Putnam patriot., 1908-11-13

in spite of The constant reminders from the social authorities that the use of perfumes Is not tolerated la good society. the fact remains that many very exalted personages. are ad, dieted to the reprehenslble habit Wil- helmina of Holland uses a pint of eau de cologne in her daily bath. Vic toria of Spain affects a mixture of iris and lavender on her handkerchief, Helena of Italy prefers iris and helio- lrope. and her nether-ln-law and the widowed queen of Portugal are de- voted to wood violet. The czariaa spends s2o.ooo a year for perfumery bought in Paris Queen Alexandra uses specially prepared scent the composition of which Is a secret hand cd down from father to son in the same establishment IL is known to contain m0k. amber. rose. violet jas mine, orange and lavender
 Mrs. Florence Kelly. secretary of the National Gonsumers' league. in re- cent speech commented adversely on Governor Hughes vetoins of the bill for sn increase of teachers salaries in New York city. The schools" she said. "are suffering from an excess Of legislation. We are told that women ought not 10 have the ballot because of the large number of foreign immi- grant women. I have worked among these women. snd do no; find them bad. l have known Of Irish washer. women sending their boys through college. and have never in sixteen years known of mother who drank up chiid's earnings No women need the ballot SO badly AS those at the bot tom of the heap"
 The Society For Promoting the Ern- plovment of Women does a good work in London. Besides enabling women to enter many new lines of work. it bor k scarce. The fact that 1t Is link between the source Of demand and the source ef supply makes the organiza- ton particularly useful one There Is a something in tine theory that there k work for every one somewhere the problem being to get the worker to the work
 The Evening Journal of New York recently, in commenting editorially upon Justice Brewers able decision in regard to the law limiting weman,s regard to legislation affecting working women:
 How ridiculous 1t is. however. that women should he at the mercy of men In these matters: that the mothers of men should have no vote. that the wo- to the nation should have no say in the nations government
 How preposterous that the brutal cold hearted employer who would over work a woman is able to vote. to pick out the judges who shall decide her fate, whereas the mother. slayirg in the employers factory. has no word to say on election day.
 How soon will the decency of men and the strong determination of we men give to women a right to share in legislation. a right to help elect the judges or the executives that appoint the judges. right to protect them selves and their families with their own votes i'
 The most determined opponents to the enfranchisement of women are the rich, idle women from whom the ranks of the parlor Socialists are re- cruited. They are the supporters of antisuffrage leagues. the opponents to all efforts to give women the ballot. because they themselves have all tine privileges they care about The trou- ble with the parlor Socialist is she Is quite interested only in helping the working woman in her own way. and that way happens to be of little use to the working woman.
 
 lady patroness of American forests. She has taken up the subject and is trying to interest women's clubs and women In general in their preserva- ton Mrs Williams Is Washington seman. a member of the Women's Ma tJonal Press association and other clubs. She said in recent address about the forests:
 .The saving Of the eountry's re- sources will be an assured fact when the women of the country devote earnestly to that work It Is peculiarly woman's work. for to woman the practice of saving, of con serving has ~rer been paramount
 .Farreacling results may he ac- eonpIsshed srt.diiy by women educat- ing tue men ct their families and by in their children the pre- cepts of economy fs relation to the of national resources. In this way the people d this country might be concerted in single gen eration from the most waSfsful In the world 10 the most prudent
 -~The forest service estimates of tim her now standing in the United States compared with the present rate Of consumption show a probable exhaus- ton ef ear timber supplies in a little more than thirty three years These facts should convince the most skep- tical of the immediate and vital neees-
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