The St. Louis Republic., 1903-08-09
August whereabouts OF some St. Louis


persons:
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lawrence Blair. al
the Sycamore Hotel. Lake George: Mrs
Abner c. Cassidy and Miss Geneva Cassidy
at Manhattan Beach; Daniel Kirby. back
In st. Louis after several weeks at James
town: signor Parisi and David Cleage. to-
6ether In Venice. en- the point Of leaving for
Rome: the Misses Rose and Anne Meyer,
finishing their German tour and sailing for
New York next week: the Misses Edith
etrodtmann and Julia Kelly, at Colorado
Springs. with Mrs. 8. J. Strodtmann;
Nrs. George Tansey. the Misses Flanni-
gan, Mrs Billy Lemp. all at the Chicago
Beach Hotel: Mrs. David X. Frarcis. in st.
Louis, having returned from Colorado: Mr..
and Mrs. Henry :. Potter. Mt their Cabanne
home: Edwin 8. Fuller. back from
Atlantic City. and departing this week
for French Lick; Miss Caroline Newman.
NJ Virginia Beach with her bfoiher's fam
fly: Miss Virginia Mayo. in Kentucky visit
ing relatives. and expecting to spend the re-
mainder Of the month at Antwerp-on-the
Ohio; Mrs. Wheeler Bond and children, at
the Scudder place In Oconomowoc: Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Capen visiting Mrs Capen's par
entr in Milwaukee; Mrs. Houston Of Delmar
boulevard and her granddaughter, Miss Lei
, Il Williams. gone to California for q sew
efal weeks tour: Doctor and Mrs. Tuttle,
visiting in the West for six weeks, having
rented their house furnished; Mrs. Joseph
W. Wood. rusticating at Saylor Springs :cr
. month; Nr. and Mrs +. r. Parsons and
the Misses Clara and May Parsons. estab-
1ished in a cottage CT Vogue, having made
the Georgian Bay trip and stopping over at
eaute Ste. Marie and Aackinac; the Misses
Z Marguerite and Ellen Sullivan, gene 10 Eu-
rope for two mnths: Mr.. and Mrs. J. Dwight
Perry Francis. Major and Airs. Crosby, Miss
/, Marie Seaman. Dwight Davis, De Nun
Smith and Dexter Crosby, hunting and fish,
fvD ft 1-lsh buir SAINT haod.
quarters at the town Of Hamilton: Mr.
= VIII ]. Thornton. at Narragansett Pier the
5 last OF she month: Mrs. 4. f.. Paramore.
in New York City; Miss Edith Giadfelter.
home In ST. Louis after doing graduate
work IN the botany school Of Chicago Uni
{ versity. and ut home to friends on Tues
days and Fridays this month.
Why should We rush to the conclusion.
because Mrs. Josephine Dodge Daskam
Bacon has allowed the children OF her hus-
band to remain with their grandparents,
that forsoo;h. she must hate children?
And why. also. should We swiftly state
that she Is thus branded as fake and an
fmpostor. when writing so sweetly and nat.
urally about child life, aud down in her
heart hating them all the time:
How do know she hates EN-, 1, for
one. don't believe II. Noboiy-I care not
what mis- gerius may be-can write con
amore on any topic and cordially de;est It.
sahe detestaticn is bound TO crop out. And
Mrs Daskan Bacon does vri;e con amore
about children: She must study them
closely I'm order so to do. AEd her close
study has not brought about hatred OF
chi,dren-I'd stake my Peter Thompson suit
on 1t.
Josephine has married widower twenty
years older than herself. That In itself is
pretty large proposition. He has tw0 chill
dren by p former marriage. Josephine does
not hasten to embrace them, prefsrring.
very sensibly. to get used 10 living in double
harness and presumably giving up good
deal OF her bachei0r-iiterary existence. be-
fore welcoming the enfants, who may, for
all wo know, be enfants terrible Step
children are not always unmixed JOY. and
I've known more than one step mamma
whose golden crown I'm the New Jerusalem
II. trust, larger and handsomer than those
the rest OF Us will inherit.
Give Josephine time. plenty Of time. The
haif-orphans. / predict, will be duly wei.
coined home. with some new sisters and
brothers for playfeIlows.
One of my housekeeping friends lifted up
her voice in lament the other day-it
chanced to be a Friday. when I found all
the furniture being moved about and the
whole house IN state OF unrest.
81 WISH" she said. as We picked our way
% . comparatively free corner in the Ii
brary. that the designing of houses. espe-
cially their inside. was left entirely to wom-
en-. They might not do the work per-
lectly, but there are some architectural
Gins that they never would be guilty of. I
Gm positive.
ANY woman who ever put her mind to
designing a foure would remember first OF
all, that the kitchen is that region were the
mist-ess IL bound to epend a good portion
Of her time. I don't care whether she has
unlimited servants or not-mostly not. these
days. Building. therefore. would begin
With the kitchen. and the room would be
10 airy. 90 light. and % attractively cheer
fnt that 1t will be q pleasure Just to step
over the threshold. The sink would not
be relegated to the darkest corner. where
NO one IL ever able 70 tell, except by this
sense Of touch. whether the dishes are clean
or not.
Then shelves and cupboards would not
be put up so high that women and children
are compelled to stand on stepladders and
stools reach them.
''Do you know. believe that all plumb
efs ere short men, for they always insist
on putting sinks. set-basins and the rest
Of their products so low that ones back
never does get Strengthened out. On the
same principle also believe that most car
penters are tall men, for the shelves and
hooks that nee In my own house and In |
those OF my friends. are all st tremen-
dous height.
Now a woman architect would never |
make such blunders, I am sure. because she !
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