The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-16

Mrs Dor4 Lyons adherents, 1t Is whis-
pered, have not only a regularly org anized
campaign committee to urge her candidacy
for president, but also good sized campaign
fund II you please, as well.
ITO buy votes with? Oh, mercy, no!
Nothing so questionable" assert the women,
drawing their skirts back at such a sugges-
ton: 'only for the entertainment OF f'w
upstate Delegates
Some, however, are mean enough. to
declare that it's TO feed the backslidipg,
lunch those on the fence and dine others
who lean perilousiy toward the oppod-
ton.
A man in the same position would doubt
less take his victim out and buy him a
drink. But a woman, wise in her day and
generation, pins her faith on lobster Ia
Newburg, pate &c foie gras and the like,
and she win every time.
there'll be a cocktail on the side. OF course
one can't tell about the upstate delegates
on this question. There's an old saying
that you can't tell from the looks OF toad
dency among the out Of town club women
to shy at the suggestion.
More women are addicted to the use
Of paregoric as a drug than to whiskey.'
said clerk in a big Broadway pharmacy
recently. Il have women who come here
for it every day as regularly as they eat
their meals, and sometimes as often.
1T contains morphine, produces a pleas
ant drowsy sensation, sounds harmless
and is easily obtainable 80 that women
have little compunction about asking for it
when, perhaps. they might hesitate at ask
ing for morphine.
Zone woman who comes here for it never
goes beyond a four ounce bottle month,
while another one, indeed several of them,
take three ounces of the stuff three times
a day. Generally, like every other opiate,
the dose must be constantly increased, as
the medicine loses its effect.
1T is not generally supposed that women
are as addicted to the use Of drugs as are
men, but think it's about evenly divided.
At least, that Is my experience.
One Of the best charities founded and
conducted entirely by women is being
carried on in the northern part Of the city.
In the stately old colonial mansion formerly
owned by the Trumbulls. near Harlem
Creek, blind babies kindergarten is grow
Ing up Though started only a few months
ago 1t is in fourishing condition, in spite
OF numerous drawbacks.
Imagine to yourself thirty little children.
all under the age OF 8 years. seated in the
see the bright colored paper which they
are passing into chains or note the pretty
symmetrical patterns OF the mats which
their deft little fingers weave with such
raGidity.
things they build with the blocks nor watch
the games in which they take part. But only
to look upon their faces gives evidence OF
the keen enjoyment which participation In
them brings, Their oountenanees shine with
happiness, and every motion betokens the
10y and delight which they feel at being
In q community OF children OF their own
age and being able to express themselves
in the activities Of childhood.
Previous to their coming to the kinder
garten they were bereft of even the ordinary
smusements Of children. All day long
they sat alone poking their fingers In their
eyes, a habit which is peculiar, 1t seems,
to the youthful blind. If perchance these
sightless children lived to the age Of or
10 in their own homes, nine chances to one
they would become jdiotic.
And strange as it may seem, there ia
no institution, either In the city or the State.
where blind children under the age of
years can be placed.
Woman's browning glory seems more and
more in these days to come from the shops,
instead of growing, as nature int ended it
should, on the head. The day Of the false
front is here.
So great has been the craze for the high
pompadour that women to whom the very
name of false hair would formerly have
seemed an abomination now invest in
fluffy roll Of this sort without moving an
eyelid.
Hair dressers are canny enough to see
the trend of this craze, and this fall are
following up the pompadour with. many
other fronts which are wiglike in the ex-
treme, and from their size are bound to
kill what hair the wearer may possess.
Hair specialists affirm that the false
pompadours are even worse than the old
of hair used and its consequent weight.
One hair specialist said recently that never
in all his experience had he been called
upon to treat so many cases OF raining hair
as at present, and he laid it all at the door
Of the false pompadour.
The cheering up woman is a real entity
in New York. Registered on the books Of
a certain woman's exchange, she dispenses
her cheerfulness at 30 much an hour, and
is In great demand.
She reads to invalids, talks to them,
sings or plays to them, as the case requires.
She is a bright, busting little body, with
CHEEKY ways and optimistic temperament
She will come to you for five minutes or
thirty. She will darn your stockings or
mend your clothes. She will fix flowers
in vases and make your room homelike, or
talk to you about everything or nothing.
Personally she is just what you would
expect such a woman to be. She has a
family OF her own who rejoice In her OPP
timistic view Of life. but she uses her talent
also to keep the wolf from the door.
There was time when there was plenty
In the home but financial reverses came,
and with them the need for retrenchment
The husband fell Ill, and sorne one must turn
breadwinner.
II fell upon the wife and mother. To-day
she Is supporting her family comfortably
by acting as a cheering up woman, and
her enga cement book testifies to the success
Of the experiment and the demand which
exists for her services.