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Show 1 WOMAN'S WORLD. MRS. FANNIE I. HELMUTH, THE NEW PRESIDENT OF SOROSIS. A Noble Organization One Woman's Way. Toilet Secrets Elected a Circuit Stew ard Susan B. Anthony's plain Talk. An Ounce of Prevention. Mrs. Fannie I. Helmuth, the new pres ident of Sorosis, is a handsome woman,' with a pleasant voice, kindly self possessed, pos-sessed, well dressed and p ictful. Hei hair is somewhat gray, anf ket it is a surprise to find that she is t' other of a married daughter, the wil of Captain Edgerton of West Point, and a eon," who has the same name and title as his father, fa-ther, Dr. William Tod Heliauth. She lives in a beautiful house at 299 Madison avenue. Her home is a museum of curios cu-rios and art treasures which she and her husband have collected, for, although they have a house at Bar Harbor, most of their summers are spent in Japan or some other interesting place. Mrs. Helmuth has been chairman of the executive committee during the past year and has therefore read but one paper pa-per during that time. That paper was on the subject which, outside of her home life, is of the greatest interest to Mrs. Helmu&i that is, philanthropy. She has been engaged in charitable work since "before the war." Mrs. Helmuth is by birth a New Yorker, but she lived a long time in St. Louis, where she was on the sanitary commission for the relief of the soldiers during the civil war. It was in St. Louis, too, that she passed through an epidemic of cholera which robbed her of her fears of the disease. &ne Keeps an ner nusoanas books, pays the bills, looks after the bank account ac-count and relieves him of all worry about clerical matters. In addition tc this, she is bo much interested in his profession pro-fession that she has learned a good deal of medicine and surgery and is of no little lit-tle assistance in an emergency. So great is her reputation in this respect that once when her husband was not at homa to respond to a call to a case of typhoid fever the messenger was sent back to ask Mrs. Helmuth if she worn1 d not coma herself. Mrs. Helmuth is also, familiar with fcospital life, for she hajiliru.twp hospitalsthe hos-pitalsthe Hahnemann anil the Flower. The first meetings to make arrangements for the founding of these hospitals were held in Mrs. Helmuth's drawing room. She Is the president of the Woman's guild, which supports the Flower hospital hos-pital and which bought the ground on which Governor Flower I put up the building. j Mrs. Helmuth has been! a member of Sorosis since 1876 and is sp popular that even the waiters at the auncheon congratulated con-gratulated one another ovtfer her election. She laughed when asked! what she be lieved on the subject of 'woman's position. posi-tion. "Oh, I don't believe ijn woman's supremacy," su-premacy," she said. "I jbelieve in woman's wom-an's equality with man. "I |