The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-11
MUCH IN THE LATE ELECTION TO
PLEASE Equal RIGHTS
ADVOCATES.
RESULTS IN THREE STATES.
WYOMING, COLORADO AND UTAH
VOTED FOR FEMALE CAM
DTDATES.
WOMEN IN THE LEGISLATURES.
Three Chosen In CoIorado-Utah
Woman as State Sem
ator.

ator.
Since the presidential election Of 1892
women have much to be thankful for in
the way Of political progress. 1t is true
that, measured by results, the gains
seem small in proportion to the truly
herculean labors the brave workers for
Women's political emancipation have
performed. But none of these efforts
are lost. They will all tell at once one
OF these days, and then results wills
come with rush. This year the women
OF three states, Wyoming, Colorado
and Utah, voted for presidential cleo
tors. One woman, Mrs Sarah MalIoy.
Of Wyoming, was herself chosen
presidential e1ector on the Republican
ticket. The Colorado house Of repre-
sentatives will this winter have as
members three strong and noble
women. They We're elected on the
Populist fusion ticket. and their names
are Mrs. Evangeline Hearth, Mrs. Olive
c. Butler and Mrs M. A. B. CONNIE,
These ladies all live in Denver. which
ful city in the world. Perhaps that is
because women have SO much to do
with it's municipal affairs In the new
state Of Utah Mrs. Martha @. Cannon
was sent to the state senate. She is
Democrat and doctor, practicing her
profession. She was, before polyeamv
was abolished, the fourth wife of An
gus Cannon, but now lives with her
son and daughter in a neat home of
her own. The oldest part Of her scandi-
dacy was that her former husband
Angus Cannon, ran against her on the
Republican ticket for the same Office
OF state senator and she beat him nv
majority Of 1000. She is a woman Of
fine, strong character and An orig
fnal mind, which she uses to do her
own thinking. She emphatically goes
IN Tor women taking share in running
this world To sum up, in the three
states in which women have full suf
Irage were there chosen at the Mo-
vemDer election one woman senator in
Utah, three women representatives in
Colorado and one woman presidential
eiector In Wyoming. Therefore the
sun do move"
In an interview with Winifred Black
OF the New York Journal. Mrs. Marina
=. Cannon, state senator-elect In Utah.
says: Now, / know that women who
stay at home all the time have the
most unpleasant homes there are. Yo1,
give me a woman who thinks about
something besides cook stoves and
washtubs and baby fiannels and IN
show you nine times out of ten a sue
cessful home-maker and a successful
mother Some day there will be law
a0r1ln 10
| children, and then the mothers of the
land can live as they ought to live
free, happy, healthy lives
Women who keep up with the fash
ions waste a sinful lot of their waking
hours over their clothes, and, after all,
dc not look nearly so handsome as the
ones who follow an artistic simplicity
in dress. With a good many women
clothes are not made for the use Of the
body. In their idea, the Creator made
the human body only for the purpose Of
showing off clothes
Charles Nordhoff's daughter Ethel
has become bookbinder. She is wise.
Bookbinding pays better than look
writing, as rule.
Alice Stone Blackwell says in the
Woman's Journal, ssAfter women had
had full suffrage in Wyoming for ten
years the census reported that in all
the territory there were only three lun-
atics, and those three were all men.
The engineer of the saw mill at Por-
terville, Cal, is woman Mrs. Cherb-
borne.
Miss Adelaide Hasse has entire
charge of the library Of public docu-
ments in Washington. She catalogued
the collection Of books herself
1t was quite right to abolish the law
requiring that women should be em-
ployed only eight hours a day in fac
tory work in Illinois, leaving men to
work as long as they pleased. 1t was
abridging the right to the pursuit of a
living of sex already at a great disad-
vantage in the world Of paying indus
tries.
Miss Lille Sullivan fills an impor-
tant place in the agricultural depart
ment at Washington. She examines
mites, insects and parts of insects
microscopically, and then makes coll
ored drawings of the magnified image.
If Mr. Roby, instead of Mrs. Roby,
had presented Wolf lake to Chicago
university, would the newspapers have
said Mrs. Roby had allowed" Mr..
Roby to make the gift? That Is what
I should like to know.
Personal beauty is something far
more within a wOman's own control
than she Supposes, In answer to
question of how human being could
reach a certain desirable state, Swami
Saradananda replied at Greenacre,
Think that way Just SO. The wo-
man who would be beautiful must be-
gin and think that way. Indulgence
in unpleasant emotions and brooding
over disappointments are ruinous to
good looks, especially as there Is no
Disappointment worth brooding over
one hour and no loss that is irrepar-
able First live as pure and true a
life as you know how to. Cultivate
kindly thoughts of all people. They
are as good as you are Keep your
self always in a cheerful happy. hope
full frame OF mind Any girl can train
herself to do this after a while. This
sunny, hopeful, aspiring mind Is one of
the secrets Of perpetual youth. Then
follow Swamis direction and think
/ yourself into beauty If you have an
Objectionable nose or bad complexion.
don't let your mind dwell on 1t. On
the contrary think of yourself always
as having q lily and rose complexion
and a classic nose. Never let yourself
dwell on defornnlties Of either body or
mind. either In yourself or others.
Think of goodness and beauty.
Eliza Archard Conner.
Iowa Bank Closed.