Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-11

Ployment of women and children in
mercantile establishments. and TO
place retail stores, from the smallest
% the largest under the inspection
or the state factory department.
The bill was promptly stranglcd. bur
the next year and next, and still the
next it obstlnately reappcared. Finally,
IN 1896 four years after II was first
introduced. the bin struggled through
the lower house. In spite of powerful
commercial influences the bill was re-
ported In the senate, and some of the
senators became warmly Interested In
II. A commission was appointed to
make an official investigation Into
conditions of working women in New
York City
The findings OF this Rheinhard Com
mission published afterwards in two
large volumes were sensational
enough. Merchants reluctantly testfI-
ed to employing grown women at a
salary of thirty-threc cents q day.
They confessed to employing little
girls of eleven and twelve years in
defiance to the child-labor law. They
declared that Daste-board and wooden
stock boxes were good enough seats
for salcswomen; that they should not
sit anyway.
You remember how popular those
white plague" Christmas stamDs
were last holiday time; how people
bought the entire Issue OF $4,000 900
and clamored for more. Well. 1t was
Miss Mabel T. Boardman who con-
ceived that idea. and 1t will be due
TO her efforts. In part at least that
many more millions of these stamps.
OF new design. will be offered for
sale this season
Miss Boardman Will he the unofficial
social Grniter of the White House this
winter She has long been a particu-
larly close and intimate friend of
hoth the president and Mrs Taft Mrs.
Tart. contrary to most of her predoces-
sors. has no social secretary. Her long
residence in Washington. which has
covered most of her married life
placed her much more Familiarity i'm
touch with society personoges and
usages peculiar to the social life of
the capital than any of the first ladies
OF the land who have graced the White
House in a generation.
Miss Boardman is n sister-in-law of
Senator Murray Crane of Massachu-
setts. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs VIII
lam j. Eoardman, are wealthy. Their
home in Washington has long been re-
nowned as meetlng-place for interest
Ing persons, and for the warm and
boundless hospitality dispensed there.
Mr- TAFT. who Is president OF the Ma
tional Red Cross society, interested
Miss Boardman in the work several
years ago. With energy. intelligence.
and tnct characteristic OF the American
girl who starts out to do things, Miss
Bonrdman virtually breathed the breath
of life into the Red Cross society after
the confusion into which It's affairs fell
during the Spanish war. Mainly
through her efforts the society was re-
r,la
hcient and prosperous basis. When
the news of the Messina earthquake
reached Washington, Miss Boardman.
within half hour, took prompt action
for the relief OF the sufferers In recoe-
milton Of her work. the Italian govern
ment decorated her with a reproduction
in gold of an ancient Roman civic
crown. 1t was bestowed through the
italian ambassador In Washington.
Miss Boardman has desk in the offices
of the Red Cross society in the war
department in Washington Except
for a few weeks In summer. she is there
daily from morning until all of the
work In sight is disposed of-Hamp-
tons Magazine for December
Nowadays. when there is so much
talk Of the distance run by a football
interest readers to know the distance
walked by an actress on the stage In
the course of a piece. says recent
magazine article. ] have taken for
example the play East Lynne" and
selected the well known part of Lady
Isabel and Mime. Vine. as played by
Miss Grace Warner. I marked on
chart the actual crosses made In tho
course of three acts out of the five In
which she takes part; In the other two
she is practically stationary. The dis
tance covered amounts to 262 yards,
we'll over an eighth OF a mile, and, add
ing that to the distance backward and
forward from the dressing room, one
sees that an actresses work Is not all
talk. as so many people imagine.
No English actress made her appear
ance before the Restoration. On Jan.
Pepys records: ITO the theater. where
was acted the 'Beggars Bush it be-
ing very we'll done; and here the first
time that ever ] saw women come
upon the stage"
But these. it is suspescted, were mere
walking ladies'" A few days later the
diarist went to see a performance of
"Tho Silent Woman" Among other
things here Kynaston. the boy. had the
good turn to appear in three shapes
first as po0r woman in ordinary
clothes. to please Morose: then in fine
clothes. ns gallant and in them was
clearly the prcttiest woman dn the
whole house" He had a year before
declared that "Kynaston as Olympia
made the loveliest lady that I ever saw
in my life"
Tur distinction of being the first
English actress has been variouslv as
cribed to Mrs Davenport. Mrs. Knipp.
and Mrs. Davies. They all appeared
the same year d66D, Mrs. Davies, to-
eether with the PRINCIPAL actresses in
Sir William Davenant's company. be-
ing boarded in the managers own
house"
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