Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-24
Some Women
RS. EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER,

MRS. EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER,
N wife of the Republican congress-
A'A man from Indiana, mother and
grandmother, and who, prior to her
marriage, taught school in a little In
diana town, may justly be described as
reactionary, though Mrs. Crumpack-
er'S views concern themselves with
the home rather than the state. In a
discussion with a suffragette friend "a
few days ago, she said:
Every thoughtful woman can not
but be impressed by the insane desire
manifested in every direction to change
the old order of things. Progress is q
splendid theme and can not be too
earnestly expounded, but l am often
moved to analyze the word and see just
what it means. / give all credit to the
new education, but it appears to me
that the oldfashioned mother had
much more influence than the mother
of the present generation. The old
fashioned mother did not know so
much, rarely had more than the rudi-
mentS of education, but what power
she attained in the homei She WAS the
woman who was always at home when
her children came from school, who
patiently heard their lessons and
planned little pleasures for them and
mother made home the dearest place on
earth for her children. and in those
days the problem of 5-cent theaters or
skating rinks and other exciting pleas
ures for the growing child was as re-
mote as the question of votes for wom-
en-. l must go on record as opposed
to any progress which makes woman
think anything so important as her
home and children. / believe some OF
the old methods in educating children
could be united to the new ones with
excellent results"
Miss Aileen Kerr Of Covington, KY,
has recently been made the ward or
the state. Down in the commonwealth
where the mint julep isn't permitted to
waste it's fragrance on the desert air,
they like to call Miss Kerr the Ken
lucky Helen Keller. She is deaf, dumb
and blind but by a method which she
herself originated she reads the con-
yersation of her friends by placing her
finger tips upon their lips. Alleen IS
still a young girl, but has accomplished
much despite her physical disabilities.
With the state TO pay for her further
education there is no telling how far
she may go in knowledge and ability TO
innpart it. Her case is tremendously
interesting from q scientific STANDPOINT.
Mrs. Harry Paine whitney, VIE Oh
the prominent New York club man,
is one of the best known woman sculp-
tors in the world Mrs. Whitney de-
signed the great fountain for the bu-
reau of southern republics which is to
be formally opened In Washington
Tuesday. A cast of her design was
exhibited last week in New YORK.
where It attracted much favorable crit
icism.
The fountain is in Georgia marble
and is about ten feet high There are
three basins and the water will rise
from the small upper one, fall into the
middle one just below it, and from
there brim over into the largest basin
of all. 1t will also escape through the
eight heads of the Aztec snakes which
ornament the middle basin. The hg-
ures of gargoyles, eagles and strange
animals on the eight-sided middle
basin are absolutely correct Aztec sym
bols. Even the hierloglyphics with
which the upper basin is ornamented
are historically correct and accurate.
Miss Margaret Hoffman, employed as
a reader of manuscripts in a New YORK
publishing house at the muniicent sal
flry of SIS a week, has just become one
of the wealthiest young women In her
own right in the world. In the course
of a short time Miss Hoffman will re-
ceive about $2,000,000 from the estate
of her late uncle, c. e. HOFFMAN,
Wall street clerk, supposed to be in
only moderate circumstances, but
whose death revealed him as mill
lionaire.
The young woman, naturally elated
at her good fortune, has not lost her
head. She is still working at her old
position, but plans later to travel and
study music, of which she has always
been passionately fond.
Leah Bateman- Hunter is the young
est member of the New Theater COM
pany being only II years of age. Last
year she played Juliet in London and
was acclaimed a great artist. At she
played Lady Teazle in the screen scene
from 1.-THE School for Scandal"
Miss Bateman- Hunter is the great
great-grand of Joe CoWell, the
great-granddaughte of H. l.. Bate
man and the daughter of George Har-
rison Hunter. Her grandmother, Miss
Kate Bateman, drew all playgoing
New York to Barnums museum some
fifty years ago, although she was then
but merely a child. She later became
one of the most famous actresses of the
day. Her grandfather was the man
ager of the famous Lyceum theater
In London and also an actor of great
repute both here and in England. Both
of Miss Hunters parents are
still on the English stage-occupying
prominent positions in their profess
sion. And their daughter promises to
be the brightest star in the armament
of the Bateman- Hunter family.
Geraldine Farrar of the MetropOli-
tan opera company is accompanied on
all her travels by both her father and
her mother, who "coddle" the great
singer as though she were an invalid.
The day before she sings in public Miss
Farrar sees nobody except her par
ents. She passes most of the time in
bed resting She does not give inter
views concerning her work. her nlans