The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25

preserves, and insists upon h0ne made
 bread. Her house is immaculate. Her
 Kitchen is as neat as wax. Her pantry
 is delight. Her servants are as near
 perfection as servants shosuld be- In her
 home and in her foundry she is ruler. One would suppose that a woman Of this
 sort would be a suffragette Bin not Mrs.
 Fisher She thinks that if woman is to take an active part in the affairs of life
 she should assume all the responsibilities
 that go with that activity. She does not
 consider it healthy for the country for
 men and women to meet in active compe-
 tition in the field of labor. She is inclined
 to look on home and motherhood as the
 sphere of woman At the same time she
 does not consider 1t right for man to
 look upon woman as a precious piece of
 bric-a-brac. She does not draw her ob-' servation from Trenton. She has seen
 women work like beasts in the field and
 she has seen too many bent and broker
 by toll. She has travelled widely.
 Not long ago she completed a tour of the world in an automobile. She ! as friends in Europe, in the far east. in ] he
 far south, in the far west. The daugh ter of the Gaekwar of Baroda who is to m ar ry his highness of Cavalier. the MahartJa.
 is her dear friend In Benares she was
 treated as if she was a queen. Her foot.
 was never permitted to touch the earth
 She has a wonderful palace on Lake
 Como, the Villa Carotta at 'Urio." Tt has
 27 rooms. She spends three months or
 each year in this villa, taking all her household abroad with her. Five days of
 each week of her vacation she gives mp to
 play: two days she gives up to business. On those two days there are lots of let
 ters and lots of cablegrams going out
 from the Villa Carlotta. She has yacht
 and she has automobiles, and she has tc
 have three secretaries. Still she finds timciI to do and to think.
 Among her foundry employees there ara Slavs and Poles and Germans and Italiais
 and Scandavians. Irishmen, Englishmeii and plain Americans. She feels a bi | cramped in her present home. crowded q it is in the business section of Trentp |.
 She has just bought a beautiful far m three miles out of town. She is going to farm. She was born on a farm. she | loves farming just as she loves foundry
 work She says no labor is drudgery That is sweetened by love and the willingness | to accomplish something. As many of her
 workmen were raised on farms and have an inclination for agriculture. she wants 1 to cultivate this love of the soil in them. She wants, too, to benefit them without any of the taint of philanthropy. She is going to ask those of her men who a re in- ollned to put in their half holiday or whole holiday on Saturday working out 1t her farm. She will pay them their regular wages for such work. and they will be able to get from her their potatods, their
 cabbages, all their vegetables and fruits and general farm stuff at rock bottom prices. They can help themselves toward settling the high cost of living.
 There is A story that is told about Mrs.
 Fisher and wu Ting Fang. The China
 man was one of the guests at the Ma tional Manufacturers banquet. There | were more than a thousand at table Mrs. Fisher, of course, was the only woman | there. When he was introduced to Mrs. Fisher and was told she was manufac- turer, and not only a manufacturer, but maker of anvls and vses. he smiled m inscrutable smile. Just that day Mrs. Fisher had shipped consignment of vses to China and she so informed the Chinese | minister. Wu looked at the handsome