Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-11

takes a gallop out in the country. The
result is Secretary Whitney has re-
covered his old vigor, and he looks
better now that he has looked since he
has been at the head Of the navy.
Mrs. Whitney is herself fond of exer-
else, and she has been taking a number
of long tramps this year. She believes
that American girls should take better
care of their health, and thinks there
are some English customs in this regard
which they could adopt with profit. She
advocates out Of door sports of every
kind, and it has been through her assis-
lance that some of the big paper chases
| and tally-ho rides have been SO enjoy
ably carried out.
She could not be the social leader that
she is were she not a fine conversation
alist, and those who imagine that the
social leaders of Washington are not
women of brains and culture are much
mistaken. The society here is literary
and political, and among the subjects
discussed every evening are the upper
most topics of literature, science ,artand
| politics. Mrs. Whitney is we'll up in
the standard literature of to-day.
San Antonio Girls in Dan ger.
San Antonio Express: A very nice
young man, whose name always appears
in the list of those attending the swell
balls and other similar social affairs,
unbosomed himself to an Express re-
porter yesterday. In common with
other San Antonio society men, this
very nice young man has a grievance.
He said: 81 tell youtwhat, if San Anto-
MO society girls don't mend their ways
they will find themselves boycotted.
Don't faint, | didn't mean to make a
pun. | am in dead hard earnest. You
see, we've stood the thing about long
enough. During the dull season. when
there are no strangers in town, the
girls are too awfully sweet on US town
boys. But now Just keep your eye
peeled and observe the change. We
| get up parties and balls, and run our
selves in debt very often doing it.
"We take the girls there and pay for
the hacks they ride in. Soon as they
get under the glare of the chandelier
and on %glistening floor they begin to
look around for new male faces. Let a
drummer come along decked out in a
spilke-tail coat and an idiotic grin, and
the girls go wild over him. and the
town boy is luckyi if he gets three dances
during the evening. And an army Off
Ger is our horror. When a blge coat
and brass buttons heave in sight, the
average San Antonio glrl grows raptur-
ously giddy, and we boys know the jig
is up with us. AS | said before we have
patiently borne this thing long enough.
| There has got to be a change" The
very nice young man then went off,
and mildly dissipated in a glass of moxy
to quiet his nerves.
A Charitable Woman.
New York Sun: A woman who has
devoted her life to the business of char
ity and has achieved a success that has
made her the best known woman in
| 4l,.t ill., -, 41ND JT..tnl G4,J1r e - l..
the world, is Mrs. Josephine Shaw
Lowell of this city. Mrs. Lowell IS the
widow of Colonel Charles r. Lowell,
who commanded a Massachusetts regi-
ment until he was killed during the
war. Left with only a daughter to care
for and with q reasonable amount of
wealth, Mrs. Lowell turned her atten-
| ton to charitable work, and for twenty
years has made that almost the sole
business of her life. In 1878 she was
| appointed by the governor u member of
the State Board of Charities and Cor
r%eCtion, being the first and for a long
time the only, woman to serve on that
board. Mrs. Sarah Carpenter of Pough-
keepsie, is now also a member.
In 1881 Mrs. Lowell, already well
known among charitable organizations
all over the country, was prime mover
in the formation of the Charity Organi-
cation society of this city, n has eve
| since been one of its officers and a
leader in its work. She is at present
one of the council of the society and
chairman of the committee on district
work, which has to do directly
with the work among the poor of the
city. One day each week the commit
tee, which consists of fourteen or fifteen
men and woman, meets at the central
office of the society, and reports are
made of the results of the examination
into each individual case that's brought
before h society. Mrs. Lowell pre-
sides at all of these meetings, and is the
general authority in the determination
of what shall be donelfn each case. Her
duties in connection with the Organiza-
ton society keep her busy at the central
Office about three days in each week.
Another day is givem TO her official in
| spection of the various ~reformatory in
situations of the city. The rest of her
time is occupied in the general work of
a member Of the state board and in at
tending to correspondence. She is rec
ognized all through the country and in
Europe as an authority in matters con-
nected with the administration of
charity, and letters come to her from all
parts Of the world asking for informa-
ton and advice.
She is a writer of unusual ~clearness
and effectiveness, and many of her re-
ports have come to be classics in the
literature of charity. She also is fire.
quently called upon to prepare papers
for and to personally address conven-
| tions and meetings of charitable or
similar organizations upon the methods
of organization and other matters within
her line.
Personally Mrs. Lowell is described
as a fine looking, even tempered, mod
est and unassuming woman of middle
age, wholly engrossed in the work to
which she has given her life, and al
most unknown in social or other circles
outside of those connected with her Dusi-
ness.
An Eccentric Female Miner.
Walla Walla Waterman: Our friend