Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-09


head to il she viii make fortune IN
business or viii gain success IN htera-
ture or art. She viii not let her emo
tons 60 duty one moment for her brains.
The Il feel" woman, on the other hand.
Is the most dangerous person IN ths
woman's club. She Is a mere bundle
OF violent emotions playing upon a SET
OF hysterical nerves She is as irrespon-
nble as a child Carried now hither.
now thither by her foolish feelings, sur
charged now with violent affections,
now with equally violent dislikes, she is
ike a weather vane before the wind. IL
Is the Il feel mother who ruins her
children. And one silly Il feel" woman
Will break up whole club.
The true club woman is she who thinks
more of the good of the club than of her
own personal likes and dishkes.
Eleven years ago Belva Lockwood, .
member Of the bar In good standing in
the District Of Columbia, was refused
admission to the bar of Prince George
county, Nd, by Judge Magruder, al
though she had business before its court.
She was refused because she was wom-
an, and Judge Magruder, in declining to
allow her appearance. went out Of his
way to say. Il pray God the time viii
never come when women are admitted
to the bar in Marylandw A few weeks
ago Mrs. Lockwood again applied for
admission to the bar Of Prince George
county, in order TO TO take up the same
case she was compelled to drop eleven
years ago. This time she was admitted
by Judge Brooks. who is now on the
bench. "Tharfore the sun do move"
The Lord did not hear Judge Magruder's
prayer.
Is it absolutely necessary to have the
largest part Q magazine intended for
women given TO clothes?
Il is exceedingly gratifying to me to
recall the progress women have made
In daily journalism in New York city.
Half dozen years ago few Of the daily
papers employed ladies in any other
capacity than that of society or fashion
reporters. Midy Morgan was live stock
reporter for The Times and Tribune,
securing the place through within Of
Horace Greeley. Through perhaps an
other whim of the same individual Mrs.
Lucia Gilbert Calhoun wrote noble edi-
torials for The Tribune. But outside
the realm of society and fashion these
were about the only women regularly
employed on the daily press. Now the
New York Recorder has a daily
woman's page edited with signal ability
by Mrs. Haryot Holt Cahoon, and The
World has a similar page in charge Of
that brilliant young journalist, Eliza
beth Jordan, also assistant editor of The
Sunday World. The sole editor of The
Sunday Recorder is another well known
woman journalist, Mrs. Eliza Putnam
Heaton. The editor of the Brooklyn
Sunday Eagle is a lady, Miss Celia
Kenney. Miss Laura Roake has an
editorial place on the Brooklyn Times.
These ladies belong to the New York
Woman's Press club. There are dozens
of other women who now do some Of
the brightest and most attractive special
work on the Sunday editions of the daily
papers.
Mrs. ]. c. Croly denny June), the
pioneer woman journalist of New York,
must not be a little pleased to witness
the changes that have taken place in re-
gard TO the employment of women on
the daily press since she began her labors.
DIR. Margaret Cleaves has been unani-
mously elected secretary of the Electro
therapeutic society, of New York, being
the first woman to hold this office.
/ have before me a dainty little
pamphlet advertising winter hotel in
Florida. To the eloquent description OF
the advantages to be enjoyed at this
hotel is appended the name, Up. A.
Borden, proprietor" Now this is not an
advertisement Of the hotel, and will
not tell you its name, but the interest
ing point about it is that ''P. A. Bor.
den" Is n brilliant and highly accom-.
plished young lady, with turn for finan.
cial affairs. Whatever she takes hold
of must be done just right. She learned
that from her father, who made a finan.
cial success of the milk condensing III.
dustry.
Among the compositors on the city
printing for Boston are women who car
get type in Greek, Hebrew and other
languages, yet these ladies do not get
equal pay with the men compositors on
city work.
Berks county. Pa, has n girl mail car
rier and stage driver. Miss Kate Levan
sixteen years old. drives the mail stage
daily between Princeton and Fleetwood
She can manage four horse team with
rs much skill as any man in the county
dote on men and always did But
! the individual who can ride in the New
York elevated trains year after year
without becoming permeated through
aud through with disgust for the aver
age splitting. sprswling male biped !;
/ made Of sterner stuf than
/ ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
Spoiled His Romance.