Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-06

syur&Tay ana alarm, he q length drew
from her rhe confession that she feared
she would never De able 70 write again.
new that she was happy and beyond the
necessity 81 weekly sp4ee work She
had tried composition, but ideas would
rot come. Instantly the frank husband
replied, Never mind. my dear, have
10 doubt yoa viii be able 10 write much
better than ever after the honeymoon Is
over"
Conyenrionality withers q woman's
nature and wlthers her face
Lady Henry SoInerse, was much ser
prised al the apathy displayed by Amer
lean women toward political questions.
She could not understand IL. No more
can l.
For the first time in the history Of the
country, women viii vote for president
this fan IN Wyoming.
If you wish to learn 10 be n, extempo-
raneous speaker do not write what you
want 10 say at all. Write only the heads.
then sit down quietly alone and mental
ly arrange under each the speech You
desire TO make. Then make il all over
to yourself in year mind Do this as
often as three times before you are TO
speak. then rise and say out bravely
what you can remember. You will bo
panicky at first and forget much, but
continue and You Will overcome all this
feeling. Keep up the practice. and by
and by your thoughts will naturally fall
into place themselves.
For thirty-one years Mrs. John Drew
successfully conducted the Arch Street
theater in Philadelphia. During that
time her energy never failed. She kept
up with all the changes Of thirty years
in theatrical management and acting,
| and never have been wanting hand
some dividends to the stockholders OF
the old Arch street playhouse. Mrs.
Drew won besides the respect and high
est esteem of the citizens Of Philadel-
phia. She now wants some rest, and so
gave up the lease of her theater. Not
withstsnding her retirement from active
theatrical management, she will still
appear occasionally in her former favor
| lite roles as an actress.
Talk of energy! A woman, Mrs. Kate
Bostwick, has more Of it than anybody
else | ever saw. Mrs. Bostwick con-
ducts successfully boarding house,
writes regularly and well large guam
tity Of matter for papers in New York
and Brooklyn, and is besides one Of the
most faithful and active workers in the
| New York Woman's Press club
| It is not wise or we'll for women's
clubs and organizations to antagonizs
newspapers and newspaper reporters.
The newspapers are our best friends.
cannot see how the masculine sex
can help deteriorating. with all this
awful drinking and smoking, genera
ton after generation.
Since. the paleozoio age the dictum
has echoed down the corridors of time
that women are inferior to men because
they cannot endure pain and fatigue as
men can. The mightiest champion has
been the man who could bear torture
or surgical operations without f1inching
hair. 1t was proof Of his strong,
splendid nerve and of viii power and
intellectual strength. But now comes
Professor Cesare Lombroso-and all the
little dogs are barking it after him-de-
claring that women are inferior To men
in nervous development and otherwise
because they bear pain better than men
do. Some people are hard to please.
One Of the most magnificent collec-
tons of lace in the world is that OF
Queen Marguerite Of Italy, and she is
to allow it to be exhibited in the wom-
ans department Of the Worlds fair.
ELIZA ARcHARp CONNER.