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Msorre Corelli
Countess ©fYVkrwick
A NEW fad Is out among fashlon-
b!e women. It Is the forming
of no talkee clubs. It is said
to have broken loose first in
Ansonia, Conn., the town of clocks
Maybe the eternal striking of clocks
showed the ladies of Ansonia what
nuisance eternal clatter is. Who knows?
The name of the organization is said
to be the Silence club, with a large S.
Primarily Its aim—so ’tls said, again—
Is to improve the health and beauty of
•Its members by giving them and inci-
dentally'other people a rest. Incessant
chatter disturbs the psychic atmos
phere. harrows up fair ladies’ nerves
and brings into fair ladies’ faces pre
maturely those monster enemies, wrin
kles. It is to be observed that wrin
kles always come into women's faces
prematurely. Then, too. another object
of the Silence club Js to improve mem
bers' voices by siting their tongues di
vine repose. Somebody has remarked
that the harsh, strident quality cl
American women’s voices is due to th»
fact that they talk so much they strain
their vocal organs.
Came From the Orient.
Tim id': i of the So nor- > 1-ih poems to
have originated with Mrs. Stephen A
Goss of Ansonia, who went recently to
Japan on her honeymoon trip. She no
ticed the rare repose of the enchanting
little chrysanthemum women. There is
about them a fascination that even
women of western nations feel. Mrs.
Goss, a highly intellectual woman and
close observer, concluded that the tiny
Jap women are so sweet and bright
largely because they do not talk much.
The tense, anxious fldgetiness of Awer-
of silence and quiet. George Sand, so
great that few of her own sex as yet
are sufficiently developed to understand
or appreciate her. used to sit afternoon
following afternoon in the summer days
in her garden talkless, voiceless, leaves
dropping upon her, light beams circling
and shifting aiour.d her as the sun
moved down to the .west. She was
thinking, thinking. Then when night
fell and all the rest of the world was
rapt in sleep the author of "Consuelo"
passed on through her pen the mystical
inspiration that had gathered in her
brain during her hours of silence.
Sarah Grand wrote “The Heavenly
Twins” alone in the country, shutting
herself away from all the world. Mriic.
Curie, the most illustrious woman sci
entist of many centuries,- is a wonmn so
shy and silent that few persons have
ever known her intimately—no one per
haps save her little daughter and the
husband who was her true working
mate through years of poverty and ob
scurity.
An illustrious Example:.
I have been singularly impressed with
the story of an American woman writ
er already distinguished, though stii!
very young. Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, i
Handsome, born to wealth and the best j
social position, married to a multimil- ;
lionaire. there was every inducement j
for her to become one of the most bril
liant lights of the fashionabie world. |
Yet she turned away from it ail to live
quietly and write. At first, under the
characterizes Japanese women. She many of our sex. by excessi* - talking. I quite the contrary, indeed—for women is only hearsay, but such distinguished' passionate inspiration of a happy and,
does not talk much; she does not strain We wiH talk no more than is nee.' * ry, I to pin down their friends and pour out society ladies as Mrs. Reginald C. Van- ' fortunate love, she wrote some of the |
lean women is enilreiv k . , . herself to appear vivacious and enter- j and as often as it is possible ‘.u|by the hour a tale of troubles and derbilt and Miss Gladys Deacon are 1 sweetest love lyrics ever penned by ail |
Tenaneoe v rrtTo, lfle taining. Her nerves are sound; her , refrain from talking altogether.” (physical ailments. Think, O woman, reported to be prominent members .1, American. Later, after she r.as mar-;
1 : - e *“ r,s :ire nature is large and calm. She suggests j Bravo! In general, if they set their | how much boredom and suffering the the Order of the Silent. Not for noth- ' ried and her babies were about her. she j
Japanese, the eternal restfulness ir» oriental heads to it, women will be astonished human family would be spared if you ing apparently have so called “New wrote stories and poems of childhood (
Mrs. JBeom^Id
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Great Britain, Lady Beatrice Pole-Ca- I “We reswnnr mat we will not mar our 1 claims to be only thirty. Neither Is It 1 quality of their voices, making these
rew. Is marked by the same repose as beauty and impair our health, as do necessary to-,' anybody’s happiness-- smooth, vibrant and sweet. Again, it
Evert
without the giggling habit.
Vow' w-?oJ ml Ansonte Silence club, as it is an alleged | It is not at all necessary to the well The Secret Order of the Silent has j time. 1 talk.
h * v / comes to mink of it, secret order, though all the world: being of Mrs. Harman for Mrs. Car- j also gained a foothold in New York! Jesting quite aside, it is certain that 1 Silence? There is Infinite power in
Hr voto tho 1 P ° P ?” to V;now nbo ’ Jt it. One hears’man to tell her that Miss Fnrman is 1 society. Its members aim to improve all the lives of the world's greatest wo- just being still and letting the silly
c t. * i .1 woman n , that its foundation stone is this: 1 forty years old if a day when she, their health, beauty and, above all, the men have been marked by long periods world shoot off its mouth all around
you and worry itseif into a teapot tern*
pest and wear its nerves out. More
and more the wise are learning the
strength there is in shutting out the
■ fussy, fretted outward thought and
i holding the mind in stillness and peace.
! The proprietor of a big factory In
' which many girls- work is at present-
{ hiring all the deaf mutes he can find
j as employees. He says they concen
trate their minds' on what they are
j about and do more work than those cn-
[ dowed with speech and are altogether
< more peaceable. Really it almost seems,
! does it not, that the power of speech is
1 somewhat of a drawback?
| Some of the Other Sort.
| On the other hand, we may point If.
! every direction to awful examples of
i people who talk too much. There might
i be named literary ladies who are in the
! attitude of armed hostility because or.o
criticised the .other's personal appear-
' once. That is perhaps to a woman a
far deadlier offense than criticising her
, literary style.
There, too, is the fascinating. Count
ess of Warwick engaged in incessant
talkee-talkee. preaching socialism, liv
ing like a lord. What a mighty mim
provement a dose of “sitting in the Si
lence” world be to her! What a relief
to, say, her husband! There are the
American women who accomplish some
fecb'.e achievement a little cut of the
common run for one of their sex. How
they jump about and make a cack'o
over it! One care not guess.how many
hundred "first and only*’ women to do
this, that and the other thing there ere
at present in thus country. Every state
has two or three.
Finally there is that conspicuously
brilliant example of always "shooting
her mouth” and always being in hat
water. Miss Marie Corel!!. Maybe her
books might not be advertised so wide
ly, but what a rest to her nervous sys
tem—and the public's—it would be i!'
she, too, practiced going into silence,
say, nice or twice a year. That, how
ever, is most too much to expect of a
woman who has talked her way.into
public notice so successfully as lias
Marie.
ELIZA AKCHAKD CONNER
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ll,f ‘ crcI J t ', , , .... looking at things as thej were in the is another acquaintance of mine who is
f" r * I '','1 Ch day ? °? lK : r you } h - ot ! t!le days oi her forever ripping up her house. One
1 ,l * mothers lime if she is <i younger wo- , room After a.not^ or "hnrpg hpr ** nc ciia
Deliver me from the narrow minded ; man. * expr esses it an
creature who believes old days were ; The only thing to do is to let her live from top to’bot-
the best, who bewails the depravity of in a little musty world of her own. ! torn. The sm-.Il
modern times, pins her f.*ith to condi-| Then take the other extreme, the wo-! 0 f paint is never
lions of life which have grown impossi- man who wants the world made over i nf the ho.-ce
J People fresh every day. She h almost as bad. | and if you go
there for a
,0 Mre L-orn <*t>
I expresses it, and she changes it round
ble and looks at up
(young ones especially)
any crisis arises in wh
iskar.ee! When except that even perpetual motion is
-h a woman of' preferable to stagnation. I know a wo-
pleasant after
noon call it is
just as well to
arm yourself
with a tiny bot-
tl*e of turpentine
to take the
streaks off your
coat. She is
forever paper
ing or putting
up curtains or
indulging in. fed:
some other in- , .
terior decoration staniIi ” a lad '
stunt. Her pa-
ject warrants it.)
Why do so many stenographers spell
in hit or miss style with one eye all the
time cn the junior partner? Do they
c. re • anything about their progress in
j stenography? No; but their progress
toward matrimony—yes! They have
come from some country town fondly
believing that in New York all things
are possible. ■ A few cheap novels have
fostered the notion, and they will
change around from badly filled posi
tion to still worse filled position until
they become convinced that the mem
bers-of the firm do not, as a rule, look
for wives among Its female employees.
I want to say right now that the
matrimonial chances of the ordinary
girl who comes to New York without
social introductions are nil. I have
known and do know many charming
New York men.. They are the excep
tions to what I am going to state, buL
the average New York young man in
the first place does not wish to marry
at all and in the second place if he
Ever,'—nan-s-d woman knows the type. I At the sound of that sharp click, so
It ravi-Iy hi 3 about young girls, as doubtedly imported (for domes!H
there is notlvi j to be gained by wast- gnettes don’t open that way*' *he
ing time with i hem: j great man of the place him sc. wr.ies 1 gratifying!
I have kno».v one of these grafters forward, rubbing his hands Wi J i> invis-j
send to France for something In the
tapestry line for my town house.
Would that all my belongings were as
KATE CLYDE.
to “drop in” on a
on an average ot '
the. husband's wit
tient, long suffering husband, when he ■ does tie himself for life it is to a girl
comes home to find her standing on a j with a -littie money of her own and
stepladder with the signs of another some social position.
Sipping the hushand’s wine.
“ruction” in "the air, merely sighs, takes
up his hat and coat and departs for a
quiet evening at the club.
And Still Another.
Then another progressive member of
the sex leaves her house severely alone,
but is forever joining clubs and move
ments for the suppression of this and
the consolidation of that until it would
seem as if the entire world was going
to be made over at her hands.
There is little doubt that she would
climb an extra long ladder into heaven
to reorganize that if it could be done.
As for the “other place,” she has suc
cessfully disposed of it by a masterly
pamphlet proving that it does not exist.
So much for her!
Sad, but True.
Every now and then you read in a
magazine or paper a pathetic article on
the scarcity of matrimonial chances in
small villages. You are told how the
! male element marches away to the
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA VICTORIA OF SLESWICK-HQLSTEiN. :F reat cities, and a large harvest of old
. maids-who-never-had-a-chance are left
Fair ar.-l youthful is Princess Alexandra Victoria of Sleswick-Holstein, in its wake. Sad, oh, sad. indeed, is
who is the betr ufied of August W ilhelm, fourth son of the emperor of Ger- j this state of affairs, my sister, if you
many. Prime August Wilhelm is very much in love with his pretty fiancee, believe woman’s whole life goes for
He Is the ; r who. at ;he mandate of his Imperial father, will take a course naught unless she is married! But the
of study at l-.arvsrd university r.-.-xt year. He insisted that his forma! be- remedy is worse than the disease. The
iroth.ti to Pi ir.ee?s Alexandra should take place before he left home for deserted women are now flocking to the [ which,, thank goodness, is almost limit-
Amo: - a, h st oilier -.eilow steal his beloved from hint while he was away, large cities, particularly New York, in j ed to this particular town.
It is a pretty romance. j their turn (I am quoting from statis-1 I refer to the young man grafter.
ffykhZvyji up. he is bound
\-i >0’ V §\ to call “by acci-
dent.” When cf
course common
politeness de
mands lie should
be asked to
join.
Little snubs or
“not at homes"
don’t worry him.
He simply smiles
sweetly and
waits a chance
, , ,, , to worm himself
The great man of the place. . ..
comes forward. into the hou ^ e '
hold some other
time. The latest achievement of a graft
er of this sort with whom I am acquaint
ed was to drop in on an after dinner
New YjorkisThe worst place on ehrth (jollification, get himself included in the
married couple ible soap, to inquire whether tney may j
re a week, sipping
smoking his good
cigars and flirt
ing with his
wife. If any din
ner or enter
tainment crops
for a young -woman to come to who ; theater party and the supper afterward
possesses neither of these essentials, j a t a prominent restaurant and never
and hundreds of girls are proving it j even contribute one red penny to the
every year by- a series of heartbreaking j entertainment.
experiences. The host, a long suffering man, made
If you want, to get married, little! up his mind when Mr. Grafter thanked
country girl, don’t come to a great city ■ him for a "pleasant evening’s enter-
which is not of the "marrying kind.’’ j tainment” that he would be "out” to
Your chances are ten times as great at that particular young man from then
home, where you are known and re- j till the judgment day, even if the par
lor shades .were up and he were actu-
spected, or in almost any other part of
the United States, for the matter of
that.
A Worthies# Type.
While I am on the subject of New
York men I want to mention a type
ally seen sitting by his own fireside.
And there are legions of young men
like that in this town who never give
or do a thing and grab all they can
get. It is a type, as I remarked be
fore, peculiar to New York.
Armed For Conquest.
I have a lorgnette which Is a great
help to me. I bought it in Paris, and !
it looks the part, being of solid gold j
hand worked. Whenever I stroll into j
an "expensive” shop—let us say a Fifth j
avenue upholsterer’s, where a man in I
livery opens the door, don’t you know. I
and all that sort of thing—I glide In
with an assured tread, stand for one
moment in the dimly lit luxurious in
terior, and then, with a click which can With her co-star in Shakespearean parts, E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlow,
be heard away back in the velvety In- is now making a theatrical tour in England. These stars recently made
terior of the room, I fix a cool stare their first appearance in the new Waldorf theater. London. During the past
through my gold lorgnette on the most season Miss Marlowe has been starring in the noted play of "John the 13a;,-
expensive bit of Aubusson tapestry tist,” taking the part of Salome, daughter of Herodias. Though generally
there. I considered an American, this distinguished actress is English by birth.
JULIA MARLOWE.
ITEMS GF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Miss Susie J. Brayton is a veterinary) Holm, stands foremost. She was the
surgeon and extrc.u-Uy skillful at per-
f. l ining operations or* horses, dogs and
Other animals
For the third time Miss Rose L. Fritz
has won the national typewriting
championship, this time with ?., t j
words in thirty minutes. ”00 words
setter than the last record.
Among the native writers of Iceland
first woman in I> eland to earn her liv
ing by the pen. Many I . indie women
attend colleges in Denmark and Swe
den.
Miss Claire Ferguson is a deputy
sheriff at Sal: Lake City and has won
renown by her fearlessness in sup-
pre. sing dlsore -r.
In Iceland a couple finding thsm-
t woman, Torfliildur Thorsteinsdottir selves incompatible apply for a sepa-
I ration and live apart for three years.
Only at the end of this time can they
; apply for divorce, which will be grant-
; ed or refused, according to the grounds.
Should titere be one child the mother
is allowed to retain it; if more, the fa
rther takes the eldest, the mother re
taining the youngest.
Miss Althea Norwood, a New York
girl, is going to operate personally a
number of Oregon mining claims.which
her father discovered.
Miss Mathilde van Rensselaer, a Xew
York society belle, has become a real
estate dealer, having joined a firm en
gaged in that business.
Miss Marion Griffin of Memphis is
the only woman lawyer In Tennessee.
She had to struggle five years before
gaining admission to the bar on ac
count of sex prejudice.
Fanny J. Crosby, the blind hymn
writer, recently passed her eighty-
seventh blrthbiy in full possession of
al! her mental faculties and in perfect
health. She is very religious and a
constant Bible reader and quotes often
the text, “The entrance of thy word
giveth light.” She thinks perhaps her
blindness has given her a clearer men
tal vision.
Mrs. Jennie W. Ragsdale is carrying
on the business of licensed undertaker,
embalmer and funeral director at
Wooalavn, O. She conducts her deli
cate task with great tact and gentle
ness.
Havelock Ellis says: "The convic
tion of some men that women are not
fitted to exercise various social and po-
: litical duties, and the conviction of
j some women that men are a morally
j inferior sex are both alike absurd, for
! they both rest on the assumption that
I women do not inherit from their fa-
| thers or men from their mothers.”
j Chancellor Day of Syracuse univer-
I sity believes that one of the best ways
! to elevate the moral tone of college
; men is to introduce coeducation.
, At Savin Hill beach. Massachusetts.
! there is a life saving crew composed of
-3.li.es Agnes Kersey (captain), M=s>
; Georgiana Milne, Miss Margaret, WH
and Miss Eunice Siane. They are
splendid swimmers and save the iive.--
of ^bathers who get into difficulties.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, pre
mier of England, has at last commute :
himself fully to the cause of won::
suffrage. ■ • - ■
There arc over a hundred women -:
the United States occupying such po
sitions as president, vice ; resident , 1
cashier of a bank.
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