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Show fHESfTNSTEK ARJO . 5 WOMEN WHO EVADE THE DARTS OF CUPID. Including the Minltry Art, Science and Literature Range in Ages from 25 to 75 Years lastly nS Found In Various Callings I35 Who They Are. like 't. U siclr (Special Correspondence. O MARRY or not to marry that is the futiirft ' .Pears, I 7 i nda, 4 meled than her married sister, and therefore a woman is better off without than with the life society of the tyrant man. It to be the fashion and until very u?f-recently to style unmarried ladies past a certain age as old maids. Now they are Jhethe, out water whether they be Certain it is, a bachelof feminine list over the glance women have ors shows that many or unfettered and fortune fame earned unaided by husbands. Here are a few interesting examples, which tell their health woman tetter'i & 5 question which perplexes every woman at some time in and her career, must be answered The yea or nay. ambitious plead that an unmarried woman is less hampered and tram- twenty-fiv- e f( thft susnesj te sup. Sb? bachelors, or fifty-fiv- e. own story: Miss Harriet G. Hosmer is the foremost woman sculptor in America. She g herself the responsibilities of IS YOUNG AND TBIED. and housekeeping. In literature the list of unmarried is a long one. Among the noted names are MRS. CARRIE CATT MAY SUCNora Perry, Miss Rose Elizabeth CleveCEED SUSAN B. ANTHONY land, sister of the president, and at one time the first lady in the land; Ouida, Jean Ingelow, Rosa Nouchette Cary, Her Presidential Boom Launched at Anna Dickinson,- Grace Denio LitchNew York She Is Supported by field, Edith Thomas and Susan Coolidge. Miss Katharine Draper, who is still Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leaders of handsome and healthy, though past Equal Suffrage. eighty, had the honor to be photographed by her brother, Professor Draper, of the University of New York, (New York Correspondence.) in 1841. Miss Draper was then a young RS. CARRIEto lady in society, and the fact that a Catt is Chapman of her "sun" picture had been made be next the presiwas widely discussed by the belles and dent of the Nationbeaux. The picture, which was the first al American Womof the kind v ever taken, was sent to an's Suffrage assoEngland to Sir William Herschel, from She will succiation. whose son it was procured for the ceed Susan B. AnWorld's Fair. Miss Draper remembers thony, who has been the process vividly, and enjoys telling president since 1892, all about it. and who was in Miss Sarah Orne Jewett occasionally turn the successor in words or 7,000 writes sketches of 6,000 of Mrs. Elizabeth a single day. This is of course excepStanton when that lady retired of Cady and her favorite writing way tional, is to work steadily during five or six after holding the position' since thee weeks and then to stop for a like period formation of the association twenty-fivyears before. Mrs. Catt lives in ast of time. Miss Frances E. Willard is one of our beautiful country home on Bay Thirty-firstreet, Bensonhurst by the Sea. most interesting women bachelors. She is where she is to be found in the That of Is in London now, the guest Lady but in the winter she is away summer, news has Henry Somerset. Distressing a good part of the time lecturing on efto the seas across come the lately fect that after many years of freedom the cause to which she devotes her life the emancipation of women from the and emancipation Miss Willard may of nonvoting obscurity. She marry an Englishman. He is vaguely thraldom from the Atlantic to the Padescribed as of rank, fortune, and heart travels and for from Lake Superior to the cific, and soul devoted to the principles of Gulf best her name is known and the Mexico, which Miss Willard has spent woman wherever of suitor the name life. The suffrage is spoken of. part of her pleasant-lookin- g A woman, with has not been mentioned, though some of clear-cfeatures and light brown, Miss Willard's intimate friends have admitted that stranger things than this wavy hair, is Mrs. Catt. She has eloquent blue eyes, that seem almost have happened. in some of her changing moods, a black promThe Rev. Phoebe Hannaford, she becomes interested in her the when has inent member of the Sorosis, miniswoman subject, which she is sure to do when honor of being the first time the that At subject is woman suffrage. ter ordained in America. not know anything about being do "I ordination only of Dr. Hannaford's In of the Woman's Suf- made the herself women president besides three world had received orders. She is busily engaged in preparing a book of her early experiences. Miss Mamie Dickens, the eldest daughter of the great novelist, makes her home at quaint old Dunton rectory In the town of Brentwood in Essex, England. The love of flowers, iswhich, fully with her, amounts to a passion, Her beautiful country. this in gratified real life work consists in ministering to the poor and sick and needy. She was born in Furnval's inn in March of 1838, when Charles Dickens was past 26 years old, and father and child grew is up almost, as it were, together. Itlike not to be wondered at that she is him in thought, taste, sentiment, and horne-makin- - ut ike It Purifier, HELEN GLADSTONE, is the daughter of a well-know- n physician, and was born in Massachusetts sixty years ago. For forty years she has been a resident of Rome, going there 3 in 1S32 with her father and her friend, Charlotte Cushman. Some of her celebrated works have been the "Beatrice Louis Public library, figures, "Zenobia," "Puck," "Sleeping Faun," and the "Pompeian Sentinel." Miss Hosmer has carved out a future with her chisel, and she was paid for one piece of work the figure of Queen Isabella, for the World's Fair. Rosa Bonheur is another of the old maids born to poverty as the sparks are to fly upward, and who has gained a generous future by the cunning of her fingers in representing the animals she Cenci," in the St. and the ideal in $25,-00- 0, rorTer-anentl- y eatedai ill oon )illa,and n mer-he- s anil hroat, on jers faUinr loves so well. Miss Ada M. obsti' : always IX. ;nti ICHT Will as sate nywhert heels or u- : cent i rill bend ) tn ns lout on :a horse- 100 tl2S to a THS come goes In LLS w ' icks to on thi, netica. on. every- ..Pa-- . y, f . rata e is tns innot b fund tb . E30E CO LfordSU after. 'pap and de- a brilliant, fearless writer and a bold, convincing lecturer. Boot. , W mar of irithoot well-consider- ed serving charities. She is building; now a memorial chapel for her brother, Arthur Leary, who was about the most popular man in New York society. The chapel is for the use of the patients of Bellevue hospital. There is to be no fixed creed, but every denomination will, be welcomed alike. Miss Leary lives in a picturesque old house way down on Fifth avenue with her surviving bachelor brother, Charles Leary. Kate Field's name is well known over two continents as 50. Potato even looks. Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter and companion of the "Grand Old Man," is a tall, stately woman of 43. The genius of her father seems to shine through her deep, earnest eyes. For a number of years she has been vice principal of the Newnham College for Women at Cambridge. Notwithstanding her work for, and her intense belief in the higher education of women, Miss Gladstone has a great dislike to the masculine girl. She believes that the great mission of woman is to be womanly and that college life has no influence in robbing wcmen of their chief charm. This gifted daughter not HAPPY DOMESTICALLY. A ATTORNEY-GENERA- L MAN Mrs. Harmon Will Be an Acquisition to SUSAN B. ANTHONY. HARRIET HOSMER. only coincides with her father's political views, but, like him, is a great believer in the virtues of hardy exercise. It is not on record that she ever felled a tree, but she is an indefati- gable walker and climber and endeavors to have her college girls follow her example. A successful bachelor maid is Lotta, who has wooed a goodly fortune from the fickle goddess. She is credited with having a snug $2,000,000 to her credit, well invested in a hotel in Boston, next to the Park Avenue theater, which she also owns. In New York she has a swell apartment house, besides real estate all over the country. She and her mother, Mrs. Crabtree, make all the Investments without the help of any men folk. Her father was an unsuccessful miner, and it was from a log cabin on Rabbit creek, California, that the actress made her debut. frage association," she declared as the writer was ushered into her parlor. "I have not been officially told of it and I did not know that Miss Anthony intended to retire. It is rather peculiar that the news should become public before it reaches me." The determination with which Mrs. Catt said this suggested that her force A New Japanese Shade. A French woman of fashion has invented a beautiful t shade of electric lights. She got her Inspiration from the falling of a sunbeam on a beaded Japanese screen, and, full of the idea, she summoned an electrician for experi- The shades were drawn, the ments. beaded Japanese cloth was thrown around the bulb of an incandescent lamp, and when the current was turned on the effect was exquisite. The light was split intoathousand shafts-- of colored radiatflceTAn attachment was produced after the design of the Japanese cloth, and the new shade at bnce became the rage. An American electrician who has brought the design on the original MAMIE DICKENS. over here has r great aim in life Is to combat what idea by using Improved bulb covers in imitation argues are the fallacies of prohibiof grapes," purple and yellow, and of tion, and her services are in constant flowers glistening with dewdrops. New mand all over the world. Times. Tork Susan B. Is as energetic to the crusade Anthony of woman suffrage as when "Kathleen Mavourneen. early fifties she began to make pherthedemand "Kathleen Mavourneen" was written for men for equal rights eaa or women. She Is well into the by Mrs. Crawford, an Irish lady, whose years ago were in high ventle, but her unusual mind seems songs ninety music was by Crouch, an v father fresh vigor with every birth- -' repute. The In his old age and who It Is always a pleasure when this eccentric genius, into a concert his way ttcaesMooking little woman, with her poverty begged he hear his that Tltlens might nioothly parted hair, and earnest wigiven by sung. fitly own to compositions ning face, rises speak, for she always something well worth the ;telling, jasd tells exist in it right worthily. Eighteen cremation societies the past ten A5a;Rehan and Georgia Cay van are the United States. During over three thou bachelor the theatrical years there have been rs since girts among country. in this cremations Anderson sand took Mary upon -- . . j CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. of character would make her an ideal head of a large organization. Then she admitted, in answer to a leading question, that she had heard it whispered that she was to be the president, but that it had been entirely informally. Said she: ."A friend of mine, who is a friend of Miss Anthony, told me lately that Miss Anthony had said that I would be the most eligible person for the presidency. I am now chairman of the department of organization. I have worked a great deal with Miss Anthony, but so have we all. I am sorry that this story has got out, because it I may created jealousies. People may say that I am ambitious and that I am trying to push myself forward, although, I am sure that such is not the. case. The report has been set afloat by a friend of mine, who no doubt means to be kind. But often one's friends are one's worst enemies. Anyhow, the election will not take place till next February at Washington, so there is plenty of time to settle upon a nominee." In speaking about her own work as a lecturer and organizer on the road Mrs. Catt said: ');: "I have only just got home from the southi where I have been all the.winter Each trust' presents distinctive and special features, and must he specially considered that Its standing and relations may be established according to ' ..,) - In favor of "tariff reform," a civii service reformer and a gold money man, Their Three Daugh-ter- s the new attorney general Is a man after To Live at a HotelRise to the President's own heart, and Mr. Cleveland could not have selected a man fame. more likely to accord .with his views had he searched the country over. Mr Cleveland and his new attorney general (Cincinnati Correspondence.) TTORNEY General have met casually, and Judge Har Harmon will live at mon's name was presented to the Presin ident foronthe successorship of Judge the Arlington Baxter the United States Citcuit Presi-de- nt Washington. court bench, a position to which Jijidge Cleveland's of Tennessee, was afterwards selection of such; a Jackson, dark horse as Judge appointed. Judge Harmon is a genial, though Harmon a r o u s e d dignified man, and very popufckr. He is the curiosity and in- 49 years old and has passed all his life quiry of the people in this city, being the son of a formes of the country.apart Baptist clergyman well known and esteemed in this community. , In ,person from party consid he is strong and healthly, handsome and eration, to learn something about .the affable; and,, being a large man, with) new head of the department of justice. fine head .and clean shaved face, with g A resident of this city, where the of a heavy iron gray musexception ahe has won fame and fortune as lawtache, Judge Harmon presents an atyer, and where he has, as a citizen, es- tractive and commanding appearance. tablished a public-spirite- d reputation, In his domestic relations, Judge HarJudge Harmon's career refutes the old mon happily situated. He has adage that "a prophet is not without a wife,is amost handsome and highly cultivathonor save in his own country," His ed be an acquisition will who woman, life has been a useful and successful to in society Washington, and thre one, and in his profession no lawyer Mrs. Edmund Wright, ol stands higher at the Hamilton county daughters, Miss Elizabeth, a young Philadelphia; bar than he. He is the senior member and in attractive society, and Mar-jorilady of the law firm of Harmon, Colston, still a schoolgirl. Goldsmith & Hoadly. Formerly a law e: Capital Society- - life-lon- - e, partner of ex-Gover- Hoadly.that t. con- nection was broken up when Governor Hoadly went to New York, and the present partnership was formed, a son of JUDSON HARMON, ATTORNEY GENERAL. Governor Hoadjy becoming junior member of the firm. Judge Harmon relinquished a seat on the superior court bench to resume the practice of law. The firm with which he is connected has become successful in the courts as railroad and corporation lawyers, monopolizing, indeed, the greater number of cases of this character brought in the Cincinnati courts for adjudication. In short, no law firm in Cincinnati, and few in Ohio, stand higher. But it is not alone as a lawyer that Judge Harmon has made his impress upon this community. His business, as engrossing as it is, has not prevented him from manifesting public spirited interest in the affairs of the city, county and state. During Governor Campbell's administration he sided with the governor in his controversy with the board of public improvements, and won the denunciation of the "gang" element of his own parHe fearlessly denounced political ty. corruption, though his party in Hamilton county suffered in a spoils sense by the exposure he made of gang methods. In this fight, bitterly waged, he won the enmity of spoilsmen, but the contest secured for him the esteem of the better element of his own party and the praise of the without regard to party. It was this contest that first brought Judge Harmon conspicuously before this community, and he became subsequently Hamilton county's "favorite son" for the pemo-crati- c nomination to succeed Governor Campbell, but he discountenanced this effort of friends and admirers to politically promote him. He preferred the certainties of the law to the chances of politics. In politics a Democrat, Judge Harmon was led into the Democratic fold through the Greeley movement of 1872, following Hoadly and other law-abidi- . and the mere combination of capital is not necessarily a breach of the law. law. pre-eminen- Field, a great traveler, hard and earnestly for political equality, but finds her greatest rest and relaxation in the housewifely acts, particularly cooking and sewing. Miss Grace Dodge is so young and good to look upon that it is difficult to distinguish her from one of her girls. She is wrapped up heart and soul in the cause of the working girl, and what she has accomplished for them no one will ever know. She lives with her mother in quiet, but elegant style, on Madison avenue, New York. Her life Is a very busy one, for she fulfills many eocial obligations besides presiding over the working girls' clubs, and being their confidant and adviser! Miss Anna Leary is the oldest of the socially prominent spinsters in New York society. Half of her enormous In- ABOUT THE HARMONS horton. Julia Ward Howe. Few names of women are more widely known than that of Julia Ward Howe, essayist, poetess, philanthropist and public speaker She was born in New York City, May 27, 1819, her parents being Samuel Ward and Julia Cuttl Her ancestors included the Ward. Huguenot Marions, of South Carolina, Governor Sam Ward, of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams, the apostle of religious tolerance. Her father, a banker, gave her every advantage of a liberal education. She was instructed at home by .capable teachers in Greek, German, French and music, and the ambitious and earnest girl improved her opportunities. In 1843 she became the wild of Dr. Samuel G. Howe and went abroad for a season. She had, when only seventeen years of age, produced several clever essays and reviews, and in 1852 published her first volume ol poems. A drama in blank verse, written in 1853, was produced in both New York and Boston. Other works followed, and during the war Mrs. Howe became nationally prominent because of her stirring patriotic songs. In 1S61 she visited Greece with her husband, where they won the gratitude of the people of that country because of aid extended in the struggle for national independence. In 1S68 Mrs. Howe first took part in the suffrage movement. She has since preached, written and lectured much, and, notwithstanding her advanced age, still enjoys a life of almost ceaseless activity. Among hej many works the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is, perhaps," most widely known and most likely to remain a permanently admired masterpiece in American literature, but in all she has written there has been displayed the same earnestness and poetic gift and the same finished scholarship. She is almost as well known abroad as in the United States. -- worked ialedoo I CO -- - has written books and lectured, has devoted much of her time to ameliorating the condition of her; sex. She has who for L and spring. We have 'just completed I our spring work of canvassing and organizing there and we are much pleased with what we have accomplished. In the fall we shall go to the southwest and push woman's suffrage with all the energy and determination that we can muster." Mrsi Catt is a young woman. She was born in Ripon, Wis., and was educated at the State Industrial College of Iowa, going from that institution into the study and practice of law. She has spent most of her time of late years between California and Washington, D. C, but her husband's business, that of civil engineer, requires him to be in New York, and she has practically settled down in her present home. She is a charming talker, in the parlor as well as on the platform, and her eloquence has done a great deal for the eause of women, in that she does not make enemies of the men, but rather enlists them on her side by her persuasive, manner. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is today one of the most remarkable women in the world. She is in her eightieth year, but is as vigorous in mind and almost as much so in body as if she were 30. She was the pioneer in the woman's suffrage cause and is still working for it. She was the first president of the association and it was through her efforts that it was formed. When Mrs. Stanton was seen in her pretty home in this city she was in a pleasant mood (but that she always is), and she entered into conversation with the writer willingly. She said she was very, very busy, but she did not show it in her manner. She was deliberate in her speech and there was a sparkle in her eye that reflected the good nature within. She is the kind of woman that would make nervous people forget their hurry and become almost as composed as herself. If she was ever afflicted with the nervous hurry that is characteristic of Americans, and particularly of New Yorkers, she has got entirely over it. In her white cotton summer wrapper, with a bertha of soft lace , " falling full around her neck and shoulders and a white silk shawl, she was the incarnation of lovely old age, almost without anything old about her except her years and her wealth of silvery white hair arranged in rows of soft curls. In answer to a suggestion that she had not given up all work yet Mrs. Stanton said in a surprised tone: "What? Give up all work? I? No, Indeed; I write for the newspapers right along when I have anything to say, and I am busy on my 'Woman's Bible,' that I hope to finish before I die. What Is the 'Woman's Bible?' Why, it is a commentary on the bible in the line of common sense. Women need more common sense, philosophy, and science in the training of their minds and less religious fanaticism. I am trying to analyze passages that need explanation ' and to render them clear to the women whom I expect will read my book. It involves much reading and study, and I am always employed in some way or other." Talking further about her "Woman's Bible," Mrs Stanton said: "I want to open women's eyes if I can. Women are hampered by their religious views and blinded to many obvious truths because they are afraid of being irreverent. And yet, does it not seem absurd that the great God of all these worlds should give us this little book, this bible, with all Its faults and Inconsistencies, and call it His inspired work? It needs revision Indeed. I believe in freedom of thought and of action for women as well as for men. Just lookat those foolish women who tried to have the Columbian exposition at Chicago closed on Sunday. I worked for four years to have it open on Sunday, so that the many who could not go during the week should have an opportunity to see the great exposition. "Women are such confounded fools! Then, again, look at the art galleries and museums here in New York that are tightly sealed up on Sundays. Why, they are trying to stop bicycle riding on Sundays, and it is a wonder they allow the parks open on that day. Well, you know how hot it was last Sunday. My daughter and I rode about Central park till 11 o'clock at night." Rules fo Recruits are not Admitted Into the j inrantryo regiments 6or tne Enritah flrmv unaer ieei b incnes in stature and a girth around the chest of not less than thirty-fou- r inches with the arms raised bove the head. to-b- e 5 : ; ; ; , ng tly Catfish Milked the Cows. "When at Colfax, Iowa, recently as a guest of the landlord of the Mason house," said the secretary of the club, "Bill Mason, the proprietor, told me that several years ago the river whicl flows through his bottom pasture lands overflowed its banks to the depth of eighteen inches. He could get no milk from his seven or eight cows that were pastured on that overflowed land, notwithstanding the fact that he fed them plenty of hay during the high water season. "A guest of the house asked why he couldn't get enough milk for his table from so many cows, and the reply was that upon investigation he found that the catfish came up with the high water and milked his cows dry before he got a chance to get any. "The interrogater expressed doubt when Bill assured him that he could prove his statement by producing a fel- d low who caught a two down miles the river and catfish when he cleaned the fish took from Its. d cheese." stomach a twenty-nine-poun- nine-poun- Tombstones at Second Hand. No people worship their dead more than the French. Yet there Is probably no city in the world where speculation and traffic in matters mortuary are carried to such an extent as in Paris. In cemeteries concessions of several ground are sold for the lapse of a few years only, the ground returning to the city after the expiration of the term or the contract. Useless to add that the city resells the same space for another" period. When the lease expires the family is at liberty to take away the stone, the wreaths and other emblems that have decorated the tomb of the departed. In most cases they abandon everything. It is here that the speculator comes in. When anyone is about to order a tombstone an agent of approaches him with an offer to sell him all he desires at a very low rate. For the speculator has obtained from the city a contract to tear down and carry away all the stone and other ornaments at the expiration of leases in all cases where the family neglects to do so. The concessionaire has still a term ,of three years before the final exobpiration of his contract, which he tained for the modest annuity of $40 paid by him to the treasurer of the city. His profits have been enormous for persons go to many years past, for most the cheapest market." And so it has come to pass that the same tombstones have served in thousands of cases for two or more individuals. A little scrapof paint on the railings ing, a new coatwas played. M. Georges and the trick Grebauval is about to bring the matter the municipal council, and up before democratic councilor will not true a like stones be not althe that demand only twice but that they) over, serve lowed to the at expiration of leases, be destroyed to the trade that an Impetus thus giving been slowly decHning for many has years past. -- the-speculato-r MRS. JUDSON HARMON, prominent Ohioans into the movement, and then drifting into the Democratic party. His first vote was cast in 1863. Consistently a Democrat since uniting with the party, Judge Harmon's, views on the issues of the day are well known. President and attorney general will be found in accord on the tariff and financial questions, and general policy of the administration. Without any ambition to hold office or expectation of preferment at the hands of the President, his appointment being a veritable surprise, Judge Harmon has all along been outspoken in his indorsement of President Cleveland's stand fbr dear He condemns the present tarmoney. iff law, seeing in it a distasteful compromise. He favored the Wilson bill as it originated in the house of repreHe approves of the susentatives preme court's decision in the income case, and declares the income tax a rider that it was well to unhorse." Having made a reputation and fortune as a corporation lawyer, wudge Harmon is regarded jas an authority on trusts, and is credited with views on this vital subject that may thus be sum-as The Church of England College in marized: The law regulating as well established. Montreal, will be enriched by a flOO.OOl authorizing trusts Is well donation from A. F. Gault Many trusts have been declared legal. ; ' ; |
