The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-18

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Three little maidens were saying.
And see what God sends you!' Little they
thought,
He listened while they were playing:
So littlew guess that light, light word
AT times may be more than praying.
Il said Kate, with merry blue eyes,
would have lots of frOlic and folly"
'I' said Lu, with the bOnny brown hair
''Woud have life always smiling and Jolly
"And would have Just what our Father would
Said lovable, pale little Polly
Life came for the two with sweetness new,
Every morning in gloss and in glister;
But our Father above, in a gush of great love,
Caught up little Polly and kissed herr
And the churchyard neStles another wee grave,
The angels another wee sister.
The current number of FOrtnightIy pub
fishes lot of of contest declarations in
favor of woman's suffrage, in reply to the
woman's protest against it in the Nineteenth
Century. This letter is signed by all the
priestesses and high priestesses of the
cult; but for all practical purposes they
might just as well have saved themselves
the trouble, since their views on the sub
ject are fully known to everybody. While
there are few gentle, worthy and woman
ly women mixed with the rabble of cranks,
failures and disappointed females who
clamor for.suffrage and sigh to unsex them
selves. believe that the vast majority of
the sex prefer to remain lUOmen. have
no more desire ito crowd around the
ballot-box than they have to become cab
drivers or blacksmiths. What are men good
for if not to save women from disagree
able contact with the world! In the Nine
teGilth Century Mrs. Ashton Dixie and Mrs
Fawcett publish articles in which they
denounce all women who do not agree with
them on the question, and advance several
(butlessentially feminine) reasons why the
opinion of their opponents should be
ignored. Having thus dealt with their
open enemies, they turn upon those within
the temple who are not vet prepared
to admit that though no political
distinction ought to be recognized between
the sexes, female suffrage should be CON
fined to girls, old maids and widows. In
this they have considerable difficulty, be-
cause unable to find a real reason, though
they search heaven and earth for it, for
making such distinction. In commenting
upon the matter the Truth says: MY dear
ladies, we see through all this 1t is no old
friend, the thin edge of the wedge We
know that the old maids and the widows
are only the advanced guard. Once admit
that they have a right to the suffrage, and
we must necessarily admit that all women
have a right to it. If all women had votes
siderably more female than male voters.
The women's rights ladies', therefore, deem
1t more eXpedient to ask, at first. for part
of their number; though why Miss Jones
should lose it when she becomes Mrs.
Smith and only regain it again after she
has buried Mr.. Smith, no male mind can
comprehend
No end of wise things are being per
petualy written on the subject of giving
occupation to boys; but it is seldom indeed
that girls are advised as to what they shall
1T themselves for. 1t is supposed that
they are going to marry and keep house
and rear children; but the hard fact is that
in many sections there are more women
than men-and therefore, unless polygamy
comes again in fashion, how are all the
poor creatures to marry! Again, every
community has widows, many of whom
have children to support, and young
women with aged parents or younger
brothers and sisters dependent upon them
What shall they do for living! Among
other avenues of labor which afford fair
field to women aud in which may be found
health and pleasure as well as support
there is that of horticulture. That the sex
are born horticulturists, both by taste
and inclination, is evidenced by the house
plants which most of them cultivate,
and with success enough, even under
iunfaVOrable circumstances, to indicate that
if bread and butter depended upon it they
would make first-class florists or fruit grow
ers. Their natural carefulneSs, keen eyes.
quick perception and def fingers would
combine to make her lar superior to the
average man in the finer operations of hor-
ticulture. Another advantage is that fruit
or flower culture requires but little land to
begin with, and not much cash outlay, and
returns are quick. For good products the
demand is always good and the prices re-
munerative. Then above all it enables a
woman to earn her livelihood at home,
which, after all is said, is the place that
Snits her best. She need not go to Florida
or to California to raise oranges or olives
or to Mexico to cultivate coffee, or any
where else out of her own county, wher-
ever that may be. The products of the
locality where she belongs will do as well
as any other
One of the most interesting women in
New York city is Mrs. Florence Kelly
Wischnewetsky, 20 whom, jointly with
Miss Ida M. Van Etten, is due the passage
of the bill giving New York state six
woman factory inspectors. Mrs. Wisch-
newetslxy is a daughter of the late Hon.
w. w. Kelly (familiarly known as "pig
iron Kelly''), and she seems to have inner
tied his fathers ability. She was a Cornell
coed. and went abroad to study in the
German universities, where she acquired
her unpronouncable name by marrying a
Russian medical student Though by no
means beautiful, she has a wonderfully
strong and expressive face, and is a writer
of much force and originality She is
president of the Philadelphia society of
working women, and to her energetic work
in New York and Albany is largely due the
success of the factory bill.
From Petersburg comes the information |
that the Czarina has just had three mag
nificent dressing gowns made for Princess
Alexandria of Greece, who is about to be |
married to the Grand Duke Paul, of |
Russia. One of them is made of white |
silver fox fur, cut princess shape and |
edged with a border of real gOld-plated |
threads, four inches wide. The second is |
made of sable, fastened up the front with |
six agraffes, each composed of a cluster of |
real pearls The effect of the pure white |
pearls on the bright, dark fur is said to be |
dazzling. The third of these luxurious |
garments is made of blue fox fur, and is |
encircled at the waist by a diamond belt |
Several thousand skins have been used to |
make these dressing gowns, which repre- |
sent almost fabulous worth. The CZarina |
has explained the lavish outlay, by saying |
that the princess who comes from the |
sunny south, must be well protected |
against Russian cold. 1t may happen that |
q coat of mail would have been better |
bridal present, if she goes out riding with |
theroyal family among the bomb throwers.
Mrs Ella Dietz Clymes, the new
president of the most popular wo-
mans club in this country-Soro-
sis-is possessed of more than ordi- |
nary grace and beauty. She is tall and |
slender, with light hair and dark brown
eyes, which grow wonderfully luminous |
when she becomes interested. Mrs. Clymes |
has most musical voice, a religious tenn
permanent, and a taste for the mystical We !
shall probably hear of her by and by among |
the Theosophists and followers of Chris |
tian science-especialIy as the latter craze |