The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-18
GOTHAM GOSSIP

T GOTHAM GOSSIP
(By Francis Phillips, Copyright 1910,
by the National News Service, N. V
New York, Feb. 1.-THE death few
days ago of Mrs. Mary Nevins Bull,
w dow of DR.. William T. Bull, a fam
GUS surgeon of this city, recalled to
many the sad and troublous career of
the Ohio beauty who attracted pub
lie attention many years ago by mar
rying James g. Blaine Jr., the favor
lite son of the "Plumed knight of the
Republican Party who was beaten for
the Presidency, by Grover Cleveland
in 1884
A more Incompatible, unhappy allf-
ance could not be imagined than that
of young Blaine, and his attractive
looking bride, who for brief period
following their marriage moved in the
Capitol, where the elder Blaine was
for so many years a domino ting fig
ure in all that was going on there.
Perceiving that she had made mis-
take, his wife divorced Blaine in Da-
kota in 1892 and with her son, James
G. Blaine, 3rd, returned to New York.
where she subsequently met and wed
DIR. Bull, who was one of the most dis
tnguished members of his profession.
When the latter died four years ago,
his widow became the prey of horde
Of sharpers who induced her to invest
a large part of the fortune he left
her in stocks of spurious OF debatable
character, which netted her big losses
Worry over the manner in which she
had been victimized is supposed to
have undermined her health and con-
tr buted to her death, which occurred
at Newport, where she was always a
great favorite with smart society.
1t may be interesting to American
women to learn from Prince Inayat
Khan of India, who is in New York
studying local conditions. that as
race they are congenitally barred from
rising to the fel citous altitude Of true
love in their courtship with the stern
er sex. The distinguished visitor, who
is black as the ace of spades and looks
like the Lord of Tom Tit. moreover
says they have ever been deficient in
the spiritual sense which enables them
to experience the beautific exaltation
of 'ze noble passion" which has sway
ed empires and helped republics crum-
BILE in the past.
The average American man and
woman says the Prince, lives and
dies without knowing what real love
isl
Women and men in America are so
busy making up their minds and
want to marry that by the time they
are married there is little love left
in their nature. 1t is useless to tell
US, who have made study of the
greatest thing In the world, love, for
thousands of years, that one can
change his or her mind a hundred or
more times and feel real love for
ha w he
falls. In America, the first thing that
strikes an Oriental is that the women
dress and decorate themselves not for
their husbands. but for society. This
is also true of the men. Both live
for the outer world and not for their
own Aome.
"Now in East india we have very
different state of affairs. There the
woman dresses for her husband not
for other men. When the husband dies
the wife subdues her dress and almost
considers herself dead with him. Here
the women seem to dress all the more
after such a catastrophe and wait to
marty again. 1t would stake many.
many generate ns to train the Amer
lean woman to the state Of mind to
which the Hindoo woman has arrived,
and even when she reached 1t do
not know that she would be happy.
She is not of the same temperament,
radically different. Yet, if she would
but study love in it's real sense, and
understand it from the spiritual S de,
I think you would have happier homes,
less divorce. fewer spinsters,
Ida M Tarbell. Nemesis Of Stand
ard Oil this week put something of
crimp in the aspirations of the suf-
fragettes who have been laying stress
upon the dignity of the 'woman's
rights movement. Although one of
the most active as we'll as most gifted
women in the country, Miss Tarbell
regards the dignity of motherhood as
transcending all .other honors to which
Womankind may aspire.
"a woman's first and most impor-
tant duty to the State" she began
slowly. sis the same as it always has
been since the beginn 'ng of things
the rearing of good citizens. The most
valuable citizen in the world is the
woman who stays at home and prop
erly brings up family of children.
"To my mind, the whole duty Of
woman may be summed up in five
words-to stick to her job. The wom-
an who does her whole duty to the
h'ldren she brings into the world is
herself the most important citizen of
that world. I can't make that too
emphatic.
There is no achievement, literary,
artistic, what you will, which a wom-
an can perform that is of the same
vital Significance to the nation as
family of mentally, morally physically
healthy boys and girls. There is no
profession containing such real honor
for woman as that of home-making.
And it is the great natural job for
the majority of us. Let us Sc that We
stick to tive can't do anything bet
ter A married woman, unless forced
by necessity, should confine her Ia
bors to her home She will find enough
to do there unless she Is anrexception-
ally gifted person, who can perform
public and private duties without
81 Citing either. A marr ed woman
with children should always remem-
Der that the greatest possible service
is already laid upon her. She should
too remember that all the brains and
talent and executive ability and charm
she may possess will be drawn on to
the last drop by her children. And
truly I believe it is the home life
which is happiest and most interesting
for the woman herself, as we'll as the
most useful to the world concluded
Miss Tarbell
Direct issue is taken with Miss Tar
bell by Mrs. Mildred Manley Easton,
founder and president of the Life
AS a Fine Art club, who declares that
the unmarried woman has developed
into zone of the finest, sweetest, Gull
tured types in the world" And that
she has. grown to be "of greater bene-
fit to the race than the married wom-
an who contents herself with sitting
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