The Oregon daily journal., April 21, 1907, SECTION THREE, Image 38

THE OREGON 1 SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY I.IORmNG, APRIL 21, 1C07.
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r?r Charlee Byng-Hall. "
IN. April 11. Consuelo Van'
ii;rbllt, Duchess of Marlborough.
las now practically completed
l iana for a unique charity on
Mcale. She haa done It o quiet
t u.e facta are made known now for
;.i.t time. The ducbeea hasn t
i the directorate of the-ohurch
... aa aonie American papers have
i say inc. nor la aha going to work in
iunki, nor to devote her time and
i.-v to It. She has. It Is true, given
f h!p to the army "firewood de-.-
s ment" for several years, but so have
r v other aristocratic women or jsng
l. No, the charity on which she has
t embarked la her own. She la the
.mm head in planning, In manage
This new benevolent enterprise of the
, hess takes the form of a home In
i.don for women and children of a
n. lal and previously almost neglected
.ml They are the wlvea and children
r imprisoned criminals innocent sur
fers for the misdeeds of husbands and
tiers and to make a home "tor them,
r at least some of them, the Duchess
r Marlborough baa Just taken a 21-
re lease of a roomy building In
.dslelgh. street St Pancraa. This is
w being entirely reconstructed by
r orders, and negotiations are also in
i ogress for the two bulldinga on either
le. When all these nave been opened,
.,1 time has proved theli1 usefulness.
e duchess, out of her American mil'
: ns may erect special bulldinga or add
;r her leases the adjoining houses on
: : 9 same block. For with her this la
. .it a new charitable occupation of the
i.enten season, nor the passing and
rcd duty of a great lady of the land,
t a lifework In carrying out which
.e hopes to solve one of London's
,Hny aortal problems. , . s 1
ue to Family Troubles.
Headers, of course, are familiar with
family troubles of -the Duke and
tiehess of Marlborough. The duchess
i the friendship of Queen Alexandra,
v marriage ber aunt la the Marchlon-
s of Lansdowne, wife of the former
.reign minister. Ehe Is the acknowl-.-a
leader among women In political
ciety. Lady Lansdowne t Is also a
rat friend of the queen,' and may
ortly become mistress of the robes at
iirt- The queen and Lady Lansdowne
-e ply sympathise with the ducheea
hey have cheered ber up and advised
r on more than one occasion.
Soon after the estrangement between
e Marlborough, the queen suggested
nt the duchess devote ber time to
irfl work tn order to get her mind off
r troubles. Her mother, Mr. O- H. P.
Imont, was with the duchess at the
me and together they went to the
hurcb army and had a talk with Its
-u1er, the Rev. Wilson Carl lie. The
it-hens wanted occupation which would
t bring her before the public Mr.
.trill took her to No. Banner street,
t. Luke's, where In the midst of the
ty slums the army has its .; little
ranch devoted to the aid of prisoners'
Ives and families. The work is ear-
j on in a modest way without publlo
y by Mrs. Hodder, wife of Captain
..Ider, the man In charge of the fire
ord department of the Church Army.!
The ducheae waa asked to help, and
!p she did. Be went feverishly Into!
e work. She bought 200 blankets,
ooo yards of cottons to be made Into
eet and underclothing, boots and
oea everything In fact that Mrs.
.drier said was needed. And she be-
i n visiting the wlvea of the Jail birds.
ickety stairs and noisome slums aha
imbed by the score. Dark, evll-emell-g
and evil-looking alleys and tumble-
wn rookeries knew her. -
Then Mrs. Belmont stepped In and
'opped her. It waa dangerous work,
.ere was not only fear of Infection,
ut fear that she would give way phys-
ally under the heavy self-imposed
iska. There "waa no thought, on the
A Dying Race : Australian Bushnien
J1HE race of the red Indian In this
I country Is usually pictured aa a
I pathetic instance of a dying peo-
pie, . yet the Indiana have I in
creased rather than diminished in
.imbera during the past 10 years. On
.e other hand, several important racea
re swiftly passing out of existence,
nd will soon be known to history only,
f thee tho most interesting ia. per-
.pa. the race of aboriginal black of
uatralia and the islands close to the
nallest . of the , world' continental
.asses of land. . Scientists estimate
at another century will see tho last
r the Australian "
Their customs are very different from
hose of the black race of Africa, and
' 1 evident that the migration must
tv taken place thousand of year
irk. If tho Australian black a did not in
iblt their native soil at a time when
a trail waa Joined to the Asian main
nd by a narrow chain of lofty moun
ilns whose rocky tops even now 11 not
ery far below the surface of the Pacific
ean.- ' ' - S " '""'"
Aa far as religious feeling go the
ustrallan black employs devil worship
. i it crudest form. ' Tho devil, or
Jlngy." aa the native term . th evil
irlt, 1 constantly ' avoided," and the
. .irlou fact that th black never stops
i any on camp for more than three
i ye ia baaed on the supposition that
a devil 1 always on his track hunting
m. The number three I th rnystlo
xuro in the dull .brain of these na
ve, and the "rule of three" is th One
r which their every act i governed,
hue they stay in eaclrbush-camp for
iree daya. They dig three grave for
ich dead native ia order to " fool
Jingy.'i The body is placed in th mld-
grave upon a thick bed of leave and
i ie knees are tied up Against tho breast
- 1th lashlr.gs of tree bough and the
j.rmi are crossed over th breaut The
t rad la turned toward the east and In
iris the native worship of the sun la
i Ume visible. : Spears and tho dead
mn's boomerang are piled on top the
ich of earth thrown over tho grave and
s burial Is done with. . The black man
' Australia can count ap to three, but
ond that hla brain seems Impossible
load. - -.. "
Me race la anything but a handsome
. and is made even horrible in ap
nince by a nunrber of deforming cum
v The men are rudely tatooed, and 1
places frequently fester and turn
bad anrea. The women ahow the
i shoulder and breast which haa queer
sip of flesh, nearly white in color,
n gtrl child la born th women
it and. with aharp fllnta, gash the
t shoulder and breast and white sand
put Into the wounds. On healing
tushes turn almost white and
n hideous lumps. These ere the dls
nve marks of beauty and fashion for
"i'H black of Australia.
" li h the males their prime ornament
i ear th thin splinter bone of the
1 ! of the kangaroo. This Is usu
r.ir Inrhee long, and is bored
.ht through the part of the nose
toting the noatrila. This Is th
i f a htirhelnr among these native.
- Ci-t they like kangaroo, 'possum,
fish, whale, seal, llurda. grub
' " fact almost anything will do.
tbtiu- MM&j&r- hJl LAi4':
courageous little woman's part, of at
tack, perhaps murder, by some drunken
ruffian In that crime-infested district.
It was Christmas time, and though
her strenuous work - waa stopped, the
duchess continued being the good angel.
8he ordered a basket of provisions real
Christmas fare to- be sent to avery
family on the army's roll whose .father
was la prison.
It will be . remembered - that the
duchess children, the Marquis of Bland
ford and Lord Ivor Churchill, were
taken away . from her by the duke.
After Chrlstmaa this blow completely
overwneimea ner. uccupaiion xor ner
mind had been taken from her by Mrs.
Belmont's Insistence for her welfare.
Her (relatives, her friends were In
despair. VAgaln Queen Alexandra came
to aid the stricken young American. Her
majesty sent for Mr. Carllle. "Tho
duchess is Interested In -your work
among prlaoners" families. she said, "bo
why not turn it over to her entirely?
She ta not strong enough to aid aa a
helper or visitor. . But give - her this
little charity of yours as a nucleua to
greater things, snd she will be too busy
directing the affairs and managing them
to think of her troubles.
Mr. Carllle Immediately followed her
majesty's suggestion. - In his frantically
energetic way ha rushed to Sunderland
House. The duchess was at luncheon
with Mr. and Mra. Belmont - Mr. Car
ina joined them. He imparted aomo of
his enthusiasm oven to Mr. Belmont.
The duchess doubted If she could
alone successfully manage such char
Takei Entire Charge.
Mr. Carllle waa impetuous, brusque.
I cannot help that," he said. "It Is
turned over absolutely to you. Do with
it what you will. I have nothing more
to do with It. I will help you, of course,
if you want advice. But it ia yours
from now on to do with It aa yon like."
- The queen sent privately for the
ducheea. The two talked for an hour
or more In Buckingham palace not as
highly placed ladles, but aa women.
Next day the Duchess of Marlborough
motored with her mother down to No.
( Banner street and took over ; the
a, these careless, laiy people often,
tarve to death whore human beinga of
even fair Intelligence would not experi
ence any hardships. When food Is plen
ty they stuff until 111 and and waste
more thaa they eat '':"" - ' "'
The weapons used for tho chase and
war are the earn and very poor. Aa a
matter of . fact the Australian blacks
never put up any fight against the
white men. They are not fit to be
compared with the American red men,
but ran like rabbi ta from the first white
settler. They rank among the lowest
of the human racea. being above only
the pigmies In Central Africa and the
THERE have been many lovely
women, from the "divinely fair"
Helen of Troy -to the lateat
beauty whoso pictured charm in
- the shop window set thousands
of susceptible heart going plt-a-pat;
but is doubtful whether any of them all
have been more richly dowered by na
than ha two Irish airla whose ra-
mnA intoxicating loveliness burst
on an atonlana woria ana sei n summ
a century and a hair ago. iney nave
h, Ai,f but the memorv of their
brief and brilliant career of conquest 1
almost a f resn aa wnen tneir amnes
thawed cold and cynical Horace Walpole
Into a rapture of enthusiasm, and made
kin hn nrofesaed to be Droof against
female fascinations, declare they were
the nenaomest women oiive.
Maria and Elisabeth (or Betty) Gun
ning were the daughter of a thriftless
t.ia milreen. whoaa life waa aoent in
playing hide-and-seek with writ-servers.
and whose conversation was mienaraea
with boast of th Plantagenet blood
In hi vein and of hi girls "th love
liest lr. In all th world!": while
their mother was a vain, vapouring
woman whose chief anxiety in life was
to remind everyone sne met mat ane
waa the sister of a viscount and a kins
woman of Lord Sllgo.
In a home which was little better than
"gloririen Dam, wim Dauirr a con
stant visitors, and under the training of
a.tk ti,r,nla the two TrisK mslda vrew
from childhood into a young womanhood
of dassltng beauty, tne toasts and Heart
breakers of all th squlreene for miles
around Castle Coote, In Roscommon;
ma vhn Maria waa 1? and .hep
a year younger, their parenta scraped a
Tew pOUnas lURCitrer w IBBW Ultra CO
Dublin and introduce tbem to such
society a It had to offer.
The Rage of Dublin. ;; ; -.
'Around these early day of their debut
in the' world of fashion many pictur
esque romance, have been woven.
Maria, It ia said, soon mad the ac
quaintance of an unprincipled adven
turer called Feversham, and wa eloping
with him to England when she was
saved by the accident of th chaise ar
riving too late for the pocket On her
crestfallen return Journey she met at a
wavBldo boatelrv Ann Jtallamv. the. aa-
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Church Army's little nuafeus aa her
own, her vary own charity. , There fol
lowed many daya of hard office work.
And it waa on one of these days that
the new project of the -duchess, now
being carried out, waa bom. .
tree people of the Philippine Islands.
They use a stone-beaded spear, weak
and short but are quick in thrusting
and throwing with theae weapons. 1 The
boomerang, or klley, ia the only inter
esting weapon they have, and with the
eodja, or atone hatchet- are the .only
weapons ' they have Invented : when
turned out by white settlers.
- They never wore clothee in their nat
ural atate, but occasionally a kangaroo
skin ia put on by chiefs aa an ornament
or sign of power and pride. The babies
are swung on the mother back tn a
skin - of kangaroo called the "booka."
The men are allowed all the wlvea that
tress, who not only cured her of her
infatuation, but , Introduced . her to
Thomas Sheridan, th manager of the
Dublin theatre; and Sheridan eem to
hav provided from hi stage wardrobe
the dresses in which th slater made
their curtsies to the lord lieutenant at
Dublin eaatle. They had certainly not
been many day In the Irish capital be
fore their beauty and grace had taken it
by storm, and every man, from the
viceroy to the chairmen and porter,
fell a slave to their fascinations.
When the girls danced at the castle
ball their conquest was triumphant and
complete, "With Betty a with Maria.
wrltea Mr. Frankfort Moore, 'the art of
the dance had become part of her na
ture. Her languorous eyes were In
eympathy with the voluptuous move
ment of her feet and lithe body, and
the curves made by her arm formed an
Invisible chain that held everyone en
tranced. Tho cares of her finger, tho
coyness of her curtate," th allurement
of herenovement all th grace and
charms Inwoven that make tip the poem
of the minuet became visible by the
art of that exquisite girl, until all oth
er dancers' became commonplace by
comparison.' ; st ,
Soon not only Dublin, but all Ireland
(for their fame spread fast snd far),
was raving over, th . new-found
beanttes, who. like twin refulgent stars,
had flamed Into the social nrmament
and paled every other 'luminary. But
Ireland waa too poor a province for the
mother ambition.' Her daughters, she
aid. muat go to London, where danllng
coronet were to be won, end to London
he speedily took them with borrowed
money.- ' ,'4 .'
Take London Society J Storm.
Thus It waa that In June. 17S1, there
appeared in th metropolis, to quote
Horace Walpole. "two Irish girl of no
fortune, who make more noise than any
of their predecessors sine the day of
Helen." And Indeed thl wa a 'tailld,
statement of the sensation caused by
the "fair Hibernlana," whos fm had
preceded them. Bo : great wa th
furor they caused that tney couia not
take a walk without being followed by
such a crowd of admirer that they
were eBranalla . ta but a retreat
In Banner street is a big whitewashed
building the Houseless Poor ' asylum.
This waa started in. lSlt .and the orig
inal work ia still carried on. but by the
Church Army, which baa Its kindling
wood brigade's headquarters there.. Mrs.
each can support and on a man' death
the women simply migrate to the' family
of some other native, usually a near rel
ative of the dead man. , There are now
about 6,000 natives employed by white
settlers in Australia near the wilder
sections , of "the Interior. K
V The on social function of the Aus
tralian buehman waa the "korroborreea."
or war dance. A cleared space of about
half an acre waa always mad by th
women, who piled np brushwood ao that
about ZOO fire would be lighted Just
after sundown. Then the males, carry
ing spear and war hatchet. - would
slowly danc around and In between the
fire of brushwood. On these occasions
the warriors "painted themselves with
a sort of whit clay and tied on-th tall
of dog and etuck emu feather In their
woolly hair.' r? - ; .- ,
"There were mob at their door to see
them get into ; their ' . chairs," ay a
chronicler, "and peopl go early to et
place at the theatre when it 1 known
that they will be there."- i
- Great noble vied with each other for
their smile, and a royal prince, the
Duke of Cumberland," made open love
to Maria, and waa disconsolate when
hie advancea were coldly received. At
Vauxhall and other places of fashion
able resort they were mobbed by crowds
of titled women, many of whom did not
crupl to give outspoken vent to their
Jealousy. "'; '' -' " ; ' "'v "' "
Which of th two beautiful ' Invader
waa th more beautiful waa a question
which haa never been decided. From
one end of London to the other It was
hotly debated; life-long friend quar
reled and. cam to blow over it and it
waa contested with sword and pistol in
many a duel at Chalk Farm and else
where. Half ' the world declared . em
phatically that Maria was the more
lovely; the other half s stoutly pro
tested that-Betty wa th fairer. Both
had the nml small moutha, high fore
heads, dainty aquiline noses,, and arched
eyebrow; the oame exquisite blending
of . "milk and roses," and the same
superb and graceful., figure. Of the
two, Betty bad the riper and fuller
charms, but Maria wa, perhaps, th
more elegant . . -. ' . - . v.,., "y "
The Dticheia of Hamilton. ;
To Betty fell th flrt matrimonial
prise; for, among her crowd of -eultora.
she chose the Duke of Hamilton end
Brandon, whom Walpol describe aa
"debauched, extravagant and damaged
In fortune and person, - but who was
surely one of the most Impetuous lovers
who oyer went to the altar. Bo . Im
patient was he that when he could re
strain his ardour no longer, he instated
late one night on sending for a parson
and having the nuptial knot tied at
once. "The parson refused to perform
the ceremony without either a license or
a ring. The duke swore ho would aend
for the archblehop. . At last they were
married with a ring of the bed curtain
at half an hour after twelve at May
fair chapel,' where '. to many other
hasty couple had been mad ona
. "VVbaa bar eraea waa . nreaentad at
CHILDREN 07- BfclTTtSJl ; PRLSOWE&A .
Hodder, six years ago, personally
started befriending the families of men
in Jalt. The work grew to auch prop
ttona that she called the attention of
the Church Army to it Four roome In
a building across the street were rented
Real and Imaginary Burdens
' - By Carolyn Precott " :
SHE has been married Just two years
and . she think . ehe has all the
troubles in the world, though th
rest of ber friends do not seem to
see thing -(n that light which
make her furious! She doesn't under
stand why w laugh at her 'when she
applies to herself tho title, "The most
overburdened woman In .the world."
' Poor little woman! Here are some of
the thing that make her so pathetically
unhappy; - . ,' ; . " .,?
"She ha given up her girlish freedom,
nd ever sine hef marriage haa been a
i a . .
court so' great waa th sensation she
cauaed that "the . noble mob in the
drawing-room clambered onto chairs
snd table to get a look at her"; while
her journey with her ducal husband to
Scotland waa one long triumphal prog'
resslon, "TOO people sitting up all night
merely to see her get Into her post
chaise the next morning at the door of
a Yorkshire Inn where she had spent th
night"-. , '.."' ' ... .
. It would be difficult to imagine a
more dramatic transformation than that
of Betty Ounnlng from her poor, dis
mantled Irish horn to tho splendor of
a ducal palace, where she waa raised
to a position of almost ultra-royal etate
and excluslveness. The , duke and
ducheae, we are told, "at their own
house, walk In to - dinner before their
company, sit together at the tipper end
of their own table, eat off tho aame
plate, and drink to nobody tfeneath the
rank of an earl." She waa not destined,
however, to remain Ducheea of Hamil
ton long, for within a few year (In
17SS) her husband died, and 12 month
later ahe wa wooed and won by Colonel
Campbell . (after refusing the offer of
another ducal coronet, that of Bridge
water). , Already she wa losing .her
charm, for Walpol apeak of her at
thl time possessing ."but little re
main of beauty, though not yet 1
think, above al-and-twenty." ,
The Ducheat of Argyll '
She had been married to Colonel Camp
bell leas than two years when he suc
ceeded to the dukedom of Argyll; and thus
for the second time a duchess' coronet
fell to th poor Irish girl whose face
had been indeed her fortune. Thl title
eh enjoyed for 20 years; and when she
died she left behind her four sonsj of
whom two became in turn Duke of
Marlborough and two Duke of Argyll.
To return to Maria, tho elder of the
two beautiful latere, whose brilliant
career waa destined to come to an early
and tragic eclipse. -
Maria had always frankly . declared
that ah meant to have a duke at least
for her husband; but her heart had the
last word to aay in the matter, for eh
completely lost It to the Karl of Cov
entry, a handsome young peer, whose
wife ah beoame ia lea . than three
CHRISTMAS
'GIVEN BY TJtE DUCHEeSoJ OF
W.lVimWH TO THE WlVE5 AND'
and Mrs. Hodder's pet -charity estab
lished there. It is this little beginning
which the Duchess.of Marlborough haa
takenv over for her own. Todpy's roll
contains the names of over a hundred
families.. . . ' ' '
"bond slave" to ber husband and hla
family. ' They com to dinner at least
once every two weeks and then she "aa
to break her neck to think of something
they like. Think of It!"
She has lost 'her .independence, for
every time she stay out after , It la
dinner time her husband ask her erher
she haa been. .
She haa - been made over a happy,
care-free girl to a household drudge,
sewing and attending to the hundred and
on household carea that' are dally cast
upon her shoulder. , .
And,, worst of all, her flat Is so small
1 week after her alster'a hurried and un
conventlola nuptials in Mayfalr chapel.
Shortly after her marriage the count
ess accompanied her husband to France,
where, it I euriou to learn, her beauty
made little, impression. "The French,"
aye Walpole, whose cynicism, how
ever, made hla testimony net always
reliable, "would not admit that lUdy
Coventry had much pretense , to . be
beautiful. " Poor Lady Coventry waa un
der piteous disadvantages, for beside
being very silly, ignorant of the world
and of .good breeding, apeaktng no
French, and suffered to wear neithea
red nor powder, she had that perpeluaf
drawback upon her beauty her lord.
who la sillier in a wiser way, and aa
Ignorant" ..' ' : ;
Certainly her ladyship' frinknes at
time wa responsible for startling In
discretions,' on on occasion when
George II asked her if h wa not
sorry that there were to be no more
masquerade. "No," wa her answer, "I
am tired of them; indeed, I am surfeited
with moat London alghta. There la
only one left that I want to see, and
that is a coronation!" ...-
'' ' . - ' . ' i ' . ..
Cosmetics Cause Her Death.
It would have 'been fortunate for
Lady Coventry if ehe had never been al
lowed to use "red" and "powder," for
It la said that poisonous cosmetic not
only destroyed her beauty but her life.
For only eight short year waa ahe al
lowed to enjoy th splendor of th
position her beauty had won, and th
tory of her last day 1 on of th moat
pathetic la the annals of fair women,
let Horace Walpole tell It "Poor Lady
Coventry," he wrltee, "concluded her
short race with the same attention to
her looks. She lay . constantly on a
couch, with a pocket glass In her hand,
and when- that told her how great the
change was, she took to her bed. Dur
ing the last fortnight she had no light
In her room but the lamp of a teakettle:
and at last took things In through the
curtains of her bed, without suffering
them to be withdrawn. Thus died at
the age Of 17 one of the most radiantly
lovely women who ever walked the
earth, the victim of a vanity which en
deavored to Improve the supreme handi
work of nature. . ..,,..'. I
Consuelo would have been the Lady
Bountiful, Indeed, but for the staying
hand of her lieutenant, Mrs. Hodder.
The very poor remain contentedly in
the gutter for all time if given abund
ant food 'and clothing In return or
nothing. Blowly the duchess learned
the science of real charity: learned how
to reclaim the lowest of the low. In a
week she waa not the fine lady, but tho
superintendent of tho Prisoners' Fami
lies Aid society, with Mra Hodder aa
her assistant superintendent. Daily sho
attended the office and da Friday morn
ings she held the weekly levee. On that
day atl the mothers and their children
on the roll have to attend and report
At the dally sesalona only new cases or
emergencies are looked after.
It was after the flrat week that the ,
ducheea astonished her. lieutenant by
outlining her plana She announced that .
the society would continue In Banner
street only until aha was able to secure
new and proper quarters. Firstly, sho
explained, there should be a building
devoted to children. Hero the little ;
ones should live until their father''
sentence ended and the family could
once more be united. Here they should
be taught to work, to read and write
and to ploy.'"
' Tho next item of tho duchess' plan
was a maternity homo, properly and
thoroughly equipped aa a real home,
rather than a eoid. whitewashed matei- .
nlty hospital, ' . '
Lastly, sho declared she ' would have '
a woman's home. Here prisoner's wives
were to bo housed, at least those whose
health or condition needed something ,
better than the wretched accommoda
tion of a single dingy room or. filthy
hoveL And hero there should be an
employment bureau and skilled women
to teach tneae prisoners' wlvea sewing,
domestic economy, ironing, artificial
flower making and such like simple in
dustries. .., v ., t ' -. ' w
Rent Big Apartment Vi "s -
For -many a day the duchess, Mra r
Belmont and Mrs. Hodder drove round
In tho duchess' motor-car visiting ad
dresses of suitable buildings given
them by real estate agents.. None: suited
until Kndslelgh ; street was reached
There are situated some largo house
almost under the shadow, of the - old
gray church of St Pancraa. No. 1 wad
vacant It contains 14 large rooms and
la four etorles in height In addition to
a commodious basement The two
housea on each aide are. at present occu
pied, though ona la "to bo let" So Che -duchess
closed the deal for No. II. buy
ing the lease, which haa 11 ' years to -run.
The tenants of one of the other
housea want tl.000 before they agreo
to move, and with other little anags tn .
sight Consuelo ha handed the matter .
over to an agent and will gO ahead with .
the one house.
The four big , room now rented In
Banner atreet will be. continued until
such time as the duchess decides to
move everything to Endaleigh street".
But her office, the headquarter of her
new charity, will be moved at once to
No. It, and' there also will be estab
lished the employment bureau. On tho
register of names to be kept there wilt '
also, be placed the-'occupation t beet v
suited to each woman. The duchesa will -then
advertise In the dally paper or .
her little office staff will answer adver- -
tlsements. Many of the wqmen. If they
an do nothing else, will ' go ' into do
mestic service, knowing full well that '
their children are comfortable and well
cared for at .ha Chlldren'a home. -
The entire responsibility, r-xnehao and
management will be In the hands of tho "
ducheas. Sho may ask the aid of help
era from the Church Army from, tho '
dainty dames of . high society or ah
may be satisfied with the simple help - '
of the woierr-to whom she lias now
become the guardian" and ministering .
angeL
that she can't even have an . afternoon
tea. . : .-.'. i I .
: Isn't ' this' poor little woman ' to-be
pitied T :.- -.t. ".'' -
" And yet all her friends had about made
up tbelr minds that she ' ought to be
the happiest tittle woman In the world,
with her handsome, worshiping husband
and her pretty ljjttle electric lighted,
team heated apartment -the nicest . In
the two cltlee, but ' people' Idea of
happlneea differ, evidently. ' .
The woman belonged to tlv club, waa.
an- Inveterate matinee-goer, kept one
maid and had a conscientious . dream
maker. ' It thla ought not to make a
woman happy. I .do not. know, what
WOUld. " . v. "V-" .-
We had alwaye imagined that ehe had
a pretty good time, and were amased
to hear her complaint ','
"She haa too good a time. ' That'a
what la tl.e matter wita her," my friend
exclaimed. . And perhaps she's right
There la auch a thing aa failure to real
ise one's blessing In an overaupply oC
them. Nv ' .- - ,' ; ' . .. .
Thla I probably th secret of a great
deal of the dlacontent In thl world.,
specially among women.' If they were
to contrast their live with thoee of
com of the women In this world they
might learn a lesson that -would do'
them a great deal of good.
Think of the German peasant women,
for instance, who are frequently yoked
with oxen and are compelled to plow
the fields, or of the Bavarian-fagot gath
erera, who dally etagger under loads that
would teat the strength of a horse; or
of the women hodoarriers of Munich, or
of those other Oerman women who labor
as roadmenders.- Think -of tho Italian
women who act aa express carrier, ear- '
rytng heavy load upon their head or
lugaing them In heavily constructed
carta, or even of the women who work
In Austrian mines, bringing from the
dark earth the heavy loads of coal.
And right here In our ' own country,
think of tne hundreds of women who
wear out their Jives In sweatshops and
mill for 11 or SO cent a day, scarcely
nough to keep the body and soul alive.
' Oh. woman, woman! Tour matrimonial
burden are generally aa light and .rothy
as th foam of the Ice cream soda watv
and would vanish Jtiat a quickly In tne
iac or real trouDi. Few American
women know what real burden are.
They live a care-free, happy existence,
for tho American husband as a class
Is the beet, husband tn the world and
the American wife I The luckiest woman
In the world. And the sooner she find
this out the better.
The life of the French wife I not at
all what on might fancy It neither le .
the Briwah matron's life jail - beer and
skittles. The Oerman "hdusfrau" must
work and work, no matter how wealthy
her lord and master may be. but the
American wife haa within her grasp
the power to make but of life almost
anything she wants. If. as my friends
say. "she knows, when she's well off."
It 1 asserted that death by starvation
I sot painful. But thl should not de
ter any one from sending the starving
Chinese food. " . ,