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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-11-19
Nsw JerSoy.

Jersey City.-New Jersey remains In
the Republican column. but the Demo
Gratis made considerable gains. Chief
interest centred this year In the cleo
tion Of Congressman In each Of the ten
districts. The Republicans elected
seven of their candidates as against
six whom they had under the old ap.
portionment. The Democrats elected
three, as against two under the pre-
vi0us allotment. While the Republl-
cans retain control Of the Legislature.
the Democrats have made gains In
both branches. adding three Senators
and eight Assemblymen.
The vote n the State was generally
heavy, partly owing to the pleasant
weather, which prevailed over all tue
State. The main interest centred In
the contests for Congress In the ten
districts.
The indications are that the Legisla.
ture win stand as follows:
Senate-Republicans, IA; Democrats
Z. House-Republicans. Sc; Demo
Gratis, %. Republican majority or
Joint ballot, 80. Democratic gain ir
Senste. 8: Democratic gain In House. 8
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Senator Clay Re.EIeetsd

p: Senator Clay Reelected.
Senator Alexander 8. Clay was re-
elected by the Georgia Legislature for
the term Of six years In the United
States Senate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-11-19
RESULTS OF THE ELECTION
Votes Cast In ~ States, 22 of Which Elect Full
Tickets, Is Return Legislatures That Will
Select 70 United States Senators, and
Is Choose Minor Officials.
new YORK REFLECTS ODELL GOVERNOR

Three Hundred Seventyeght Congressional Represen
tatves chosen--fhe Next House Republean.--Penny-
packer Defeats Pattison For Governor in Pennsyl.
vania---Returns From the Other States.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1902-11-19

The man with a clear conscience
doesn't mind II people see through
him.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

surviving husband, Henry B. Black
well. When he married Lucy Stone, he
gave himself TO her work for woman.
The young pair had TO send thirty miles
in 1855 TO find a minister who would
marry them without putting the word
"obey" i'm the brides pledge. Henry
Blackwell. Lucy Stone. Susan b. An
thony and other pioneers of the woman
movement were mobbed. dead Gated
egged and howled at. which is almost
incomprehensible in our day. But Mr.
Blackwell has the happiness of him
self knowing how the world has moved.
With his daughter. Alice Stone Black
well. he edits the Woman's Journal.
the paper founded by Lucy Stone. He
is now about eighty years of age and
like the rest of the brave pioneer work.
ers for women, strikingly vigorous in
mind and body.
Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the
Battle Hymn OF the Republic" and
whose voice has been heard in behalf
OF her sex many years, lives i'm Boston.
She is eighty-three years old and is still
writing and speaking. Mary A. Liver
more, the famous lecturer, who first be-
came known through her work in the
sanitary commission during the civil
war. lives at Melrose. Mass Her life
has been crowded with stirring events.
yet now at eighty-one years of age she
is as active as ever.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

then think any woman was capable or
presiding at its meetings. Afterward
Mrs. Stanton herself presided with
queenly grace and dignity at many
convention six times as large as
that first woman's rights meeting. Mrs.
Stanton Is the eldest OF the surviving
pioneers in the agitation TO remove the
legal and civil disabilities OF woman.
II is to be noted that the first effort or
these pioneers was in every case to OBJ
tain property rights for women ana
recognition for them I'm meetings and
movements in which they. equally with
men. were interested workers. The
spark that set Mrs. Stanton's soul
afiame for woman was this: In 1870
there was a worlds reform convention
in London. Mrs. Stanton attended it.
Among the ablest, most prominent re-
form workers in the States were num-
ber of women, and some of these cross
ed the sea as delegates. The convention
would not receive their credentials be-
cause they were women. Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady stanton thrilled with indig
nation in every fiber of her being at
this discrimination. Result. one of the
most illustrious advocates and apostles
the cause Of woman ever had or ever
will have.
Mrs. Stanton will be eighty-seven
years old next November. She lives in
New York city. fine. stately lady in
her black satin gowns with her puffs
of snow white hair. Her vigorous mind
is still busy as ever. and she writes
much on various questions of public in
terest.
Then there is Mrs. Stantons sister
worker. Susan B. Anthony. eighty-two.
but still a lion. showing no diminution
OF either the physical or mental vigor
that has enabled her TO outtravel and
even to outtalk in lecturing for her
cause any other woman of her time.
Not long ago at meeting i'm New
York state Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch,
daughter OF Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
was present and made a speech. lady
who was introduced to her at the close
said TO her:
"Oh, I'm so glad to see you! You are
Susan B. Anthony's daughter, aren't
your"
Susan Anthony's first public address
was a temperance speech. delivered at
Canajoharie, N. Y. i'm 1s49. She was a
schoolteacher then. Intensely interest
ed in temperance, she attended the
meeting. She felt that she had some
thing TO say, and she said 1t. To say
society was shocked that a woman
dared TO speak i'm public would be TO
put the matter with only glimmering
faintness. After the meeting the promi-
nent and influential citizen who always
considers himself entitled TO run things.
particularly matters with which wom-
en- are connected. approached Susan
and said:
Miss Anthony, am greatly aston
ished and panied that you should so far
forget yourself and your sex as TO make
that speech I'm public"
Didn't do II well?' asked Susan.
"Oh. yes. IL was a good speech-an
excellent one. But. Miss Anthony. 1
would rather see my wife and daughter
IN THAR collins than to know one OF
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

The waves OF the great woman move-
ment half a century ago ran into many
a bychannel and stirred the soul 1f tho
sex to- launch out upon the waters OF
that professional life previously re-
served for men. IL sent the girls into
law, into medicine and into theology
The first regular woman preacher was
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, or
dained i'm 1853. She lives I'm New York
city and is nearly seventy-nine years
old. She. too is still seen and heard on
public platforms.
on every plane OF the progress OF
woman in the United States appears
the name OF Blackwell. one member or
another OF the same distinguished fam
lily The husband OF Antoinette Brown
was brother OF Henry Il. Blackwell.
also of DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell, the
first woman physician. Dr. Blackwell.
too. still lives. now in retirement at the
age of eighty-one. having fought the
good fight for woman's rights The
many medical colleges that refused her
admission are not recorded, but the one
that did admit her by unanimous vote
of it's men students, that at Geneva, N.
Y. is always honorably named in con-
nection with the story of medical wom-
en- in the United States
Belva Lockwood was the first woman
lawyer. About thirty years ago she es-
tablished an office in Washington.
where she still practices. Her age Is
not recorded, but she is spry enough
for any age. There. too. is gentle, but
mighty, Clara Barton, first American
Red Cross army nurse. whom army
surgeons snubbed and put every OBJ
stacle in the way of during the civil
war, but whom army surgeons today
honor and approve. Miss Barton is the
national Red Cross president at WASH
| ington.
Anna Dickinson is not very old yet,
but she certainly was the pioneer wom-
an political campaign speaker. She
began i'm the days of Lincoln's second
campaign in 1864. a little Quaker girl
of eighteen, but full of the fire of the
spirit. Her voice is not heard in public
now. but its burning eloquence reused
a nation nearly forty years ago.
ELIZABETH LEE.
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S96TEER S9sT7H3Rs q 4! 4: TER TazET WqFAT MAN

them had so unsexed herself as TO raise
her voice i'm a public meeting
The world has moved somewhat since
then until now IL is told privately that
there are excellent husbands so desir-
Gus for their wives TO make fine APP
pearance on the public stage that they
even write their club papers for them
in cases where the ladies are not quite
up 10 il themselves
Miss Anthony has a comfortable,
pretty home i'm Rochester N. Y, with
sufficient income from what she has
saved from her earnings of former
years.
Isabella Beecher Hooker. the last sur
viving member of the original Beecher
family, widowed, eighty years of age.
lives in Hartford. Conn. Her first wom-
ans right . address was given at a
meeting in Newport, r. J., in 1863. Her
long married life was as nearly an ideal
one as this earth can afford. Her hus-
band. Judge John Hooker. the eminent
jurist. sympathized with his wife in her
new woman ideas. drafted legal bills
for her and aided in all ways in her
labor of love for her sex.
Another married life Of ideal happi-
ness was that OF Lucy Stone and her
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05
ElH7F5 47aFs s; !; $ SUMNER GIRL

sleeves of all the prettiest designs are
three-quarter length. finished with two
or three full, narrow ruffies OF lace.
These waists, elbow sleeves and all,
VIII be worn with the ankle length
white pique skirts With a collar and
belt OF lustrous white louisine ribbon
and soft white pique hat trimmed
with crushed bows of the louisine the
smart little white costume is complete.
or course the shoes peeping out from
under the skirt must be of patent leath-
er and the stockings of fine openwork.
Il. -'e tell you OF the clever scheme
or = "a OF mine. a girl renowned for
her cieterness In dressing well on a
rather small income. She purchased
two handsome white waists and match
ed the material, which was easy, for II
was plain. Then she made a rather
simple skirt having perpendicular tucks
and plain hem around the bottom.
which was headed by three rows Of
valenciennes. This she could wear with
either OF her shirt waists and by this
means have dainty white gown. Next
she made two corset covers and skirt
slips. one pale blue. the other pale pink.
They were low necked. with elbow
sleeves. the waists themselves being
high necked with elbow sleeves. Every
morning she would appear at the
breakfast table dressed either I'm white
over pink or in white over blue, much
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

ed to speak of HIS sovereign lady as "a
milder. better Elizabeth"
One thing, however, Victoria could
do-she could refrain from giving her
daughters that name which for three
centuries had been associated with
English princesses and queens OF more
or less note. Not one of Queen Victo-
ria's daughters was named Elizabeth.
Elizabeth OF York, wife OF Henry
VII, had been named after her mother.
Elizabeth Woodville. wife OF Edward
Nv. Afterward came the great Eliza
beth Tudor. England's ruler for forty
I'VE years then Elizabeth Stuart,
daughter OF James l., queen OF Bohe-
mia, ancestress of the present royal
family; then some minor Elizabeths.
including the unfortunate daughter OF
Charles L., who died at Carisbrooke
castle; the daughter of George Ill.
who became landgravine Of Hesse-
Homburg and an infant daughter OF
William w., who IL she had lived
might have become England's Queen
Elizabeth II. With this baby's death
the royal Ellzabeths went out, and the
name OF Victoria, originally imported
by the Duchess of Kent, began to at
tract attention.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05
HOW MEN MAKE LOVE.

Handsome men have never succeed.
ed with me-" says a charming girl.
"They are generally too overbearins
and make me feel as If they did me Q
favor by making love.
II like a man who takes his hat Off In
my presence and the cigar from his
mouth the moment l come near him:
who rises from the table and remains
standing while / stand.
"The straightest way to a girls heart
is by small courtesies. 1t never fails.
The man who showers diamonds and
costly presents upon girl is usually
very ostentatious about IL. The man
who comes with bunch of flowers and
makes her feel as IL she did him an
honor to accept his present-he'll win
where the other fails.
"Lovemaking Is an art which girls
understand much better than men,"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05
SARAH HERNHARpT's SHOES.

Few women walk less than Nine Sa.
rah Bernhardt. but fewer still can
boast of such a vast assortment of foot
gear as that owned by the great trage-
dienne. The outfit consists OF 120 pairs
Of shoes. which are carried about in
Two enormous travelling trunks sep
arated into small compartments. Each
pair of shoes is catalogued and number
ed. and there is not single pair OF
walking shoes among them. For every
dress the actress has shoes and silk
stockings TO match Her slippers are
edged with laces and narrow ribbons
and are often decorated with gold and
silver buckles and jeweled buttons set
with pearls and other gems Some OF
them are painted by clever artists on a
groundwork OF silk. satin or morocco,
and these are laced with gold and silver
cords and tied with bows of ribbon. As
rule, she wears sandals in her own
rooms, as she believes they do not dis
figure the feet as much as shoes and
this 10 so particular lady is a great
consideration.
Not the least remarkable In the huge
collection of footgear are the slippers
and stockings which she wore in one
act OF "L'Aiglon." The slipper and
stocking are made in one piece. the for.
mer OF patent leather with high bronzed
heel. the stocking, of black silk, cum
ningly Joined to the slipper. When
playing Camille" she wears red mo-
rocco slippers with straight sides and
square toes. ON the tongue is embroid-
cred gold and silver butterfly with
diamond studded wings, and the heel is
very high, in the style known as Louis
Quinze. Another item in her shoe outfit
is lovely pair wrought in white satin.
on which are embroidered Parma violets
In gold and silver. The top is trimmed
with fur about one inch wide and is or
namented with the head of bird sur
rounded with delicate loops of lace.
The heels are covered with white kid
and the toe is sharply pointed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

wise, you watch the boiled dinner
while 1 make a strawberry meringue
the way my mother used to-
So. mid sweet discourse. the aesthetic
feast was preparing when b-r-r-r.
bZ-Z-z. went the wheezy electric bell.
1t was the willowy Miss Monochrome
and her friend Mr.. Highart. who had
touched the bell of. They came in
shifting.
'Fearsome smell In the halls" said
Iiighart Ought to be a city ordinance
against cooking cabbage in apartment
housesl" While he was talking he and
Miss Monochrome advanced toward
the kitchen.
You said you wanted TO welcome
your friends In the Kitchen" said Miss
Monochrome. so we came directly in
here. Good heavens! It's you that are
cooking cabbage"
"H-m-hm-h-m." remarked the pro-
fessor. You see"-
Mrs. owlwise -hastened to cover the
awkward situation. "Welcomel" she
said THE professor thought. he wished
TO try again one OF the dishes OF his
boyhood. Welcomed I'm Just putting
This strawberry meringue upon the fire
escape TO harden minute. So glad TO
see you. You must stay TO dinner. IL
will be ready when the meringue cools"
The professor. and Mr.. Highart were
quickly in dep discourse.
Il am convinced" said the professor
that the only true art is the classic,
because truth is one. and the ancient
Greeks had a clearer perception of the
beautiful In art-holy Moses! What's
that smoker"
The corned beef and sauerkraut had
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

~ ATHER more than half "A CEN
" tury ago i'm America woman be-
n gan TO assert herself. not as a
- - mere. creature OF the feminine
sex. but as a human being. en-
titled TO human beings rights and re-
sponsibilities. entitled also TO a distinct
individuality, TO be guided and con-
trolled according TO her own will
not that of man. Mary Wollstone-
craft, priestess and prophecies of the
modern new woman, had with elo-
quence and incontrovertible logic de-
clared the same doctrine i'm England
half century before. but Mary Woll-
stonecraft was considered "A little queer
and. besides. not quite a proper person.
so beyond the extremely limited class
that possesses brains and can think.
this gifted, unhappy lady made little
impression on her generation except to
shock it's average sense of conventional
propriety.
In the United States. where the world
was young and old Mrs. Grundy had
not yet got her talons fixed in our
vitals. things went better. although
even Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who call
ed the first woman's rights convention
at Seneca Falls. N. Y. in 1S4s. did not
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

bons. The girdle is band of black
velvet made wide in the back and mar.
row I'm front. These dresses are abso-
lutely without lining The most popu-
lar colors are grass green and rose
pink. but a great deal of the grayish
blue linen is also made up in this way.
Pongee is the fad of the hour. and II
is combined with all sorts of embroid-
cry In blues and reds. The latest belt
for pongee and linen dresses shows a
strapped effect of the goods. through
which the belt ribbon is threaded.
Louisine is the ribbon OF the year.
Next I'm Importance comes MORE. All
smart ribbons are soft.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

81 AM of the opinion" said Professor
1 Owlwise, lecturing TO the Wom-
4 ems Friday Morning Economic
club. that the kitchen should be the
most beautiful room in the house. |
would have my friends who come 10
dinner gather in my kitchen while the
hospitable preparations go on. i would
have all the cooking done by my wife
and myself. Our friends might come
I'm at any time. Then while we pre-
pared the delicate. aesthetic meal we
could discuss high philosophy, politics
and business"
All the ladies clapped their pretty,
gloved hands and were enraptured at
the new fad of the aesthetic kitchen.
Professor and Mrs. Polycrates OWL
wise lived in city fiat and ate their
food in restaurant near by. Because
they seldom did cooking at home Pro-
fessor Owlwise evolved the fine, new
thought theory that the kitchen should
be the most charming room In the
house. But one morning Professor OWL
wise said TO Mrs. O.:
Cynthia. do wish could have some
corned beef and sauerkraut. boiled to-
gether. the way mother cooked them"
. well, Polycrates. suppose for this
one day we light the gas stove I'm the
kitchen and have a corned beef and
sauerkraut dinner just the way your
mother cooked IL. It's raining like fury,
and nobody will come in"
The fiery volcano of n gas stove was
Put into active eruption. and the corned
beef and sauerkraut soon loppered
sweetly upon its top. filling the air with
spicy odors.
"Polycrates, DEAR" said Mrs. OWL
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

burned fast TO the pot above the fur
mace heat of the villainous. treacherous
gas stove.
Meantime across the kitchen Mrs.
Owlwise discoursed with Miss Mono
chrome on matters dear to the feminine
soul.
1T was the prettiest piece of neck
wear I've seen this season." Miss Mono
chrome was saying. and Mrs. Owlwise
was listening with all attention. IL
had the sweetest little collar. turned
over at the top and embroidered i'm a
blue sprig. and there was a scarf OF
sheer muslin to tie around the neck.
with floating ends. and the scarf was
embroidered 20 match the tiny collar
"Oh, WOW! Scat. you nasty thingi"
shrieked Mrs. Owlwise in the midst OF
this enhancing description. a neigh
bors cat had sneaked up the fire escape
and licked all the sweet, frothy top off
the delicious strawberry confection and
paved the confection itself 10 pieces.
IL was ruined. The four went To the
restaurant and dlned off roast beef and
rhubarb pie. High discourse or Just
plain. feeble minded feminine fashion
chatter-it was alike a failure when It
came TO entertaining friends while one
was cooking.
Mrs. Ruskinly. too. tried the fine, new
fad. She invited two friends to come
into her kitchen while she broiled lamb
chops for dinner. The chops were broil.
ed right. but the two friends declared
their clothes smelled OF sheep for a
week and they would never go near a
Kitchen again. So that scsthetic cookery
attempt likewise failed.
JOSEPHINE HUNTER.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

bathing costumes are as a rule. inset
with coarse black silk lace or embroid-
cry. This appears on the sailor collar
and the belt. There is a sash, which
ties down the left side OF the front and
Is finished with fringe. Very pretty
costumes are made OF black brilliantine
trimmed with strappings Of taffeta silk.
The sleeves of some OF the newest mod
els are elbow length.
There. | think ! have given about
enough advice 10 the girl who is start
Ing out on her summer vacation. Still,
there's one thing more should like to
say, and this time il does not concern
the all absorbing topic OF what 10 wear
pay attention TO the women. III you
don't. they'll pay attention to you.
This sounds like a weak attempt at an
epigram. but it's a bitter truth. all the
same. Piazza judgments are not mer-
ciful, as many summer girl has learn
ed TO her sorrow. j cheerfully admit Q
can afford to do so as I'm writing under
nom de plume) that men are ten
times more fascinating than women,
but-s-s-h!-don't let the women sus-
pect IT, If you can get the phrase out
with even the least semblance OF truth.
proclaim openly that you find women
more interesting than men and prefer
their society. Thus will you charm the
women and pique the men.
These little tricks are very valuable
TO the summer girl who-poor thing
has hard enough time OF IL anyway
between the fiirtations and insincere
men and the even more flirtatious and
insincere women. But at all hazards
take my advice. and II IL comes TO a
choice keep friendly with the women.
They'll give you the best time in the
long run. No one knows this better
Ihnn
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kz Mak
New York
QUEEN VICTORIA oIsLIkED ELIz.
ABETH.
New York.

The highly particular persons who
were charged with Queen Victorias
education impressed her with the idea
that she must ever avoid the example
set by that bold and forward spinster,
Queen Elizabeth. AS a young princess
Victoria was therefore much disguised
on one occasion when a voice from
welcoming crowd was heard to exclaim.
Another Elizabeth, hopel'
AS queen il often fell to Victoria's lot
to see herself compared in print with
that other queen who did so much for
England. There was no escape from
IL. for even the poet laureate felt oblig-
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

most becoming
and appropriate.
Silks. foulards
and even crepe
de chimes look
overdressed and
hot during July,
August and Sep
tember. The mus
Inns must be OF
pretty colors
and daintily
made. but the
Innings may just
as well be twelve
cent lawn and
the lace inser-
tion z or s cents
a yard. This
year one mate
rial above all
others is popu-
lar - l refer TO
the silk and lin
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-07-05

is so soft and lustrous that 1t resem-
bles chiffon. This comes from 25 TO so
cents yard and makes up beautifully
with plenty of tucks and frills. OF
course for cooler days one crepe de
chine or foulard gown is a good thing.
and for evening wear a point d'esprit
net or lace made over silk: but take
my advice-save your silk lined gowns
as much as possible for the winter
months. Heat utterly ruins them. and.
as said before. muslins really look bet
ter