Middletown transcript., 1895-03-23

lESN' try she said: 81
C- did not come
here to reform America. and am not
leaving American shores with sense
of disappointment that it is not re-
formed. have spoken for the better
life and the new woman in America,
and have told of the new woman in
England and what she has been do
ing to help bring about social and
political reforms, Since I have been
here have worked, lecturing almost
constantly, filling every minute of my
time. Twas most happy to be able to
attend the Woman's Council in Wash
| ington and I take home with me
much that is inspiring and full of
encouragement. One of the most
encouraging signs to me, in the pro-
gress of American woman, is the in
creasing interest in physical culture.
| The bicycle is one of the greatest
factors in this regeneration.
Women who want their rights,
meaning thereby the right to do
everything man don't want to do,
certainly have great many more in
Germany than elsewhere, for they do
everything which man or dog won't
do. They keep house, till the ground,
make butter and sell it, barter for
groceries, etc., while the men smoke
their long pipes and lounge in the
| saloons. Of course, not all do this
way, but it is general custom. When
business is over for the day the man
crawls into his dog cart, and his duti-
ful frau and his faithful dog pull him
home. 1t is not unusual to see man
or woman, sometimes both, harnessed
to cart together with dog.
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The Baltimore Cooking School de-
serves to go down to fame for a most
original recipe. 1t concerns the pro-
per method of cooking husbands
"Some cooks" says the rule, keep
their husbands constantly in hot
water, others let them freeze by in
| difference and carelessness. Some
keep them in a pickle all their lives"
The husband, according to this recipe,
is improved by little spice and sugar,
but ruined with vinegar or pepper
Even when properly cooked there is
danger, the author says, of spelling
the dish by keeping in too cool a
place."
Mrs. Richard Croker, the wife of
| the eX-king of Gotham, is big wo-
| man whom some call handsome. She
is dignified and graceful in carriage,
and has great repose and ease of man.
ner, though the family taciturnity is
noticeable when she is even in her
merriest moods, and her conversation
is as diplomatist and guarded as the
wife of the ex-ringleader would needs
be. She dresses exceedingly well and
presides over her beautiful home and
her seven sturdy olive branches with
much grace.
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Mrs. Russell Sage, the wife of the
financier is one of the most charitable
women inNew York. She has GER
tain annual income for pin money,
and this is spent almost wholly on
charity; frills, furbelows and pleasure
being sacrificed for the needy poor.
Mrs. Sage's only entertainments are
those given by the working girls or
poor seamstresses whom she sends to
the country in summer if they are all
or in need of rest. Mrs. Sage is club
woman, being a member of several
clubs, aud also a sufragist. She is
highly accomplished, and has the
charming manners of the true Ameri-
can gentlewoman Her pets are birds
and cats, and she has a fine parrot
and three Angora kittens.
Amelia Rives Chanler, author of
1.-The Quick or the Dead" and wife
of the New York millionaire, is now in |
Texas, where she hopes in the dry |
climate to be cured of severe attack |
of Rheumatism from which she is suff |
ering. Mrs. Chanler is writing book |
of poems, and they promise to be an
other passionate novel versified"
Her husbands eccentricity is NOR
bid fear of losing his money, of which
he has great quantity, and he suffers
from nerves and dyspepsia, possibly
due to overdoses of his fair wife's eth
les.
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Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been
writing poetry for nearly sixty years.
Although this remarkable woman has
passed her seventy-ffth year, she has
the presence, the demeanor, the ex-
preston, the voice and the step of
fifty. She has handsome face, is in
vigorous health gives heed to the arr
of dress, and is far more lively than