Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-01

DO, Co IND that they have sold their free
dom for very unsatisfactory mess OF
pottage. From the experience of the
monkeys will there be a warning to de-
ter those who seek the Intoxicating cup:
In sober sense men should see that
drunkenness allies them too closely to
that most disgusting semblance of man
kind-the monkey. We dare hardly
hope that the old and hardened lover OF
strong drink will be influenced by what
we have written on this subject, but can
not mothers through it teach their
children lesson that will make intern
perance entirely forbidding to them2
Mrs. Gillespie's work at the Centen-
NAL Exhibition in Phi iIadelphia, and that
of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe at the Cotton
Centennial in New Orleans, in the direc-
ton of woman's work and interests, led
directly to the authorization by Congress
of a Board of Lady Managers to be ap-
| pointed in the conduct of the Columbian
Worlds Fair of 1898.
Mrs. Gillespie and the Ewomen with
her were obliged not only to gather the
| exhibits shown in the women's depart
ment in the centennial of 1876 but they
were forced also to get the funds with
which to build the woman's pavilion,
and to meet the expenses of the opening
chorus, which Wagner composed, and
which thousands of children sang on
that occasion.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, with one
woman commissioner from each State
and Territory, found that there was no
provision to fit up the Woman's Depart
ment at the Cotton Centennial, and
show there the products of woman's in
dustries, when she made an appeal to
| Congress and was granted $15, 900 to
aid in fitting up the woman's depart
ment. Under such circumstances, and
the difficulties in them, the women IS
achievements both at Philadelphia and
New Orleans proved so vastly important
and valuable that the Congressional
Committee on the Worlds Fair created
the Board of Lady Managers, who with
Mrs. Potter Palmer leading, are even
now showing tremendous results.
They will present complete picture
of the condition of women in every
country of the world. showing especially
what women who are bread-winners are
doing, and how situated. Through the
American ministers abroad petitions
have been forwarded to foreign govern
ments to appoint bodies of women from
their countries to cooperate with the
Board of Lady Managers, from which
measure the most gratifying outcome
has been gained
The duties of the Board of Lady Man
ayers are not confined to the considera
ton of women's work alone. 1t takes
cognizance of all departments, and il
names one-h half OF the members of all
the juries of the Exposition, who will b.
! women.
The leader of the French wing of thu
Salvation Army, Madame Booth Glib
born, recently arrived by a late steamer
from France. She was Miss Catherine
Booth, the eldest daughter of Gener a
Booth, of Salvation Army fame; and sh,
is here to unite with her brother Com
missioner Burlington Booth, in the in
terest of the work in which they are en-
gagged. From most unpromising begin
nings in France and Switzerland, wher
she has labored for ten years, she has
so she reports, esta blished in 205 cite
and towns, permanent corps of workers
in the cause, under the command of 45(
officers in those countries.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, VIII
has lately written another play, is bu
slowly recovering from the shock caused
by the loss of her son, Vivian, whom sh
rendered famous as the prototype o
Little Lord Fauntleroy. Mrs. Burnett
has but one child left her, to whom hel
devotion is so intense as to be almos
absorbing.
Mary Mapes Dodge, editor of ''St
J Nicholas, - has one of the cottages in tn
new Sc ttlement in the Catskill noun
: tains growing famous as a summer re
sort for literary and artistic persons
} Here she has an outdoor sitting room O
, large dimensions, furnished with rusti
( tables and chairs for afternoon recep
tions; and rustic shelves literally loade
with books, papers and agazines. Mrs
t Dodge's homestead in Oteora is Gale
'Yarrow." 1t has a magnificen
g stretch of lanscape before it, facing tn
1 twin mount ains, and in the pictur esq u
1 sitting room there is a great stone fire
l place, in itself feature, a glowing on
l when an old-fashioned fire of back log
is lighted there, needful in that situs
4 tion, even on August mornings an
: nights.
y America has ayoung artist who is jus
! now a reigning favorite in London an
:, Paris circles of art critics. This lad
I was Benedict, a native of New York
but is now Mrs. Leslie Cotton. A hea
e in pastel of the Duke of Cambria &c
a done 10y her, has been considered so fin
an evidence of her merit as an artist a
to procure for her fame and many Of
ders for portraits from exalted persons
= Mrs. Colton's half length portrait in O.
= of Mr.. Frederick Martin, exhibite
lately in the Royal Academy, has take
' the prize as the best portrait on exhib
. ton there.
! MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
~ A Town of Marble.
The little town of Carrara near til