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Show WOMEN WHO EVADE TJHE DARTS OF . ni tia- "raal a l"S U douv n fee r, Jits ea si Found In Various Callings Including the Ministry, Art, Science and Literature o 75 Years Range n Ages from 25 ' Who They Are. ' 1 ! (Special Correspondence. O MARRY or not to o rfl cupid.; is the which perquestion womplexes (every an at oriie time In and her career, must be answered yea ' or nay. The ambitious plead that an unmarried marry-f-tha- t 3lie Is. her tp. J fu;a e Ptir'a expc,;. incu ndi, luisiiei I 4 rorhi. xla hethr to t 1r out vatp- - bealth fetter' r.0f rusne,vj ae sup. Her g;rt ainbn. , woman is less hampered and trammeled . than her f married sister, and therefore a woman is better off without than with the life society of the tyrant man. It used to be the fashion and until very recently to style unmarried ladies past a certain age as old maids. Now they are woman bachelors, - whether they be or fifty-fivCertain it is, a bachelof feminine the over list glance e. twenty-fiv- e ors shows that many (women have earned fame and fortune (unfettered or unaided by husbands. Here are a few interesting examples, which tell their tnyn story: Miss Harriet G. Hosmer is the foremost woman sculptor in America. She ake it Purifier, are ia tipatloa. :d J5 HELEN GLADSTONE. i- - Isl M the daughter of a well-know- n physi- born in Massachusetts sixty years ago. For forty years she has been a resident of Rome, going there in 1852 with her father- and her friend, Charlotte Cushman. Some of. her celebrated works have been the Beatrice Cenci, in the St. Louis Public library, and the ideal Zenobia, figures and the Puck, Sleeping Faun, Miss Hosmer has Pompeian Sentinel. carved out a future with her chisel, and she was paid for one piece of work the figure of Queen Isabella, for the ' Worlds 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 cian, and was k. ssr &7, Seo $25,-00- 0, . eatedat ills,aal n mer-he- s and hroat, on -- erg falling obsti I for a : alwajj physi incondl aled on f CG IX. nt. or THS fS .loves so well. - Miss Ada M. ! - - herself the responsibilities making and housekeeping. In literature the list of unmarried is a long one. Among the noted names are Nora Perry, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sisteyof the president, and at one time the first lady In the land; Ouida, Jean Ingelow, Rosa Nouchette Cary, AnnaDickinson, Grace Denio Litchfield Edith Thomas and Susan Coolidge. Miss Katharine Draper, who is still handsome and healthy, though past eighty, had the honor to he photographed by her brother. Professor Draper, ,of the University of New York, in 1841. Miss Draper was then a young lady In society, and the fact that a sun picture had been made of her was widely discussed by the belles and beaux. ' The picture, which was the first of the kind. ever taken, was sent to England to Sir William Herschel, from whose son i It was procured for the Worlds Fair. Miss Draper remembers the process vividly, and enjoys telling all about it. Miss Sarah Orne Jewett occasionally writes sketches of 6,000 or 7,000 words in a single day. This is of course exceptional, and her favorite way of writing Is to work steadily during five or six weeks and then to stop for a like period of time. Miss Frances E. Willard is one of our most Interesting women bachelors. She Is in London now, the guest of Lady Henry Somers'et. Distressing news has lately come across the seas to the effect that after many years of freedom and emancipation Miss Willard may marry an Englishman. He is vaguely! described as of rank, fortune, and heart1 and. soul devoted to the principles fori which Miss Willard has spent the best suitor part of her life. The name of thesome of has not been mentioned, though adhave friends Miss Willards intimate mitted that stranger things than this have happened. t The Rev. Phoebe Hannaford, a prominent member of the Sorosis, has the honor of being the first woman minis-- ; ter ordained in America. At the time of Dr. Hannafords' ordination only three women besides herself In the 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, with her, amounts to a passion, fully gratified in this beautiful country. Her real life work consists in ministering to the poor and sick and needy. She was born in Furnvals inn in March of 1838, when Charles Dickens was past 26 years old, and father and child grew as it were, together. Itrls up almost,wondered-atfthat she is like not to be him ip thought, taste, sentiment, and ! IS YOUNG AND TRIED. MRS. CARRIE CATT MAY SUC-- 1 CEED SUSAN B. ANTHONY Boom Launched at New Ycrk She Is Supported by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leaders of Equal Suffrage. Her Presidential j -- (New York Correspondence.) RS. CARRIE Chapman Catt is to be the next president of the Nationi al American Womans Suffrage association. She will succeed Susan B. Anthony, who has been president since 1892, and who was in turn the successor of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton when that lady retired after holding the position since the formation of the association twenty-fiv- e years before. Mrs. Catt lives in a beautiful country.liome on Bay Thirty-fir- st street, Bensonhurst by the Sea. That is where she is to be found in the summer, but in the winter she is away a good part of the time lecturing on the cause to which she devotes her life the emancipation of women from the thraldom of nonvoting obscurity. She travels from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico, and her name is known wherever woman suffrage is spoken of. A pleasant-lookin- g woman, with clear-cfeatures and light brown, wavy hair, is Mrs. Catt. She has eloquent blue eyes, that seem almost black in some of her changing moods, when she becomes Interested in her subject, which she is sure to do wjen that subject is woman suffrage. I do not know anything about being made "president of the Womans Suf- 5 ut even looks. Miss Heien 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 Collegf 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 women of their worked well-consider- ed , ;, ' iwp'l 0 V 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 j -- ' fVrf.v M rSwfe: j A French woman of fashion has Invented a beautiful, 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 Ji v911iil summoned an electrician for experiments. The shades were drawn,, the beaded Japanese cloth was thrown around the bulb of an incandescent lamp, and when the cflrrent was turned on the effect was exquisite. The light was split into aihousand shafts of colored radiance. An attachment was produced after the design of the Japanese cloth, and the new shade at once became the rage. An American electrician who has brought the design over here has improved on the original Idea by using bulb covers in imitation of grapes,' purple and yellow, and of flowers glistening with dewdrops. New York Times. , otato rtera. MAMIE DICKENS, aim in life Is to combat what great h argues are the fallacies of prohibition, and her services are in constant demand all over the world. Sm&n B. is as energetic in toe crusade Anthony of woman suffrage as when P the early fifties she began to make demand for equal rights for men t,na women. She is well Into the seventies, but her unusual mind seems to gather fresh vigor with every blrth-CzIt Is always a pleasure when this little woman, with her lr y- est-lookI- 29 gif ng smoothly parted hair and earnest win-lac- e, rises to speak, for she always r.as something well worth the telling, ndtelLg it right worthily. A3a Rehan and Georgia are Cayvan bachelor girls among the theatrical ktrs since Mary Anderson took upon Kathleen Mavonmeen. Kathleen Mavourneen was written lady, whose by Mrs. Crawford, an Irishwere in high ago songs ninety years was an music Crouch, The by repute. In old his who and age eccentric genius, Into a concert poverty begged his way he hear his that might Titlens given by own compositions fitly sung. Eighteen cremation societies exist in the United States. During the past ten years there have been over three thousand cremations in this country. Fame. (Cincinnati Correspondence.) TTORNEY Genera Harmon will live at the Arlington in Washington. Presi-- d e n t .Clevelands selection of such a dark horse as Judge Harmon aroused the curiosity and inquiry of the people of the country, apart front party consideration, to learn something about the new head of the department of Justice. g A resident of this city, where he has won fame and fortune as a- lawyer, and where he has, as a citizen, established a public-spirite- d reputation. Judge Harmons career refutes the old adage that a prophet is not without honor save in his. own country, - His life has been a useful and successful one,l and In his profession no lawyer stands higher at the Hamilton county bar than he. He Is the senior member of the law firm of Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoadly. Formerly a law partner of Hoadly, that connection was broken up when Governor Hoadly went to New York, and the present partnership was formed, a son of . . life-lon- - . In favor of tariff reform, a civil service reformer and a gold money man, the new attorney general Is a man aftef the Presidents own heart, and Mr. Cleveland could not have selected a man more likely to accord .with his views had he searched the country over. Mr Cleveland and his new attorney general ave met casually, and Judge Har mbns name was presented to the President for the successorship of Jpdgs Baxter on the United States Circuit court bench, a position to which Judge Jackson, of Tennessee, was afterwards appointed. Judge Harmon is a genial, though dignified man, and very popular. He IS 49 years old and has passed all his life in this city, being the son of a former Baptist clergyman well known and esteemed in this community. , In person he is strong and healthly, handsome and affable; and,, being a large man, with fine head .and clean shaved face, with the exception of a heavy Iron gray mustache, Judge Harmon presents an attractive and commanding appearance. In his domestic relations, Judge Harmon is most happily situated. He has a wife, a handsome and highly cultivated woman, who will be an acquisition to society in Washington, and thres daughters, Mrs. Edmund Wright, ol Philadelphia; Miss Elizabeth, a young and attractive lady In society, and Marjorie, still a schoolgirl. -- , T. E. HORTON. ex-Gover- nor ERAL. 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 Campbells 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 countys favorite eon for the pemo-cratnomination to succeed Governor Campbell, but he discountenanced this effort of friends and admirers to politically promote him. He preferred the certainties of the lawto the chances of politics. In politics a Democrat, Judge Harmon was led into the Democratic fold through the Greeley movement of 1872. following Governor Hoadly and other tly lc falling full around her neck and shouL ders 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 along0 when I have anything to say, and I am busy on my Womans 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 . ; Julia Ward Ilowe. 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 Cuttls Ward. Her ancestors included the Huguenot Marlons, of South Carolina, Governor Sam Ward, of Rhode Island, and Ioger 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 wife 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 writA In drama blank verse, poems, ten in 1853, was produced In both New York and Boston. Other works followed, and during the war Mrs. How became nationally prominent becausa of her stirring patriotic songs. In 1867 she visited Greece with her husband, where they won the gratitude of tha people of that country because of aid extended in the struggle for national independence. In 1868 Mrs. Howe first took part in the suffrage movement. She has since preached, written and lectured much, and notwithstanding her advanced age, still enjoys a1 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 lz American literature, but in all she hal written there has been displayed the same earnestness and poetic gift and the same finished scholarship. She la almost as well known abroad as in tha United States. 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 jalways employed in some way or other. Talking further about her Womans Bible, Mrs Stanton said: I want to open womens eyes, if I can. Women are hampered by their religious views and blinded to many 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 oclock at night. Catfish Milked the Cows. When at polfax, Iowa, recently aa 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 which 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 couldnt '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 cpws dry before he got a chance to get any. The lnterrogater expressed doubt when Bill assured him that he could prove his statement by producing a fellow who caught a catfish two miles down the river and when he cleaned the fish took from it d cheese. stomach a twenty-nine-pou- nd parted. 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 th speculator 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 casek where trie family neglects to do so. The concessionaire has still a ex- termof three years before the final obwhich he piration of his contract, tained for the modest annuity of $40 ' of the city, paid by him to the treasurer His profits have been enormous for many years past, for most persons go to 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 scraprailings ing, a new coat of paint on the and the trick was played. M. Georges Grebauval is about to bring the matter the municipal council, and up before democratic councilor will not like a true stones be not althe that demand only twice over, but that they lowed to serve be destroyed at the expiration of leases, thus giving an impetus to the trade that has been slowly declining for many years past. -- 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 Harmons, views on the issues of the day are well Jcnown. 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 Clevelands stand f6r dear money. He condemns the present tariff law, seeing In It a distasteful comHe favored the Wilson hill promise. as it originated in the house of representatives He approves of the supreme courts decision In the income ta-case, and declares the income tax a rider that it was well to unhorse. Having made a reputation and forBales fo tune as a lawyer, wudge Recruits are not .admitted into the Harmon is corporation an authority as regarded cof the English Infantry5 regiments views on on is with credited and army trusts, under feet 6 inches in stature and a this vital subject that may thus be sumThe Church of England College In girth around the chest of not less than marized: The law regulating as well as thirty-fou- r Inches with the arms raised authorizing trusts is well established. Montreal, will-benriched by a $100 OOt donation from A. above the head. F. Gault. declared legal. been Many trusts have t to-b- . e . - ? . Tombstones at Second Ha neb 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 several cemeteries concessions of ground are sold for the lapse of a few years only, the ground returning to the city after the expiration of the term of 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 de- ob-iflo- us 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 may. create 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 ones friends are ones 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 south, where I have been all the winter -- nine-poun- need more common sense, philosophy, arid science in the training of their ) A New Japanese Shade. Mrs. Harmon Will Be an Acquisition to Capital Society Tlieir Three Daughters To Live at a Hotel Rise to law-abidi- ng '" SUSAN B. ANTHONY. HARRIET HOSMER. coincides with her fathers politonly ical 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 indefatigable 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. law. pre-eminen- chief charm. This gifted daughter not 5P Each trust presents distinctive and ATTORNEY-GENERAA HAPPY special features, and must be specially L considered that Its standing and relaMAN DOMESTICALLY. tions may be established according to JUDSON HARMON, ATTORNEY GEN- 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 social obligations besides presiding over the working girls clubs, and being their confidant and adviserj Miss Anna Leary is the oldest of the socially prominent spinsters in New York society. Half of her enormous Income goes In and deIs She serving charities. 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, hut every denomination will, be welcomed alike. Miss Leary Iiyes in a picturesque old house way down on Fifth avenue with her surviving bachelor "'xbrother, Charles Leary. Kate Field's name is well known over two continents as a brilliant, fearless writer and a bold, convincing lecturer. and the mere combination of capital is not necessarily a breach of the law ' has written books and lectured, has devoted much of her time to ameliorating the condition of heg sex. She has who ABOUT THE HARMONS j - . - ; and spring. We have just completed 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 womans suffrage with all the energy and determination that we can muster. Mrs, 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 sjtudy and practice of law. She has spent most of her time of late years between California and Washington, D. C.,1 but her husbands 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 womans 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 conyersation 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 ; e ; |