The herald., 1893-10-26
woMAws WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Ladies', What Do You Think of the Silver
Question?


meeting of the silver men in New York
city at the great hall of the Cooper
Union building. He was full of admira-
ton even of the speakers whom he did
not agree with. They were giants, he
said, full Of their subject, magnetic ora
tors, flashing out gems of wit, fact and
logic. Every phase of the topic was en-
larged ON, and it was an education in
economies from that side just to hear
the speeches. My own enthusiasm was
stirred at the story. Were any women
there?' 1 asked. Every few," was the
answer. 1t occurred to me then that
in all the months since the silver
coinage discussion has been at its
fever height I have only once heard
the subject mentioned by woman or
women. And yet they seem to talk
busily enough and with an air Of intense
interest whenever two or three of them
are together. What do they talk of? I
overhear fragments of their conversa-
ton sometimes. Two of the so called
intelligent middle class ladies talked
rapidly and earnestly together, and one
said: "She's perfect gadabout, and she
let's her house go till it looks like fury,
like furyi She runs into my fiat and
bothers me at my work and bores me to
DEATH" At that moment the object Of
the conversation appears on the scene.
The Lady who had been telling the tale
suddenly assumes the sweetest pos
the ''gadabout" for not coming
to see her. Two others were con-
versing on the steps. This fragment
floats upon their ocean Of gabble: "She's
been putting up peaches and called me
in to see them, and they looked perfectly
awful. She'd mashed them all up get
ting them into the jars, and she didn't
know any better than to cook them too
much, and they all got brown and squshy
looking, but Of course had to tell her
they were canned lovely" o woman,
gentle, intelligent, kindly natured, sweet
and sincerel Do you low that belief
is growing that we are what we think,
and that every deceitful, spiteful, un-
worthy thought brings upon our own
heads its consequences in the shape Of
i'll health OF misfortune? Did you ever
try for one month to live up to the rule
not to say about another woman one
word that you would not be willing to
say to her?
Autumn is here. and the club meeting
season is at hand. For your club dis
cussions in the coming year select one
after another the great questions of gen.
eral public and human interest. Some
women's clubs have done this already,
and great is their reward. When the
members of these clubs give addresses,
their words are not merely the thrashing
of musty old straw or the mild moral
and sentimental platitudes which pass
for original thought with so many
women. Mol The members of the up
to-the-times club come en- rapport with
modern life-living, throbbing, electric
life. In women's clubs the subject Of
use is too little considered, and that of
the merely curious and entertaining gets
far too much attention. In public ques-
tions there are this moment silver, the
tariff, sanitation, education, the lessen
ing of vice and crime, municipal govern
ment, home rule in Ireland, the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, village and city i'm
provement, woman suffrage, woman's
work and wages and dozens of other
vital matters that come trooping before
the mind. Some of these questions must
be solved by women themselves, or they
will never be solved. Women, my sis
ters, wake up! Put off the mean, the
ignorant and the trivial and steep your
souls henceforth in great thoughts.
Train yourself to be sincere as the day
light. Never even think an unworthy or
unkind thought of another.
Nebraska has 10 county school super
intendents who are women.
A Chinaman says, "It is better to be an
American dog than Chinese woman"
There is in England woman trainer
of race horses, Mrs. Challoner. The men
of her family were jockeys and trainers
before her, and she took up the business
and carries it on successfully.
Sallie Joy White knows woman who
controlled all the advertising of the New
York and New England railroad. She
transacted the entire business of this de-
partment and made good thing of it,
and everybody liked her, of course.
Everybody always does like thorough
business woman, because she is always
polite, neat. prompt, shrewd and good
tempered-above all, good tempered.
See?
Geuda Springs, Kan, owes its pros
perity and good looks to its lady inhabi-
tants. 1t is q mineral spring town, and
the main business of the place was the
keeping of boarding houses and hotels,
and these were run by women. Having
learned to run boarding houses and pay
ing the larger part of the taxes at
Geuda Springs, the women resolved to
run the town. One of their number,
Mrs. Barnes, was elected mayor. Next
woman city council entered on the
scene and the era of village improve
ment began. Sidewalks were laid, trees
were planted; village loafers and rowdies,
on the other hand, were uprooted and
cleared out. Now the little town is
very pretty and begins already to take
on city airs.
A good way for women to influence
human affairs is to begin with taking an
interest in city government and finding
out all there is to be known about ad-
ministering 1t along the line of honesty,
morality and order.