St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-16
SUNDAY SALAD.

the most favorable test in the late mu-
nicipal election that has yet been &C
corded it, and was instructive in many
points upon which doubts and differ
ences of opinion have been expressed.
Over 10000 women voted under that pro-
vision of the Massachusetts law which
permits women to vote for school off
GERS. The feature of principal interest
was that the women were treated as re-
specially at the polls as anywhere else.
The men were On their good behavior.
and. according to the opinion of the
Boston press, the presence Of the.
women had good effect. Ouce an
alteration, attended by profanity, near
a box, was checked by a police officer
with the remark that there were ladies
present, and that kind oftalk must stop.
There was religious issue at stake,
which probably accounted for such a
large attendance of female voters at the
polls. Women usually take more inter-
est in religion than they do in politics.
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The New York Sun says that the
Women's Suffrage society of Brooklyn
is securing the names of the citizens of
Kings county who believe that women
should vote on equal terms with men.
The enrolment is ordered by the Amer
lean Women's Suffrage society, which
has every state and county organization
busy at the work. Before the present
congress adjourns there will be petit
tionsiby the wagon load presented; and,
it is said, the South, once the strong
hold of conservatism, will lead all the
sections with its numbers. Florida,
Alabama. Georgia and Tennessee are
ahead at the present time. The Brook
Ign women will forward heavy list.
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A good story is told about an uptown
lady of taste and refinement. She re-
Gently enjoyed the pleasure of visit
TO Europe. and while standing before
masterpiece of TITIAN'S in the doge'S
palace in Venice, she fell into reyery.
Recalled to herself by companions
touch, she sighed and moved away.
Since she reached home she made con-
fession. With deep humiliation she
owned it to her friend that while stand
ing before that splendid Titan. what
filled her mind was not the painters
genius, but a ridiculous longing for
some fish balls, ''such as we used to
have at home"
Mrs. MARGARET DELAND and Mrs.
HUMPHREY WARD, one as the author of
"John Ward" and the other of Robert
Elsmere," are the literary lionesses of
the age. One is an American, the
other an English woman. Mrs. De-
LAND is granddaughter of the late
Maj. WILLIAM WADE, of Pennsyl-
vania. Her home was formerly in
Pittsburg, but since her marriage she has
been living in Boston. In 1856 she
published limited edition of a volume
of poems. called 1.-The Old. Garden, and
Other Verses" which Vas received
with general critical appreciation. Mrs.
HUMPHRY WARD was born in Aus
tralia, but has lived in England the
principal part of her life. Her husband
is the art critic on the London Times,
but his chief work is in editing works
for print. Mrs. WARDS first book was
child's study, "Milly and Oily"
which was published in 1881, with illus
trations by the well known artist, ALMA
TADEMA. Mr. and Mrs. WARD live in
one of the large old fashioned houses in
Russell square, near the British mu-
scum.
IS
Committees representing some peo-
pie who have great faith in law to make
people religious good have been before a
senate committee to urge the passage of
the BLAIR bill which indicates by its
title that it is to promote rest and relig-
ious worship on the first day of the week.
Such movement carries the impress
sion that the churches are without pre-
yailng influence in the communities,
and the arm of the law is needed to do
their work. 1t is not believed that the
statute books should be encountered
with acts that are not in harmony with
public sentiment. and tend in the di-
rection of confusion of the secular and
ecclesiastical realms.
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Tomorrow will be the poet WHIT
TIERS eightieth birthday. he has lived
decade beyond the Scriptural limit to
human life. and yet the old mans heart
is full of the milk of human kindness,
and his genius still fragrant with poetic
sweetness. WHTTIER's life has been a
poem, the melody of whose lines has
never been jingled out of tune.
PROMINENF PEOPLE,