans Ander
sen's "Fairy Tales" and "The Arabian
Nights." Lane's scholarly version admira
bly illustrated made this an attractive
course of instruction in Oriental usages,
climate, religion and geography, and my
father had through its medium taught these
to us in our childhood.
The Differenco In Tastes.
One bov loved the positive, and required
results, direct thought and action combined,
and motion. "Skip that" was his sure in
terruption to episodes dealing with emo-
.tions; while the other boy was a born ana
lyzer and casuist. Dangers averted or over
come through mental force charmed one,
whether it were the fox in Grimm's "Fairy
Tales" or the Oriental subtleties of the
"Arabian Nights;" while the others saw
first and most acceptable the resort to
strength of arm. The younger was becom
ing an expert fencer in his sixth year while
the other took kindly to boxing. Their
books were naturally on these lines, even
their games.
Circumstances had kept us much in re
mote places while they were very young
and they could have no other children as as
sociates for only grown men were in our
mountain mining country. But the book
of nature was open wide to them at some of
its most beautiful and suggestive pages; and
Master Knowledge interpreted these to the
plastic young minds. When we were leav
ing the East for California for an indefinite
stay fit was only interrupted by the war)
Mr. Beecher thought it a pity to take the
boys where there were no schools. I said
they would have us for first teachers, and
they would have what bo'ys need for health
and happiness real country life, and horse,
dog and gun. "I never had a horse, a dog
or a gun, and I know I was a happy boy,"
he said. But our Southern habits made
these seem inseparable from boy life, and
the old Persian training "to ride, to shoot,
to speak the truth," was" their father's care,
while "sister" and I put in a mild infusion
of the elementary "three B's," and on
rainy days gave them unlimited reading
aloud.
Trne Stories of the War.
With the war opened a new life. On the
long journey by way of the Isthmus the in
dispensable "Bobinson Crusoe," "Haroun
the Just" and "Hans Andersen" held the
boys as captive as ever.
In the Gulf of Mexico we were pursued
by Admiral Semmes, for our steamer was a
rich prize with its 2,000,000 in California
gold: the little boys felt the seriousness of
the precautions to avoid capture. They
saw no lights at all allowed, while the pas
sengers, nnable to read or play cards in the
dark, talked in subdued voices of the not
far back time when the Pirate Lafitte was
the terror of the gulf. Our captain (rent
nearly 100 miles out of his conrse and so
escaped, the Sumter, but as we passed Hat
teras we were chased by a fine sailing ves
sel, the Jeff Davis.
It was a bright, cold day of gnstv winds,
which fortunately died out entirely as the
day progressed, and we left the privateer I
becalmed. Just as m the pirate stories, we
got away and came safely to port, where the
twin lights of Neversink flashed their wel
come like glad eyes. After such experi
ence whose bnt Cooper's and Marryatt's
sea stories could satity them?
Caring for a Wounded Son.
We weTe soon in the midst of actual war
and carried along on the stream of great
events, while the sad undertone of hospitals
and sorrowful women left neither time nor
thought for usual home life, until Jack laid
a mine in the stable-yard, and, stooping
over to make sure the fuse was doing its
work, caught the explosion in his face. He
was brought In blinded and dazed, with
skin and hair scorched off.
"His eyes?" was the first Bhocked ques
tion of his father.
On the staff was a young Prussian surgeon.
He bad helped bring in the fainting child,
and now said, "Leave him to me, General;
I think the eyes can be sav,ed."
And they were saved. Not even weak
ness has ever followed, and eyebrows and
lashes grew in beauty again, while not a
trace of powder was left under the healthy
new skin. After the first weeks of the
surgeon's close care all had to depend on
watchful nursing, and amusing a restless
child, whose closely bandaged head must
be kept from fatigue or chilling. Schere
zade never told more tales to her Sultan
than I did now, and the same old stories
were read by us with the 3ame charm to
him. Jessie Bestok Fkemost.
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$100,000.00
More than one hundred thousand dollars has been paid
by the Price Flavoring Extract Co. for Vanilla
Beans during the past six months. The largest quan
tity ever purchased in the same time by any other
manufacturer in the world. The idea that good Extract
of Vanilla is easily produced is so absurd as to rje
unworthy of notice. Unless the best Mexican Vanilla
Beans are used, properly cured, properly aged, and the
flavor properly extracted, and allowed to stand at least
one year before offering for sale, good Extract of Va
nilla is an impossibility. Try Dr. Price's -.Extract
Of Vanilla and note its delicious flavor.
THE GERMS IN MILL
A Comparatively New Discovery That
Will Save the Little Ones. t
HUE FEOJI THE COW IS PUB!
Eat tas Microbes Swarm in th StsUes
and Soon Get Into It
THE AMOUNT OP HEAT BECES3AII
rwEiTTEX ron tits dispatch.!
One-fourth of all the deaths in the United
States are of children under 1 year of age,
and nearly one-half, injound numbers 400,
000, are of children under 5. In cities this
proportion rises during the warmer part of
the year, until one-half of all the deaths are
of babies under 12 months old. The ma
jority of these children die of germ diseases,
introdnced into the system in the uncooked
milk and water, which constitutes the sols
diet of infants, and the principal food of all
young children. The intestinal diseases,
counted non-contagions, carry off by tar the
greatest number.
Experience has proved that these troubles
may be modified, or in some cases entirely
eliminated by the use of germless food. By
feeding the child only milk that has been
sterilized and water that has been boiled, we
cease to feed the disease and begin to nour
ish the child. Sterilized milk is compara
tively a new discovery, and the difference
between its nse and abuse is not yet dis
tinctly defined in the public mind. The ap
parent simplicity of its production has mis
led many physicians 33 well as mothers into
applying the name to an article which pos
sesses none of the virtnes of sterilized milk.
Milk, is really sterilized only when it is en
tirely free from germ life.
What German Scientists Discovered.
American investigation on the subject
has been extremely crude, and so far is still
totally inadequate as a basis for sound con
clusion. Fortunately, in Europe the sub
ject has received due consideration. Ger
man scientists especially, have given much
time to the investigation of the effect of
various kinds of milk in intestinal diseases
of children. Tyndall, Lister and Pasteur ,
have themselves taken milk from the cow,
under varying degrees of atmospheric pur
ity, carefully noting in each case the favor
able or unfavorable environment, and they
unanimously declare that all milk from a
healthy cow is absolutely pure that is,
germless, as it flows from the udder; but
that its composition, its animal heat and its
exposed surface all combine to render it a
most favorable medium for the cultivation
of bacteria. While on the other hand tho
atmosphere of the ordinary stable, swarm
ing as it iB with germ life, at once furnishes
in plentiful measure the seed, which coming
in contact with the milk at once begin to
multiply at an appalling rate.
Koch, Escherich, and their celebrated co
workers have supplemented the investiga
tions of milk, in its natural condition by
valuable studies of the germ life which is
found in the intestinal tract of an infant,
and have noted its variation in health and
disease. They could conclusively demon
strate the poisonous effect3 of impure and
germ laden milk upon the delicate di
gestive organs of a child.
Germany Is Takin; So Chances;
All these scientists conclude that there is
no strictly pure milk except that taken di
rectly from the udder of the cow, and that
the milk delivered in cities, whether 12, 24
or 3G hours old, is swarming with microbes,
and that it varies only in the degree of its
dangerous properties. In Germany tho
danger of using unheated milk is so clearly
comprehended that legal enactions are be
coming every yearmore stringent, audit is
already difficult for a traveler in that coun
try to procure a glass of milk that has not
been first steamed or boiled.
In America intelligent mothers who per
sonally attend to the stenlizinc;, and the
phvsicians who use milk that is really, and
not simply nominally, sterilized, have with
out exception obtained remarkably favora
ble results; while mothers whose domes
tics superintend tho "sterilizinpr."andyoun;j
Shvsicians whose work lies chiefly in tho
allies' hosnitals and asylums in large cities
usually declare that sterilized milk Is over
praised. Tho second class use sterilized
milk, which they by courtesy call sterilized,
ml Un not obtain good results.
Contrary ro the moro mature opinion of
European authorities nn American physi
cian will occasionally affirm that sterilizing
milk renders It less digestible, because Is
coagulates the albumen. Cookin meat and
eg?s consulates the albumen, but we do not
therefore conclnde that meat and eggs
should be eaten raw. On the contrary, His
known that cooking meat renders It mora
digestible, providing always that it Is not
overdone. So in like manner the digestibil
ity of sterilized milk depends upon the de
cree and duration of tho heat which U ap
plied. Milk that is swarming with microbes
cannot be sterilized without prolonged heas
applied on successive da-.s, and so, nos '
without too great coagulation. But Jresh.
milk can be freed from germs with such
moderate application of steam that when
once tho mil!; Is reaeratcd it is difficult to
distinsaish it from the new milt of tho
mil kinir pall.
One nurse who published her prejudices
against sterilized milk explained that is
would disagree with her eharse.oven though
she c teamed ic three hours. It Is as If we
were to roast beef for 12 hours In a hot oven,
and as a result of its unwholesomeness de
clare that all beef is indigestible.
Fbascis Fisnira Woob.
IAYIHQ A WOOD PAV2HEH1
The Sticks Should Be Spilt Into 4-Inch
icnthi to Last Well.
St. Lonls Glote-De:aocrat.l
Although wood pavements are exceed
ingly popular, they are only a partial suc
cess so far as durability is concerned, not
withstanding the ingenuity of constructors
and the very substantial base upon which
the blocks are laid. Now comes an inventor
who claims that the wood is all -right, bos
the method of laying all wrong, and he de
clares that if the former is split up into
small 4-inch lengths and laid loosely, ends
up, on a gravel base the result will be much
better. He has, it is reported, succeeded
in convincing the Paris authorities that
there is method in his apparent madness,
and a trial is being given his plan. He re
lies on the chips being kept moist and ren
dered a compact mass by their swelling.
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