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


history OF one woman that has marched
in two suffrage parades",
Social Standing Not a Factor.
Social standing has not been determ-
ining factor IN making up the Nomans
Who's Who Of course, there are many
women Of Fashion and position listed. hut.
II so. they are mentioned for something
else than their social activities For in
stance, there Ia no Aston and no Wander
hilt in the book, yet the Countess
Szechenyi. who was Gladys Vanderbilt
is mentioned because OF her work In
various philanthropieS In Hungary since
her marriage and residence there
But II social standing has not given
women mention ia this book. domesucity
has Name after name appears OF wom-
en- who Tor all one may learn from read
ing this book have never done anything
but be born. marry and have children.
They are described as the daughters Of
their parents. tho wives OF their hus-
bands and the mothers Of their children,
but nothing more.
Home Career Recognized.
such a biography is that OF Edith ker-
nit Carow Mrs Theodore Roosevelt.
Aside from the names OF her family the
only statement about her is the sentence
Mistress OF the White House at Wash
ington from October, 1901, TO March. 1902
Helen Heron (Mrs. William Howard
Taft. in addition to the statement of her
life at the White House. rs mentioned as
.F ON d - q l.
fare Committee OF the National civic
Federation" Neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor
Mrs. Taft expresses herself on the sur
fraCe question. The other eN-mistress OF
the White House. Frances Folsom CleNe-
land Preston. declares herself against
suffrage and gives a long list of religious
philanthropic and social organizations
with which she has been connected,
The present mistress OF the White
House. Ellen Arson Mrs. Woodrow VIII
son. does not mention suffrage. She is
said to be interested as member in va
rious religious and phianthropic associa-
tons. state and local; Presbyterian mem
Der New Jersey Society Colonial Danes
OF America and the Artists Guild OF
Philadelphia" Her recreation is given as
Landscape painting
Mrs August Belmont. who before her
marriage was Eleanor Robson, is one Of
the women included for their achieve
ments. She is listed as former actress.
There are a number Of women who are
given as former teachers their peda-
goglcal days having come TO close evil
IDENTIFY on their wedding days.
The contention OF the feminists that
women of America have been everything
except sailors. soldiers and linemen seems
to be proved by this book. Every bust
ness and profession known 10 statisti-
clans seems TO be listed. In addition
there are some strange statements made
as 10 occupations one woman asserts
that she is a professional singer and
another that she is paid social work
err"
Many OF the women have long lists
after their names. as lecturer. writer
social worker. professor" but for years
Of activity the palm probably goes 10 a
woman in a small New England town, OF
whom It is said: Teacher fifty years,
newspaper correspondent seventeen
years" One woman is described:
''Teacher-later an artist"
Or. Shaw Likes Farming.
Many interesting things are 10 be
found among the recreauons given. DIR.
Anna Shaw. for instance, gives hers as
farm work" A Chicago woman states
one Of her great interests in life TO be
protecting children from use Of the
colored supplements OF Sunday news
papers and working for better literature
The fact that many women prominent
among them being Edith Wharton, Mrs.
/ o. II. p. Belmont and Kate Douglas Wig
gin) paid no attention 10 the question as
/ to their favorite 7Tecreations IS balanced
/ by the fact that Mrs. lne2 Milholland
/ Boissevain gives her list as follows:
/ Riding, swimming, tennis, dancing,
| hockey. basketball, baseball" Mrs.
Boissevain evidently decided to do little
propaganda work for feminism At least
! she gives a stab TO educational instltu-
| tons which debar women by stating,
( after the fact Of her graduation from the
/ New York University Law School: AT
| tempted 20 enter Harvard and Columbia
| Law schools" Mrs. Boissevain is listed
as lawyer" although later in the blog-
raphy she is described as suffrage
| propaganda"
II requires little for some women to
consider themselves distinguished. Leav-
/ ing out OF the question the women who
give detailed accounts Of the families
/ "of which a signer OF the Declaration of
/ independence was one" there are many
women who have travelled much in
Europe and America" OF one woman we
are informed, "Well known as traveller
in out of the way places, notably North
crn and Northwestern Canada, having
been sent out by the new transcontnental
railways i'm search of literary material "
Another has settled an estate in Chicago
for heirs in Sweden"
Clubs Dominate.
Clubs are one OF the most important
things in the lives OF American women,
If this Who's Who Is TO be taken as q
criterion. Fine distinctions are drawn be-