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^fejsajw^* 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 V^rxderLilt* J V lTS.Pa^l\cWls3tl\CAj 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 <m> Cboee ftlbo nr 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. fTODTSTINCT PRINT I