The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-07
WOMAN,s RIGHT TO WORK.

A German Says She Mustn't BE a Jack-of-
Among Women.
Fraulein Marie Heller has recently opened an
employment bureau for women In Berlin. She
read q paper there recently on THE Right Of
the Modern Woman to Work" She prophe-
siedthatt the woman who was a ack.of-all-trade
and good at none would find herself unable to
earn a living in the near future. and dwelt with
emphasis on the necessity Of early professional
training. To give force to her pet theory.
Fraulein Heller quoted Bismarck's declaration
In the Reichstag: Il recognize Internationally
the, right to labor. and shall enforce it as long
as l remain In this place"
Women generally have o great weakness for
laces. They will be glad to know that cater
pillars have taken to lace making. A German
officer. according to an English paper. has in
vented a new kind Of lace. He first pounds to-
gether about fifty or sixty leaves Of q special
tree on which live small caterpillars peculiar to
Bavaria. This composition when reduced to a
pulp Is thinly spread on a slate. and on this
smooth surface q design is drawn with a pencil
dipped in olive oil. and then the greedy cater
pillars are placed on either side of the slate to
at once begin their work OF destruction by eat
paste. without touching. however. the t%ra1ceries
OF the oily pencil. The result is what we should
GqII q 10 s' be ntii GiSs1g a: ? 6u 5rS whether tIim sIT nG ie GdyE
stated in the report. The process is at least
most ingenious. and appears to deserve more
the name OF stencilIing or applique work than
OF lace. We must walt for further details.
The story OF how Ii Hung Chang was moved
to appoint two women as delegates to the In
ternational Congress OF Women, to be held In
London next year. will interest American
women disposed to admire Lii. A Chinese wo-
man medical student who had been studylnRin
America returned on the same ship with the
Chinese statesman. She had with her a book
containing a report of the councils work,
In, which she was, much interested. Ii
When told. insisted tina" She 'o e9plaiin a tbe;
aims, methods and work Of the organization ut
and declared that it was the greatest idea that
he had met In his travels around the world.
~tention Of having the Flowery Kingdom repre-
sented at the congress. and he kept his word.
Tor soon after reaching home he appointed two
delegates whose expenses will be paid by the
Government.
Mr.. Lawson TAFT. an eminent English sur
geon and specialist. has been dealing with the
question OF intemperance among women. His
opinion Is that the drink habit Is on the de-
crease so far as the gentler sex goes. Unfor-
t%unately. the Registrar Generals statistics In
his own country do not bear Mr.. TAFT out In his
views, They show that. while the death rate
among males has been Increased so per cent.
by intemperance, it has gone up 11B per cent,
in the case Of women. All the same. Mr.. TAFT
makes these interesting remarks:
"A woman after q certain point Is always a
and openly get the worse OF what she Ia drink
ing. as men do. My wide professional expe-
rience tells me. in terms that are indisputable,
that 1t is certainly true that misery, either
drunkenness which we find among women, and
not its result, save, perhaps. In cases so few as
to be negotiable. Viii this knowledge, l aus
pect that the same must be true, to some ex-
tent at least, among men. perhaps to a large
extent. However that may be, my social OK
p~erience among men and my professional
experience among women draw a most
emphatic distinction between drunkards in
the two sexes, Men sit dow openly with one
another and get drunk socially, though to a
when / was a lad, forty years ago, Women
never do this. | never in my life saw a woman
get percoptibly the worse for liquor ut a dinner
table, whereas ! have seen scores. II not hun
in my life the worse for drink at a social dinner
party, but then she camn the worse for
drink perceptibly. Women drunkards are
solitary drunkards. secret Ia. their vice. and
cunning in il, exercise and N hiding its de-
experience goes TO establish the conclusion
that among women Of the middle and upper
classes, indeed among women not included In
the clientele ottho hospital and the arena Of me
public street, intcmperanco is the result Of dis
ease or mental suffering, the great bulk being
the former. real physical suffering, CAPABLE in
the majority of cases Of being cured by proper
treatment, and in that treatment absolute pro-
hibition OF alcohol is not au element, nor, in
deed, is II a safe plan"
Old Dutch Names.
Two OF the boats OF the Astoria Ferry. run
ming from Ninety-second street on this island.
bear names that are spelled IN the old Dutch