Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17
EMINENT WOMEN WORKERS.

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EMINENT WOMEN WORKERS.
HOW Titled Ladies Of Great Britain
Have Helped Native Industries.
Lady Violet Greville in London Chronicle
Many ladies' are excellent organizers.
many OF them have talent for collecting
around them the right people and putting
ehehi IN the right places. while they ara
sise sitted with such acumen and judicious
insight Into character as enables them tri
umpnantiy TO conquer difficulties. The
work done by the Scotch and Irish mdps-
tries alone proves this.
The Duchess Of Sutherland has ras+hroa
comfort and activity to many a yfllaen
nome winch for lack Of work was perish
ing, ana by her unwearied energy and ex
ampie mas developed the making of home
spuhs ana tWeeds into a real and fIourishins
INDUSTRY. She, in the north of Scotland
Lazy Aberdeen in central Scotland and the
Duchess OF Buccleuch in the south practt-
oeny sweep the country between them and
command an excellent sale for the products
OF their taste and judgment
The industry so valuable to the non,
.loitefs VINO weave in the long wint er
mon mas steadily progressed from the
nrs1 lhltlal opening, when the turnover was
Si'sUo, I'LL 1t is now e., 400 AS was very
wisely observed recently at the Leeds exhi-
p1tion, We don't desire to raise an unar,
pioyeo iund, we wish to keep the poor en-
pioyed' one great advantage Of the ma
terlals they supply, which are dyed with
seaweed, which gives lovely tints unottain-
aple otherwise, is that they are all good
genuine and durable. AS an illustration
Inere Is story current that two suits of
harris tweed were sold by worker tn n
couple who wished to be dressed alike on
their tandem bicycle. Year after vear
wh ,e the friend visited them, they were
ho c.,tt
year the friend saw them no longer and
thought they must now be worn out. when
penoId. In came five little children. all
clothed alike in the identical tweed, still as
good as ever. ''' Us
what these ladies have done In Scotia nd
by reviving the cottage Industries has been
repeated in Ireland by the Duchess of Aber-
iorH, Lazy lay Aberdeen, Lady Londonderry.
Lazy Cadogan, Lady Arthur Hill and many
others. In ireland the old art Of making
beautiful lace, which was languishing for
lack or announcement few years ago. is
now successfully practiced and fashion in
Paris, by some inscrutable process known
only to Itself. has ordained that this season
irish lace should be the ''derner cri de la
MODE. whole gowns are fashioned of It,,
blouses of falrylike. texture tempt the purse
and the vanity of the elegante while no
dress is considered complete without the
addition OF iabot, pelerne or trim
ming or Irish lace Lady Dudley wife of
the ex-Viceroy of Ireland, has encoura ged
the manufacture and sale of lace to the ut
most Of her ability, and Lady MAYO seconds
her eHorts In giving designs, advice and as
sistance of all kinds to the workers
But lace tweeds. friezes and serges are
not the only manufactures distressed Ire
land produces. Lady Kenmare, in the de-
lightful and poetical regions of Killarney
has organized new industry in the shape
OF inlaid furniture made by the natives,
which can vie in beauty and finish with
any other work of the kind
1t IS almost superfluous to mention the
well-known lingerie and art needlework ex-
ecuted in converts, schools, &C., and en-
couraged, presided over or actually created
by women. When one considers how diff
cult 1t is to reorganize a dying trade, to
enter upon business as unframed per-
son, to find out the best market for the
sale of goods to create fashion. that most
capricious of females, and to make both
ends meet, 1t must be confessed that women
Of the present day have shown remarkable
aptitude for organizatio clearness of aim
and unparalleled activity and perseverance
in carrying out their somewhat ambitious
aims. Lady Warwick's experiments in tech
nical schools. gardening and agriculture
are well established and have opened sew
eraI new careers to women.
Lady Henry SomersetS temperance work
and her homes for inebriate women are the
outcome of lifelong devotion, and one
knows not which to admire most, the
strength that has enabled her to travel all
over America in the cause. the silvery
tones of her clear voice when she pleads
for the poor and the wretched, or the adj
nirable discipline and wisdom with which
she rules her little communities, and the
decided success that has attended them.
The Duchess of Montrose's hobby is the
establishment Of district nurses. Up to a
few years ago such useful women were I'M
known In Scotland. the training of village
midwives left much to be desired. and the
poor in time Of sickness were forced to
depend on the ministerings of relatives or
the unskillful II well-meaning attempts of
friends and neighbors. The duchess has
organized training home and nurses home
in Govan, one of the poorest suburbs of
Glasgow, where any amount OF experience
can be acquired. and thence Is able TO send
out duly qualified nurses to any counties
that require them.
Tiny ventures of all kinds have been prac-
ticed by other busy ladies, according to their
several capacities and idiosyncracies One,
for instance has started a holiday home for
poor children from the crowded cities where
the little ones may breathe fresh air and
enjoy the delights OF running wild in the
country for a fortnight; another takes
charge of crippled children, perhaps the
most pathetic work of all, and endeavors
to restore them TO health or to teach them
trades by which they may be made self
supporting and happy.
The Marchioness of Breadlabane has
initiated an interesting experiment In the
education of orphan boys taken from the ne
number, are lodged In a nice worknan's cot
tage In a beautiful village, Superintendent by
an Intelligent working woman and sent to
the village school. All these boys have
turned out we'll One is q station master.
another an organist, a third an estate clerk.
q fourth q head gardener, one or two of
them having shown special. capacity were
cent 70 college and did excelentiy.
The great beauty of all these schemes is
the voluntary effort comprised In them and
fine personal influence required to bring
| them to a satisfactory conclusion They
| show that many women are seriously trying
to grapple with business. educational and
social problems, and are busy In more
senses than one.