The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-20

been engaged in writing the life of her
fathers famous pupil, Laura D. Bridg-
man, who was the first blind deaf mute
ever taught the use of language. Mrs.
Hall is the author of a mum Der of farces.
One of these, satire on the anti wonl-
an suffragists, has already won hearty
plaudits before amateur footlights.
The suffrage question has been the
theme of many of her most successful
addresses and papers. Her speech at the
federation meeting in Philadelphia last
May was humorous plea in it's behalf
and excited wide interest She is the
president of her states suffrage associa-
tion and president of the Plainfield
branch alliance of Unitarian and other
liberal Christian women.
AS lecturer Mrs. Hall has enjoyed
an unusual success and has found much
pleasure and profit, she says, in address,
ing her audiences. In accordance with
DR.. Howe's theories that every woman
should have at her fingers ends some
means of support, Mrs Hall was early
trained in bookkeeping. Her published
volumes include Social Customs and
''The Correct Thing" She has four
children, the eldest, Samuel Prescott
Hall. having recently graduated from
Harvard college with classical honors at
the age OF 2O.-New York Recorder.
Women Decorators.
Women as interior decorators, says
The Upholsterer, are not numerous, but
they are here.
After careful investigation the names
o1droccoC Of ION xx-O,17or1 40
have been obtained There are others
perhaps, but they are so modest or they
appreciate the advantages of business
reputation so little that they are known
only within a limited sphere Those who
are best known to the trade as uphol-
sterers are Miss Virginia Brush, Miss
A. E. Mccarthy, Miss Ella Florence
Ward, Mrs. K. J. Collins, Mrs. 81.
Klingenfeldt and Miss Mary Tilling-
hast. Besides these there are others,
also we'll known in the trade, who either
are not residents of New York or who
do work chiefly outside of the city.
In speaking of her fitness for the work
of interior decoration one bright wom-
an said that a woman could understand
a woman and Woman's needs better
than man, and for that reason a wom-
an is better upholsterer for the much
desired homelike appearance of house
to be lived in, principally by women
and children, than man. She said also
that the clients Of an upholsterer were
not accustomed to furnishing houses.
Perhaps they had never furnished
house, or at best had furnished one
house only, and consequently they were
not able to remember all of the details
of upholstering and furnishing that they
desired. In any case they always need
suggestions from an expert, and for the
reason that woman understands We
mans ways, a woman's ideas, a wom-
ans thoughts and woman's needs a
woman is more competent to make those
suggestions than man.
However this may he in practice, it
is certainly logical in argument, and as
a matter of fact. whether the argument
! is logical OF not, and whether the work
| of women upholsterers and decorators
and contractors, as they profess to be, is
successful or not, they are here, and
| they are at work, and SO far as we have
heard there are not only no complaints
against their work, but great deal of
praise for it.