Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-16

men as in women, although have shadow
of prejudice that women the oftener possess
It as they do great deal Of quiet managing
In this world They are trained to it
Fairs, charities and such organizations are
confessedly much more economically man
aged by women than by men, and I do not
see why they should not have a share of the
management OF the Worlds Fair. People
who can DO things in this world should be
called upon to do them, and beneath the
trivialities the discussion of woman's ability
to take part will rise. do not see how
anyone dare deny that underneath it all
there is the right"
SHE IS ENTHUSIASTIC.
Now Mrs. Vance is tiny bit of a woman
with soft brown eyes and winning face, but
she grew tall, her eyes flashed and her face
became the embodiment of justice as she
used the word "dare." No man would have
wanted to dare if he had seen her, for he
would have been vanquished, not by force,
but by principle.
"This affair belongs peculiarly to women"
she continued, ''for in spite OF all criticism
the only one thst made Columbus discov-
cry possibility was q woman. The ques-
ton is not raised what else that woman did,
but her one act places her above cavilling.
Can people who criticise her point out or
find one other woman in the fifteenth CEN
tury who was her equal? If they can it
will then be time enough to discuss Queen
Isabella's other characteristics.
AN ADVISORY COUNCIL.
Mrs. Senator Ingalls, said: 'I hope every
chance that is proper will be given them, for
no one will deny that women are trained by
experience to special aptitude in manage
ment. There is much that woman need
not and should not attempt, but anything of
this nature is her province. If Congress
should not deem it advisable to appoint Q
woman on the executive board there should
at least be an advisory council. If such q
council exists there will come times when
men will gladly consult it. To prove that it
is not an ornamental organization will take
my own experience in the Grand Army Fair
that was given here. At first the advisory
board Of ladies were not consulted often,
but in time the gentlemen found they could
not do without their advice on subjects
which if asked about they would have
thought themselves perfectly capable Of de-
Gliding. Women need not clamor for an
opportunity to work for when the Fair is
decided upon they will have the oppor-
tunity."
A LITTLE DUBIOUS.
"Has it been decided that there will be
Worlds Fair?" was Mrs. ex-senator Hen
derson's counter-query when asked her
what part women would take in it. 81
signed the petition to Congress, but can
didly there will be only one case in which
Congress will have anything to do with it
and that is if it is to be in Washington. II
it goes to any other city private corporations
will have the control and women will have
nothing to do with it unless they can bid
higher than men. hope we will not be
doomed to 3 side show or an independent
booth where we will be permitted to spread
out patchwork quilts and crochetted tides.
There is hardly trade in which women
have not done some creditable work and the
art exhibits ought to be exceptional. At
the New Orleans Exposition was chair
man of the Missouri Woman's Committee,
and when l found that woman was a cob
bier or tinker had her send samples of
her work. hunted up every patent that
ever originated in a Missouri wOman's
brain, and first began then to see how
much women were doing of the work Of this
world. At the Paris Exposition there was
a notable exhibit of women's work, for I
suppose there are more women compare
lively in France who work at trades than in
any other country"
MRS. wALTHALL's OBJECTIONS.
Mrs. Senator Walthall let me into little
secret. She was in hurry when the petit
ton was presented to her, glanced over it
quickly and signed her name, although she
does not believe one whit in women asking
for place on the Executive Board. Said
she: "I never have thought it the proper
thing for women to enter any life in which
they will have to knock up against things
as men are supposed to do. There is so
much that has been left to US to do that we
have not yet done to perfection that it is
well for Us to cling to our assignment in life
little longer. Everyone knows that before
the fair is over women will have done much
of the work, and think it right that they
should, but they will receive just as much
honor and pleasure if they do as they did in
the New Orleans Exposition and take sep
arate department. The better they do it the
more honor it will be, while it will be no es-
peciaI satisfaction to divide with men the
glory that may not crown their efforts, for
so tar as I have noticed the men have not
been especially successful-they haven't de-
cided on having fair yet, have theY?" she
asked with merry twinkle in her brown
eyes. MISS GRUNDY, JR.