The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-30

high estimate of woman-they are
scarce; here - s>..
Mrs. Snowden's reference to old
maids was incidental. to some remarks
on 1.-The atmosphere of the old Colo
NAL scarcity of women in which she
declared at a public meeting the other
night, American women are still lly-
ing.
mo one who has not lived in both
England and America; she said,
"can apprec. ate the difference in the
masculine attitude toward women in
the two countries.
The Englishman, even the educat-
ed Englishman, still regards the wom-
en- of his family as his belongings
If an EngliSh7nan'S wife or daughter
expresses an opinion on any subject
under discussion he may take it toll
erantly, but not seriously. Men and
women are not comrades in England
as they are here, in every way ex-
cept politically. Your men are proud
of your women, your women are proud
of your men. And American men are
so chivalrous in their attitude toward
their wives and toward our sex in
general that I believe the apathy Of
the women; is largely responsible for
the fact that they are not allowed to
vote. s.
ITO get married seemed the only
honorable thing for a woman until
very recently Mrs. Snowden con-
tinued. st was brought up in an Eng
l'sh watering place and 1 can remem-
Der that when 1. was barely twenty
one and it had not been rumOred that
I was engaged to any one, people
spoke of me as 'on the shelf -
In the disposition of Frank Gould to
encourage the ambition of his wife to
shine as a brilliant stage orb, one sees
s1-sr, of
William Ellis Corey president of the
Steel THRUST, and his present wife,
who it will be remembered was Mss
Mabel Gilman, a comic opera favor
lite before her marriage, to him. Both
women have the same craving to get
back before the footlights, though
each in turn the eve Of her mar
riage issued what she said was her
valedictory. Mrs. Corey had been
married only six months when she
announced, that she intended building
a private theatre in her French chat
eau and would appear from time to
time in performances she sponsored
there. Mrs. Gould has gone her one
better. She eschews the excitement Of
a private theatre and more Or less
sombre audience and has prevailed up
on her husband to acquire sufficient
ly large interest in a public theatre
to enable him to dictate the policy of
tne operating company TO the enO
that his spouse may be made the lead
ing lady, prima donna or some other
luminant. If precedent is to be fol-
lowed it is predicted it will only be
a short time before both bubbles will
grow weary of the theatrical game
and hearken to a craving on their own
account for a little. of the plain, SIM
pie domestic order of things.
Students of social and household
economy are keenly interested in the
invention of Miss Pauline Grayson, an
artist of this city, who has evolved a
process for briquetting coal dust. VIII CHI
it is claimed will exert an important
Influence on the ever-pertinent ques-
tior of the cost of living. The dis
covery will make commercially avail
able the millions of tons of dust here
tofore regarded as valueless, which
have for generations been accumulat-
ing about the mouth of the mines of
the world
One ton of the briquettes which she
calls economy coal' recent expert
ments have shown, contains 80 per
cent more heat units than ordinary
anthracite and will burn half as long
again. Therefore she holds that it
will be more economical than coal and
save householders a considerable sum
annually on their fuel bills
The idea of briquetting coal dust
came to Miss Grayson several years