The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
Victoria Woodruff Martin Returns
to the United States on Phil
anthropy Bent.
Her Social Theories and Educa-
tional Schemes for Men and
Women.
Rev. Anna Shaw-NIrs Braeunlich, Bust.
ness Manager of tho Mining Journal
Striking Characteristics of Women,

Especial Correspondence of tho independent |
New York, May 7.-Victoria Woodruff
Martin is an interesting woman. After
meeting her one understands better her
picturesque career in New York half a gem
Grafton ago. Put her anywhere she would
have power over men and women.
She is quite slender, of medium height,
with short hair fecked with gray. As she
enters a room your first movement is one of
surprise at finding her 80 small You realize
that, half consciously, you expected her to
be striking.
Her face is the face of an enthusiast,
strongly marked and yet not one which
would, if you saw it in repose, command
your attention. When she speaks it becomes
marked degree winning.
She dresses very simply, without Jewels.
She talks quietly, without trying to produce
an effect. and yet she must have the gift of
oratory. She impresses you as a woman
very much in earnest and who believes in
herself thoroughly, generous egotism, if
that phrase conveys meaning.
She has conquered position in England,
80 at least one would judge from the April
number of the London Charity Record,
which speaks of ''the talented American
lady whose noble and devoted life has Sc
cured for her the unbounded respect and
esteem of the whole civilized world" She
has come back to New York to conquer
position here. Considering how she went and
how she returns after thirteen years the stu
alton is dramatic. One cannot say she has
not splendid courage
Her husband, MIR. John Biddulph Martin,
is London banker, who calls her his dear
little wife" and who is apparently nearing
SO. He has fine, Straightforward face, par
TALLY overgrown by a full beard. He is in
terested in the Anglo-American Dehenture
company, and may start banks in New
York and Chicago. Zula Maud Woodruff,
Mrs. Martins daughter. has grown up a
pretty girl with wavy hair and a beautiful
forehead. She is devoted to her mother and
YIELDS clever pen i'll support of her
theories. Lady Cook, nee Claflin. is with
her sister, preparing for a trip across the
continent.
The parlor of the house in West Seventh
eth street which Mrs Martin has taken, ia
furnished tremendously in gray green and
crimson, with here an ebony chair and
there a couch heaped with cushions. Evil
dences of refined taste and plenty of money
with which it may be satisfied abound.
One of the most conspicuous ornaments is
an old newspaper caricature, handsomely
framed aud resting on an easel. Across the
top runs the legend: 'How to Manage u
Balky Team" The team is a four-in-
hand of bulls and bears with the faces of
Vanderbilt. Fisk. Gould, etc, and seated
aloft, holding whip and reins. are two
hoop-skirted Jehus.s While you are exam
lining this souvenir of the first firm of
women stock brokers, '.Huw old are you?'
asks Mrs. Martin with frank direc,ness.
"There, you see, can't talk with YOU us
if you could remember us in the height of
our activity. When we came 10 New Aork a
woman couldn't get meal in restaurant
unless she had man 10 escort her. Now
zee the changes. | am compiling all the
things the press used to say about us''-and