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EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
A Smith College
Professor APP
proves 1t.
WOMAN A SPIRITUAL FORCE.
Men Value Her Opinion
Because She Has No
AK to Grind.
WOMAN A SPIRITUAL FORCE.

At a recent meeting of the Twentieth
Century Club of Boston, paper .on~the
municipal work of women was read by
Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, president of
the Women's Civic Club of Philadel-
phia, which has a membership of more
than 600 women, and has done remark
ably good municipal work in many
lines. Mrs. Stevenson took the
ground that women would be able to
do still more and better municipal work
after they had the ballot In the dis
cussion that followed, Prof. Mary A.
Jordan of Smith college was one Of the
speakers, and this is what she said:
Il must differ with what has. neen
said by Mrs. Stevenson about the bal
lot. 1 have never known a woman to
be materially benefited by official recog-
milton. even on committees. She arrays
against herself, by the known posses
sion of such power, two injurious lnfiu-
ences-the suspicion that she is parti-
san. and the distrust of ignorant wo.
men. The best work up to this time
has been done by women whose motives
were entirely above suspicion, and OF
whom it could not be said by any
stupid, prejudiced, or ignorant woman
that they have an ak to grind. When
the home is invaded by questions Of
party, woman will find herself on the
way to the insane asylum instead Of at
the head of happy and united home.
Woman must be distinctly spiritual
source of influence. Men value 4 wo-
mans opinion on practical matters be-
cause she comes to them fresh, ard as
nearly as possible like a disembodied
spirit. Up to this time only the ablest,
most competent, and most magnanipa-
Gus women have been allied with eXper-
iments of this sort, but in time inconi-
petent and bad women must cone in.
| In order to believe that woman SUI
frage will do good we must assure
| that good women have more influence
| over bad women than good men have
over bad men. The case is the reverse.
1 would rather be Daniel in the lions
den. with the intention of making an
after-dinner speech, than talk 10 wo-
men who think their interest is against
mine. with any hope of persuading
| tEem. Women distrust each other. Ig-
norant women will take their IDEAS
from the men nearest them rather than
from woman of superior advantages
to theirs. Such a woman finds het%sHiI-
itual superiority a wall of difference be-
lNtGI llSI dllu lIllGIlOI WOlIlGl. MY CIV II
experience has convinced me that the
organization of women by women is
one of the hardest things in the world
Jane Adams finds that she has to
keep a man in charge of her model
| lodging house, because the women are
| jealous of woman. The great value
| of women is moral and spiritual If
women are to do the work in which we
are all interested. it will be side by side
with men. but this is nothing new. His
| tory tells us of Deborah and Miriam.
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seine de sole would be in good form
for the house, while the same mate
rails in black would be suitable for the
street, especially for wear by ladies no
longer so young as they were, or so
slender. For evening dress, too, these
fichus will be much worn, made in fine
net or in silk muslin, edged with lace,
or even carried out entirely in lace,
with lace frills, and, very long sash
ends, frilled with lace. For young peo-
pie with good figures, these fichus will
be crossed in front, taken under the
arms and then tied at the back, in a
big bow, with sash ends reaching to
the hem of the skirt.
For plumper figures, these Marie An
toinette fichus will be draped lightly
around the shoulders, then drawn to a
point a trifie below the waist line in
front, where they will be secured with
jeweled pins or a brooch.
For evening wear, by the by, white
crepe de chine is leading fancy. 1t is
made up with folded bodice, che
misette of real lace, and the skin-tight
Marie Antoinette cleeves.
Still another modish way to wear a
scarf or flounce of lace is to make a
Knot in the centre of the length then
fasten the knot on the front of the
bodice. Then draw an end around
each arm and return both to the front,
going under the opposite arm. Each
end Is then drawn through the knot
and allowed to hang A cross way boz
lero effect is produced that is extreme
ly pretty. Two and a half or three
yards are necessary.
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to tell just by shutting his eyes wheth-
er pink and yellow go together.
In the matter of women's dress, th:n,
men like what they like, and women
have been inclined to buy and wear
what other women are preferrlng, max
ing the whole subject of feminine toll
let one of unreason. And can wom1n's
dress be talked Of, for and against,
with argument?
Isn't it beautiful and lawless, or ra
tional and ugly? Is it not? 1t may be
perfect and comprehensive.
They say that all the good Indians
are dead Worshipers of the old mas
tiers see no merit in woman's dress, eX-
cept such as was worn some hundreds
of years ago, and by women long since
translated. Those eternal gowns
when they are that-are built on lines
perpetually conformable to the human
figure, and l take it that women who
would dress with intelligence, which
means satisfactory effects, seek to find
out what in clothing has genuine merit,
with peculiar adaptability to individual
needs.
No dressmaker can tell them all of
this year in and out. To clothe herself
with originality and style, every wom-
an must be, in a sense, her own dress
maker. Even should she never take a
should be her own, by critical con-
sent.
woman may know what line and
color increase or diminish the size of
her waist.
She should understand what raises or
depresses the chest line.
She ought to learn what length in
sleeves is ungainly, and that which in
skirts is awkward
And to that end must the faculty of
comparison be cultivated, No person
may say to woman: This is pretty;
that is ugly. 1 know why, and you
never can" She is able to learn-even
as you and I. as Kipling says. The
process is interesting and simple, gone
about trustingly. 1t is a mere matter
of comparison; incidentally, of compi-
lation. Let every woman make her
own costume book, clipping what APP
peals to her wherever she sees it-un-
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things, do not penetrate before Tues
day.
After six months or a year you have
your dress book bound-a most useful
work of reference, testimony to your
industry and an heirloom for curious
grandchildren. Which last may or may
not concern you. But think how our
grandmothers' conclusions about nee
dlework, as expressed in their samplers
about cooking, as told in their faded
writing in little old memorandum books.
endlessly delight US!
Have heads and sub-heads in your
compendium.
BELTS-SHAPED BELTS.
Begin with belts.
What is it that makes the women's
waists in many of the fashion plates
look so much smaller than the waists
of women in real life? Is it that the
belt line is disproportionately small?
Not always. Oftener the belt is shaped
to fit. No artist who understands his
work depicts a woman with belt GO
ing straight around; it dips in front.
And how many women do you see with
belts that are shaped? A few Those
who can patronize dressmakers who
are artists, and such as have thought
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
WOMEN AND EYEGLASSES.
They Used to Wear Them For Fun, But
Now They Don't.

Times have changed" said the Main
street optician. when 1 first went in
business I had a large clientage of wo-
men who used to buy Eyeglasses for
fun, and wear them, too, unbecoming
as they were, usually. They said they
really needed them to sew or read with,
and some of them came with preserfp-
tons from oculists. There were one or
two oculists in town who humored
them, just as the specialists humor
their hypochrondriacs. The prescrip-
tons called for plain crystal, of course.
l remember pretty young girl who
used to linser over what she called
new styles in eye-glass frames. She
had a dainty, straight little nose and
very bright blue eyes, and her glasses
gave her a rather piquant air. She
wished to be considered studious-wo-
men students were not so common in
those days as they are now. Neither
were frameless glasses and when she
first saw them she said she couldn't
see the use of wearing them, as they
were almost invisible! She also had a
lorgnette, but she did not use it as wo-
men do now, letting it bangle from a
chain, or using it for a plaything, or
raising 1t to the eyes to read or view
some far-off object When she wore a
lorgnette 1t took the place of her eye
glasses. She held it to her eyes con-
stantly. And her eyes were as strong
and well as they were bright, and that's
saying a great deal.
People often remark that the num-
Der of school children who wear spec
tacles and seem to have an idea that
the eyeslght of the race Is deteriorating.
Ihey need have no such fear. The
children of long ago needed spectacles
as much as they do to-day but less
care was taken of the eyes then than
now. AS a matter of fact, eyesieht is
improving. Women read ard write
more than they did, but they don't sew
so much, and the sensible ones shun
hne embroidery and Notwithstanding
needlework, On the other hand, the at
tltude of women toward eyeglasses
has changed Most of them hate fine
sight of even invisible frames, and no
woman under fifty can be forced To
wear spectacles, The lorgnette is the
oculist's best friend, but it is a very
shaky makeshift for well-fitted eve
glasses, held, as it Invariably is. at the
wrong angle, l don't know the reason
q the change. Perhaps women liked
10 look clever or strong-minded in tha
Old days because 1t was uncommon.
l suppose they don't want to now, he
cause so many look so, without anv ex-
traneous aids"
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Are you tired of cutting out fashion
ideas, pinning them to the pincushion
or tucking them into the mirror frame,
and losing them before you are ready
to use the hints?
Then buy five cents worth of white
or ecru wrapping paper, of the size
which will fold to make the book most
convenient and agreeable for you to
handle. Eighteen inches by twelve are
about the dimensions of the white pa
per ordinarily sold by druggists, and
the measures give a page of excellent
proportions for fashion purposes.
What you will make of this paper
eventually is your own fashion, or, bet
ter yet, costume book. Every good
housekeeper has her individual cooking
guide. No one volume ever written is
sufficient for the housewife who has
any creative ability.
From time to time the real house
keeper evolves novel methods and re-
ceipts. These she writes on the blank
leaves of her cook books, TIC be handed
along and improved by future genera
tions. The genuine housekeeper IS not
altogether ready made, and never COM
pletely learned.
There are good reasons for the indi-
vidual fashion volume, or the dress
book. as l prefer to call it. l confess
I start upon the arguments with hints
from men. The right sort of man
looks down upon women's fashions"
The same kind not only enjoy, but re-
quire, pretty dressing by their women
associates.
Where is the point of difference?
1t is a fact well known that the dress
or hat a man once likes pleases him un-
til its usefulness is past, In or out Of
style, he enjoys what once has met his
fancy. Far be it from me to commend
men as models of constancy in any
general sense without certain explana-
ton and apology. In matters Of dress
l think we can learn much from what,
as well may be admitted, is their blind
ly excellent taste. Blind because no
man other than few authorities
knows the difference between ruching
and tucking. And it requires an artist
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YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR OWN DRESS BOOK

OF the why. 1t does not require heaps
ment. "eii' -
Hooh at the group of waists illustcat-
eu with this account. Every one mas q
arrow peIt shaped lowered toward
me front. Fix that lact in your mind
Sut tue pictures QUO and paste them
On one OF your brown or white pages
lCaH II brown, to get down to simpl-
eSt materials for our purpose.) Write
belts' at the top of the page in a bold
hand. And when you want another
Wlsp OF something for your waist line
consult this page with complacent
smiles and make one, shaped
1t will pay you to have a high priced
dressmaker cut belt pattern for you
TO measure. The time will come, my
friends, when the dealers in leather
Will have to give us shaped belts. They
wouldn't turn out anything but a
straight line now to save us. Some day
they will see. 1t is as easy to cut 'eath-
er shaped as straight when you know
about the demand for it.
Sarah Bernhard is the greatest &d-
vocate of the lowered waist line. Study
her costumes or photographs of them.
A successful gown for slight woman
has rounded skirt yoke Of cream white
Renaissance lace against bluet back
ground. The white lace has the effect
of increasing the size of the hips. More
white lace forms the bodice, an engag-
ing gown. Take counsel that a yoke of
black lace against white skirt would
greatly decrease the apparent size of the
hips; and be guarded accordingly, in the
making up of your gowns. DO you wish
to appear thicker or thinner!
Variations of ruffle ideas are useful
notions to have accumulated. We have
a portrayal of a pretty sort, scalloped,
five frills on the bottom of skirt. A
becoming way of tying a tulle knot and
adding a dash of contrasting color to a
costume is shown in the use of a tie
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-16
A HAIR DRYING MACHINE.
Kansas Man Has Invented Simple Little
Device That Dries Your Hair For You.


Women all over the world should rise
up and call a certain Kansas man
blessed, for he has been clever enough
to invent continuance for drying a
woman's tresses after they are washed
or shampooed. Most women have a
wholesome dread of the labor and time
involved in keeping their hair clean.
Sometimes with head of luxuriant
hair it is matter of two or three hours
to dry it after washing. This simple
little machine is guaranteed to do it in
fifteen or twenty minutes. 1t comprises
a metal chamber on a stand which per-
mlts of it's adjustment to the head of
the subject. The top is sloping to re-
celve the hair and is covered with as
bestos to prevent any damage by heat
being done to the tresses. Inside this
chamber is a lamp and around the ton
are apertures to permit the heat to
pass through the hair. Seated comfort
| ably in a chair, with her hair spread
over this little drying machine, wom-
| an may read or sew or mediate, and
save lot Of time, to say nothing of the
exertion heretofore expended on keep
ing her head clean.
Mushroom and pitch-pine are the
names OF new browns which with the
new blues, are among the most modish
colors woman can wear.
Parlsiennes are carrying handker-
| chiefs of fine white linen appliqued in
black lace that has been re-embroid-
cred in the centre. The initials are
placed in the centre, and are embroid-
cred over lace braid in green, white.
violet or rose. Large black tulle wells
| covered with designs in black chenille
are the 'dernier cri."
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MAKING THINGS LAST.
A Girl Who Knew How to Take Care of
Her Clothes.

When / was a girl, writes a cores
pondent, there was one of my young
friends who was distinguished for
making her things last" Her dress,
hats, gloves and ribbons We're marvels
Of durability. 1 used to wonder how
she managed to make them last so
without their looking shabby, but
ceased to do so after l had visited her
at her own home. The reason why her
clothes wore so long was that she took
such care of them. Her dresses We're
brushed and folded away carefully, and
the slightest spot on them was removed
as soon as IL was discovered Her hat
was wrapped in an old pocket hand
kerchief, and put away in a box as
soon as done with, the strings and laces
being Strengthened and rolled out most
symmetrically each time. Her gloves
were never folded together, but were
pulled out straight and laid fiat in a
box, one upon the other, each time
they We're used, the tiniest hole being
mended almost before it had time to
show itself. But the thing that inn
pressed me most was the care she be-
slowed on her ribbons. When making
up bows she used to line the upper part
Of the ribbon with white paper, and
this not only prevented the ribbon from
becoming limp and creased, but kept
1t clean, so that when the bow was
soiled on one side she could turn the
ribbon, and the part that had been
covered came out looking new and
fresh. The girl married and brought UP
large family. Her husband had to
hight his way and did so bravely, and
was unusually successful, for he be-
came wealthy. But his prosperity was
due quite as much to his wife's care
and economy in saving money as it
was to his in making it.
The round waist that has been So he
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Lace, Gauze and Net
Are Knotted About
the Shoulders.
AIRY, FAIRY NOTHINGS.
They Beautify the Gown
and Become
All.
AIRY, FAIRY NOTHINGS.

Than the Marie Antonette fichu,
nothing in the form of shoulder or neck
decoration will be more fashionable
this summer, and all who cannot with
comfort wear short coats and find capes
100 hot and heavy, but who object to
Venturing out into the street without
some sort Of light wrap around their
shoulders are strongly advised to get
themselves one or more. The fchu or
shoulder scarf is made preferably of
lace, but may also be built of net or
some soft silk, and is draped around
the shoulders, tied in front on the
corsage, and finished with two long
ENDS that reach to the hem of the skirt
in 'front.'
This pretty style can be varied in
dehnitely. For morning wear what
could be prettier than small fichu of
nne batiste, white muslin or white
point d'esprit? For afternoon, white
lace, crepe de chine, chiffon or nous
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and chou of black liberty chiffon on
princess dress of cream Renaissance
lace, made over shell pink satin.
The present craze for the tunic may
not last. The woman who trims her
skirt to simulate a tunic, without ac-
tually cutting up her goods into over
skirt shape, is not going far wrong. A
gray Henrietta gown, with frills of gray
and white silk muslin, the gray over
tapping the white, is a good style to
remember
A notion in using plated chiffon is
good. 1t edges borders of black, SPAN
gled white lace, extending to the belt
There is no rule which makes that sort
of trimming ever completely out of
fashion; good mode to remember. Silk
muslin four inches deep, in black, sets
off rounded overskirt of black and
white polka dotted taffeta, the skirt
made from insertings of coarse lace and
entredeux of black and white striped
satin; an excellent arrangement to re-
call. Much can be done with black and
white. striped satin as decoration in
this, as any other, season. Make a note
of it under your heading Trimmings"
in the Dress Book, about which l may
have more to say next week.
MARGERY DAW.
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less that should be in another's volume.
which is misdemeanor-and passing
IL on to her pages, with appropriate
comments, as:
This is an ugly collar, for such and
such a reason"
Here is such a back to a. skirt as
seems incredible, for, look you, the line
of the form is disagreed with"
Or as happens with the present
modes; This skirt back is immodest,
for so and So"
The exercise of the perceptive facul-
ties can find no greater common pleas
ure than in the estimate of woman's
dress. There is a joy in finding rea-
sons for these so-called vanities which
exceeds any mere contemplation of the
styles.
SO get to yourself dress book. And
buy for it common paper such as was
mentioned at the outset. Do this for
| several reasons. 1t is inexpensive:
fve cents buys lot. Keeping that
size in mind, it always is possible Ia
! find more pages at short distance and
( in the most distant country post offices
Thus one may be adding always to her
| dress book, though summering in the
remote parts. where Sunday supple
] ments, with fashion hints and other
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A NEW WRAPPING PAPER.

Newspapers are wrapped up for mail
ing IN all sorts of ways. Some pub
llshers who are rich use a good. pIain
sheet, and the wrapping is done in a
very nice way, that would even defv
Ihe llghtning work of the best sales-
woman in any of Worcesters emno-
runs. Others use the leavinRs of their
oWn sheet, and, unless this is done
qulte right, the result is anything hut
pleasing, One of the latest and perhans
one OF the best is the use of the Con-
sresslonal Records for wrapping ma
pers' A paper in Vermont has ado,,ted
ms method Of getting rid of toni of
rlilra1 that come from WASHINGTON
every year. which contain ali the
speeches Of congressman that ,ers
never uttered In the halls of our ma
tlonal congress. It's a splendid 80
ana ana no doubt other papers will foilow
tne example of the Vermont paper.
Poor girl! She seems so UNHAPPY, =
suspect her octogenarian husband
doesn't wear we'll" ana
Fancy he doesn't wear QUITE q.
Iasf IA she expeotAd. '--IAfs, 90
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PRETTY. BUT TRYING.

Women will be wise If, before they
begin to purchase a kilt-pleated white
tulle butterfly bow for the neck. they
consult their looking glasses and their
complexion, for not one woman In a
hundred can stand this mass of white
under her chin. Nor are the chiffon
and lisse ties, with patterns worked
all over them in narrow ribbons, much
better, from the same standpoint.
Elongated cream colored lace rvs are
more becoming and more graceful, and
very pretty are the soft silk, printed Or
painted with tiny forets and the
broad ribbon bows with chine bou-
quets, which are quite charming IL
they are but well made.
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a MAIN STREET SALESMAN
he Talks About the Fitting of Shoes and
Wonders Why Women ALWAYS Sin Down.

why is 1t that people always want
TO Sit down when they are trying on
new Shoes" asked the salesman in a
Main street shoe store Women IN
particular want q comfortable scat
WINE you are fitting a shoe on them
anu is with difficulty that YOU can
eet tnem 70 walk a few steps or even
, ~ sta ah Ihen, when they begin to
Mesr thelr new purchases, they wonder
why they are not as comforto5 H., "onuer
the first trial. They do NOT sao eo 81 ~
realize that the foot is smaller whe ~
you SIT in a chair than when ona ~ -
standing; that the muscles must bav 20
a certain amount Of room ia woril T.,
ana that exercise brings more hood -,
Inc 1eet and makes than swell.S ~