The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-27
POOR MRS. CHADWICK
is NOW BANKRUPT
1t Is Hard for a Woman Accus-
toned to So Much to
Come Down

Distressing news comes to us of the
bankruptcy of Mrs. Chadwick, who is
still lingering in Jail on account of
a misunde1 standing which she could
undoubtedly clear up if the poor dear
was only allowed to explain There
are many persons in this country who
are used to penury, have never con :
trolIed large sums and know nothing
of life as it is lived among the rich,
but for woman accustomed to the
luxury that has been the lot of Mrs.
Chadwick, it is very hard to think she
has now to be locked up and in want.
What she has done with the large
sums she made and borrowed, has not
been told but who can doubt that they
were applied to some good purpose?
For that the lady in question has a large
heart is evidenced by the large way
she has in everything. There was MOTH
ing small about her; even in her fnan-
cial dealings she was large souled.
All this was sign of a great mind
as well as of large heart. For if she
had applied to her friends, the bank
ers, for small sums, it is exceedingly
doubtful whether she would have been
listened to, which teaches a lesson to
the youth of this country to strike
high. Hitch your wagon to a star"
is good advice after all. If there is one
thing more than another which is intoi-
cradle, it is smallness of any kind.
How one does hate the evidences of a
small soul; the petty meannesS which
we see even among those We really
admire Now, Mrs. Chadwick would
probably never have taken one dollar
unjustly, or even five. She was built
on large pattern. So, after all, there
is something nice about her, and now
that she Is down and out, her virtues are
beginning to appear. She knew she
had the Carnegie notes, and said SO
truthfully, even if the bankers did not
have ocular proof that they were in her
possession.
1t takes women to do big things.
Back of any large enterprise, financial
or otherwise. will be found a woman.
Men may think they have no head for
business and sneer at the idea of feTni-
nine brain, but since the Chadwick af-
fair and other big sensations have been
unearthed they have begun to see that
1t takes a woman to accomplish great
results. / should not be at ALL sur
prised if, after this, women began to
take their places as bank directors,
railroad officers or presidents of cor
porations. And why not?
Many man who has always thought
women capable Of managing, say a
millinery business, or a stationery shop,
is becoming convinced that women are
fit for positions Of trust. They have a
hypnotic manner of getting what they
want, which is exactly what is needed
I'M large enterprises. In affairs of mo-
ment a good deal has to be risked, and
a man who wants to see everything in
black and white or one who is fussy
about ways and means, will never do.
But given woman with Mrs. Chad
wick's mental equipment, to say moth
ing about her diamonds, furS and gen.
eral good appearance, and you have the
one who can carry through frenzied
finance deal with the utmost aplomb.
1t is only a question of time, my sis
ters, when the great business of the
world will be done by women and men
will attend to the fussy little things
which do not need any great mental
power. OF course, 1 would not care to
have this repeated as coming from me,
but who can read the papers and not
realize the growing power of women?
And if this is not to be noted and cele-
brated on a woman's page, where is it
to be? So if Mrs. Lille Devereux
Blake shrieks a little louder than usual,
it is not strange. She sees the hand
writing on the wall and cannot help
talking about it. Women are really ap-
preciated in the twentieth century.