The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-15

years ago stranger, unacquainted with
the rules OF the famous woman's club and
laundering upon the forbidden topic, was
treated to some of those soft purrlngs
which, with women more gently and po-
Iltely serve the purpose for which men use
misses, and that a special vote OF the as
sem blage was required before she would be
allowed to proceed. 1 do not know that
this Is true, but if SO the rigor OF the law
must have been relaxed somewhat OF late,
for at a recent meeting 1 noted that two
speakers briefly but quite directly advo-
Gated the ballot for women. and the re-
marks of two others seemed to have GER
tain leaning in that direction. Curlously
enough the most pointed utterances came
from the very member who is said to nave
introduced years ago the fesolutlon
barring politics and religion.
''THE ANGLoMANIACs'' AND AMERIcANIsM.
There are those who, in view of the SEN
| tlment arising in New York in favor OF a
revival Of Americanism, connect Mrs.
Cleveland's interest in it with her friend
ship for the Gilders and so with the publ
cation IN the Century of Mrs. Burton Har-
rison's satire 1.-THE Anglomaniacs," from
which possibly wholesome reaction Is
starting
NOTES ABOUT NoTABLEs.
| Mrs. Laura c.. Langford, who used to be
Laura G. Holloway, and whose pet child,
the Seidl society, has grown to be strong
and lusty organization, says OF 1t that
while she gets now the best music obtain
able from the best men, she looks to build
ing up in future the best women's orchestra
In the world, and having the best women
leaders. a big opera house is one of her
plans.
A fine vigorous white haired woman is
Mrs. Halves, who twenty years ago wrote
the "Sunbeams' for the Sun. Mrs. Dana
is credited with saying that after the work
was taken from Mrs. Halves it was never
again so well DONE
Mrs. May Riley Smith, the poet OF Soro
sis, is spending the winter at Ell Paso,
Texas She has been surprised at the
freezing of water night after night in the
hydrants and tue depth of the snow on the
ground; but with big open fire manages to
keep warm in spite of the tricks the Sunny
South plays her.
Happen on a group of women talking
about women's new activities, and you
may strike an opinion like that OF Mrs.
Kate Upson Clarke, who translates from
the Greek, 1.-THE deuce takes those who
undertake too much" and urges the fair
sisterhood not to 60 into twenty nine clubs
at once or tangle themselves up with
thirtytwo philanthropies at one and the
same time.
SHE READS NO ENGLISH.
There seems to be feeling abroad that
Mrs. Frank Stockton's story, 1.-The SOUR
rel Inn," the thread of which is spun out
of the scheme of a scholar to preserve the
gems of English literature by embalming
them in imperishable Greek will be found
to have a squlnt that is interesting. Obser
wing the f1uX of things, the hero begins his
| work of salvage by turning "Pickwicb
Papers" into the language of Homer anC
Aeschylus. Greek, he feels, is safe from
change. In order to judge of the faithful
ness of his work, he gives the Greek yer
sion to Vassar girl to turn into English
: again. The delicious unlikeness of the re
) translated tale to Dickens is absurdly
l funny, for the Vassar girl deals with the
Greek periods with solemn earnestness
and without bias; she has never reaC
t Dickens or any other writer of the Englist
; language. We are asked to believe tina
} with all this there is to be developed gen
3 tie moral, to the effect that we womer
g could bring 10 bear on the blind earnest
: ness with which we go into everything
now days the light of a sense of human
the effect would be genally and whole
somely broadening.
THE KINGS DAUGHTERS.
a Even an organization so pure in it's pur
8 Daughters does not escape mistakes appar
ently. Prominent workers in the organizes
: charities are beginning to complain tina
!, the tens are taking philanthropic worl
! right back into the irresponsible and indis
d crimlnate ring by individuals out of whic
e it has been such struggle to redeem il
The tens they say, report to the genera
e organization or to the branches to whic
o they belong only the results of their work
e not the methods. These they choose TO
n themselves and many of the members ar
}. so young that, with all their beautiful fer
a vor, they choose without discretion.
s well known woman was telling me thi
l. morning Of her experience with ten
g which she turned over the case of a dest
: tute family. The girls nursed the mother
It who was the breadwinner, most tenderl
, through the illness, but they pauperize
b her by teaching her to depend on them 70
t. everything. The dear girls were NOR
y than anxious to do for her, why should sh
d tire herself with working This, on
a hears, is common experience, and tn
n organized charities are beginning to prt
test against the additions to their wor
@ made by misdirected zeal and sentiment
s alism. ELIZABETH DUSTIN.