New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-26

aho,. any woman OF consequence III
a.. .,nntrv9 II so. the Information
g Yours for the turning Of rev pSees
,s.couse the "Womans Who's VINO OF
America" Is out
~ hook follows the general lines OF
~. ,,u-,o,s Who In America which mas
MOD, lis appearance for 50 many sN"'N
,snt IN addition TO the information eiNV"
about the men land also the women -
49,. ,,se, notification. there is added muVh
srs varied information IN this book Anu
,sor.in lies It's interest Not achievement
alone. but things which lea o' 80
failed TO lead. to achievement arc
forth AZ length In this book
perhaps women 90 need more WORDS "
oxrrcss themselves than men do HoWeNe'
RAT may be. there are not 50 many
Notices 10 a page in this book as IN ''e
.NVho,s Who" Famous men may rest
content with two inches Of space wheIe
.s women Of whom one has never heS'u
,,o,il this book appeared require qu''
cor OF a column 90 narrate the 10 the"p
,,,orestine facts about their lives IL l.
III, ,ust 70 saw that many Of the women
- whom one would like 70 know muoh
80 ,,o6estlv written down the bare
esc+s 81 their lives and let II so AT tha''
But. as has been said. the rea ih'e'0S'
~ the book lies IN its verbose tehoenes,
All kinds OF things which one "ou'"
never expect TO know about person VINO
- not been ones intimate friend ior
- eve here set forth in detail, and
,,ste This book delightful reading.
Book Has Personality.
S.~,,Vo forms Of recreation and hither-
o, unhesrd Of occupations. like the Won,
an who STYLES herself a pro'eS'o'
lids IS arc given in a matter-of-fact way
rn., is why the book should prove
treasure trove 10 the writer OF stories
who're Is scarcely pase on which some
ousint aside or strange statement is no'
made II is full Of that elusive INNS
known as personality And II Is
vsritable human document larse
rronortion Of the women in II are hs'ea
as writers" or al some time in their
Ives have contributed 10 newspapers ana
magazines. but Il is TO be doubted II
many Of them have had as interesths
things 10 write about as are stated IN '''is
book.
Nine thousand six hundred and sixty
four women are included in TINS nfs'
.woman's Who's Who" OF this numoer
SOS ARE or have been married &C
oor6ine 10 the tabulation made by the
..litors leaving only 33H who are maid
ms In the face Of this where Is the
,erson who says that the women VINO
,,ske places for themselves in the world
5is5ain 10 marry? Not one state in the
United States and not one province IN
canada but has its representatives IN
mis- book Sectional pride is fairly Vlnul-
Gated BY IT,
Has Suffrage Canvass.
suffrage looms large in the book. Every
oman was asked 10 state her position
a.. that question Of the day. Telling II
in figures. the record reads ike ms III
f.vor. 4.7s7: opposed, TS; neglecung TO
answer the question or expressing the"l-
selves as neutrals 4,0e4.
Inst one woman-afraid-of-her -husoanu
was found. Whoever she was cher name
has bAen carefully and CALAMITY con-
ceoled bv the editors). she wrote In answer
~ The suffrage question: I'm in favor
o. II. but don't put that in for my nus
t,,-,d forbids IL" A number OF women
wrote however, that for business or per
sopal reasons they preferred not to state
,hcir views on suffrage. Many OF the
women while declaring themselves for
suffrage. wish it understood that they 90
not favor militant methods, Out one
Western woman says she faVors suIlrdee
and being militant. II necessary.
one interesting thing in regard to the
outrage movement is the fact that
number Of its recognized leaders give
+heir oocupations as something other IMAM
workers for that cause. There Is ioi
instance DR.. Anna Howard Shaw. presi-
dent Of the National American Woman
Srnrags Association. She is listed as
clergyman. suffrage leader" Mrs. Carrie
chairman Gait, president of the lnterna-
.,onal Woman Suffrage Alliance, is de-
-cribed as lecturer" And Mrs. Harrio'
stanton Blatch, while most Of her b.
,.oranbv has TO do with her suffrage
activities. is styled as "reformer"
Poetry a Recreation.
Alice Stone Blackwell. who is listed as
editor Of The Womans Journal. - gives
following words: Born into the woman 8
rights movement; parents were pioneer
workers in that cause; one aunt. Dr.
Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman
physician another. the Rev. Antoinettt
Brown Blackwell. was the first ordained
woman physician" Miss Blackwell has
other interests besides those connected
with suffrage. however, as is shown by
her answer to the question as TO her
favorite recreations. She says: Putting
foreign poetry into English verse" and
then cited as the languages from which
the translations have been made the fol-
lowing formidable list: Armenian, Rus
sian. Yiddish, Hungarian, Spanish. French
italian, Latin, German and Bohemian.
Many women in the book seem TO base
their claims TO distinction on their work
ings for suffrage. One grows quite ac
customed to reading that some woman
organized the first suffrage club i'm hel
city, or that another presented the frs
Suffrage bill TO the Legislature OF he
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