Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-12

and Evelyn has Just become Mrs. Hoe.
Evelyn Perry was chorus girl with
the Rogers Brothers when young Hoe
first met her. He was smitten at once
and he wanted her to run away with
him and be married Immediately. That
was four years ago, but Evelyn de-
clined to run. She knew a game worth
J two of that and confessing that she
returned young Hoes passion, she pro-
posed that she should go to school to
prepare herself to become his wife.
The young man objected, but the
young woman stood firm. She had
known but little schooling, she said,
and she never would marry into a
family where her ignorance might
erect against her a barrier of hostility.
SO she had her way She went to
school and she took q finishing course
at Miss Hazen's fashionable institu-
tion at Pelham Manor
The wedding was solemnized In
Washington, with the full consent and
approval of all members of the Hoe
family. They were all there. too, and
| they welcomed the young woman with
open arms. That's what she gained
| by her common sense She's just
| twenty-five now and her husband is
only a few years her senior. Seem
ingly they have a long and happy life
| ahead of thom. But it might have
been different if the daughter of the
"human skeleton" and the reader of
palms had been a different sort of a
| girl.
Mrs. Charles Tirrell, wife OF one Of
| the Massachusetts representatives In
the national house, believes that wom-
en- are making a mistake in seeking
| suffrage. She says:
MY reasons for not desiring to vote
are so numerous and to me so satisfy :
| ing that 1t seems an embarrassment or
riches to produce them. l cannot con-
! ceive why any woman wants to vote
l realize that at once the objection Will
be raised by unmarried women or Wild
ows that, having a husband and son
to see to my personal affairs | have
no need of a vote and cannot sympa-
| thze or even judge correctly about the
desires of those less fortunately placed
However, | can say that l inherited
from my father an income, and single
and married, | have attended to my
| financial affairs, and ] have been aple
| to do this without even experiencing
any need of a vote. Usually the con-
tention of women is that they desire to
vote in order that they may nave
equal rights with men on the question
of taxation and such issues as directly
concern them in their home environ
ment. 1t may be that the citizens OF
l'some locality need the women to keep
them straight on the taxation, temper
ance, sanitation and other subjects dis
cussed until they are threadbare, but L
have never found that the men of my
community are pining for such direc-
tion
"Then, and for me the most serious
objection is that | do not care for the
responsibility of the ballot. l have too
much responsibility as it is. l should
like to shift the burden, instead of add
ing to it. The right to vote Is a re-
sponsibility. Though l am not pre-
pared to say that all men meet TINS
suuarely or conseientiously, neither
could | or any other woman give the
guarantee that introducing another fac
tor into the case will mend matters IN
that regard 1 believe that women are
too emotional, too easily sWayed Dy
personal feelings to receive the right
of suffrage-for many years, at least.
"As the philosophy of the contention
appeals to me, since men nave accord
| ing to the natural law, the burden OF
supporting the family, it follows that
woman is best occupied in attending 10
strictly femining occupations-those
which conduce to the welfare OF tne
family, which, i'm the end, means the
individual and the community. Even
when women have the burden OF sup
nortinr the family themselves, do not
is changed The stress and strain OF
politics is not going to tighten the pur-
den for the working women, rather the
contrary But womanly thrift and 40
mestic accomplishments Will AID IN
every contingency"
"I brought that dog whip down
across his face" We're the thri,iins
words of Mabel Hackney, describing
some suffrage experience in London,
to an audience at a suffrage meeting
in New York recently. Il mad raised
the whip to summon a cab, and at that
SIGNAL a man came out of the doorway
and made a very unpleasant remark
to me. l brought that whip down
| across his face. 1t wasn't ladyllke' per
haps, but it seemed necessary duny
expected that he would can an oliiuet
and give me in charge, but he Just
skunk away" 1t is not known Just
what the whipping has to do win
suffrage, but it was part or the
sneech, and Miss Hackney made the
speech.
Empress Eugene. widow OF Ma
poleon a solitary figure llVlhg III tlis
memories of the past, quietly observer
her eighty-fourth birthday May at
Fernborough, near London. Days OF
ansuish and of ceaseless mourning
have left their indelible traces. But
her features are still exquisite, and IN
them still fingers the renowned smile
of other days. And although Tor
twentv-fiVe years and more Eugene
has led the most sequestered life OF
lives in England in her Villa 'Cyrnos'
at her Riviera home in southern
France. yachting unobtrusively on the
Mediterranean, quite withdrawn from
the world.
The souvenirs of her past she has
carried to Farnsborough, opposite the
church she built, in the crypt OF Wnlci,
lie the remains of her husband ana
son. Hrere are bits of wreckage from
the Tuilleries, portraits OF the unlor-
tunate prince in a glass case ike
shrine and paintings of herseH'
During the civil war Mrs. V. G. Far
ris of Lancaster, KY, was the Florence
Nightingale of the hospitals of the
Union army in that section of the
war belt. In that time Mrs. Farrls
| was independent in means and served
| without pay. Now, in her old age, she
has fallen on hard times. Not long ago
she had a claim before the court of
claims at Washington for $1,000. II
was disalloWed on a technicality, and
II was brought before the senate COM
mittee. 1t was decided there that 1t
was not possibly legally for the gov
ernment to pay the money, but SEN
ator Smoot of Utah was so impressed
with the heroism of the woman that
he said:
"Just leave it to me. will get that
claim paid in a few minutes"
Thereupon, Mr.. Smoot put down MS
far cd h.