The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-16

forget that nearly hundred men, ldI
advanced in years, are still active IN
politics and statecraft, in commerce
and finance, in art, science and letters.
1t does not often stop to realize that
goodly number of the so-calieo
weaker sex are laboring with their
brothers for its betterment The death
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, taking
away one of the most notable OF these
women, calls attention to those that
are left When they are counted ana
their deeds recalled, it makes tale
worth telling.
Trained according to the lights of
the earlier years of the last century
these Grand Old Women" are not
employed in the pursuits of business,
but they figure in the politics of the
time, infiuentially though indirectly.
They are playing a large part in phil
anthropy. and certain of them stand
forward prominently in art and liter
allure.
T'he Oldest of this little company is
Angela Georgiana, First Baroness
Burdett-Coutts. In another year sne
will be 80, and perhaps she is the only
woman of prominence living to-day
who. as she sat in Westminster Alb
hey and saw the crown placed on the
head of Edward VII, could remember
the coronation of the Kings mother.
The Baroness, raised to the peerage
I'm 1871. was honored by Queen Vic
toria not because of the unusual part
which she played as partner OF the
great banking house of Coutts q Co.
but because of her position as a pio-
neer of practical Imperialism. 1t was
she who endowed the bishoprics of
Adelaide Australia, at Cape Town, ana
in the far west of British Columbia
She has given to the poor more money
than any other woman in the world.
At one time she sent $1.250,000 to the
destitute poor of Ireland. Every
Christmas 300 900 people are fed at her
expense 1t is estimated that hers an
nual gifts 10 various charities amount
TO not less than 100000. Her home
at "West HILL" London, has become
the Mecca for all the charitable work.
ers in the United Kingdom, and it is
seldom that one leaves her doors with
out having received substantial as
sistance from the genial old lady whose
interest in the worlds affairs is still
keen.
SuRragist Champion.
Susan B. Anthony, who was born in
Massachusetts in 1920, has stood for
fragist movement, having experienced
in her own case the commercial in
equality between the sexes when, in
her earlier years, she was teaching
school for SIS a month, while a man in
the other school of the village was re-
ceiving $40. From that day she has
been a worker for woman's rights,
though her interest in that cause did
not prevent her laboring with Phillips
and Garrison for nine wears against
slavery, nor has it weakened in later
times her efforts in the cause of tenn
perance.
The old Bay State claims as daugh-
terS two other American women known
all over the world for their work in
charity. Mary A. Livermore was born
in Boston eighty-two years ago, ten
years before the birth of Clara Barton,
who was to work with her in so many
of her enterprises.
Mrs. Livermore, beginning life as n
school teacher, first became known to
the world through her labors with the
Sanitary Comm ission In the dark years
of the Civil War. She identified her,
self also with the temperance and anti
slavery movements, worked hard to
further the cause of women's clubs, is
the author of a half-dozen volumes,
has edited several papers, and has lee
tured not only in American but in Eng
Land and Scotland.
Clara BARTON, who also began life
as teacher. is identified as is no 9TH
er woman in the world With the work
of caring for the sick and wounded. In
1865 she was voted $4,000 by special
act of Congress for what she had done
on the battlefields in the South. In
1870, during the conflict between France
and Germany. she was present on the
fields of battle to alleviate suft er;ng
Her work in Cuba won for ner the t.
tie of THE Adopted Daughter" from
the latest republic to take its seat al
the council of nations.
The disasters that have come in
years Of peace have known her pres
ence also. In 1884, at The time Of the
great floods of the Mississippi and
Ohio rivers, Red Cross workers, with
their president at their heal, distrih-
uted supplies throughout the devastat-
ed districts. Five years later, wnen
Johnstown was overwhelmed in a mo-
ment, Clara Barton was there. She
was confined to her bed at the time
of the Galveston flood In 1900, but in
sisted upon directing as wel as she
could by telegraph the movements oil
her assistants.
Grand Old Woman of Royalty.
England's Clara Barton is Florencs
NlSntlnBdle, OF tlOIence SnOre, as nel
name is entered on the baprislnal reg.
lister of the little English church in
Florence, Italy, where she was born in
1920, and from which town she took
her name. She, too, has been a leader
in Red Cross work ever since the ioun-
dation of that organization having
learned well her lesson years before
she labored with two or taree Other
English women In the fearfully
crowded hospitals of the Crimea
How well they did their work was
shown in the official reports that went
back to London to tell that the death
rate had been cut down from 42.7 tc
2 per cent.
In those days no woman in all Eng
land was better known or loved than
the angel of the Crimea" Even to-
day Miss Nightingale, living quietly in
retired house in West London, is far
from forgotten, for the $250,O00 voted
her by the English government was
not expended for her own comfort. but
went to the building of ST. Thomas
Hospital and the Nightingale Training
school for Nurses, two of the be ST
known charities in the English capital
Another of the worlds grand old wo-
men, living in retirement in London. is
Marie Eugene, Countess de Montiio
and ex-Empress of the French. The
love Of Louis Napoleon for the beauti-
1ul daughter Of "A Spanish Grandee
abetted by the astuteness of the girls
mother, as we'll as by her own wit ana
discretion, lifted her TO n throne that
had been intended for a daughter OF
royalty.
During the winter she passes much
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