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MAGAZINE SECTION.
CONSUELO ENCOURAGES SEX,
DAUGHTER OF VANDERBILTS
SEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS
IN FIELD OF LABOR.
Comparison of Past Restrictions
With Present Freedom Reveals
Growth of Woman’s Sphere.
An ex-President of the United States
thinks it not beneath his dignity to
talk to the women of the country
through the pages of a popular 'wom¬
an’s magazine, warning them of the
dangerous and undermining effects
upon their character of active partic¬
ipation in public affairs. The feminine
club life of to-day he especially con¬
demns.
Follou ing this comes tho announce¬
ment of an interview with a represen¬
tative of the new and charming wom¬
anhood of America in the person of
Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough. A
daughter of the Vanderbilts, married
into one of the oldest and proudest
families of England, surrounded by
every luxury and crowned with beauty,
youth and grace, yet is she democratic
enough to be interested in her sisters
of the working world.
Women’s Work Commended.
Concerning woman’s work the
Duchess says:
“It is gratifying to see the improve¬
CONSUELO, DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.
ments which have been made in the
conditions under which women work in
this country since I was last here. You
know that 1 am deeply interested in
this question of the betterment of the
conditions of life for women. England
is doing much in this direction, but it
is to America that we all look for
leadership in movements of this kind,
and I am happy to say that our hopes
have not been disappointed.”
The particular society in which the
Duchess is interested is the Young
Woman’s Christian Association. She
is to that organization in England
what Helen Gould is to the Y. M. C. A.
in this country—a patroness, generous
of time, money and sympathy.
It is evident, however, that the
Duchess’ sympathies go out to the
workers and the work along all the
lines of betterment for women. She
calls attention to the various associa¬
tions and their enormous growth in
membership, and to the change that
~ 1156'talfefr fShf'c AiI the'position "oi'tvorn~
an in the world’s work during the past
sixty years.
Speaking of woman’s efforts at eman¬
cipation and particularly of the famous
meeting in Seneca Falls, N. Y., she
says:
“The first, woman’s rights convention
was held in this country in 1850. Three
years later a woman attempted to
speak in a world’s temperance conven¬
tion in New York and it took her three
hours to make a ten-minute speech be¬
cause of the jeers and interruptions of
the men delegates. Florence Night¬
ingale, just about fifty years ago laid
the foundation for the glorious work
of the Red Cross in the hospitals in the
Crimea.
When Efforts Began.
“These were the beginnings of the
activity of women in public movements,
involving social reform, which now are
having their full development in all
lines of endeavor. When one reflects
that the hardships faced by women
speakers in those days ranged from hos¬
tile and rude interruptions to measures
of even more active discomfort and un¬
pleasantness, reminding one of an un¬
popular political campaign, am’ yet
that they have persevered in their ef¬
forts. one cannot help being proud of
their pluck and perseverance which
has had such splendid results.”
Reference to the woman who at-
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1905.
tempted to speak at a temperance con¬
vention recalls to mind the old story
of Lucy Stone, of Massachusetts, a
pioneer suffragist, who, after her grad¬
uation at Oberlin, Ohio (the only col¬
lege admitting women at that time),
desired to speak in one of the Mass¬
achusetts churches. The announcement
of the address was made by the min¬
ister of the church in the following
words:
“A hen wishes to crow like a rooster in
this church on Thursday evening. Any
body liking that kind of music is in¬
vited to attend.”
It seems almost incredible in these
days that ago-.^jbo, th-te was, and only half a
century when woman’s activ¬
ity was limited to so small a circle.
As a means of livelihood she had but
three vocations from which to choose:
housework, sewing and teaching; and
all poorly paid, at that. Marriage was
supposed to be the chief end and aim
of her existence. ..This state she sought,
sometimes as a refuge from greater
ills. A gir! single at 22 or 23 -was con¬
sidered an “old maid.” No woman,
except among the Society of Friends,
could be ordained to preach the gospel.
The woman physician or lawyer was
an unknown quantity.
The Women Reid Aside Their Skirts.
When Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
the first woman to graduate in medi¬
cine in this country, appeared on the
streets the women she met held aside
their skirts for fear of contamination
from so unwomanly a creature. The
bars of were and
Only the hardiest dared face the dis¬
approval of the public of that day.
But now the army of stenographers,
clerks, physicians, preachers, social
workers and business women attest the
wonderful change in her status. To¬
day, given capacity, training and perse¬
verance, there are few, if any, avenues
of legitimate endeavor closed to woman.
If now and then a few overstep the
bounds of discretion and good taste,
and thereby call down the censure of
the better element, who knows but that
it is the pendulum swinging a little far
—a rebound from the extremes of
former days. The real balance wii!
be maintained when woman is permit¬
ted to express her individuality and
to live her own life.
A Lullaby.
Hush, baby, hush!
In the west, there’s a glory
With changes - t amethyst, crimson
and yo’d---------
The Sun goes to bed like the King in
a story.
Told by a poet of old.
Hush, baby, hush!
There’s a wind on the river—
A sleepy old wind with a voice like a
And sigh,
he sings to the rushes that dream¬
ily quiver,
Down where the ripples run by.
Hush, baby, hush!
Lambs are dro wsily bleating
Down in cool meadows where daisy
buds grow;
And the echo, aweary with all day re¬
peating
Has fallen aslee.p long ago.
Hush, baby, hush!
There are katydids calling
“Good-night” to each other on every
breeze.
And the sweet baby moon has been
falling and faning,
Till now she is caught in the trees.
Hush, baby, hush!
It is time you were winging
Your way to the land that lies—no one
knows where;
It is late, baby, late; Mother’s tired
wfth singing,
Soon she will follow you there.
Hush, baby, hush!
E. O. COOKE.
COAL STRIKE PROBABLE.
MADE THREE YEARS
AGO BETWEEN MINERS AND OPE A
RA TORS ENTIRES NEXT APRIL.
Miners Will Then Demand Eight',
Hour Day and Recognition of Union. 1
Owners Will Vigorously Oppose.
i
Charles E. Korn.
•
With the coming of winter many
householder has calculated unon. thej
probability of a strike in the wheth
cite coal regions and wondered
er he should take the precaution to lay |
in a full supply of fuel. The day i
when tho provident man laid up great
stores filled for the his-larder frozen with period good of things' the j
year, with fuel, against
to eat and his bins
the inclement weather, has departed i
so far as the cities of tiffs country are j
concerned. Now riell and poor alike. ,
the provident to the merchant and the keep improvident, their lar-1 |
look to
ders filled. Their only providence is
in laying up tho money with which to
purchase supplies when needed.
It is this change in the method of
providing for the home, that lias made
tho strike in recent years so terrible
to the humble consumer, who may
live a thousand miles from the scene
of the industrial discontent and know
nothing of its causes except that
which he reads in liis daily paper, and
yet he the principal sufferer from the
shortage of supplies that follows.
The effectiveness of the strike is its
power to create such a shortage in
supplies and to bring the country up¬
on tlie verge of a famine as bad as
a food distributing famine. [Transipoirtatiou, products the by
quickly over of old
world, has routed the famine
that sprang from the failure of crops.
Now tlie cessation of labor produces
the same shortage of supply that was
formerly produced by the uncontroll¬
able elements.
The chief protection against the re¬
currence of strikes lias been found In
agreements made between employers
and employes, tlie present agreement
in the anthracite coal fields being
effective until April 1st next. Until
after that date, according to the state¬
ments of leading labor organization
officials, there will be no strike, as
they propose' to stand for the inviola¬
bility of contracts made by any of
their affiliated associations.
The good offices of the President of
the United States were used with
great advantage In bringing about an
agreement, between the coal opera¬
tors and the miners three years ago,
so as to make possible the production
of coal. The fact is the President
used only that indefinite power that
may he regarded as the influence of
his great office skillfully employed
A NEW SEA GIANT.
The new twin screw, Amerika, which
came sweeping into New York harbor
the other day, after her maiden voyage,
is one of those now leviathans of the
deep, the dimensions and appointments
of which would have petrified even the
owner of Aladdin’s lamp, had he been
able to produce such a result. The
Amerika is said to he tho largest ship
ever built for passenger service and is
a sister to the Kaiserin Auguste Vic¬
toria, now in progress of construction.
The Amerika is some 700 feet in length,
75 feet wide and over 50 feet deep. Her
capacity is’23,000 tons, which Is some¬
thing over twice the tonnage of the
famous Oregon, Captain Clarke’s great
battle ship which made the long jour¬
ney around the Horn in time to con¬
tribute to Cervera’s defeat.
Although she is a passenger ship and
has accommodation for 3,400 passen¬
gers and 600 crew, she has also a capac¬
in bringing flic two sides to the con¬
troversy together.
Wields a Great Power.
Few people understand what an im¬
mense power is wielded by the Presi¬
dent of tlie United States when that
office is tilled by a man of good judg¬
ment. The President, by issuing an
invitation to the men on both sides of
(, oal controversy under the eircum
stances that existed three years ago,
practically forced them to agree to an
of their differences, be
causp - hn ? ( ' i \ ,u ' r ,)ar *- v that vontro
rsy declined , t to enter the agreement,
would have so fully lost public syin
pa thy as to have been eventually drlv
to surrender wholly to its opponent,
in that case the power behind the
President was the power of public
opinion. Not only is public opinion,
when focussed by so skillful a hand
ns that of President Roosevelt, enpn
hie of forcing arbitration, but it is a
guarantee that the ngroo
mont when made will he kept faith
fully by both sides to the controversy,
[v| ore Drastic Measures in Reserve,
But while the office of the l’resi
dent , w ith rt !l its effective although
indefinite power to force compliance
was use d in that ease, it is a well
known fact that the President was
considering other means for forcing
an arbitration, had tlie mine opera¬
tors declined to agree to lay their
differences before a board of arbitra¬
tion. The President not only lias well
defined powers that are constantly ex¬
ercised, and with which the people are
fully acquainted, but he has other still
more important powers which lie can
exercise at his discretion in cases of
great emergency, and which it was un¬
derstood at the time of tlie great an¬
thracite coal strike he considered
using in order to bring relief to the
shivering multitudes of the land. He
may do many things for the “public
good.” That is an indefinite term
allowing a wide interpretation, but
there are many people who believe
that had the coal strike of li>02 contin¬
ued a little longer tlie President would
have declared martial law in the
anthracite regions, and not only would
have thrown troops into Hint section,
hut would have ordered the mining of
the coal and its distribution to relieve
the distress of the country.
But, according to assurances that
have been given to the public, the
country is safe from a coal famine, at
• fast until April 1st, 1000. Then there
Will be another meeting between the
ufinet’s and the coal operators and the
minors will demand both . .........
hour day and the recognition of their
e o'on. Tlie recognition of their union
will be resisted by the mine owners
to the last, and while it seems lint a
sentimental issue it will be insisted
upon by the miners, and it may event¬
ually be made the cause of another
strike. One thing which may be
borne in mind is that in case of a
strike, the public, in tin* last anal N
pays all the costs.
ity of 16,000 tons of cargo. She can
carry 2,300 steerage passengers, but
she has also provision for passenger:
who have a little money to spend. One
of her “Imperial” suites for a voyage,
affording accommodation for six peo
pie, can he secured for $2,500, or an
average of about $60 a day for each
person.
One of the novelties of the Amerika
is the electric passenger elevator which
whisks the passengers up and down be¬
tween the five decks of the ship. A
Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus
found on the Amerika has now become
an established feature of all large mod
ern vessels.
The Amerika, while not designed, it
Is stated, to he a record-breaker in
speed, is driven by quadruple expan¬
sion engines of over 15,000 horse power
and is scheduled to make the trip
across in seven days.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
THE HUMAN FLY.
REMARKABLE EXPLOIT OF AWN.
ING HANGER WHO CLIMBS
TALL BUILDINGS.
Witnessed by Gaping Multitude, He
Ascended and Descended the Tow¬
ering “ Flatiron.”— Wife and Child¬
ren Among Nervous Spectators.
There is a man \t ncTclimbs the outer
walls of tho highest buildings and
who uses neither rope, tackle nor scal¬
ing ladder. This man does not tell of
liis daring feats, nor has ho a press
agent to exploit his dizzy achieve¬
ments. He performs this work in view
of gaping multitudes who cheer and
shudder as tills man goes up sheer
walls, digging his tough and nimble
toes into the interstices of the stone,
catching a cornice or a window sill
and “chinning” himself up and d i ng
other most venturesome acrobatic
TUB FLATIRON BUILDING,
feats. The name of this man is John
Garrick, and he is called “The Hu¬
man Fly.” His occupation is hanging
mid removing awnings. To do his work
he simply walks up and down the out¬
side of buildings while other workmen
go from story to story by means of the
stairway or the elevator.
John Garrick before ho took up tho
trade of awning hanging was a sailor.
He followed (he sea from boyhood to
manhood, and during his service on
deep-sea sailing ships ho learned to
climb and cultivated his nerve.
A few days ago he was engaged in
removing awnings from the Flatiron
ouilding, in New York. Broadway was
choked with people watching Uie Hu¬
man Fly at work. Incredible an it
may seem, he climbed the sheer wall
of that building from pavement to cor¬
nice, two hundred and eighty-six feet
and down again.
Five years ago Garrick married
Naturally Ills wife wished him to quit
sea-faring. He got employment as an
awning hanger and in that capacity he
marie his climbing skill pay. Though
married five years his wife has never
seen him at his work of scaling the
outside of tall buildings until he un¬
dertook the removal of awnings from
the windows of the towering Flatiron
building. “Until that time,” said the
lady to a reporter, "1 never saw him
at the work. I knew he was removing
awnings from the Flatiron building,
so 1 went over to Manhattan to meet
him yesterday afternoon, and I took
our two children, Lawrence, two and a
half years old, and Hazel, four years
old. and waited for John iu front u£
the Bartholdi Hotel. Of course I
never thought John would climb that
frightfully tall building. 1 was stand¬
ing there when one of the workmen,
who knows me, came over and said:
‘Your husband will be with you soon,
he’s just coming from the ninth story
now.’ 1 thought he meant John would
lie comil.g by the elevator, so 1 didn’t
look up to the windows.
“The workman told me to look up. I
did, and 1 nearly fainted, for there
was my husband with his hands on the
sill of a window on the ninth story
and his toes in the groves between tho
stones. 1 grew dizzy and wanted to
turn away.
“Something held me fascinated,
though, and I watched him coming
down in a sort of criss-cross fashion
as quickly as a man would run down
a ladder. I said to Lawrence, ‘There’s
your papa,’ and the baby laughed and
dapped his hands with joy. Ho didn't
understand the danger, but Hazel did,
and she began to cry. 1 couldn’t look
any longer and I turned my head
away, but 1 could hear the noise of
the great crowd that was watching
him. 1 looked again, thinking ho
must be on the sidewalk by this time.
Imagine my horror when 1 saw he Bad
started climbing upward after 1 had
turned away, and was then just up to
the cornice. He looked like a little
black fly against the white stone. He
waved one hand and then began to
move down. 1 watched him, but some¬
times closed my eyes when it seemed
that lie had made a misstep. The
crowd was so great that when he
swung down to one of the store awn¬
ings 1 could only see him drop off and
disappear into the maze of men gath¬
ered about.”
THE WEATHER l<OECASTS.
In Spite of Ralleries the Government
sh’H Remarkably Accurate.
jr cent, or ana (, u ,u
L. Moore, in an interview, is
the record of the Weather Bureau Not
only is this proportion lower than i u
any foreign bureaus, hut in ten years
not a criticism of its work, he adds,
lias come from any commercial, mari¬
time or scientific organization. Cer¬
tainly, if it does what It sets out. to
do, eighty-five times out of a hundred,
the weather service ought to enjoy an
enviable degree of popular esteem.
What praise would be showered on a
Congress that acted unwisely only 15
per cent, of the time!
in spite of tho constant gibes di¬
rected at the Weather Bureau, there la
undoubtedly among farmers and ship¬
pers an underlying sentiment of friend¬
liness and confidence. It has grows
into a national joke that the forecasts
are always wrong, just as Bostonians
Jive invariably on beans and Philadel¬
phians are always lethargic. But these
whimsical articles of faith do not in
the least affect anyone’s practical at¬
titude toward a forecast, a Bostonian,
or a Philadelphian.
A contributing cause to the railing
at the weather bureau Is the activity
of tho long-range prophets. The su¬
perior usefulness of a forecast for next
month over one for to-morrow being
manifest, even sheer guesswork for
the former period is preferred by thou¬
sands to a scientific determination for
the latter. Recently a moneyed indi¬
vidual offered a substantial prize for
the best weather prophecy six months
ahead. If the Government bureau
should try for that ami win It—and it
ought to be able to guess as well as
anybody—it would become tho most
popular Institution in the country.
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