The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-22

ton held in the club parlors and tea
was served.
Eight New York cub women went slum-
ming recently for the purpose OF practical
study but the eternal feminine curiosity
soon got the upper hand of the temporary
studiousneSs rs the following account from
a local paper shows:
Purely in the interest of science and for
the purpose of studying at first hand the
conditions of life in the haunts of the China
man, says the writer, eight women from the
League for Political Education made a visit
to Chinatown yesterday afternoon and took
notes OF the josshouse, a couple of restau-
rants, barber shop and some stores. They
were led by Miss Ade,e Field, who lectures
to 4 class oIzsocial subjects, and who knows
something about Chinese customs, and they
were chaperoned by two detectives from the
Elizabeth street police station. They had
previously been to police headquarters and
made full notes of the Bertil,on system of
measuring criminals, and various other mat
tiers that bear upon the science of sociology,
being guided by detectives, who pointed out
the best known and cleverest crooks in the
gallery, that they could study and make
note of features. There were nearly twenty
in the party when they were at headquarters.
Only eight continued their researches down
Mott street, with Miss Field They went
first to the josshouse Miss Field and the
detectives, who had been assigned by or
ders from headquarters, PORTED out the Gu
riously carved affairs and the brilliant appa-
ratus of the temple. They all bought some
/ ioss-stcks, paying the willy little heather
priest four times as much as the red pack
ages of sticks be bought for at bargain
! stores. A lot of the sticks were burned be-
I fore the joss, and in the smell of the san
dalwood smoke the priest tod their fortunes.
! Some of the class were much pleased with
what he promised them.
! From this Place the women, the detectives
| and the reporters moved around to a whole
sale Chinese general store on Pell street.
! Here the detectives pointed out curious
! Chinese vegetables. grown on Long island
! dried chickens and ducks, dried oysters,
! some of them strung on hoops of slender
/ bamboo and others dried on the halfshel.
The Cinnamon in charge very atten-
/ tive. The women had them get out dainty
little teacups and show their stock of silk
handkerchiefs. Up on the shelves were lot
/ of silk jackets for Chinese spring wear. One
( of the visitors asked if they had one that
! would fit her. The Cinnamon present all
looked at her and at each other in wonder
I Not muchee fit. Too muchee cold with
out bleeeches," was the answer she got
|
! The Rev. DR.. Grove, of New York, paid a
worthy tribute to the influence and work of
| women's clubs in educating the moral senti-
ment of the country.
| TT is a significant sign of the times said
a woman who heard the sermon" when a
man of such high Intellectual ability and
keen insight into the problems of life publicly
expresses such favorable opinion. He said
When Sir Walter Besant was over here a
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ment at the multitude of organizations, liter
airy and social, in which our people indulge
themselves. He was particularly curious
about the women's clubs and leagues and
guilds and alliances of many sorts and he
made a general request. through the news
papers, to the American people that we
should tell him what all these miniature or
CARNATIONS were doing.
Sc We can answer him in the main that tI1ey
are educating the American conscience Find
womans club where you will, calling itself
by whatsoever name, religious or secular.
and protesting to accomplish whatsoever i'm
mediate results, it will have the spirit of the
home and the spirit of the church. 1t is
welding the power of motherhood and it has
the grace OF purity. 1t is doing what every
woman and what every man ought to do. by
so far as its influence extends. making publis
thought clean and public sentiment whole
some. If the common run CT mems associa-
tons were anything like half as diligent in
good influence as these associations of women
the most serious problems which confront a
republic might be readily solved
The superior faculty of women to meet q
patent need in the simplest and most econom-
ical fashion is well Illustrated in the Pen and