The National tribune., 1911-02-09
NEISS JANE adams. the Chicago


IFs settlement worker and founder of
Hull House. is not only very able,
but an unusually sensible woman. Not
very long ago she and three other women
were serving with body of Chicago poll
ticians on some sort of municipal board,
and they were balloting on certain queS-
ton. The matter was an important one
and the balloting was long. and every one
got terribly tired. The men fidgeted about
in their seats, displaying a nervousness and
restlessness which the quiet manner of the
women only made more manifest. Finally
one of them whispered to several of his
companions, after which he rather shame
facedly rose to his feet, very red as to
face, and stammered out a request to
Smoke-"WOuld the ladies permit them: 1t
would make them feel so much better:
The three other women, who were very set
in their ideas as to mems weaknesses,
remained silent but Miss Adams replied
AT once. and said "of course they could,
whereupon the poor men looked immensely
relieved and Immediately each one lighted
Il cigar They quoted down at once. and
an agreement on the question was soon
reached. Soon after this Miss Adams
received letter from a cigar manufac-
Turer complimenting her upon her action,
and offering to name one of h very beSt
cigars for her, if she didn't mind. 1t is
presumed the cigar was not so named,
however
A CITIZEN of Jackson, Miss. has re-
~ Gently been Dragging about his
State. lie says that there are fewer
divorces in Mississippi than in any other
State in the Union. which is indeed rome
thing to brag about--if it is fact. Then
Ia .Iai, 4lat ,t tl1a r1nS haa bf11
section of the country: that he went there
with one lung and weighing ia pounds
u years ago, whereas now his weight Is
over 200 pounds. And besides all this.
since the farmers have given up the cul-
tivatiOn of cotton and turned Their atten-
lion to other crops. they have done won
derS with the peanut. Georgia isn't in
il with them when it comes to Il question
of peanuts. One farmer near Jackson
raised 5000 worth of peanuts on 60 acres
of land last year, which came pretty near
being a 100 per cent Investment. Similar
claims come from all over the South.
I'm THE minds of a majority of both
sexes the woman who seeks to restore
the roses of youth by the means of
rouge or who makes use of other cosmet-
les to increase her personal charms is
well, at least, not quite refined. while to
a certain number she Is no less than
jSZeDSI. an iSlStll.
In this connection one is reminded of the
story of the well-knOwn official, who. rath-
er blunt in his speech and frequently pro-
fame, was about to escort his daughter to
a fashionable evening function. The girl
was Enthusiastically gotten up, and the
father looked her over. swore mildly at
her, and told her to go up stairs and wash
her face" The girl obedientIy did so,
aud when she presented herself again for
parental inspection. he took one look at
her, uttered a more emphatic oath. and
ordered her to return to her room and
put it back" A Pennsylvania alderman
recently delivered a lecture to a man who
wished to separate from his wife because
she painted like an Indian. The alder |
man affirmed that good looks were nee
essary to the happiness of every woman |
because on these depended largely the con-
tinued devotion of their husbands. The |
art of facial decoration. said Mr.. Alder
man. lis one of the most necessary for the
preservation of the. beauty of the female |!
sex. and if have anything TO do with II
it shall not become lost art.
n liking MANUEL has left the house
a. of his kinsman. the Duke of Orleans, |
and rented one for himself in Rich |
mOnd, England, where, with his mother, |
and his own retinue, he will set up house |
keeping on his own account. The Portu- !
guese Government has decided to pay him i
a monthly pension of $4,000. |
IT SEEMS a good deal of the gossip
that appears in the columns of GER
tain American papers concerning the |
English aristocracy is obtained from the |
servants employed by these. A person
signing herself Harriet has worked Up
quite business of this kind. Harriet |
writes to the head butler. or to some other
servant attached to the household OF Lord
Al. L..
Sipy items. offering TO pay literally for
the same OF course this throws an enor-
nous temptation in the way of servants,
and few of them make any attempt to
resist it One can imagine the grand din
ner party, the table with its flowers. shin
ing glass and silver the ladies In their
chiffonS and jewels. The talk is unsus-
pectingly free, and the sharp-eared butler
4akes it all in, and few days after pockets
his fee. One wonders if the same III ng l.
not done in this country
iFB President of Harvard University
comes out with quite startling opin-
Ions occasionally. Now he advocates the
teaching of sex hygiene in the public
schools believing that great evils would
be prevented if our girls and boys knew
more about their bodies, and realized the
results Of a violation of the laws of ma
ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. one
r. of the most distinguished American
writers of fiction, has just passed
away at the age of 81. She leaves be
hind her few possessed of the same power,
finish, and mastery of the English Ian
gIage. She wrote with a high moral pur-
pose always. and had great skill in the
art of storytelling, but her books and
short stories were generally sad, frequent
ly tragic. Aside from the joy of creation.
and the satisfaction which attended sue
cess. life seems TO have meteJ out TO her
more of sorrow than happiness. Left a
motherless child when only eight years of
age, her early life WAS passed in u some
what isolated manner in quiet house in
Andoyer with her professor father. She
was silent little girl, growing up into a
thoughtful, interpretive young woman.
too greatly oppressed By the sin and suffer-
ing. the injustice and crueltieS of life
At the age of ~, when her literary repu-
tatlon was well established, she married
young man, many years her junior. who,
Ii is said, had been at one time her faith
er's secretary. Mr.. Ward had literary
aspirations himself. and afterwards wrote
several books in collaboration with his
wife. but in spite of this cOngeniaiity of
tastes, their married life was not very
happy. They had been together very lit
tie during these later years. and Mr.
Ward was in the South when the end
came. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was a
prolific writer. but most critics consider
The Gates Ajar" and a Singular Life"
I"r TWO most notable productions. The