The evening world., 1894-04-24
POLITICS IN A PARL0R.
Campaign Methods discussed at
Mrs Horace Eayden's.
One OF the Guests Thinks the Ward
Heller Is in Bad Form.
Mr.. Starr Nicolls Advises the Women
to Go Out After Night.


d~rawing-room all Monday afternoon.
Invitations were out two weeks. They
were st~eel-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 $50 o'clock.
Mrs. Hayden is an exceeding charm
ing woman. She came downstairs az
the clocks were striking, Ginning and
cuckooing the hour, and greeted her
guests al 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 that 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
a lark corner by himself, far back in an
empire couch. with sofa pillows all round
him and his eyes closed. looking un-
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 INC
white linen, told a group Of friends that
when election day came she really be-
lieved that all the best women would
go out of town, just as the men DO. and
please the heelers. She admitted that
she didn't know just who the heelers
were but she bad been told that they
A lady dressed In black came in with
a remarkable toc1n. 1t was all black.
but for a bunch or lettuce green silk in
thA haplY tha nrlv naaln1 "a tnItrh ~
%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
and remarked to a friend:
This company doesn't look much,
Not at all. But then people are so
II believe that Is true"
Il 10 hope there will De somebody to
speak on the opposition. / must say
'"a s do itSe T." H And the then 1'd they s'p Began to
talk about the Kipp wedding gifts,
The ladies looked very we'll until the
sun began to go down and Mrs, Hayden
Of poudre-de-ris to the surface. 1t also
called attention to the fact that the
ladies In politics have trustworthy tailors
and haberdashers.
My petition" was the common topics.
Two startling secrets were exchanged.
A girl in navy blue serge, with a coil
or magenta velvet and a pair of long
hat pins on her head said that her
petition was 'out and growing like a
weed. l got my manicure operator three
new patrons the other day and she has
promised me 2o9 signatures. Isn't that
hOh. I put mine on a business basis"
said her companion.
How Is that?"
"Reginald,s Typewriter. I am paying
name; / sent him three sheets. Ali he
does is simply ask people who come in
the once to sign. I wouldn't be sur
prtsed II all the scrub women and sub
enrolled, but every name helps. OF
course I couldn't ask strangers to sign"
MIS-. Hayden took up a magnifying
times, with the handle. Then she
Miss Adele Field got on her feet. Miss
healthy appearance. She said that
ssySe SHE sisG t asis t tRs, h sSs she sn was t sams
women who for the last forty-fve years
had been trying to get the ballot. She
was inclined to believe that the new
Runkle, a delightful little woman with
a sweet voice, a sweet face and sweet
ways. Mrs. Runkle was very much in
go ANSN, puN z plSSNIlCc III pOlltlCb WIS
like a miniature painting In a wood
shed. She didn't make a speech. She
gave. quotations from Fenelon, Swift,
as9 : lR os ~ G Elmer ola 1 saalrist ear shs
quoted from unpublished statistics to
show that one-1fth OF the American
women were not protected, for the sim
men to keep up the marriage market.
Manageable women stayed unmarried
from necessity. and then husbands wen,
S Midoa died h LEAVING + The + ooS sS gu ipll Of
women In the United States. Mrs. Run.
die said that 100000 were leading lonely
lives.
alone. and he behaved himself. Some
OF his listeners were suspicious of his
sincerity. He said that women did no,
need intelligence to vote. that the com
that the masses had made the pros,
perity Of the country because they hat
wants. which they supplied. simply by
S 6stsS Sia sss better ter G SoS1I,,S The The rovs eHU:
knew nothing about the wants of tn,
democracy. and cared less, The wo
men. he said. had wants that mer
they had the ballot he said they would
have those a catered to. and tn,
community would AVE a better system
Of education, claner, safer streets
better men in ONCE.
Mr.. Nichols told the ladies not I,
stay In the house: It was a bad habit
1t caused mental and muscular rheu
matism. When they got going, he salt
that the streets would be clean, light
safe; the policemen would be vigiian
and wideawake. When 1t IL perfect!
safe for women to go through tn
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 g
out at night alone! What Is the ma
driving at l wonder?"
After this semi-ridiculous, semi-lattel
Ing speech u lady got up and said |
dislocated English that what she feare
was the Castle Garden crowd"
W have the imported males at tn
polls now: will the condition OF city a
fairs be better when We have the greer
ignorant females. there. too, or will tn
result be the same, only bisger?" st
asked.
Mrs. DR.. jacob was then introduced.
AS a West Thlrty-ffth street blond
put II, these political drawln-rooms al
perfectly lovely. They give one such u
appetite for dinner. I always wal
home. n this Is my seventh"