New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-01

the idea that she was merely an in
strument of the Divine will"
Mrs. Maupin, who is a young woman,
lives with her young husband and two
very young redcheeked babies IN an
ancient farmhouse near New Bruins
wick. n. j. The farmhouse, by the way
is being rebuilt, and Mrs. Maupin is
experimenting the work. 81 want TO
be sure that my efficiency kitchen is
installed properly, and that the dining
Dom has enough windows, and that
the living room fireplace isn't dis
turbed. That fireplace is $50 years old
and is much more effective than the
ones they build now" she observed as
she placed the youngest baby in her
p,ay-crib. Then Mrs. Maupin went back
to the subject of her book
Choice Of Women Open to Argument.
The eleven women she has chosen as
those foremost in civic work represent
a unique assortment of personalities,
ard probably no one else in the coun-
| Try would have selected the same
| list. But Mrs Maupin defends it firmly.
Jane Adams, Ella Flagg Young, Anna
Howard Shaw and Frances A. Kcllor
these names unquestionably would be
included in many lists Of the creates
living American women, but there
would probably be a difference Of op,n
ion regarding the other seven Caro-
line Bartlett Crane, Sorhic Wright,
Hannah Kent Schof, julia Tutwllcr.
Albion Fellows Bacon, Kate Barnard
! and Lucretia L. Blankenourg. Tncy are
all women, however. whose work. IN ad-
dition to being record o. urselhsh-
ness, is distinctive, and stands for
new type of community usefulness,
new concept Of the sphere Of home for
woman. And all of them, as they have
4 declared to Mrs. Maupin, have worked
net 10 satisfy personal ambitions, but
: TO carry out the will Of a Divine power.
Makes One Doubt Matcrialism.
1T makes me doubt that this is such
a m.terialistic and goddess age az We
are told it is" Mrs. Maupin resumed
"When | first heard that idea expressed
| thought little Of it. but when II be-
came so recurrent, and big women IN
all parts of the country confessed that
they were merely agents Of God ana
that it vas heir work 10 minister TO
his people, IL began to impress me.
"Oklahoma Kate-Kate Barnard, you
I know publicly announces that she IS
the instrument or a higher power, and
that working without she could DO
nothing. II is this belief in a ccnse-
Grated purpose that has enabled TINS
dauptless little woman 20 do what she
mas done for the S.9-c o. OAianoInd'
Melodrama never presented more
/ thrilling heroine than Kate Barnard
defvinr from her sickbed the corrupt
movers of the state, her small self
mighty force used only for good in be
/ half Of the weak and unfortunate.
] ANA~ " 49,
so Help Nc God
AZ remember once when she vas III
and her enemies were engaged ID
scheme TO despoil Indian minors O.
thousand Of dollars worth Of property
she wrote to her assistants; Nhch
temptation comes, look into the eye oil
the helpless orphan from whose side
thew would tear you with = lasso OF
gold; when they threaten you rcmch-
Der that you can die but once. # they
touch a hair Of your heads ! VIII pu'
them into the penitentlary, so heIp me
Cod Any ono who lives in Oklahoma
knows that Kate can DO it, and VIII.
For the end is not yet written. And IL
IS because Kate Barnard believes that
God! Any one who lives IN Oklahoma
she VIII have the power TO 90 on
with it,
Another in Mrs. Maupin's list OF fore
most women VINO heard the call OF her
Maker and obeycd it is Nh. Albion
Fellows Bacon. She was the daughter
Of clergyman and had been tauGn.
from carly childhood that She had a
social duty as we'll as a personal one.
For the first ten years Of her married
life she was a semi-invalid, and her
hands we're full with caring for hus-
hand and four children. Then sudden
l.. one day she realized that she was
not visiting the sick. the poor and those
IN prison. as Christ had commanded.
She began IN a humble way to visit
the sick in the hospitals and those IN
prison.
The result CT her conviction that her
God had called upon her TO carry on
His work was a building law that put
an end forever to bad housing eondi-
t;ons in the State Of Indiana. Mrs.
Bacon spent years studying conditions
in other states that she might frame
n bill that would make the slums that
existed in other cities impossible IN
her own. She is now regarded as
"housing expert" and cities all over the
country arc asking hey 10 come and
help them.
4 Higher Power Impels DR.. Shaw.
Or. Anna Shaw's purposeful life -
a record Of her belize in higher power
;mpellinc her onward" Mrs. Maupln
observed. "She worked her way up
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