Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-01-03
womANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Woman Architect to Plan Building For
the Atlanta Expositinn.

woman Architect TO Plan Building For
the Atlanta Exposition.
A good number of women architects
ought to respond to the generous offer Of
prize to the lady who shall design the
best plan for the Woman's building at
the Atlanta exposition. The ladies Of
Atlanta and the adjoining southern
states have taken hold Of the matter with
characteristic enthusiasm. They believe
that the women, especially southern
women, have never been properly repre-
sented yet at an exposition, and they
are on their mettle. The intention is to
make the new building a dream of
beauty, artistically perfect in every de-
tail The lucky woman who shall win
the prize will be made for life profess
sionally. To my mind the best part of
the feature Of women sharing in the
preparation for the International and
Cotton States exposition is that it will
bring together women from all parts of
the country. Architects from east, west,
north and south will compete for the
prize New England women will pre-
pare an exhibit of Yankee cooking,
housekeeping, manual school training
for girls, kindergartening, etc., with
as much enthusiasm as if the show were
in Boston. From California the beauti-
full women workers will come, laden
with the honey, the roses. the oranges,
grapes and apricots that they have
grown in their golden land. A southern
woman, Mrs Louie NJ Gordon Of At
lanta, has said, ITO love one another
the women of the north and south need
only to know one another. In her own
graceful, warm hearted way Mrs Cor
don herself has been working for years
to bring about this union between north
ern and southern women. When they
stand to one another as sisters, the men
of the north and south will be as broth
ers, and there will no more be any sec
tional division. To this end let all the
women Of the country work. Wherever
i'll any part of the Union a lady has
samples Of women's work that would
add to the attractiveness of the exposi-
tion, let her offer it for display. Mrs
Joseph Thompson of Atlanta is presi-
dent of the women's board of the At
lanta and Cotton States exposition. Let
the women of the whole country help the
southern ladies in their patriotic effort.
Iowa women vote on municipal mat
ters. At Sigourney the ladies cast their
first vote in favor of establishing wa
terworks plant in the town and carried
the measure Miss Ida Robson, Pres
! byterian woman, voted, in consequences
Of her religious conviction, that, as there
were no men TO represent her home, it
was her duty to represent it herself
Miss Robson is typesetter.
Nearly as many women as men regis
tered in Denver this fall. Yet women
don't want to vote, do they?
A minister in Saginaw, Mich, has
been rousiDg up the women there to do
a strange thing. If anything does make
me more weary than another, it is to see
a preacher standing like a ringmaster
and cracking his whip over lot of wo-
men who dance at his bidding like so
many little trick ponies. But that is
what the Saginaw women are doing. A
preacher delivered himself Of sermon
about the badness of servant girls and
their going out nights. The society
ladies Immediately thereafter formed
union whose object was to make "serv-
ant girls be indoors every night as
early as 10 20 clock. Now let the Saginaw
kitchen girls form union whose object
shall be to look after the morals Of the
ministers aDd ladies' Let one of the
first rules Of the union be that no preach
er or housekeeper in Saginaw shall be
allowed out on the street after 10 o'clock
at night.
1t is a matter Of satisfaction to wom-
en-, who are. properly enough, worship
ers of beauty that the movement for the
emancipation Of woman has among its
advocates SO many handsome and cul-
tured ladies Lille Devereux Blake is
conspicuously handsome woman; so
are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Emma
Beckwith. Susan B. Anthony dotes on
good looks and refined womanliness and
has herself noble face, with something
in it better than beauty. Rachel Foster
Avery has a delicate, thoroughly at
tractive face, and Mrs. Emily E. B.
Coues of Washington is one of the most
beautiful women in any company in
which she appears. Lady Henry Somer
set is noted for her good looks. And
they all wear pretty clothes, too bless
them, every one of theml
Mrs. Paul is ward inspector of gar
bage in Chicago. A woman's associa-
ton, the Municipal Order league, pays
her salary Mrs Paul wears the regu-
lar policeman s star to show that she
is clothed with authority. This is how
women can make themselves felt on
the side of cleanliness and righteousness
in municipal government.
If society's fashionable preachers and
women were all as honest and upright
in their lives as majority of the kitch
en- girls are, then some Of them would
be good deal better than they now are
Mrs. Harrington of Rock Run, Wis,
took the prize for the best butter at the
last Wisconsin dairy convention.
New York Republicans in the state
constitutional convention voted down
4 the amendment to submit woman CGf
frage clause to the voters of the state in
November. Now the Republicans are
Just tearing their hair to get the women
to help them beat Tammany.
There are five licensed women pilots
on the Mississippi.
Ladies. think for yourselves. Don't
let even your beloved pastors run you
Miss Elizabeth Polhemus is one Of the
pilots licensed to bring ocean vessels in
to port at San Diego, Cal.
The corset is the symbol of repression
and conventionalism.
| ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER