The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-04
woMEN's SPHERE HAS EXPANDED.
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Philadelnhia Record.


The clubwomen of Pennsylvania. who
gathered at Williamsport in annual con-
vention last week, represent large and
growing proportion of American woman
kind. While these club women are regard
ed as being advanced in intellect and cul-
ture, they are by no means all ambitious
for a public career for themselves or for
others of their sex; most of them, IN fact,
retain the traditional feminine qualities OF
character and are model wives and
mothers, with strong domestic tastes. 1t
was evident from some OF the addresses de-
Iivered that not all of the club members
realize how greatly the expansion of wom-
ems interests has Influenced the sex and
has developed in unexpected instances the
qualities Of physical courage, muscular
strength and skill and self-poise. 1t may
interest the club women IL we note the in
cidents of single week, as reported In the
newspapers, in which woman has been por-
trayed as something quite unlike the cling
ing vine:
Mrs b. F. Tremann. of New York city,
sprang at the head OF a runaway horse
and stopped 1t, after having been dragged
some distance, and thus saved the life OF
an old man. Mrs. Bertha valentine, Oh
Hoboken. defended small street-car con-
ductor against two toughs, both OF whom
she knocked down with her fists, and one OF
whom she dragged to the police station.
Captain Margaret Kelley lbrown-eyed anu
demure). of the Salvation Army In Brook
lyn, literally thrashed a gang of hoodlums
into meekness, refusing the aid OF poncS-
man. Miss Lottie Poillon (who looks like
a school Crib knocked down and severely
punished with her fists two ruft1ans VINO
insulted her in Central Park, New YORK
Mrs. Margaret Heilmeyer, or Brooklyn, on
being attacked by a highwayman struck
the scoundrel across the face with bot
tie of ammonia. and he fed screaming Miss
Ruth Covington, society belle of Peru,
Ind, with her own hands dug an Italian
laborer out of trench which had caved In
and buried him. Mrs. James Whitney, OF
Bocca Grande. Fla, was attacked In her
Il ~ oh, CHI
into insensibility with rolling pin and
dragged outdoors. Mrs. j. +. Fullam, or
Washington Heights. New York, being an
expert with the pistol, shot III the leg a
rowdy who had attacked her husband Mrs.
Kerry. of Albion n. Y, marched vicious
tramp across a field TO her husband, hold
ing a pistol in her hand. Mrs Angelina
Vorino, of Harlem. n. y. whipped
policeman so severely that he was sent
10 hospital, and New York society wom-
an compelled a bury negro TO get down
from his wagon and go to the police sta
ton for having been cruel TO his horse.
Instances of other forms of courage and
enterprise were reported during the period
in question. Mrs. Mercy Mccormack, of
New York, seized her son In Ter arms
when his clothing was aiiame, and, al
though she was terribly burned, held him
until the fire was extinguished Mrs. Char-
ity Craig, q daughter of the late Secretary
OF Agriculture Jere Rusk, fought and
downed an established telephone company
at Asheville. y. c., and is now running all
independent telephone exchange there. Two
girls confined at the Magdalen Home, IN
this city. escaped by climbing down a rope
Of sheets and climbing over a high wall
topped with barbed wire. hair-pulling
bee at the Cleveland College for Women
was marked by blackened eyes. bruises,
torn hats and skirts and everything but
weeping. The vigilance of Mrs. Davidson,
wife of an English sea captain, saved the
lives of twenty mine wrecked sailors. Mrs.
Rose Anderson allowed herself 10 be flung
III. hi and ola
to a cask until she was rescued.
The week in which these various events
were recorded was not peculiar. and the
incidents are not unusual. Within The
same period there were publsned an ac-
count of Mr.. sruller's acceptance of a posi-
ton at general homework in Syracuse. n.
Y and description of the beautiful en-
broidery work of a man at Evanston. ILL.,