The herald., 1895-04-29

geant were the vacant seats which wer'
taken down Thursday and the faced dec
orations. A lone dog still wearing hi
Fiesta forgery skuiked around the corner
He looked as though he realized his ap
pearance was not in keeping with thu
on a brisk trade in Fiesta programmes,
They went like hot cakes at five cents
apiece. The French accuse our English
cousins of taking their pleasure sadly.
No one can impute such to the Ange-
lenos, at any rate.
Yesterday evening was riding on the
Pico Heights electric road.
lady boarded the car and gentle
man arose and gave her his seat. Clear
and distinct came the prettily spoken.
THANK you" We were little startled
at the novelty. for womankind nowadays
are in the habit of founcing right into
the proffered seat without SO much as a
single acknowledgment--and yet 1t costs
so little to be truly polite. After all, it,
the little couitesies that go to make up
life.
4 4 Il
Has anyone ever stopped to think what
a vast amount of general information the
Woman's club has been the means OF
disseminating through the length and
breadth of the land2 Woman, as a rule,
takes her club more seriously than the
average man. who is contented to go to
his club to dine. smoke and leisurely rea d
the latest periodicals.. while a woman S
club is nearly always ...
scot up for selfimprovemen',
Is this intellectual movement"
She resurrects ancient tones, seeks to
upset the generally accepted idea OF
things. With the club has come the de-
sire for more freedom, politically, and She
Il lon. f,,tr ft,ar oil
strom of political life. 1t is merely a
question of time when she will get the
ballot in every state in the union. Here
imLos Angeles the woman's clubs are GER
tainly up to, the mark. and Los Angeles,
too, has as brainy set of women as can
be found anywhere.
All things considered. there are only
two kinds of women in the world-those
who want to vote and those who do not.
The latter are the most interesting-to
men, There have been women in all
ages, as there will be in the future, who
when responsibility had been placed upon
them, have developed under it as d man
would have done. Was any contempor-
airy sovereign greater than Cath crime OF
Russia? Was not Isabella Of Spain more
far-seeing than any of her court? 1t is
certainly true that the great mass of
womankind have in late years enjoyed
oppor tunities that did not come to those
of olden times, and woman's advance
ment has during the last thirty years
been the talk OF the whole civilized world.
Some papers still pretend to regard the
woman question as huge joke. put the
best proof'of Importance has been found
in the amount of attention the press is
giving the subject. 1t is now dividing
with the silver question the attention of
the papers. The future is yet to woman
a great, undiscovered country. Won der
full things are expected of her; wonderful
things she will accomplish, but she will
always remain to herself, to every other
woman and to man, the great unsolved
ridde-as inscrutable as that of the
Sphinx This is what Marion Crawford
declares--''that if any man says he UNI
derstands women he is convicted of folly
by his own speech, seeing that women
are altogether incomprehensible..n
EDWARD.