Evening star., 1935-03-10

and Traveller. The merit chapter in
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Sunday In The Star.
CHAPTER XIV.
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.
- USAN B. ANTHONY is here at
the Riggs House, carrying on
her usual woman's rights cam
~ paign. She is looking we'll and
tells me she expects to have
considerable agitation this year in
Congress.
twenty-five Senators" she says,
"have already told us that they are
not opposed to us, and I do not per-
ceive the ridicule of the past in the
attitude of public men toward woman
suffrage The cause is growing, and
especially in the minds of women of
the South. Men from the Southern
States invariably say that the women
of their sections want nothing to do
with woman's rights. They know less
about the opinions of their women
than they did about the desire of the
Negroes for liberty. One of the high
school teachers of New Orleans is a
niece of jeff Davis; she is woman's
rights to the very backbone. There are
400 female teachers in the schools of
New Orleans to about 8 male teachers,
yet the Governor will not appoint wom-
en- to places on the school boards There
is growing sentiment against this.
The day will come when the South
will be as anxious for the rights of
women as the Territory of Wyoming"
Miss Anthony Is now engaged upon
the third and last volume of her his
tory of woman's suffrage, which will
soon be ready for the press. 1t will
comprise three large volumes of 1000
pages each, finely illustrated with
steel engravings of the leading people
connected with the cause.
Col. Hay.
Col. John Hay has shown in his
new Washington house the triumph of
architecture in brick, and in his par
lors and in those Of Mrs. Whitney.
the wife of the Secretary of the Navy,
you may find the triumph of comfort
able furniture in wicker work, gilded
so that it appears to be made Of golden
wire and upholstered in rich brocaded
satin of many colors. There are sofas,
easy lounges, tete-a-tete chairs and
tables of this rich material, and while
visiting Col Hay noticed little foot
stools of golden wire with satin tops
The satin and the gold give warm
tint to the furniture, while the elastic
nature of the wicker makes the whole
the most comfortable of seats and
loafing places.
Perry Belmont.
Perry Belmont is one of the smallest
and youngest men in this Congress.
He is IS years old and he does not
weigh more than 125 pounds. He is
of medium height and so slim that as
he walks up the hill to the Capitol,
with his frock coat buttoned closely
about his thin form, it is wonder
that our strong Potomac breezes do
not blow him away. He stands very
straight and carries himself with
great deal of dignity. To look at him
no one would suppose that he had all
the Rothschilds at his back and that
he was one of the most influential
young men of the country. His hair
and eyes are dark. He wears a thick
mustache and his nose above it curls
with a misanthropic air. He is one OF
the most pleasant men at times, and 1t
is said that his tongue can be bitter
and sarcastic upon occasion.
mans father Al1pllSf
Belmont, is a New York millionaire.
who was the son of German farmer
near Frankfort, the city from which
the Rothschilds started and in which
the people still point out their old
banking place in the Jewish quarter.
August Belmont attracted the atten-
ton of the Rothschilds. and after
working in their bank at Frankfort
was sent by them to Naples. In 1887
when he was 81 years Of age, he came
to the United States where he has
since represented them. He under
stands his business we'll and has kept
in close touch with diplomatic circles.
He was appointed consul general to
Austria in the latter part of the 40s
and he has been Minister to The
Hague, where he was engaged in a
duel. Belmont was wounded so that
he walks with a limp to this day.
August Belmont married Oliver Fl.
Perry's niece and it is thus that Perry
Belmont gets his first name. The Bel
mont family is one of the richest and
most aristocratic of New York. and on
both sides of the house. Perry Bel
mont has a great deal of political in
fluence to back him.
SIeighing in Washington.
Washington is having its first good
spell Of sleighing in years. Pennsyl-
vania avenue is alive every afternoon
with sleighs of all kinds, and their
occupants, the ladies in SealSkin
sacqueS and the men in fur overcats,
form a strange sight in this Southern
city. All the dignitaries are out daily.
There is many double sleigh with
Its coachman in livery, and sleighing
parties are all the go. Southern
beauties of this new administration
are taking their first sleigh rides.
Everything imaginable that can be
turned into a sleigh has been util-
lied and the combinations OF some OF
the rigs are as wonderful as the most
intricate inventions of the Patent
Office.
A friend of Tom Scott, the noted
president of the Pennsylvania railroad.
told me last night how SCOTS choos-
ing of railroading as a profession
hung on the Tipping of penny.
"Tom Scott told me the story him.
SELF" he said. "He was the toll collec-
tor on the Pennsylvania Canal at Co
lumbia when the railroad authorities,
hearing that he was a bright young
man, offered him the position of sta
ton agent at Altoona. Scott was pop
ular and when he told his friends Of
his offer. they urged him to refuse it,
to stay on the canal. He resisted their
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