The evening world., 1894-04-24
Campaign Methods Discussed at
Mrs. Horace Eayden's.
One OF The Guests Thinks The Ward
Heller Is in Bad Form.
MIR. Starr Nicolls Advises the Women
to Go Out After Night.

III IL upll All NlDIih dlNtl
Invitations were out two weeks. They
were s~teel-engraved on the finest bristol
board in the paper market.
About one hundred and thirty women
and four men accepted. The meeting
was announced for $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. Hayden Is an exceeding charm
Ing woman. She came downstairs as
the clocks were striking, Ginning and
cuckooing the hour, and greeted her
guests as though they were there for a
wedding or orange peko tea.
Everybody wanted to know wo the
speakers were, to which inquiry Mrs.
Hayden replied hat Mrs. Robert Able
had charge OF the drawlng-room pro-
grammes and provided the speakers. All
the definite information she had to give
was that Mr.. tSarr Nicolls would speak.
Mr.. Starr Nicolls at the moment was In
n dark corner by himself, far back in an
empire couch, with sofa pillows all round
him and his eyes closed. looking I'M
comfortable and impairment.
1t was 4 o'clock before the meeting be
gan. During the half-hour remarkable
things were overheard.
One lady in at ailor-made homespun,
with new red-brown gloves and pink and
white linen, told a group OF friends that
lieved that all the best women would
go out OF town. just as the men do, and
that the emigrant women and kitchen
please the h~eelers, She admitted that
She didn't know just who the heelers
were, but she had been told that they
A lady dressed in black came in with
a remarkable toc0a. 1t was all black.
but for a bunch OF lettuce green silk In
the back that only needed a touch Of
%mayonnaise to suggest a perfect salad.
For the nonce politics was forgotten.
After this millinery sensation a woman
with a little diamond initial bonnet-pin
under her left ear looked about the room
and remarked to a friend:
This company doesn't look much.
Not at all. But then people are so
much better than they look"
u believe that is true"
Il 40 hope there will be somebody to
speak on the opposition. must say
80 do l." And then they began to
talk about the kipp wedding gifts.
The ladies looked very well until the
raised the shades. That brought a lot
of poudre-de-ris to the surface. 1t also
called attention to the fact that the
ladies In politics have trustworthy tailors
My petition" was the common topics.
Two startling secrets were exchanged.
A girl in navy blue serge, with a coil
Of magenta velvet aNd a pair of long
hat pins on her head said that. her
petition was out and growing like n
weed. l got my manicure operator three
new patrons the other day and she has
promised me 200 signatures. Isn't that
diplomacy, now?'
nOh. I put mine on a business basis
said her companion.
How is that?"
"Reglnald,s typewriter. am paying
him one-half a cent u word for every
name. l sent him three sheets. All he
does is simply ask people who come in
the ONCE to sign. wouldn't he 9nr-
prised II all the scrub women and sub
J]anitors in the Equitable Building We're
enrolled, but every name helps. or
course l couldn't ask strangers to sign"
Mrs. Hayden took up a magnifying
times with the handle. Then Il
smiled, blushed n went away, and
Miss Adele Field got on her feet. Miss
Field had her hair shingled, a strong,
healthy appearance. She said that
everybody there knew ny she was there.
had been trying to get the ballot. She
was inclined to believe that the new
s TSen she Tonld Srins t them r,a success.
Runkle, a delightful little woman. with
a sweet voice, a sweet face and sweet
ays Mrs. .Runkle was very much in
earnest, but her presence in politics was
! like, a miniature painting In a wood
shed. She didn't make a speech. She
gave quotations from Fenelon. Swift.
L ~ y ! sui, l1dIlD, SdTlNl u
and a lot of other old satirists. She
quoted from unpublished statistics tc
/, show that one.tlfth OF the American
pie reason that there were not enough
men to keep up the marriage market
, Narriageable women stayed unmarried
; from necessity, and then husbands wen,
! widows. or the 10, 200, 900 Intelligent
2 women in the United States, Mrs. Run
!, die said that 5000, 600 were leading lonely
, lives.
:, Mr.. Starr Nicholl followed. He wa.
, alone. and he behaved himself. Som,
! OF his listeners were suspicious of hi,
sincerity, He said that women did no
E need intelligence to vote, that the com
=; mon run of men We're thick-headed
: that the masses had made the pros
4 wants, which they supplied, simply b!
a demanding better conditions. The edu
4 Gated classes. the nobility, the royalty
knew nothing about the wants OF tn,
: men, he said, had wants that mel
> knew. absolutely. nothing about: whei
q they had the ballot he said they woul'
2 have those wants catered to. and tn
: community would have a better system
cleaner. better politics. and cleaner
Mr.. Nichols told the ladies not t
stay in the house; It was n bad habit
1t caused mental and muscular rheu
matism. When they got going, he sal
that the streets would be clean, light
e safe: the policemen would be vigilan
and wideawake. When 1t Is perfect
safe for women to go through tn
q streets at night. the men, he claimed
" would be out OF danger.
A woman in a chintz-covered sofa sal
= In excited aspirates:
. Good heavens! we don't want to 2
out at night alone! What is the ma
driving at | wonder?"
Ie After this semi-ridiculous, semi-hatte
e Ing speech a lady got up and said
n dislocated English that what she feare
% was 1.-The Castle Garden crowd"
I'VE ave the imported males at II
le polls now; will the condition OF city n
fairs be better when we have the gree
ignorant females there. too, or will II
ID result be the same, only bigger" 81
Is asked.
IS Mrs. DR.. jacob wns then introduced.
n. AS "A West Thirtv-hfth street blOnC
d put II. these political drawin-rooms a
n appetite for dinner. I always wa
home, and this is my seventh"