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COPYRIGHT,ISOf.BY HELEN F.MEARS
shown at its worst. Compared with it
—thin lipped, hawk beaked, cruel—an
American declares a “hedge fence” is
a thing of beauty.
Donald, lived for a time in the United
States.. They came here in 1775 and
settled in Fayetteville, X. C. There
British lion on guard. On the left is a i stands with her right hand shading
female figure with its right arm raised,! her eyes, her face bent intently for-
depositing a wreath at the feet of Vic- j ward, as if she were scanning the sea
toria.. | to watch for the coming of the ship of
Of the four monuments in Great P.ri- I Prince Charlie,
tain to women not of royal birth, but! The other Scotchwoman who has a
who were' somebody on -their own ac- ' monument to her memory is . Burns’
count, two are in Scotland. They are ; Highland Mary.' % *
in honor of women made immortal by! The golden hours on angels’ wings
Scotland’s two greatest literary men, j Flew o’er me and my dearie,
Robert Bums and Walter Scott. The j For dear to me as life and light
Scott heroine was daring, devoted ; Was ay sweet Highland Mary.
Flora McDonald, the beautiful Jac.obite: Sweet Highland Mary was Mary
who hid Prince Charlie in the isle of Campbell, a milkmaid. She and Burns
Skye, where she herself died in 1780. parted for the last time in May, 17S6.
Few Americans are aware that' Flora and six months later gentle Highland
catcher of a train for a considerable
distance’. She had an understanding
with the engineer,' who at. a signal from
iwr . lowed the train enough for her to
i'jmp off. She did this and tied her
skirt to a -mail tree, shouting, “This
is my ciaim." She held it.
One of tit-- most enthusiastic mem
bers of-the Craftsman community at
Pee r neid. Mass., is Mrs. Madeline Tale
Wvnn. who has developed, as an in
teresting specialty, hand wrought metal
fork "While the work is in a sense
a renaissance of the aft of centuries
ago, the creative instinct is so mani
fest and the designs are fo o r )gj na i ft
may be said that Mrs. Wynn has open
ed a new field in art work for women.
Mrs. Mary Eiitch Long owns and
manages the Denver (Colo.) zoological
garden. It includes a tract of twenty
acres, well stocked with foreign birds,
beasts and reptiles.
Last year Miss Carolyn Le» received
$600 for designs and ideas for Christ
mas toys
Miss Margaret C. Daly, belonging to '
the women garment workers' trades
marry
Miss France? Zerbey. lawyer, of
Schuylkill county. Pa., has been ad
mitted to practice in the Pennsylvania
supreme court.
Miss Nanette Daisy was the first wo.
man 'o file a fiaim :n Oklahoma Ter
ritory in !$$“. She- lode'urdu the cow- 1
i S&c&j^wciv ,the Indian ScoutQ
T HERE are not many of them.*
In franco only one great wo-j
man, Joan of Arc, has been
commemorated in sculpture, j
nut the French race, full of romance
and emotion, thrilling in response to;
artistic suggestion of any kind, has!
built here and there all over France!
memorials to its snint, ‘deliverer and!
heroine, the Maid of Domremy.
One of the most famous is the re-
tiiarknldc <■iiiii-.-tri.iii .-..itiic upon the
street corner near the Tuileries gar- |
dens in Paris. It Is shown in the pic
ture here giten. This monument is be- I
lieved to represent more nearly than
any other the Maid as she must have
looked leading the French to battle.
She undoubtedly wore man’s dress and
bestrode a war charger. To the
French she seemed an angel come
doeyn from heaven to lead them to
victory, and perhaps a divine power
and intelligence were there, invisible,
Inspiring her to such deeds as,no man
of any time ever yet achieved.
Statues of the Maiel. in France, rep
resent her in .every phase" of her pure,
tragic young Jife—in prison in the
tower at Rouen (that grim old gray
tower still stands), on horseback and
even as the "martyr chained to the
stake, with the horrible flames rising
around her, her rapt face showing that
still she listens to her true voices and
that they still speak to her inner ear.
At Rouen a stone in the pavement of
the market place shows the very spot
where Joan of Arc was burned to death
for freeing a nation. Rouen also has a
statue of the Maid, erected in the
Place de la Pucelle d’Orleans. The in
scription upon its pedestal declares her
to have been:
“In Sex a Woman, In Arms a Man,
In Fortitude a Hero.”
The men take up all the rest of the
marble and bronze.
In all. Great Britain, apart from 1
sculptured images of England’s not
overhandsome queens, there- are pub
lic monuments to only four women.
Of British queens, Victoria was un
doubtedly the comeliest. In West
minster is a sort of effigy of Queen
Elizabeth reviewing her troops. Prob
ably the great queen’s face is there
Rather small and piulul women in
our time f’em after that, don t they?
How about monuments to American
women ?
Well, in the Corcoran gallery at
Washington are several beautiful por
trait busts of distinguished American
women, among them Elizabeth Cady
Stanton. Susan B. Anthony and Lu-
cretia Mott. They are the work of
Adelaide. Johnson, who has recently
completed a portrait bust of Ella
Wheeler Wilcox.
But as for public monuments to wo
men. there are. or shortly will be. the
same number as Great Britain has—
four. I may say that two of these f-'ur
who are illustrious enough to have
statues erected to their memory are
red women, Sacajawea and Pocahontas.
American woman, flattered by the
newspapers as the "best dressed" of
her sex? The monument to Pocahontas
How does that strike the great white
is in charge of an association that ex
pects to have it unveiled at the
Jamestown exposition.
Come to think, memorial material is
pretty scarce among white American
women. Xonp ever rose to the height
of a historic romance, none was ever
a great poet's'love, for we never had
a poet of the first rank. We are. a
prosaic nation. No historic love, no
romance, no genius, except perhaps just
the genius for helping humanity, the
kind anybody may develop. That is
no doubt the reason so few people do
develop it. Among the very few
American women who have shown
really superb qualities, let me call your
attention again to "the fact that two
were Indian squaws.
Of the four monuments to great
American women the three already
finished have been dedicated within the
last four years. Two of them were
built by the generous state of Illinois.
One, that of Frances E. Willard, is in
statuary hall at the capitol In Wash
ington. But in all the 130 years since
this republic was started, Frances Wil
lard is the only woman who ever got
there. The statue of the eloquent wo
man reformer was made by handsome
Helen Farnsworth Hears of New York.
The other statue erected by Illinois
to a woman is at Galesburg. It is a
memorial to great hearted Mary Bick
er ’yke, the first civil war woman nurse.
“Greater love hath no man than this—
that a man lay down his life for his
friends!” A thousand times pother
Bicker'yke risked hrr life for her
“boys," on the battlefield, in camp with
the sick and dying, and on the march.
•s the reason Burns always loved her- At Chiekamauga it 'is told of her that
because she died. Her monument is at s he walked about all night on the field
Dunoon, on the shore of the Firth of In the rain, hunting up the wounded
Clyde: The simple peasant dress she ari( * that she saved the lives of seveial
wore is reproduced in the figure on the t wbo ba< * been ft ^ or dead,
monument. Mother Bicker!yke’S monument -was
In England Dora Patterson; the fa-I modeled by Mrs. T. A. Ruggles Kitson
of philanthropy j of Boston.
they lived till 1790, when they, returned { mous “Sister Dora"
India has a magnificent memorial j to Scotland. | and sick nursing, has a monument j Then there is the statue of Saea-
statue of Queen Victoria, recently The monument to Flora McDonald.! erected in her honor at Walsall, where jawea, the wonderful squaw guide' who
erected. There is also an imposing one! who never allowed .one of her family I she lived and labored am -ng the poor piloted the Lewis and Clark expedition
in Ottawa, Canada. The good queen j to speak of George III. as “king,” is at j and suffering and taught so many from the upper Mississippi to the Co
stands upon a lofty pedestal, at the foot j Inverness. It: is of' heroic size,
of which, on the statue’s right, is the) pedestal lifts, it high. Flora McDonald
A! Sairey Gamps and Betsy Prigs to be lumbia river, all the way carrying her
Id neat, skillful and humane. Sister Dora papoose upon her back. Just so she
was inspired to her mission by the ex- j is seen in Alice Cooper’s statue of her,
ample of Florence Nightingale, who unveiled at Portland during the Lewis
still lives, while Dora Patterson, the and Clark exposition. It was erected
younger woman, is. dead. I by western women.
On Paddington Green, London, is a : Next?
beautiful monument to the great Sargh j
Siddons. She is imaged in a sitting !
posture, wearing gjassic drapery, chin i
resting in the palm of her left hand.!
The statue was unveiled by Henry Irv- !
ing in 1897. Hazlitt said of Mrs. Sid
dons:
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
NOT TOO OLD AT SEVENTY.
Mary Wheatland, a Bognor (England)
woman, evoked much enthusiasm the
past season by her exhibition pf fancy
“She was not less, than a goddess or! swimming and diving in the sea. Trie
a prophetess inspired by the gods, extraordinary part of the affair is tiiat
Power was seated on her brow, passion the active swimmer is seventy-two and
radiated from her breast as from a has been a bathing woman for fifiy-
McDonald and her husband, Allen Me- Mary passed from earth. Perhaps that shrine; sho was tragedy personified.” ] seven years.
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HAVE always maintained that the
woman who buys too many
gowns at once makes a serious
mistake. This spring more than
i-vi-r before one can bo perfectly well
dressed with only two costumes.
Yes. I mean it! Very well dressed
too.
One gown will naturally be a tailor
made of the coat and s'kirt order, the
other a plain dress with a little taffeta
coat to match.
I would suggest for the tailor made a
black and white checked goods or else
one of those light novelty weaves sug
gesting iron
gray. It is a I
mistake to sup- j
pose they are
not practical. If
the gray is of a
medium tone it
keeps clean
looking almost
indefinitely, and I
it has the ad- I
vantage that it j
does not fade
and grow sliab- 1
by looking like ,
the blues. 1
browns and
greens. >
I have a light,
A tailor tr.ndr ot the tvat gray. mannish
and skirt order. material, tailor
made which l
have worn three years, and it is so |
practical that I can wash the skirt in
the tub! The jack, t I have cleaned
merely on account of the lining. With
a costume of this sort a tailor made
hat of straw in the "burnt" shade Is
most practical, or one of the flower
trimmed sailors is very pretty with the I
sheer while blouses so much in vogue.
For a belt—ami i; is a mistake to buy
a cheap on<—there are any number of
novelties in elastic, studded with steel
points or in suede and glace kid beau
tifully fitted.
Now for the other dress. This is to i
be worn on oca.-ions where a shirt
waist or sepal at blouse is not desir- !
able.
Veiling is perhaps the smartest and;
most durable material If possible ttie!
cut should be prim-ess. as ml- is tin
correct style it ;-r- ■-». r.t. The y.',n ami
und< rsit- ves . ■ \ :,-f . ny i-r ;;v la.-
blue would be prettiest carried out in
this manner.
Speaking of reddish brown, I want to
remark that a lot of it is to be worn
again this summer. Last season when
I was at; Newport I commented on the
number of brown parasols and brown
.hats worn with all white costumes.
Well, this year you will see quite as
many. Brown is very becoming to
American women.
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Just a* present the thd seems to be
the reddish brown lace veil drawn
tightly over the face and clasped with
a fancy ljin at the base of the neck, al
lowing the heavily embroidered ends
to fall down the back.
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A great many foulards will be worn,
and if you we.nt an extra dress this is
very pretty.
I am in love, however, with the new
lingerie models, and these, by the way,
are being ustd for afternoon wear in
the house right now. They are the
most wonderful combinations of Ger
man valendcnnes ar.cl heavy embroid
ery you can imaglrt:. They are nearly
all made in one piece and are designed
to wear over princess slips of taffeta
or china silk in pale pink, white or
blue.
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I am tokl that colored linen morning
frocks, with colored linen parasols tu
match—are to be the latest wrinkle
with the advent of warm weather and
that some people with'plenty of money
-od canvas shoes
to match. I
should imagine
this would look
rather smart.
Floppy felt |
hats in all the i
pale shades are
being worn just
now while wait- 1
ing for the
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percentages in New York. Mention! him and (as I supposed) followed me.
you intend to go shopping and perhaps About a mile farther on I began to no-
one of your acquaintances will suggest tice aNlonely quality about the clatter
that you go with her; she has a per- of my horse’s hoofs, and when I reined
eentage at certain shops. Your milli- up on a small hilltop I discovered I
ner will slip you a card of the dress- was absolutely alone.
'maker who made" the wonderful eel-' With horrible visions of my friend
skin princess she is wearing, while the lying mangled and dead. I turned and
young woman who fits you at the glove rode like—well, we will pass up the
counter whispers that she knows a simile! Small boys yelled as I clatter-
dandy place to buy furs. j ed under the bridge; a big splash of
And to use a slang expression. “They ] mud hit me in the eye. Still I rushed
all get theirs.”
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Of all the cantankerous creatures
givp me a riding school horse.
A riding school horse has ideas, and
that state of affairs is fatal to the com
fort of its rider.
In Central park, New York, there arc-' cou ]d
I on. Nothing doing! No one in sight.
In an agony of apprehension I dash-
■ ed into the academy. “Has Newport
(the horse’s name. I did not dare to
ask for her!) come in yet?” I demanded.
The groom looked a little queer.
“Yes, ma’am,” he answered.
And there stood the horse as meek as
two bridle paths, one being the Ion
way around, and the riding school
horses have a well founded aversion to
doing too much work.
The other day two of us started off,
and when trotting along,
be, and there against the wall
tee-uppity, in the most delightful man
Tiro of us started off.
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CAMILLE CLIFFORD, THE ORIGINAL GIBSON GIRL ——
It is said that Camille Clifford, the pretty, graceful American actress who was married last October, in London,
to Hon. Lyndhurst Bru. . is the original of the type made popular by Charles Dana Gibson in his pen and ink
iV.iif-.r.ci ’ns. The you:..: woman’s figure in the quaint silhouette is quite of the present day fashionable shape,
body but a woman can judge how much it owes to the "straight front.” Unhappiness seems in store for
:V< :d. Lord Aberdare, whose son and heir she wedded quite against the noble lord's wishes, continues
angry over the marriage that it is said, again, he has turned the young man out without a penny, and
:!y lion. Lyn'i'r.mst Bruce has to earn his own living, which never comes easy to the son of a lord. Young
nld act on King Edward's suggestion and learn to be a first class cook.
leaned my friend, white as a sheet.
She gripped my arm fiercely. "Don’t
you tell a living s-oul,’’ she gasped. "He
wheeled twelve times right there In the
road, and then he cracked up his heels,
tee-uppity ant j j ] et ^im t a ko me home!”
The next time we go out together wo
shall not settle on any particular des
tination for fear that the horses may
decide differently.
It is up to them!
There’s a new type of woman abroad
in the land, and the close wad of a
husband is responsible for her.
She sends things home C. O. D. or on
the installment plan.
In one case I actually know of wifey
wanted a grand piano, cost a thousand
dollars.
ner possible, lo and behold, my horse Did she ask him for it?
bolts at the turning of the ways, and How innocent you are! Nay!. Nay!
after bucking and giving a wild west She bought it on the installment
exhibition suddenly decides to take the plan—paid $100 down, and when he
straight road home, and that quickly, came home from a little trip to Chi-
As every time I argued It with him he : cago, behold, the lovely piano in the
up with his heels, I agreed with him ; parlor and $900 for him to pay.
promptly. He growled something awful, but ho
I rode back into the academy, took ! couldn't afford to send it back. He
another horse, and we started out
again. You should have heard the jeers
of the woman friend who was with me.
She fairly rolled around in her saddle
with merriment. “You are a fine horse
woman,” she finally gasped, “to let
your horse take you home when he is
ready. Tee-hee! Tee-hee! ”
I explained wrathfully that I did not
wish to hit the “ ’ard ’ighway.” But
she kept on making fun of me.
This time we started the opposite
way around, and from the first it ap
peared that this manner of proceeding
excited the disdain of her animal. He
snorted, picked up his feet extra high
and showed other evidences of extreme
disapproval. Suddenly, biffety bang!
He rushed up a small turning and
turned his ears toward his beloved
stable. His rider immediately checked
paid.
What is more, he became impatient
at the installments and paid, to use his
own language, “for the whole blooming
thing at once.”
Only he didn’t say "blooming.” High
ly elated with her success, the lady
subsequently procured an antique ma
hogany dresser and a set of sables in
the same way.
Why doesn’t her h.usbtfnd divorce
her?
Foolish you! While groaning under
her cleverness, he admires It too much!
Ha£.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The precious store’ known as the ’ proya! on the new
Alexandrite—so caiied because Alex- for she is showing
truer I. of Russia was a great admirer —in her determir
of It—resembles an emerald -, n natural her horse Women cabbies are willing I
light and in amethyst in candle light, to drive men. hut they prefer to have j ci
It Is fund in India. women passengers.
"hen .i well dressed man snatched A personal friend, after visiting Ma- : of
' : c: ■ o Rizzo: s i-ur.-v in a Phila-j rie Corelli at her home in Woodhall fe
t *' : 1 :l : 'he u 1 pried with him ! Si a. Lincolnshire. England, wrott thus ' at
an h ! ! :i" the ; came. entertainingly of her -gh- is slighi of - p:
For the Prevention of! figure, prettily dressed and has soft. ; >-p
Cruel:} \ni;::al- ! " ill beam with op- golden brown hair clustering over her i
union of New York city, was recently
received as a delegate from her organi
zation by the Central Federated union.
She is the only woman who has ever
appeared as delegate at a meeting of
the C. F. U.
The National Congress of Mothers'
has started a magazine for mothers.
Miss Elsie Lincoln Vandqgrift re
ceived first prize in an oratorical con
test at ibe University of Denver, and
Misr Adah Fraser Throop took a pri?*’
of $50 in an oratorical contest at Han
over college in Indiana.
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