The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-27

delightfully."- as women do, If they were
to try for century. Best of all, the wo-
men begin to mean what they say, too.
Does girl need chaperon? 1t de-
ponds on the girl.
Nine. Pommery was the head of the
great champagne house at Rheims after
her husbands death. She managed it so
admirably that the business grew to
great size, to such dimensions as the
husband had never dreamed of. French
women, fettered as they are by law and
custom, have shown more business talent
in large enterprises than those of any
other nation. Nine. Pon1mery was child
less and devoted her immense fortune to
education, art and benevo;ence. She paid
for the liberal education of fifty destitute
children. The amount she gave to foster
art will never be known. Yet all the
while that she was giving away princely
fortunes in good works, this shrewd,
kindly little woman lived as plainly in
her simple home as our own Margaret of
New Orleans used to live.
The club idea has grown in this coun-
try till it is becoming, if possible, even
more popular among women than among
men. And Jenny June may be said to
be the originator of the club idea among
women in America.
May Wright Sewall is an indefatigable
worker for her own sex. Through her
efforts and those of a few friends as en-
thusiastic as herself, large and hand
some club house for women is building
in Indianapolis. 1t will be called the
Propyleum. 1t is owned and controlled
altogether by woman's stock company,
of which Mrs. Sewall is president. The
building is designed for the use Of wo-
mems clubs and societies in general. 1t
will be 70 feet by 62, with high basement
and two stories. The basement contains
commodious offices, which the ladies
will rent. The kitchen and dining rooms
are in the basement also. Upon the first
floor are club parlors and committee
rooms, upon the floor above a general
hall, which may be used for receptions,
lectures, balls and other entertainments.
Mrs. Mary Frances Augustin, who died
recently, aged 90, was noted caterer of
Philadelphia for seventy-one years. In
1918 she established a small restaurant
on Fifth street. She managed it entirely
without assistance till 1915, then she took
her husband in as superintendent and
cashier. She was successful and accu-
mulated fortune, but continued the su-
pervision of the restaurant till her death.
Mrs. Augustin was the mother of seven
children. All this shows what one wo-
man could do, at least.
Two events that happened recently
have set me to thinking some "long
thoughts" One is the exposure of the
frightful corruption of the sheriff's Office
and local prison department of New York
city. The other is the active participa-
ton of the ladies of Kansas in municipal
elections the last year. In the Kansas
towns women have taken an interest in
municipal affairs, and some of them
have been elected to city councils. They
scrutinize carefully the moral character
of every man who presents himself as
candidate If it is not satisfactory, it is
useless for him to come before the NOM
mating convention, for the women have
delegates at the nominating convention,
too. The result has been a revolution in
municipal politics in these towns. The
occupation of heeler, hummer and the
man who makes his living by politics is
gone. Good order, clean streets and first
class schools appeal peculiarly to women.
The Medina Valley railroad has new
president. The new president under
stands thoroughly not only the duties of
the Office and the needs and capacities of
the railroad itself, but has also excep-
tional business ability. The name of
this valuable individual is Mrs. G. D.
Haines. | wonder if she writes her
first name with an Il e?'
There is no intellectual power or fac
ulty displayed by any one mind that is
not latent in every other mind There
fore it is Enthusiastically true that what
one individual of a race has done stands
as a possibility for any other member of
that race. wish girls would remember
this. Ibsen in his writing glorifies al
ways strength of will. Strength of will
means simply patient determination
that never relaxeS.
The engraving aud plate printing de-
partment of the Methodist Book Concern
at Cincinnati has girl manager, bright
and pretty girl at that, who understands
her business thoroughly. She is Minna
Williams. Miss Williams has studied
and worked both in this country and in
Europe.
Cardinal Manning, blessed be alike his
great heart and brain, says: Il think the
time has now come for strenuous and
proper efforts to be made to protect the |
working women and to insure to them |
equal fairness in the matter of their hours |
of work and their wages as the men now |
Mrs. George B. Carpenter is and has |
been for ten years sole lessee and man |
ager of Central Music hall, Chicago.
DR.. Jennie" McCowen is president of
the Davenport, Ia, Academy of Sciences.
And Bennie Harrison is president of the
United States.
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