The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-05-19
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Inc small Account Taken of Daughters
Among Millionaires.

calls attention anew to the little value
placed ON daughters by many rich men,
Colonel Shepard's anxiety was for his
son, youth of 10. For this boy The
Mail and Express newspaper, the colo
nels pet, must be fostered and kept,
so that in due course the Shepard name
Will again stand as that of the individual
owning and bossing the concern. But
not word about the Shepard daughters.
One OF them is married, but what about
the Others? They may marry, stay SIM
gle, eat their hearts out for want of occu-
patton, or take to church and benevolent
work, which seems to be the only resource
left to rich women Yho never marry.
The Shepard daughters, poor girls, are
as utterly ignored in their fathers ex-
pressed hopes and ambitions as if they
had never been born. This is in line
with Vanderbilt traditions. When w.
III. died, he left his children 81 100000
apiece. After that and various other
requests had been paid w. II. Wander.
bilt divided the residue of his estate be-
tween his sons, William K. and Corne-
Illus. This residue recent writer de-
! clares he knows for certain to. Dave been
about 5000, 100000. The Astors portion
off daughters in the same way and leave
the real fortune to their sons. Jay
Gould is notable and praiseworthy ex-
ception to the usual multimillionaire.
Whatever mis- failings and sins were, he
ut least gave credit to woman for hav-
ing brains and sense. He divided his
property equally among his children,
making to his son George suitable
recompense for the fidelity with which
he had served his fathers fortunes, but
he also left the homestead and its con-
tents to Helen in her own right, and in
the management of the millions after his
death Helen Gould was to be consulted
as well as George and Edwin. With the
care of the younger Gould children and
the equal management of the Gould es-
tate, Helen will have something to fill
her heart and brain, even if she should
not marry. For this provision of his will
honor Jay Gould. 1t is piece of mis-
cradle, pitiable vanity, the ignoring Of
daughters in millionaires' wills. If
daughters marry, they will change their
names and thus cannot perpetuate the
old mans millions in connection with his
name, and he wants his name attached
to his millions even after he is dead and
turned to dust thousand years.
Another instance of the sad conse-
quences of cultivating emotions instead
of brains among our sex is shown in the
loss of life at the burning of Mr.. Joseph
Jefferson's beautiful home on Buzzard
bay. The man in charge of the place
knew that the moment the leaking gaso-
line vapor touched the furnace there
would be frightful explosion. "Run,
run for your lives" he cried to the three
women servants. But they did not move.
They stood rooted in their tracks with
terror. Every atom of sense in them
was paralyzed by the senseless fright
they had never been trained to control.
The explosion occurred. At the risk of
his life the one man dragged two of the
women away scorched and bleeding.
The other he could not get at, and she
was burned to ashes, all because she was
too scared to get out Of the way. The
twentieth century woman will control
her silly, stupid fears and keep her head
on. Whatever danger confronts her, she
will face it and use her brains to get out
of it,
Women have much before them in the
way of working for their best and highest
development But men have something
to do, too, and one of the first things they
should do is to rid themselves of the ira
oil Of fhai, in, o,.I
to women.
The United States inspector of furni-
ture for the treasury department gets
$4,000 year and travelling expenses. 1t
is his duty to travel from place to place
and inspect and purchase furniture sup
plies for government buildings through
out the country. Mr.. A. Carlisle has just
been appointed to this office. Some
brainy, businesslike, Democratic woman
ought to have applied for the place and
got it,
The Ohio legislature has passed bill
appropriating $4,000 for monuments at
Chickamauga. IT'S well. The members
of the Ohio legislature are monuments
hemselves-monument of ruined,
broken old fogyism which has lost all on
the battlefield of progress and now shelf
ers its shattered remnants in the Ohio
Legislature. l shall never again feel proud
to tell the name of my native state till her
lawmakers rescind that vote by which
they have refused to grant school suffrage
to women. Monuments Great Scott!
If you have grit and perseverance, you
cannot fail. Choose your undertaking
according to your best common sense
and stick to it. You are bound to win.
More than 10000 women voted at the
municipal elections in Kansas City this
spring. But women don't want to votel
Oh, no!
Two hundred women are practicing
dentistry in this country. A southern
young lady, Miss Anna Yokum, was
graduated from the Alabama College of
Dentistry at its late commencement and
was valedictorian of her class.
Mrs. G. H. Green is secretary of the
Society of Cliff Dweller Archaeology of
America and has proved her right to
her office by the discovery of an ancient