Show WOMANS WORLD PRAISE EARNED AND GIVEN SOME WOMEN OF SYRACUSE the author of we tw two she sh was iva no imeane A book club in chicago toi rox chapped hands bands and faces glossy hair and nightcaps women as librarians it is due to the ladies of syracuse that their untiring efforts in preparing for and carrying on the new york state convention should be given public reco recognition gul i although impossible to mention by name the many ladies who contributed to make the convention the unquestioned success that we who attended knew it to be their services are distinctly remembered for weeks beforehand they sold tickets from house to house solicited entertainment for guests an and d visited newspaper offices when the time arrived they prepared the stage acted as ushers received and entertained visitors etc leading them all with her fine executive mind was waa mrs mary E bagg the president of the political equality club mrs bagg appointed committees and gave to each full written instructions assisted her daughter in the preparation of press notices opened her house as headquarters for the committees and in fact lived for the convention mr bagg who might have objected to this singleness of purpose in his wife gave instead the kindest operation cooperation co the entire responsibility of the tha financial part was carried by miss julie jenney a bright young lawyer who managed so well that after the close of the meetings the club found itself with money in the bank A worker to whom special gratitude is dus due from the guests of the convention was mrs dr pease chairman of the entertainment committee mrs position was for many reasons peculiarly difficult but aided by her committee she mastered all obstacles as the courtesy with which guests were received testified the half has not been told but so eo much must in justice bv abid i isabel howland in womans comans journal the an author thor of we two edna lyall is now pale and worn with an illness that has hag quite suspended any literary work since bince the publication of A hardy norseman writes frederick dolman in an interesting sketch of the home life and personality of ada ellen bayl bayley ey the eyes have lost a little of their luster and the cheeks the color they once possessed the slight form is somewhat thinner and the hand that clasps yours youra instinctively tells of much suffering but a bright smile is coupled with the assurance of convalescence and the voice at first weak and low gathers intonation and quiet force when the talk is on some stirring topic like charlotte Bron broncos Br tos heroine ada ellen dayley bayley the pseudonym you see la is only I a transposition of some of the letters i iu a her baptismal name lias has no beauty bf b yond that intellectual beauty to wrote his well r 1 dmn rm ese r ag b small and of uneven formation the broad forehead having a suggestion of the masculine that is scouted by the sweet and sympathetic expression of the eyes the brown hair would avi W beautiful were it not cut short and arranged with an almost severe simplicity she usually dresses in a close fitting garment of some plain material edna lyall owes really all her charm to her s yin p a chetto presence if I 1 may be par doad douA the expression her spiritual earnes earnestness tries and tender feeling pity is one of her predominant qualities there always seems to be an undercurrent of sadness in her character at the misery and woo woe in the world around her she eh was not insane one cold day last week a small crowd collected along the walk in front of the coleman house a neighborhood where a crowd is very easily collected and ap feared to be interested m the florists windows As usual in m such cases every newcomer stopped and stared in turn although in perfect igno ignorance ranco as to tho the cause I 1 happened to be among these later arrivals walking up to tho the big policeman who ornaments that I 1 asked what the row was they aint no row as I 1 know of said ho he its merely a question of sanity or insanity now theres that freak there looking in tho the winder the tha one with th the parasol I 1 suppose I 1 ought to arrest her for drawing a mob but I 1 hate to do it she looks as if she ought to know better too the object of all this was a lady of middle age or a little past I 1 give her the benefit of the doubt who was just then engaged in the innocent amusement of gazing at the lovely flowers banked up within the window she carried one of those small silk sunshades about eighteen inches in diameter affected by certain fashionable women As the mercury was down to about 85 begs this sunshade struck the crowd as rather humorous and tho the policeman as an evidence of insanity As a matter of fact the small shade carried in winter is tor for the protection of weak eyes and is ia considered less objectionable than green or blue goggles new york herald A woman biding london has a woman riding master a mrs hayes who insists notwithstanding land the traditional su supremacy of the english comans womans horsemanship that you rarely see eee an english woman sitting gracefully and firmly in her saddle and that frenchwomen frenchwoman French women are really the tha more graceful equestriennes mrs hayes hayea teaches in a modest boyish costume without a skirt and takes a ra foot gate on her lively charger without holding her reins at all her theory is that a riding master cannot teach a woman to sit well on a side saddle because he know how himself except theoretically she is taught to rely first and foremost foremost on her bar reins when it is not her reins reins at all that save her when her horse shies or WIS falls the reins should never be given to the pupil at all until sho she is perfectly secure in her seat and has learned that it is the grip on the crutches of the saddle by the muscles of the knees and ankles that gives her the firm seat the reins are simply dimply to guide golds the horse the stirrup should be shortened until the knee knea presses firmly against tho the leaping head it is to teach the position of the legs that mrs hayes rides in tho the boys dress and when a woman learns to use these members properly mra mm hayes claims that her seat ta Is more wal nral more graceful and more decoro than if she rode astredo ast rido this lady riding in master Is a daring rider accepting most vicious mounts with fearless and stopping short of nothing not even a rebra in hw 1 ants lo 10 london U d on latam 1 11 V aj 1 4 |