St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-08
APOSTLE OF Her SEX.
Mrs Annie JenneSS-Miller
Chats Pleasantly Of Her
Personality.
The Standard Oil Company
AbsorbS a Troublesome
Rival.
Police Buttons Look Less
Bright to Their Present
WearePS.
The Press Club Delegation
EmbarkS for the Gold
en- Gate.

1eS, ulU IP6l lltil6 llTeu dlltI III
talk in Minneapolis was over. and am
not quite rested yet, but am glad to
see you anyhow, since you are inter
eSted enough in my work to come and
see me-" Mis-. Jenness-Miller said this
in her own slow, graceful manner to
the GLOBE reporter who followed his
card up to her handsome suite at the
Hotel Ryan at twilight last evening.
She is not day older in appearance
than she was four years ago, and not
a whit less in earnest about her
life work. Locking through the OBJ
servant eyes of the reporter, the GLOBES s
readers will see a beautifully formed
woman, somewhat above the average
height, who in spite of the fact that she
has the reputation of being slender
woman, has a waist like the Venus de
Milo, measuring well up with her Shoul-
derS. and carriage as free and upright
as Longfellow'S ideal Indian maiden
Her complexion is weli-nigh faultlesS.
being clear and pale, with jnst hint Of
color OH the rounded cheeks, which,
from their contour. might belong to a
girl of sixteen. She wears her hair
rolled back from her broad, white brow,
a la Frances Cleveland. whom she resem-
bles strongly, or rather whose portraits
she resembles. since some allowance
must be made fer the Imagination of
the artist. Her manners are those of a
thoroughly well-bred woman, and she
puts her visitor at ease by being always
at ease herself. Unless you are intro
SpectiYe by nature, you have not placed
much value Oh your OWN good points,
before calling on Mrs. Miller; but as
you say goodbye and go away to think
things over, you uncOnSciouSly Initiate
your lungs, raise yourself to your full
height and walk down the street
with a new elasticity, feeling that
a hidden spring of your nature has been
touched by her sensible talk, that Will
bring expansion and increased self
respect. which is after all the touch
stone that commands the respect of
others. In short. she has the power Of
drawing out individuality, if you pos
Sess any. She was gowned quite sim
ply in 4 checked, lightweight wool
travelling dress, made over one of her
own dress forms in the conventional
style; but there were no diShgurlng
'sstays" to hamper her respiration, im-
pede the digestion Of the good dinner
she had Just eaten, or destroy
Hogarth'S 'line of beauty" Seen
at close range, Mrs. Miller is far
from being what is popularity called
SLENDER" By that we get the idea of
thinness, or frailty; but physical culture
has rounded out all the curves and
made her so 1.-THE and willOWy, that it
has the effect of making her look
actually slender, in any of the gowns
with Grecian draperies. In her travel
ing dress, she maintains every line of
beauty, and yet presents width OF
waist that would be the despair OF the
average woman, who has not yet learned
to manage her body without artificial
assistance, Indeed, she herself would
hesitate to tell some women TO discard
corsetS before learning how to hold her
self up without them.
You would be aStOnIShed," she said,
"tO hear some Of the questions that are
asked me by intelligent women, who
have blindly followed the dictates of
fashion, never once stopping to think
things out for themselves. They come
to me at all hours Of the day, and l was
about to say of the night also, fat
women wanting TO get thin, thin women
wanting to get fat, girls wanting more
(OiOI III liIGA1 AOG-Ss tthN e7ltIO
me to tell them of something that will
tone their dreadful color down !;
girls with pinpleS and women
with blotcheS; one ana all in a
mad scramble after the universal beau
tifier that lies just within the reach OF
every one of them, if they were not too
fond of their ease to seek for it," Then
the conversation fell upon her home
life, and Mrs. Miller said that she had
been persuaded at last to give up house
keeping for a time, at least, by her
husband, who felt that the care of an
establishment was too great burden
for her since the advent of little Miss
Miller, who came to town last October,
and who is now in the hands of a de-
voted family nurse at the sanitOrium at
Dansville.
Don't get the idea that baby is there
for her health" said the mother with a
proud smile, ''fOr she is the strongest
and finest type of babYhOod imaginable.
placed her there to guard against any
i'll effect that might arise from any child
ish disease, should she be attacked in
my absence. They have eleven doctors
there, skilled in every disease, almost,
to which mankind is subject; and felt
that she would be safe there, if any
where in the world. l have been mar
ried eight years, and this is the
first wee rosebud in our gar
den; but all Eastern woman
who heard me lecture once, with baby
on the platform, she having cooed sc
loud while in the arms of her nurse as
to attract attention, came to me after
the lecture and said so earnestly that
have never forgotten her: Mrs. Miller,
| only wish that you could take that
baby then three months old along with
you on your lecture tour, and hold heI
up On your arm before the women OF
this benighted country, Just as you have
held her before us today, for believe
you would not need to talk much on
the value of maternity clothes, with
that example of what mother
may accomplish by prenatal intiu
ences." That sounds like Dragging Of
my baby, doesn't it? But she was per
fectIy honest. and / knew that it was
the child's perfect health and her per
! feetly shaped little limbs that she was
| thinking of, and not her beauty espe
cially."
Then the talk drifted away across the
water, and Mrs. Miller said she thOugh
| enc could round out an almost ideal life
| in gray old London town, where meT
| duQ WDHl6H WIFI dFG luedlS IEdfo llIIlt
enough TO live up to them, and are no
so deafened by the ring Of the Almighty
| dollar, as i'll this American hurly-burly
where every man (and latterly ever,
woman) is seeking to get rich in tel
years, and some in five. She is not al
! anglo-maniac. but she sees the i'm
| mense value of the restful habits of ouI
| English COUSINS. who have the treasures
of the centuries, in all things pertain
1 ing to the art OF right living and righ
thinking, at their doors.
II have been accused very unjuStly
of giving my talks to society wemei
only" said Mrs. Miller. with little ac
ceSsion of color that betokened her ear
nestness, ''but what can i do? ] canno
say who shall compose my audiences
and it has been my fate to interest so
ciety women more than the army q
| young women in offices and in the schoo
room. said to a Minneapolis woman
who spoke to me on this point, Hoy
shall l get them to come to my talkS??'
And then l told her l would will
ingly lower the price of admls
sion, and would further give them i
talk in the evening, if she though
| could succeed in interesting them S,