The Washington times., 1905-10-04
DUCHESS CONSUELO
PRAISES WOMEN
ExtOls Their Efforts in Be-
half of Mankind.
HER PHILANTHROPY WORK
Her Grace of Marlborough Has Plans
in View for Sociological Here
and Abroad

NEW YORK. Oct 4-The Duchess of
Marlborough has fully recovered from
the recent minor operation which she
underwent at a New York sanitarium.
and has taken up round of entertain
ments and other duties connected with
her visit to her native city
In an interview. the first her grace
has given out since her last visit to
New York, she said:
Il am delighted to be in New York
again. and have enjoyed every moment
OF my stay. not even excepting the time
spent in the hospital. 1 am confident
that the skill OF the American surgeons
has done me a great deal of good and
thai Will go back to England in better
health than have been for a long time.
Women's Work Commended.
1T is gratifying to see the improve
ments which have been made in the
conditions under which women work in
this country since | was last here. You
know that am deeply interested in this
question of the betterment of the con-
diiions of life for women. England is
doing much in this direction. but 1t is
TO America that we all look for leader
ship in movements OF this kind. and 1
am happy to say that our hopes have
not been disappointed. / am not able TO
say now just when | will return to Eng
land, but IL will not be very long. 1
have duties there which cannot be ig
nored."
1t is no secret among the friends of
the Duchess of Marlborough that she
is deeply interested In the work of the
Y. w. G. A., and is TO that organiza-
ton good deal of what Miss Helen
Gould is to the Y. NJ. c. Am en-
thusiastc worker and a liberal patron.
The ideas of the duchess on the work
being done by the Y. w. c. A. is thus
expressed by herself:
Spread of Associations.
That the work done is valued. and
recognized as both necessary and in
fiuential is proven by its enormous
growth. and the number of associa-
tons which have been formed in every
part of the world. II is gratifying to
think that what one may call this free
masonry among women exists not
alone in the United States and English
speaking countries. but extends to
practically every nation in Europe
must be gratifying also to all
right thinking people TO contemplate
the wonderful advance which has been
made In the position of women in the
work q the world in the past sixty
w. c A
The first womans rights convention
was held in this country sfns 1885. Three,
Years later woman attempted to
speak in i worlds temperance conven-
ton in New York and II took her three
hours to make a ten-minute speech be-
cause of the jeers and Interruptions of
the men delegates. Florence Nightingale
Just about fifty years ago laid the
foundation for the glorious work of the
Red Cross in the hospitals in the CriInea
When Efforts Begin.
These were the beginnings of the ac-
uvity of women in public movements,
involving social reform. which now are
having their fun development in all lines
Of endeavor- When one reflects that the
hardships faced by women speakers In
those days ranged from hostile and rude
Interruptions 10 measures OF even more
active discomfort and unpleasantness.
reminding one of an unpopular political
campaign. and yet they have Dersevered
IN their efforts one cannot helm he
Ing proud of their pluck and persever
ance which has had such splendid re
suits
IL is said that the duchess before ber
cetartuTe Tor Great Britain PURPOSES TO
make liberal contribution to forward
thS Work OF the I. W c. A. In this
country $500