The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-05-12

row. a spu- t" right thinking. and none
who saw her but will know and hand Oh
a little Of her profound feeling for pro
pOrtionate values.-Harper's Bazaar.
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A Woman's Work at 81.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who will be
Of years Old on May u next. has just
taken the initial steps in Il movement,
backed by the New England Women S
club, to induce women to study applied
economics, with especial relation to the
increased cost of living. This undertake
ing by woman who, almost half CEN
tury ago, won enduring fame by giving
to the world the Battle Hymn of the
Republic" Will command more serious
attention and more universal respect than
the present superficial Investigation by
the Senate committee headed by Sena-
tor Lodge.
Mrs. Howe's hope is that, with an in
telligent study of the subject outlined,
fewer women will be found with no
knowledge of finance or business. and
who are unable to cope with the ordinary
affairs OF life. 1t can not be denied that
the great majority of women, despite
their advancement and attainments along
nearly every other line, are not so gen
orally Informed in the details of ordinary
business as they wish to be, or as thew
should be.
Much of the business of the present
day is done on credit. Mrs. Howe be-
lieves women should understand credit
as applied to business methods and how
far the credit system is responsible for
the high cost of living. Women admit
that they are not expert in these mat
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ignorance and defer to the gallantry or
honesty of the more thoroughly trained
man. often a competitor, when the time
for decision arrives. But not all men
are either gallant or honest.
What nobler work could any woman
undertake in behalf of those of her sex
than this great task assumed by Mrs.
Howe? She does. not realize that age
has handicapped or limited her mental
power or her faculty for organization. 1t
would seem that in endeavoring to teach
one lesson this wonderful woman is, in
fact. teaching two.-Woman's National
Daily.
$3.50
Does Matrimony Change the Voice?
you can tell people who are married
by the way they speak to each other.
This was the point made by well
known dramatic critic at an informal
Gently when the subject of debate was:
docs the stage mirror domestic life?'
THE art of love-making on the stage,
said the critic, sis highly developed art,
and reflects the lovers of real life almost
exactly. George Alexander, Sir Charles
Wyndham and Donald Brian are all per-
| feet opponents of love-making i'll their
respective styles.
But l have never seen actors or
yhn IN, nb
| the peculiar intonation of the voice
which marks the conversations of mar
ried couples, be they young, old, or
middle-aged.
1T must be apparent to any one
| who studies or observes the people he
mixes amongst that a wife, in adj
dressing her husband, invariably alters
the tone of her voice, giving it a
note or air of intimacy or proprietor
ship, just as a husband does when he
addresses his wife. This peculiar
change of voice our best actors and
actresses fail to reproduce on the stage,
even though they happen to be married
themselves.
'At a stage garden party or dinner
party the stage wife addresses her stage
husband in exactly the same tone of
voice as that in which she speaks to the
guests. This is never so in real life.
Even among brothers and sisters
something of this peculiar note of init
macy is to be detected. Between strang-
erS such note would seem almost
casual, sighting or off-hand, but the rela-
tionshlps existing makes it domestic
note, a sort of home tone, which is diff
cult to describe and, apparently, i'm
possible to initiate.
"While this is so, the stage can never
hope to mirror domestic life. l have
seen many, many stage scenes which
were meant to reflect the home life, but
II have never seen a convincing one,
chiefly because husbands and wives,
brothers and sisters talk to each other
in a way that no one outside the domes-
| tic circle can initiate.
''The accents of love, passion, anger,
revolt. remorse, tragedy and despair are
all capable of reproduction on the stage,
but the simple, familiar home conversa-
ton defeats our ablest actors and actres-
Ses.
snow that Donald Brian is married,
| it will be interesting to watch whether
his domestic experiences will, in any
way. change his methods on the stage.
"Other married actors have failed to
reproduce the married voice on the
stage, and the probability is that Mr..
Brian will not profit by his matrimonial
experience in that respect, either.
''The same thing applies to. actresses.
married, they are never able to give the
correct married tone on the stage"
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The Busy Worlds Heart Side.
A man by the name Of Harrington built
the Brooklyn bridge. His name is forgot
ten, except it lives in the traditions of
the engineers office as a faithful fear
less and able master mechanic. He did
bis work well. He was the first mortal
that ever crossed, swung in a bo'sun' S
chair, on a small hawser, from the top
kof the Brooklyn tower. He was well
paid. but not eXtravagantly, and left no
great fortune.
His ashes sleep in Duchess county
rural cemetery, and when a modest flu
neral train started from the Poughkeep-
sic depot for his burial it mustered
scarce a handful. Yet this was the man
who took from Chief Engineer Roeblng's
sick chamber the entire bridge, on paper,
piece by piece, and hung it in its place.
This was the man who, with Roebling,
spent thirty-six hours down among the
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