The evening world., 1894-04-24
IN APARL0R.
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.

Mrs. Horace j. Hayden, or lis East
Eighteenth street, had politics In her
d~rawing-room all Monday afternoon.
Invitations were out two weeks. They
were ~steel-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 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 that Mrs. Robert Able
had charge of the drawing-room pro-
grammes and provided the speakers. All
the definite Information she had to give
was that Mr.. tSarr Nicoils would speak.
Mr.. Starr Nicolls at the m was in
a dark corner by himself. far back In an
empire couch, with sof pillows all round
him and mis- eyes closed, looking un-
comfortable and Impairment.
1t was 4 o'clock before the meeting be
gan. During the ha!f-hour remarkable
things were overheard.
one lady in at ailor-made homespun,
with new red-brown gloves and pink n
white linen, told a group OF friends tnat
when. election day came she really be,
lieved that all the best women would
so out Of town, just as the men do, and
that the emisrant women and kitchen
help would go to the polls and vote. to
please the h%eelers; She admitted that
were, but abe had been told that they
We're not good form.
A lady dressed IL black came in with
a remarkable toc1a. 1t was all black,
l,,t fnr "a It,YNrh ar latf1Inn trrnnp GILL; in
the back that only needed a touch of
ms yonnaise 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"
II believe that Is true"
II 40 hope there win De somebody to
/, speak on he opposition. must say
that like to hear the other side"
talk about the kipp wedding gifts
sun began to go down and Mrs. Hayden
raised the shades. That brought a lot
or poudre-de-ris to the surface. 1t also
called attention to the fact that the
and haberdas hers.
My petition" was the common topics.
TWO startling secrets were exchanged.
a girl IN navy blu serge, with a coil
or magenta velvet and a pair of long
hat pins on her head said that her
petition vas "out and growing like a
weed. got my manicure operator three
new patrons the other day and she has
promised me 200 signatures. Isn't that
diplomacy, now?"
"oh, l put mine on a business basis
said her companion.
How is that?"
"Reginald's typewriter. am paying
him one-half a cent d word for every
name; sent him three sheets. All he
the office to sign. l wouldn't be sur
prised II all the scrub women and sub
Janitors in the Equitable Building were
course l couldn't ask strangers to sign"
MIS-. Hayden took up a magnifylng
times with the handle. Then she
smiled, blushed and went away, and
Field had her hair s%hingled, a strong,
healthy appearance. She said that
everybody there knew by she was there.
women who for the last forty-fve years
had been trying to got the ballot. She
was inclined to believe that the new
element" would bring them success,
Runkle, a delightful little woman, with
a sweet voice. a sweet face and sweet
ways. Mrs. Runkle was very much In
like a miniature ]paintinr In a Wood.
shed. She didn't make a speech. She
gave quotations from Fenelon, Swift
ae9 q l RitaF y a Ether old t ss9Iri,t car! IL,
quoted from unpublished statistics tc
show that one-ifth of the American
women @ere, not protected, for the sim
pie reason that there were not enough
men to keep up the marriage market
Manageable women stayed unmarried
from necessity, and then husbands wen
widows, 81 the I5,ooO,ooo initelIlgen
women in the United States, Mrs. Run
die said that 5.OoO.0 oO were leading lionel!
/, 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 nc
/; non run of men were thick-headed
! that the masses had made the pros
; perity Of the country because they ha,
= demanding better conditions; The edu
! Gated classes, the nobility, the royalty
knew nothing about the, wants OF tn
: democracy. and cared less. The VIC
: men, he said. had wants that me
. knew. absolutely nothing about; whe
9 they had the ballot he said they woul
2 have those wants catered to, and tn
y Of education, claner, safer streets
r better me Gs' in ol RS"o'' anu cleaner
MT. NICHOLS tOlu tne lauleS not I
stay in the house; 1t was a bad habit
1t caused mental and muscular rheu
matism. When they got going. he sal
that the streets would be clean. ligh'
. safe; the policemen woulG be vigilan
and wideawake, When II Is perfect
safe for women to go through tn
streets at night, the men, he claimed
y would be out OF danger.
a woman In a chintz-covered sofa sal
In excited aspirates:
Coco heavens, we don't want to 8
y out at night alone! What is the ma
driving at | wonder?"
e After this semi-ridiculous, semi-hatte
e ing speech a lady got UP and said
dlslocated English that what she feart
o was the Castle Garden crowd"
We have the imported males at Il
e polls now; win the con lition OF city n
fairs he better when we have the gree
ignorant females there, too, or Will Il
d result be the same, only bigger" 81
asked.
Mrs. DR.. jacob was then introduced.
As a West T~hirty-hfth street blonC
d put II. these political drawin-rooms a
y perfectly lovely. They give one such q
h appetite for dinner. I always wa.
home. and this is my seventh"
rlIAr nm n TsrAN- rINIIr