THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNINO, AUGUST 8, 190.
WOMEN'S CLUBS
WOMEN'S WORK
Ed.ted by MRS. SARAH A. EVANS
International Woman's
Club Home in London.
In Juno of this year one of the moat
unique club houses In ths world was
opened at 128 Ploadllly. London, or more
properly speaking, a club houss for one
fit the most unique clubs In the world.
It Is different from all other clubs In
thst It Is of an International character
and has members not branches In al
most every country of ths world. The
club la osllsd "Ths Lyceum" and the
first paragraph of Its prospectus states
that It "Is Intended to provlds a com
mon meeting ground for women through
out the world jrho are workers In liter
ature, art or Jclence,. including medi
cine." 1
The members are to be women or any
nationality, "who havs published any
work in literature. Journalism, science,
art or music: who havt university qual
ifications, or who gre the wires of
daughters of men distinguished In lit
erature. Journalism, science, art or mu-
4c- .
Ths American women who passed
through London to or from the Berlin
council wars very much Impressed by
the beauty and convenience of ths club
houss and ths place the club Is destined
to fill.
"Ths way English women make use of
their dab." she said, "la a constant
surprise to American women. Sup
posed to be much more domestic and far
leas Independent than we. they make
their clubs a part of their Uvea In a
way Americans know nothing about.
"Every English woman of any position
at all has her club. Just ilka ths men
of her family.
When she goes up to London sha
stays over night at her club. Her mall
Is forwarded from her club; ehe enter
tains her friends there; shs uses It for
all manner of eonventencea."
Ths club house of the Lyceum Is fitted
for every purpose of this kind, with
this exception, that Its member are not
eonfinsd to England. It has ovsry con
venience In the way of dining rooma.
where anything from an Individual cup
Of tea may be served In the strictest
privacy, to the sumptuous banquet hall,
where Its members may hold public or
private functions. It has 40 bod rooms,
reading and writing rooms, billiard
rooms, library, hatha and waiting rooma.
with all the conveniences that modern
levator and electric appllancea can
furnish. Meals ere served at stated
hogrs. or lunches, a la carts, msy be
bad at any hour of the day and well
Into ths night, to accommodate Journal
ists or professional women who are com
pelled to koep lata hours. .
Prices for all accommodations are
put at such a moderate sum that not
only the rich, hut ths struggling woman,
may enjoy Its prlvtlegea Special rooms
are equipped where newspaper women
msy corns to prspare their copy and
very convenience la supplied In the way
Of mall and messenger service
One of tho most advantageous feat
ares of ths whols clubhouse Is Its bu
reau of Information, where, for tnstsncc,
young writers may find out the standtnK
of every publication, prices paid, and
those most likely to want their particu
lar articles. Artists can got the same
Information concerning dealers, exhibits,
ate. The club has shown a particular
desire to strengthen the status of wo
men physicians. In securing their ap
pointment on boards and hospital stall.
In short, the whols object of tho club
Is to Intrench snd sirenginen m
tJon of women In professions.
Women who are eligible may Join this
club any place In the world, and If they
go to London will have every privilege
of the club open to them.
The fees are 111 a year for women
living In London. 110 for women living
in England outalde of London and IS
for women living outside of England.
The last class pay no entrance fee. and
the former pay an antranoe fee of 5.
It was not from the revenue of the
club that the clubhouse was built, how
aver, but by funds subscribed and
raised by intereated members, princi
tss
Therapeutlo Dietetic" By Norton
T. W. HaseMlne. There I a widespread
sentiment, even among those who con
stantly Indulge themselves, that people
at entirely too much meat. Thl has
taken the direction of encouraging the
manufacture of patent foods with vege
tables and nuts aa a basis, which has
built up enormoua fortunes for those
wno make them. If It ha not done for
the public everything claimed for them.
But when on take up the question
M vegetarianism, aa practiced in Amer
ica, and contrasts with It practice In
the older eastern countries he Is amased
first, at our limitations snd lack of ap
prehension In this respect and th really
beautiful science which It Is as prac
ticed, for lnstsnce, In Indls.
A modest little book celled "Thera
peutic Dietetic." from the pen of Nor
ton F. W. Haseldlne, has Just reached
it. The name la scarcely one to evoke
any enthustasm or attract any but the
moat anxloua seeker after a dietary re.
gime or system. Nevertheless, It Is n
book that will appeal very powerfully
to a perhaps small class of people In
thla country, but a claaa at the same
ttme that Is growing In Importance and
perhaps in the philosophy of Mght liv
ing. The author of the book la of Eng
11 sh parentage, but he was born and
spent his early manhood In India. lie
was brought up with opportunities to
equlr th unusual knowledge which
he now seeks to Impart. Besides, alt
his inclinations were In the direction of
chemistry, which he pursued with devo
tion. All his life long he has been a
vegetarian. He adopted that standard
of living from profound conviction. In
response to repeated request from
many of hi friends he decided to print
whst might be called a cook book, but
which la decidedly something more than
that
"Overeating and overdrinking," he
says, In his preface, "is self-abuse, pro
ducing an Irritated condition of the
stomach and kidneys, so that instead of
shading ourselves under such false con
ditions, we ahould withhold all foods
until the Irritation has subsided. Wa
ter, fresh and soft, will be found the
beet stimulant for th kidneys. Rice
water and barley water will be found
an efflcacioua remedy In moat cases of
stomach or Intestinal disorders. Stom
ach troubles will not often arise when
one eats but two meal a day; and after
one ha eaten a month or two accord
ing to thla system of dietetic (the
whole system having pproprlatd unto
Itself Us natural requirements), one
will notice that the appetite will fall
of? and that two meala a day arc more
than ample, on meal often proving to
be sufficient . . . Condiments ar
the gsest bugaboo of the American peo
ple Why ahould condlmeat be health
ful to over 4.00.0 of the world' In
habitant and Injurious to a possible
TJ.tW. . . . Many will ssy that
It I impossible for them to eat savory
herbs, as they cannot digest them. In
newer to this, we will say It Is not th
pally through the secretary, Miss Con
stance Smedley.
The Idea Is that Just as fsst as ths
membership will Justify tt to open other
club houses In other cities. It la par
ticularly dealred that a clubhouse be
eatabllahed In every capital of Europe,
and In New York, Chicago and San
Frsnclsco, or In sny other city where
professional women are wont to congre
gate. The Princess ds Mohan la working
hard to establlah a clubhouse In Flor
ence, which would be of great advan
tage to Americans who make It their
Mecca
Many of the most familiar names In
England are on the provisional commit
tee for that country, among them be
ing Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Sarah Grand.
John Oliver Hobbss, Rose Noucbetts Ca
rey, Rhode Broughton and many others,
while we find on the American provis
ional committee such names as Jane Ad
dame, Dean QUI of Bernard, Julia Ward
Howe, Jean n. tie Oilder, Mary E. Wll
klns, Kate Douglas Wiggins. Dr. Mary
P. Jacob! and the president a of several
of our American colleges.
It la aatd one of the most delightful
features of the whole arrangement la
the many acquaintances one will meet
In ths clubrooms. especially If one has
traveled a groat deal and met many peo
ple from all quarters of the glob. It la
something like s clearance house for
Auld Lang Syne, and soma one has 11k
ened It to some of the delightful scenes,
in old English novels, where the re
turned East India .officer walks Into his
club and And acquaintance from avery
clime and many lands. In this day of
travel, when women, no lea than men,
pick up their grip and stroll Into every
nook and corner of the earth, a club
like this would bring untold pleasure
snd benefits; and every woman in thla.
or any other country, eligible for mem
bership, should, deem it a privilege to
become a member, whether she ever ex
pected to enjoy It advantage herself
or not.
Women's Part
The Chief One in Education.
Say th Chicago Tribune: Why
shouldn't American education be
"feminised?" It la the women who seem
to be intereated In education.
It I the women who organise atate
and national association for the dis
cussion of the training of boys and girls.
Where 1 the congress of fathers? It
Is dispersed through golf clubs, shoot
ing club, and billiard club. It ha
gone out to alt on the bleacher at bae
ball games, it ha sneaked through
back alley to prise fights. It haa
taken the afternoon train for the racea.
It is calling for drinks In large club
houses. It is devoting most of the tlm
It can spare from business to the devel
opment of the social, sportive and bibu
lous aspirations of the race.
It 1 the women who are willing to
do the teaching while the men seek more
remunerative .occupations. Are they to
be Jeered at for It?
It is the women who organise club
for co-operating with th teacher and
for bringing the home and the school
together in the prepsration of future
cttlsena. If the men wont give their
leisure time to thla, they leave an open
ing, and. If the women avail themselves
of the opening, where does the blame
He?
It I the women who go to the legis
lature to present petitions for child
labor bills. Some men go ss trade
unionists. How many men go a dis
interested assistants?
It is the women who take up the
kindergarten movement and who puah
it. If the men allow the kindergarten
movement to go' by default who I re
ponslule for it feminised sentimental
Ry?
The women seem to be doing the best
they can. It'a not entirely their fault
that they are feminine. If they could
get a little masculine corroboration
they would probably welcome it. As
herbs which thsy cannot digest, but the
goose or turkey fat, which has absorbed
their odors. "
An lmportsnt part of the author's
cooking equipment are the herbs, mint,
sage, savory, thyme, marjoram, parsley,
fresh If procurable, otherwise bottled.
Herewith Is given, almost at random, a
few of his recipes:
Puree soup To make a puree of green
peaa, take one quart of shelled peas and
place In IH quart of water with a lit
tle salt and four large sprigs of fresh
mint: let cook 46 minutes, then drain
off the liquid Into another aaucepan:
then paaa the peas through a wire sieve,
taking care not to let the aklns Into the
soup; thsn add ono-half pint of cream. In
which has been well stirred one level
teaspoonful of arrowroot; bring to a
boll and add one tablespoon of butter.
Served with chopped dried toast.
A relish Take and chop fine, after
ward mix well- together, three pickled
walnuts, six blnck olives, one heart of
celery, on tablespoon of French capers,
one-eighth of a pound of New York
cream cheese and three aprlgs of fresh
parsley; then dress with one tablespoon
of olive oil. Juice of one lemon, salt snd
paprika. Serve on cold buttered toast.
His favorite recipe Take and peel
half pound of fresh mushrooms, place
these In a skillet, in which has been pul
two tablespoons of butter; add to this
three sliced tomatoes, three onions, two
flne minced cloves or garlic, one medium
bunch of minced parsley, a pinch each
of black pepper, salt, thyme, majoram.
half pint of cream and one pint of wa
ter; let tw for one and a half houra
end serve with rice.
There are many recipes for omelets,
cheese preparatlona. spaghetti, fruits,
nuts and vegetables, salads, slaws, etc.,
but we pass them all over, to give a
essonsbls recipe for tomsto chutney:
Take ten pounds of ripe tomatoea, three
pounda of applea, one pound of seeded
raisins, one pound of dried figs, one
pound of dried prunes, four pounds of
sliced pnlons, six cloves of minced gar
lic, three pounds of honey, three pounds
of tamsrinds. half pound of mixed
spice Juice of 11 lemon snd thre
pound of black grapea; boll all to
gether for four hour, then pa through
a coarse Jelly bag; bring again to a boll
snd placs In Mason Jsra Thl will last
for years.
The price of the book is $1. and It is
published by th W. F. Roblnon Print
ing company of Denver, Col. It I de
cidedly worth while to tho lnteretU
In suet, subjects.
"The Sign of Triumph" By Sheppr!
Stevens. This Is one of the purest,
sweetest, most Inspiring little books
that ha been offered the public In many
a day. It may b considered. In one
sense, a historic novel, but Is so fresh
of theme, so entirely different from the
class of historic novel thst of Iste has
satiated the public, that It stands slone
a gem of purity, rare and full of beauty.
Its period of tlm I 1212, and Its story
Difference and
With the closing days of August
comes the thought that ths vacation Is
drawing to a close and the burden of the
winter's work will soon be upon ua To
the mother, with children of school age,
the date beglna with the opening of the
school door, on the first Monday In
September, and the 10 month of patient
endurance I before her, for the needs,
of the child must be more carefuffy
looked after, meala roust be more
prompt, allowance must be made for the
tired child, and the whole organlam of
the house made to conform to th
child's necessities. This, to be sure, 1
not always done, but "the unselfish
mother will strive to have It done, that
the child may have every facility for
advancement andtxtrogreea.
The church workers come back from
beach or mountain and as the preacher,
braced and rejuvenated by hla summer
outing pours forth the pent-up eloquence
of ths summer month, the women
buckle on the armor of righteousness
snd sally forth, to dare and do any
thing which will redound to the glory
of their church and minister.
The club woman, ' usually a month
later than her sister worker, take up
her "issues," with Just a month mors
of stored energy to begin on, and drives
awsy accordingly. It was Russell Sage
who bemoaned the vscatlon mania, and
looked upon it a a degeneracy of the
time. He was not wholly wrong, but
It Is the trend of the times, the "strenu
oslty." the tension of th present day
method of accomplishing work, that
ha made the vscatlon season an abao
lute necessity, and not the desire for
more rest, a little more ease, or a re
lease from the duties of life. With
women the trouble Us in their not
realising the difference and the dtatanc
between 'heraajyl there," and the ad
vantage to f5rived by taking thing
tep by tep. ?
The boy la told by hla teacher that
If he take an extra hour a day he may
accomplish two year' school work in
one. There is not the slightest reason
why he should curtsil his school days
by one year, but the ambitious mother
springs to the bait; her boy Is so bright
he is outstripping all others, and he
must be helped forward; h 1 the first
consideration in every household ar
rangement, and the mother live the
thing are. they have. to blunder along
In their own way.
And a for the flubdub and flapdoodle
and rot In mother' convention, hav
jrou aver read the political platform
promulgated by parti which are run
by men?
. -1
Questions Avoided in.
The Servant Girl Problem.
Th June Bulletin of the Woman'
Municipal league of New Tork City, con
tain a most interesting report of the
special committee on employment agen
cies of which Miss Margaret D. Drier 1
chairman.
The bill to regulate employment agen
cies, in cities of the first and second
class, passsd at th last session of the
legislature, was the outcome of a two
years' investigation, under the direction
of the league and the College Settlement
association. As a result of the new
l.wr Uavnr MrClellan haa aDDOlnted
Frederick Keating, commissioner of
iiron.r.. nri he hfli annointed as In
spectors of employment sgencles Mrs.
W. Rodman, K. Wineiow, Miaa Meegan
and Mlas Kllnk. Concluding her report
Miss Drier uses some very plain lan
,,n tfh,. ervant nuestlon and the
duties of employer themselves. She
says:
"We hear much of the difficulties of
getting young girl to enter domestic
service. Do we realise, that owing to a
GOSSIP OF
clusters around one of the most re
markable event In the history of the
world ths children's crusade. We can
recall no other etory which takea thl
event for It foundation and th de
tail of Its miraculous conception and
more miraculous progress with Its re
sults of horror and death have been too
vague, too strenuous, to tempt the
writer of fiction, but the delicacy with
which Mrs. Steven take up it his
toric facts, extracts a beautiful love
story out of its loins and only palnta
In enough of lta misery to cast temper
ing shadows on her beautiful but pa
thetic figures, would call forth the ad
miration of the most blaae novel reader.
Thl cruaade loat to the home of
Franc and Germany nearly 100.000
children. It I Inconceivable, In every
aspect, from our present day standpoint
and shows to what extent fanaticism
snd superstition ran riot In the middle
sges, but aa ons picture after another la
drawn by the author, It la carried along
so smoothly we loss the sense of the
unreal In the very wonder of how It all
could have happened.
The story takea up one little knight
of the cross, who was of noble birth,
but deserted the feudsl castle of his
widowed mother to Join the host of
children who were to walk, dry-hod,
through the. Mediterranean. and by sur
rounding the city of Jerusalem, have It
yield up the holy sepulchre to baby
handa and baby volcea. There la no
finer or more pathetic picture on record
than when Stephen, the leader, smote the
water with hla cross of reeds, and
while 30,oon eager, expectant children
waited breathless for th water to
part, at hi command: "In th nam
First American
The treasurer of th United Statea on
May 6, 101, redeemed two half-cent
piece. This 1 th first tlm In th
history of th country that any such
coin hav been presented for redemp
tion. It is more than a century since
the first half-cent piece was coined, and
It Is nearly SO yeara since th govern
ment discontinued minting them.
Possibly not one person In a thou
sand now living In the United States
ever saw a half-cent piece.
The laat annual report of the director
of the mint, page 81, shows that 7,85,
XtS of these coins, representing 111,
171.11, were Issued. For almost half a
century each annual report of the treas
ury department has Included them
among th "outstanding" obligations of
the government.
The half-cent piece wss the coin of
the smsllest denomtnetlon ever made
by this country. It enjoy th distinc
tion also of being the first coin Issued
and also th first whose denomination
Distance Between "Here and Tnere
year out with her nerve stretched to
snspplng tension making a physical
wreck of herself. Inculcating principles
of selfishness and Impatience in her
child, and often bringing discomfort to
the entire household, that th child may
leap from "hero to there" without ths
required steps.
The church worker hear th church
needs paint, the lecture-room need oar
pet, th minister's salary Is In arrears,
and last moat woeful tale of all th
little black of Tlmbucktoo have no
bible to save their precious soul or
shoes to cover their black little, sand
baked feet, so a supper must be given, a
basaar launched, or a concert projected
and an equal division of the proceeds,
which is usually counted In pennies,
divided up among them all, without one
actual step being taken to th accom
plishment Of any.
She live th year through striving to
reach a goal thst it would, and should,
require year of shorter step to at
tain, and very often undertaking taaka
wholly outalde her province as a mother
In Zlon.
To the average club woman, however,
belongs the pslm of trying to rsform
th world by leap and never measuring
dlstancsa There 1 no denying the fact
that, a rule, women rush in headlong
to accomplish great things, when in the
first place they have only a vague idea
of what they want to do. and no Idea
at all of how It ought tobe dona Thl
la one claas of workers, and the class
that so often falls by the wayside, and
grow hopelessly useless, out of sheer
discouragement at their failures. Thl
1 th class of woman who ara to he
pitied, for they have lost the beat of
life, through ovor-nthuslaam. They
have failed to determine before starting
out. Jut what they wanted to accom
plish, what they wer boat suited
through circumstances or disposition,
for. They have failed to count the cost
or measure the distance, even when
thy have set out with one object in
view, and working Over-trehuouly to
reach the and. have failed in all.
There Is another clasa of club work
er who fall to see that the path to
the coveted goal la often broad and
many time .diverging: they are Im
patient of thoe who take a different
road from their own, and In their effort
prejudice, a great among their class, a
prejudice are apt to be among our own,
the girl -who enter domestic service Is
debarred from membership In social
clubs, and many other organisation, or
even amusement. Including among the
latter, the better dance hall?
"Many of the cheaper employment
agencies run lodging house In connec
tion with their business. Even In some
of the better claas employment agencies,
men and women have the same waiting
room; no sanitary conditions are con
sidered; young and old, drunk and ober.
good and bad are crowded together dally
from to 4 o'clock, with nothing to do
but Idle and golp. Need we wonder
that intelligent women, or good, but Ig
norant girl, refue to be ubjected to
those Indignities? We ask respeotable
girls to face conditions which are dis
reputable, and then wonder that the bet
ter onee turn away.
"One of the great triumph for the"
disreputable agents Is, that they offer a
place, free of charge, to young women
where they may receive their visitors
without question, and we, the houaehold
ers of New Tork, must share the blame
and disgrace In that we have made thla
factor for degredatlon possible, because
of our unwillingness, In many lnatancea,
to grant to maids the opportunity to
meet friends under shelter of our homes.
"We are willing to build reform
atories; we think It our duty and priv
SOME CURRENT BOOKS
of the Father. Son and Holy Ghost, I bid
you roll back and make way for the
going of the army of the Lord." Then,
a the writer says. "Th dassllng sun
on the water half blinded them, a they
watched wave after, wave rear Itself
Into life, age swiftly, put on its curling
beard of white and, beating out It brief
existence on the sand, return forgotten
to the source from which it come.'
Noel, th vagabond lord, who had
by some unaccountable Influence at
tached himself to the crusaders, became
the protector of the little Knight Raoul,
rescuing him from the horror of slav
ery and conveying him through devloua
way to hi mother a home, where in
the end Noel himself come to hi re
ward, I all a story, well conceived,
finely told and devoid of any tlreome
or stupid details.
Th story haa a flne strain of morality
through It and. while It edge danger
ously near some of the experiences of
Noel's Bohemian day, there I nothing
that would prevent It being aafely put
Into the handa of the young. It la
chastely bound, good print, with several
pretty Illustrations. L. C. Page & Co.,
Boston. Price $1.66.
"History of North America; Volume
IV" Prof. F. R- Jones, edited by Dr.
Guy Carleton Lee. This is the laat
volume of this great history from the
press and ha followed closely upon
the one treating of the Indiana of North
America. Volume IV takes up the col
onisation of the middle state and Mary
land, embracing all that part of the
Atlantic seaboard extending from the
latitude of the extreme southern bound
Coins Vcre Copper Half Cents
waa discontinued. Th United states
mint was established in 171, and cop
per half-cents and- cents were issued In
173. Half the total number of half
cents Issued were coined previous to
is 10. after which year their coinage,
with few exceptions, was limited. None
war coined for circulation from 1812 to
1114. nor from ltl( to 1841. Finally.
In 1867. their coinage, with that of th
big copper cent, was discontinued. On
account Of their limited Issue in the
last years of their coinage they prac
tically had disappeared from the chan
nel of trade.
The needs of adopting the half -cent aa
th lowest value computing factor for
a coin were mad In the early days of
th republic. Colonial half cents snd
British farthing of th same commer
cial value wsr then In circulation, and
many article war priced and nld in
half-cent. With th progress of the
nation values rose and ths needs for a
half-cent disappeared, and their use fol
to push fhem into th right way, loss
eight of th fact that it Is only through
tap by step that ths great mass of
women can be brought to see that there
Is more in life than In their own little
by-path. Much vexation of soul might
be saved these great, good woman, who
have gotten into the broader path, if
they would use more toleration to their
lea fortunate sister, and be satisfied to
bring her, step by step, from "her to
there,'' rather than exhaust themselves
by trying to force all women. In one
short club year, to think and work
alike. .
Perhaps, after all, the whole trouble
with woman' work I the unrecognised
difference between theory and practice
Th theory, as we alt down her and
contemplate It. I so easy, a we practice
it. It 1 so hard. It I eo beautiful to think
of our child doing two year' work In one;
th year la so ten and trying and at it
close we, or our child, often He wrecks
upon the shore of human endeavor too
prostrated to ever wholly recover. Th
church. In It new coat of paint, It
brightest carpet and the happy swarme
of christianised heathen, are such bright
vision of the present, and such hopeless
disappointments whsn th phylclan or
ders a Chang of climate for us; and" the
club women who have hoisted the ban
ner of "reform for the world" in Octo
ber, usually lower tt vary much tattered
In June, finding, many times, they have
exhausted their strength by their strenu
ous efforts to accomplish everything In
one year, while had they started out
with a .well defined Idea of doing one
thing, taking It tp by tep. and fully
realising that th "mill of the god
grind lowly," the dltanc would have
been covered with much greater eeao
and when ended "there." It would have
been with enough energy left for other
and greater thlnga.
A determination to take work and
life easier, to concentrate rather than
scatter one' energies and to measure,
with a practical ey. the distance be
tween theory and practice, and to reach
from "here to there." step by step. Is
a lesson every worker In the field of
woman's endeavor might atudy with
profit to herself and her work In th few
Intervening day between vacation and
opening day.
ilege to vlalt other women lit Jll nd
prisons, but we rarely ask what we our
selves have doner toward sendlrrg them
there." ,
While Portland employment agencle
have not fallen quite so low In th scale,
as those of New Tork. It Is only because
condition have not become so Intense,
but the enquiry in Miss Drier' report
may be made, and quite a pertinently to
Portland a to New York How far are
th mistresses of thla city responsible
for the moral degredatlon of their ser
vants, and what personal effort do they
put forth to keep them pure or make
their life worth living to them?
Those are the questions that are us
ually avoided to the discussion of "the
servant girl problem."
n n n
Philadelphia Indian
School and Its Work.
Tho question has often been asked:
Is It possible to take girl from the wild,
free life of th prairie and train them
for domestic service? A practical an
swer to the question has been returned
by the management of the .Lincoln in
stitute of Philadelphia, a training home
for Indian girl and boy under th
wing of the Protestant Episcopal church,
says Leslie' Weekly. Among the pupils
at this Institution are girls from the
Winnebago, Mohawk, Chippewa. Oneida.
Seneca, Onondaga, Menominee, Tuaca-
ary of Maryland to th southernmost
boundary of Connecticut.
In his editorial notes Dr. Lee endeav
ors to show that the colonisation of
these states was quits a Important as
either that of the north or south, but
says, when studying the later stages of
colonisation. It la not to New Haven,
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
one turns, but to Boston and Charleston,
and aaalgns as a reason th more mod
eat disposition of th early settlers who
were never self-assertive In setting
forth their claims to historical recog
nition, and never advertised their deeds
as did the neighbors, but which he
saya "was unsurpassed In men and re
sources, and a glorious' past." While
claiming not to disparage th work of
other section he. however, says: "Those
men who laid the foundations of New
York. Pennsylvania Msryland, New
Jersey and Delaware were too busy with
their personal work, too buay with their
labor in advancing colonial, and later,
national Interests, to spread abroad
praise of themselves or to contest with
their neighbors to the south or east
for control or place. The descendants
of th colonists hav In a great meas
ure followed the example of their an
cestors." Whether this Is th real reason or
not. a difference of opinion may oxlat,
but the fact remains that this section
of the country haa been criminally care
less in preserving it local history, and
not until comparatively recent year have
It fragment been gathered together
and preserved by local historical so
cieties. In ths present volume Professor Jones
ha made much of hi opportunities.
lowing the first decade of the century
waa almost entirely confined to multi
plea While all other discontinued typ and
denomination of Unltd State coin
hav found oblivion, th half-cent la the
only one of which th treasury report
do not record some portion of th issue
redeemed. Thl singular and unex
plained fact ha been one of frequent
comment and Inquiry from mint and
treasury officials.
Large quantities of half-cents are to
be found In the stocks of coin dealer.
The moat common date ar sold at a
good premium and th extremely rar
ones are worth their weight In gold.
Ferran Zarbe of St Louis was th
nun'vho nt th two half-cent piece
to Washington for redemption. He now
prises highly th little voucher calling
for "on cant" which was sent to blm
with that amount of currant coin In ex
change for th two half cent pieces h
had forwarded, ,
rora, Cheyenne and Sioux nations. A
thorough training 1 given th girl in
cooking, sewing, waahlng and Ironing,
and In the general work of a domestic.
Moat of th girl arrive at th Institu
tion with a tendency to act Ilk little
Indiana, and when punished for a fault
become sulky but not unmanageable.
Theae objectionable trait, however,
speedily yield to kind, but firm, treat
ment, and once th girls become Inter
eated In their dutlea they are tractable
and easily taught.
Strange to say. the sewing school la
presided over by a woman who haa been
blind almost all her life, and for nearly
a quarter of a century haa taught sewing
without being sble to so on of her
pupil or th work they do. She is able
to tell by th sense of touch alone
whether or not a girl la doing her work
properly. She know the sound of each
girl' voice. The girl are taught to
tng together, and they sing exceedingly
welL
They are not talkative, do not romp,
go about their duties or their play in
rlou way, are not quarrelsome, do not
"chum," bat seem to live quit happily
a a sort of big? family party, and be
have at aU time aedately and with a
natural grace of demeanor that is very
attractive. Many of th Indian girl
are quite pretty. Some bear so little
resemblance to the popular Idea of what
"Rosalie, th Prairie Flower." should
look Ilk a to call Into question in
th mind of th beholder th clear strain
of their blood. A a matter of fact,
there are scarcely any girls in the home
who are not pure-blooded Indian.
St at
United States Is Slow
In Granting Woman Her Rights.
The Minneapolis Times, after com
menting upon th action of the English
house of commons in voting 182 to 68 in
favor of full parliamentary suffrage for
women and the approval of thl action
by the Italian chamber of deputies, says:
"Still it comes with a little queer sen
sation thl news that orthodox England
1 really thinking In parliamentary
thoughts about giving woman a vote on
candidates for the house of common.
By good right th United States should
have led In this question. And here w
are even behind Slgnnr Rossi of Italy In
recognition of the right of women to
th suffrage."
Yes. according to the fundamental
principles of our boasted free republic.
United States should have taken the lead
In this question, but the fact Is we are.
and always have been, behind England
and her colonies, and behind many of
the other civilised countries of Europe
In. recognising the political rights of
women.
Woman have voted for many year In
England and her colonies upon the same
terms men for everything except
member of parliament. In Australia and
New Zealand women have full suffrage
upon the same terms aa men and it look
now aa though It would not be long be
fore England would follow th lead of
her morn progressive colonies.
The- rights of th women taxpayers
haa always been recognised In almost
every country except the United States.
In the great state of New York there
la at the present time a bill before the
legislature giving women taxpayer in
cities of the third class the right to vote
upon special tax levies the same as tax
paving men. Strange a It may seem,
thla most Just measure la held in the
senate committee to which it ha been
referred.
Verily, United State ha yet to learn
the meaning of justice In Its application
to women. Elnora Monro Babcock.
g it t
Work of the New
Hampshire Women's Clubs.
The New Hampshire state federation
Is one of the smallest state organiza
tions, but It I also one of the moat ef
ficient. With a membership of only
4.S00 Its work has been notable. Th
president' report, read by Mr. Msry
beginning In point of tlm when Hud
son entered the North river of Nw
Netherland In 1609 to 1717 when Baltl
more Incorporated as a city. . It takes
up systematically the various sections
of country and the entirely different
nationalities that colonised them, treat
ing intelligently and clearly the differ
ences which arose owing to the many
form of government; differences of re
ligious opinion and conflicting grants of
land. It has been often said that the
history of America read Ilka a ro
mance, and after reading thl history
one 1 forced to believe it I true, or
what 1 a higher thought, to believe
that a controlling wisdom reaches down
to the affairs of men, adjusting them
Into a harmony of action for HI use
and glory. Huddling together came
pouring into this comparatively small
area all manner of men. each striving
to make a home and create a govern
ment to suit his needs or please his
fancy and the annealing of it Into one
great commonwealth I, the story which
this history tells. Within this section
were fought out the question of the
supremacy in America of the Dutch and
English and a great part of the con
test of the French In alliance with the
natives with their English foe. It was
the field too of the moat interesting
test of th possibilities of state gov
ernment without ecclesiastic association
or religious qualification.
Early Dutch settlements on the Hud
son; Swedish settlement In Delaware
with Its clash of nationalities; th
Quaker In Pennsylvania and th Cath
olic in Maryland, ar all epochs of
compelling interest In th history of
thla country and Professor Jon' com
prehensive and lucid account of them In
thla history cannot help but make a pro
found Impression upon the students of
American history. Of it thsre can be
but one opinion, putt it vividly and
amply presents the parts played by the
middle states and Maryland during the
colonisation period, and in th moat
Important owing to th more or less
general neglect of that section In his
torical literature. It give tho states
th Jut prominence which 1 thlr du.
and it supplies the general reader with
Information he will have looked for
vainly In other work. Like the other
volumes, it Is profusely illustrated. Is
sold by subscription at 11.00 per vol
ume till the entire 20 hav left th
pre, whn the price will be advanced
to 17.50 per volume For further par
ticulars. George Bari Bon, 1811 Wal
nut itreet, Philadelphia.
"Th Pagan's Progress" Gouverner
Morris forthcoming novel. Is described
as a romance and drama dealing with
paaslons always new, although the pic
turesque scenes ar laid In the tlm of
primitive man. Th story 1 told for the
sake of th story, but th qualntnem
of th scenes and th originality of the
tory gtv U romance a wholly individ
ual character. "Th Pagan Progrsss"
Ives Wood of Portsmouth, at th St.
Louis biennial was of especial Interest:
Through the varloua committee much
excellent work ha been carried out.
The art and crafts committee hav suc
ceeded In establishing a beginning,
which Is fondly termed a traveling art
library, which promises to grow tt
great usefulness. Th educational conr
mlttee have already matured plana by
whloh a limited number of girl eacfc
year may receive at least a norma
training through the assistance of the
state federation.
Through th forestry committee much
valuable work ha been done in assist i
ing the stat In the preservation of the
White Mountain forests, and circulars;
nave reen sant throughout the . Unite
States to all club, asking their co-op
e. ration.
Through the committee of history ar
folklore much valuable material hi
been collected, such aa legend, songs,
traditions, and unpublished history.
mi collection win be vary valuable)
to future generation living in Nev
nampsmre.
through the sociological committee
investigation has been and still Is belr
conducted concerning the sanitary as
inuusiriai conaitiona, and through thai
legislative committee bill will be pre-
sented to th next legislature asking for
factory lnspectbrs, for a lengthened!
school year In th rural district, for an
nual fumigation of school and library1
book and for equal guardianship of
children.
Ths state federation ha been largely
instrumental in the establishment of a
home for feeble-minded children, and la
securing state car for th insane.
Everywhere throughout the statu
there has been a quickening which I re
sulting In the discontinuance of th ex
ecutive self-culture, club, which waa
the 'prevalent early club in New Hamp
shire, and a rapid growth of the In
elusive club, who watchword la
service. -
n at
Army Nurses Given
Reception at Boston.
One of the great event of Grand
Army week in Boston ws th reception
given th visiting army nurses In
Memorial hall on August 17. It wss a
notabla event for several reasons; one
being that it Is the first time the hall
ha ever been used for reception pur
pose. No attempt waa made whatever
at decoration, a tt waa. considered far
more appropriate that the tattered
battle flag and other: testimonials of
war and victory should serve for deco
rations and remain unobstructed to th
view of the visitors.
Tho chairman of th reception com
mittee, Mr. Mlcah Dyr, assured It
success long before th event occurred,
for she 1 on of th acknowledged great
organiser of woman' work, and It I
aid of har that she belong to more
club than any one woman in the United
State. It was Mr. Dyer who organised
the famou 'Wlntergreen club," of
which Julia Ward Howe and ao many
noted women, who have passed life's
meridian, belong, and to which women
must hav 50 yeara to their credit be
fore they are eligible to membership.
At the nurse' reception, club women
were much in evidence, the New England
Press association and all th other Boa
ton club wer Invited and turned out
In great number to greet the nurse.
A special Invitation was extended to
the old veterans to be present to meet
the women who had done so much to
relieve the suffering of war. Among
the notable people present war Gover
nor snd Mrs. Bate. Mr. Mary A. Liver
more, herself a nurse; Mia Clara Bar
ton, General Blackmar, th new commander-in-chief;
Mr. Hasan, president
of tho Army Nurse of Massachusettes,
and Mrs. Hamilton, ths secretary.
School teacher and Sunday school
teachers had a special Invitation to come
and bring their children that they
might aee the women Massachusetts de
lights to honor.
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