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f Frances E.Wilhrd . I Statuary Hftll.WasMiigtoi 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. b a 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. »» a? 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. v, 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. »► ** 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 Either for tngllk g>.e,c V/ -f-i > w V 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.” «? 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. era. iT-Vcr 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. INDISTINCT PRINT t k.