Show FOR THE GOLDEN COAST BRIGHT WOMEN FLOURISH IN ft GLORIOUS CLIMATE now fire intelligent and thomen of the coast aavo dl in literary and undue copyright by american press association although it is scarcely half a century bince the first white woman went to the pacific coast that section of the united states now counts among its residents many bright and attivo women who are devoting their lives to work which will leave the world better for their having lived in it among theae no one is more loved and honored than sarah B cooper she la president of the international kindergarten der garten union and of the golden gate kindergarten association and first vice president of the pacific coast press association TO mrs cooper is due tho splendid system of free kinder bartens which exists in san francisco acara ago when she was teaching a bible class of men and women she started the second free kindergarten west of the rocky mountains and others were soon placed under her supervision and supported by her bible class her articles for the press awakened much interest in needy children and her wise management of the large sums in trusted to her care caused people to address her on the subject of free kindergartens from all over the united states and from foreign countries mrs lefand stanford through mrs cooper established the first memorial kindergarten in the world and now supports six with an endowment of the golden gate association of which mrs cooper is superintendent as well as president has thirty five schools in its charge her life is consecrated to this ANNA REED work and she docs not receive a salary she is a sweet faced woman of middle age kind gentle full of charity and love her bible class is now the largest in san francisco and is attended by people of all denominations anna morrison reed was reared in the mining regions of northern california and never had more than twelve months schooling in her life yet she is today one of tho most prominent women in the state at fifteen urged by family necessities she became a lecturer on temperance and topics she scored a great success and in three years earned enough to buy a good home for her parents her poems have frequently appeared in the leading papers of the coast and she lias published two books containing her earlier and later poems which were favorably reviewed and quickly sold her verges are full of tenderness and purity and are gracefully constructed As a lecturer mrs reed is brilliant and draws crowded houses she is now speaking throughout the northern disella tracts of california in the interests of the worlds fair having been appointed i member of the state board of lady managers mrs reed is a cousin of general william R morrison of illinois and of the lato chief justice borrison of california she has an unusually attractive personality with her sparkling brown eyes finely molded features and luxuriant dark hair and is a striking illustration of what pluck and nativo talent can do in spite of adverse circumstances in early life ella higginson is perhaps the most widely quoted of any female pacific coast writer at the present time although it is only four years since she bent her first poem to an eastern paper previous to thia she had dano desultory work tor acs ri all encouraging ri i ta many s ic 11 i i write her aio itts an 1 lear o 0 tivo sketches hinc awes vii lely CLU C L U living on the ahne of bound with the glories of sea binl forest aad mountain all about her the haa reflected the moods of nature in her writings and given the northwest its moat beautiful and poetic descriptions she has been on the editorial stad of the portland west shore and the seattle pacific magazine and i now conducting a department in the st louis home circle ella higginson is petite with blond hair large gray eyes and a pleasant womanly expression she is young and rapidly making her mark in literature abba lord holton of san francisco has devoted her life and fortune to the cause of proportional representation at the polls she publishes a paper called hope and home which advocates the hare ballot giving to all voters a preferential erent ial choice of candidates in proportion to the number of votes cast this system ia used by the mechanics institute of san francisco in electing trustees and a similar method of voting is practiced in three cantons of switzerland mrs holton has corresponded with sir john lubbock M P professor naville of switzerland and other noted political men who believe that her little paper ABBA LORD has a mission to perform in educating the masses to realize that they are not properly represented at alie polls by tho present system of ballot counting sho has written a monograph on the constitution ution of the united states which is remarkable as the work of a woman she regards her line of action as directly marked out for her by providence and thinks that women ought to study alie hare method of representation that they may demand it when suffrage is extended to them M G C edholm furnishes columns of original matter yearly to several hundred newspapers in all parts of the world her articles deal mostly with reforms as chown in the forty departments part ments of the W C T U in 1890 she was appointed superintendent of press for that great organization and secretary of the international federation of press clubs As superintendent in of railroad rates and official reporter of the california W C T U she conducts an excursion to the national W C T V convention each year and contemplates a party around the world after the worlds fair mrs edholm is an ardent prohibitionist and is deeply interested in tho florence crittenton mission homes for erring women alio philanthropist who established these homes in new york san francisco los angeles sacramento and san jose appointed her reporter for M EDHOLM the missions and she spent two montha in the homes at new york gathering material for a book which to be published next april her article on traffic in white girls printed in the november number of the californian magazine has attracted widespread attention she resides in oakland and is a charter member of the pacific coast press association CLARA BROW |