Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-10-14

| vented mats ana tne modern apartment
house! Working women, from those in
literature and art to those who are
| clerks in stores and employees in facto-
ries, have found out that by putting
/ their little funds together from two to
/ four of them can rent fiat of their
| own and have that which every
natural woman's heart yearns for,
a home, with or without man
| in it, as the case may be, but in any
| event home. Girls have discovered
/ that they have only TO keep good ma
| tured, do as they would be done by,
! and not let their tongues wag too freely,
| and they can live together in happiness
/ and harmony and make for themselves
the daintiest, brightest of homes. Every
year by the hundreds they are deserving
the forbidding old boarding house, where
! they were only tolerated, not welcomed,
and taking little flats and making homes.
Bless them, how they do enjoy It'll They
| can have their friends come to see them,
they have their own pass keys and go
and come as they please, and no spiteful
/ gable assails their ears. These hard
working, self respecting women always
pay their rent and are neat, businesslike
and quiet. And now comes in the sweet
revenge. 1t is coming to be that If
| house agents can rent flats TO respect
able working women they prefer them
| greatly to families or bachelors. They
do not smoke or have noisy beer drink
ing parties, and they do not wear out
stairs and woodwork. In London build
ers who see the signs of the times are
constructing apartment houses "for wo-
men only" In New York an agent
thinks himself very lucky if he can fill
a fat house with refined, quiet women
who earn their own living and mind
their own business.
1t is a sign of the times that a woman's
free trade club, the Frances Cleveland
| club" has been started in New York by
Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby. Sarah +.
| Fuller, the engraver, is secretary, and
I the Marquise LAMA, DR.. William A,
Hammond's daughter, is chairman Of
the executive committee. These women
are in earnest and they intend TO have
similar clubs established all over the
! country this summer, to induce men to
vote for Cleveland and free trade. The
foundation principle of the clubs is OPP
position TO the Mckinley tariff, because
in the Judgment of these ladies that
tariff increases prices of necessities and
makes life harder for poor people. The
attention of Mrs. Ormsby was first
called to this question when she went
among the Italian women last year to
| persuade them to help in the Worlds
fair. She found them poverty stricken
and staggering under burden of taxes
on imports. Finally Mrs. Ormsby be-
came free trader. On the other hand,
when, some time since, brought this
question of protection or free trade up
/ for discussion in class of Cincinnati
ladies, who were learning parliamentary
usage, | found that only one of the
whole number went in for free trade,
that, too, although her husband was a
Republican. | rejoice that women be-
| gin to have "views" on the tariff ques-
/ ton. They are naturally better econo-
mists than men and the time is coming
when their judgment in national econo-
mics will be needed and asked for.
One person, young lady, is courage
Gus enough to criticise the voice of Mrs.
Kendall, the British actress who knows
it all. The young lady is Lily Holdings
/ head, granddaughter Of the veteran
actor, James E. Murdoch, and herself a
platform reader. Miss Hollingshead pro-
! IL
poor in the upper register and monoto-
nous in the lower register. She further
declares Fanny Davenport to have the
best voice of any woman who appears
on the stage in America today.
Mrs. Lena Sittig, of Brooklyn, has in
vented waterproof cloak called the
Ducks Back" 1t is made Of a storm
cloth prepared without any rubber about
it, and is so ingeniously arranged that a
lady's skirts cannot possibly come in
contact with mud and rain, since they
are covered underneath as we'll as out
side.
In England it is not very uncommon
for women to serve as vestrymen in the
Episcopal church, but in America it is
an innovation which some half fossilized
Episcopalians regard with horror. Why?
That is a good, helpful plan adopted
by the Mississippi Woman's LegioA of
Industry. Some years ago this legion
was formed to enable Mississippi wom-
en- to make progress in various ways Of
making living, so they might better
meet the new demands that have como
ON them since the war. A bureau of
education was one department Of the
legion, and this branch established an
industrial institute and college, Ever
since then the college has had its hands
full training young women of the state
10 "teach, typewrite, report. keep books,
cut, drape, sew, etc" The enterprise
has been crowned with success, and the
demand for trained girls in various oc-
equations is growing The college is pre-
pared now to supply such demand. This
is how women may help one another.
The girls are taking so many prizes
from young men in every branch Of
learning in which the two come in COM
petition that it is no wonder the boys
are oppose! to coeducation, One can
understand why they are so. How
about that gray matter theory?
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.