The National tribune., 1910-02-24

parenthood has become one of The cry
ing needs of the hour. With the cook
ing schools to show girls how to keel
home happy by providing an appctiZins
table, classes to instruct them how t.
take care of the baby. and now courses
in college and school to supply wha
additional knowledge is supposed 10 bt
necessary in order that they may fulfil
all the duties of a good wife and moth
er there is no excuse for the old do
mestic infelicities. The occupation OF
the divorce lawyer is gone, indeedTli
the girls choose to take advantage Of
these opportunities.
Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont is moi
bothering about her Spring hat. she
! is pretty nearly a one-idead woman
these days, putting in practically all hei
| time in work for the cause. She is try
ing to get her colored sisters into Ilne
now, and made speech at negro
suffrage meeting the other night. Free
dom and equality for all women, nc
matter whether their skins are white
brown, black, yellow or some other col
or, she says. Mrs. Belmont works like
a galley slave. She sees hundreds OF
people. sends out loads of letters, ad-
dresses meetings, writes articles for
magazines and raises money. The sGf-
frage movement was in great luck when
she Joined their ranks. The Philadel-
phia shirt-waist girls have won out. The
strike is over. The manufacturers are
to take back all the girls, wages are to
be adjusted by a committee of three
from each shop, and all disagreements
settled by board of arbitration, which
certainly seems fair. The New York
and other shirt-waist girl strikers are
calming down, and it is thought that
everything will be quiet along the Po-
tomac, so to speak, soon.
Gladys Vanderbilt now Countess
SZechenyi, is over in this country with
her husband and baby making a visit.
The baby is the dearest little fat, brown
mite imaginable, and has been seen on
the streets of New York in its baby
carriage several times. Both the Count
and his Countess are in splendid health,
and seem as happy as young couple
should. He is very much interested in
the question of the treatment of chill
dren, particularly criminal children,
and has spent much time at the Chill
dren's Court in New York and in talk
ing with those connected with the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children 1t is the Counts intention TO
start something like these charities in
his home fn~,Hungary, where poor chill
dren have very little justice done them
when they do wrong and very little done
for them anyway. His wife accompanied
him the other day when he visited the
Home for Hungarian Immigrants in
New York, to which the Countess do
mated $4,000 last Summer, and she rat
tied away in the difficult Magyar tongue
to the inmates much to their astonsh-
ment. She went all over the house,
beginning with the basement kitchen,
and the cooks nearly dropped their pots
and pans when she asked them in their
own language, offhand like, if they
cooked American fashion or Hungarian
The little Countess has shown herself
to be a woman or more brains and
character than are usually attributed
TO girls of her class in mastering this
extremely difficult tongue. and reminds
us in this respect of the great Cath
crime II of Russia, who was a German
by birth, but who set herself deter
minedly to work to master the Russian
language when she found that she was
to become the wife of Peter III.
Do you remember Hoods Song of
the Shirt" those pathetic verses begin
ming:
with fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread"
Thousands have read them, sensible
of their tragic, awful truth, but have
allowed their sympathy to go no far
ther An actor, who has recently died,
has done better than this. He has left
the sum of $4,000, to be devoted to
some charity which will benefit these
poor sewing women. In every large
city hundreds and hundreds of women
eke out a miserable living by the nee
die, receiving just about sufficient COM
pensation for their labors to keep the
breath of life in them. Surely such
charity as this is one over which the
angels would rejoice.
From time .immemorial women have
resorted to various means to bring
about certain results in their intercourse
with the sterner sex. Tears have al
ways been very popular for this pCr-
pose and generally successful, but
sometimes even tears from the eyes of
lovely woman have been without avail.
Someone tells us that the charming Nell
Gwyn, the orange girl, who took the
fancy of the merry monarch" (Charles
ID, tried in vain to induce that royal
parsonage to make Duke of their
young son, seeing no reason why he
should not, since he had similarly graft
fed his other favorites, Lucy Waters
and all the rest, by bestowing rank upon
their semi-royal children. Charles, for
some reason, however, refused TO do
this, in spite of the fair Nell's tears and
entreaties. So she thought of a plan
which She was sure would bring him TO
terms. Seeing him riding thru the
street on which she lived one day, she
hung the infant would-be Duke out Of
the window by its little shirt, threaten
ing to let him drop if the King refused
10 comply with her request. OF course,
he cOpn nlIe6