The herald., 1894-07-08
woMAN,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
One of the Instances OF How Chivalrous-
ness to Woman Works.


dent" am glad to know it, for now
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt will see that
justice is done to woman to whom his
road has unwittingly done a wrong.
DR.. Chauncey Depew was in Europe
when the thing happened, or it would
hardly have occurred. The only wom
an railroad ticket broker in the United
States was Mrs Harriet Webb. Her
husband had been in the business before
her, and she fell heir to it on his death.
He had been known for his uprightness.
AS to the business Of ticket soalping-
we'll, everybody gets railway tickets as
cheap as he can. A few months after
the death of Mr.. Webb it was found that
somebody was using stolen tickets on
Mr.. Vanderbilt's road. Tho tickets were
honest ones, but after they had been
stolen forged stamp Of the company
had been used to mark them. Where
did the tickets come from? A package
of them was traced to Mrs. Webb's office.
She had bought them il perfect good
faith, believing them to be genuine, and
sold them to travellers. Her only fault
YVES that she was ignorant that they had
boen stolen and that the stamp upon
them was forged one. She was lady
of the highest reputation. Other bro
kors had bought numbers Of the tickets.
But here was woman, widow, new
to her business and left disconsolate
and weak. For that reason apparently
the road pounoed upon her, instead of
upon the men, to make an example of
her which should terrify ticket scalpers
in future. They arrested her by de-
coy letter and threw hsr into prison be-
fore she had time to get bail They
kept her from trial all summer on one
pretext and another. Each time the
case came up it was published in New
York papers that the case Of the road
against Mrs. Webb had been postponed
This was kept up from July till the last
day of the Worlds fair Then the road
announced that it was sorry to have
made Mrs. Webb so much trouble, but
it had no case against her. That was
all If men are going to treat women
little worse than thoy treat each 9th
er, they ought to drop the pretense of
chivalry and let rs know it. We do not
wish to be understood as complaining
We only want to know what to expect
that is all.
Sixty thousand copies Of Olive Har-
per's novel, ga Fair Californian, have
been sold.
Miss Alice E. Ives will probably have
two of her new plays put upon the stage
in New York the coming season.
Miss Sophie q. Keenan, of the Pitts
burg Press is one of the rising news
paper women. She writes sparkling
letters in the way Of correspondence and
takes her own photographs of scenes
that she desires to have illustrated.
Miss Keenan, studied drawing in Paris
and is thus well equipped for her work.
1t was not pleasant the other day to
hear an experienced newspaper man re-
mark that as a general thing women
were not worth their salt in journalism.
If there is Justice in this charge, tho
reason is that women do not know
enough and are not interested in enough
things. The person with tho true journal
istio instinct must gather in all knowl.
edge as the mill takes in grain. The
/ true journalist S sympathies are as wide
as the field Of human thought and emo
tion. His knowledge is as nearly univer-
sal as he can make it. He must know
all things and be interested in all
things. It is because women are narrow
both in their sympsthies and their
knowledge that they fail in journalism,
when they do fail. But when they sue
ceed what q splendid success they make!
Those who fear that if suffrage were
granted women the influence of the bad
would moro than countcrbalance that
of the good need only be reminded that
there are more good women than bad
ones always.
Women ought to arrange Fourth of
July celebrations Of their own where
there are no others provided for, with
woman to read the Declaration of In
dependence, woman to make the
patriotic address and sweet girls in
white, blue and pink to sing '"The Star
Spangled Banner" and Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean" Celebrations of
both men and women are best, but in
such mixed affairs the men usually carry
out all the programme themselves, let
ting women have no part in it except to
prepare the food to be eaten at the pic
mic. This is not fair. 1t is woman s turn
| now.
The Women's Federation in Great
Britain has sent resolutions in favor Of
full parliamentary suffrage for their sex
to Rosebery, and Resebery has placed
them before the British cabinet for con-
sideration. The prospect is that English
women will be voting for members Of
parliament before American women gen.
orally are voting for members Of con-
gress.
Between tho ages Of and 100 it is a
woman's duty to make herself as hand
some as she can.
Do not live for yourself alone. Help
other people.
One woman, Mrs. May Phelps, grad
uated this year from the Kansas Uni
versity Law school. She has been ad-
mitted to the Kansas bar.
The splendid new home of the WON
ems Educational and Industrial union
Of Buffalo is good example Of what
| women can do when thay have perSe-