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DAUGHTERS OF EVE. * Gertrude M. Dr.ff of Winterset, la.. is|est woman in Great Britain, county superintendent of schools. In Id:ihn. where women vote, seventeen women were elected county superin tendents of schools at the last election. Lady Mary Hamilton, who came of a£e recently, i^ said to be the wealthi- don to “Le Maitre de Forges” just twenty-two years ago at the Royalty She is theater, while Mrs. Kendal's perform- possessor of the famous black pearls of ance of Mr. Pinero’s English version the Hamiltons, the owner of the Isle of the piece, "The Ironmaster,” is fa- of Arran and the mistress of consider- ' miliar to playgoers. Mme. Hading's able estates at Wickham Market. j rare personality possesses the power of Mme. Jane Hading, the famous j drawing the minds of her audience in- French actress, first introduced Eon- 1 to close and intimate relationship with the thoughts and feelings simultane- j ously affecting herself, a quality abso- | lutely necessary for success in this j profession. Mrs. Vincent Buitta and her beauti- ; ful daughter, Catharina. conduct a J novel farm at Newton Upper Falls, near Boston. They call It the Oriental j and European Vegetable farm, because they raise all kinds >f rare foreign vegetables, which are difficult to obtain in this country. The town cf East Clarion, O., boasts of a unique record. The Shaw hotel is run by Mrs. Phoebe Shaw on a strictly temperance basis. The postoffice is in charge of Miss Nellie Cleator. The church choir is composed of female voices, led by Mrs. Eva Armstrong. The superintendent of the Sunday school is Mrs. Nellie Hale. The teach ing force of the public school is com posed of women. The superintendent is Mrs. Anne Mawson. There has not been a male doctor in the town for sev eral years. The first woman to be retired on a ; pension by the Pennsylvania Railroad company is Mrs. Sarah E. Hamilton, a j scrubwoman, who served for forty-five ' years. Mrs. Hamilton in the early days , cleaned the office of Andrew Carnegie When he was superintendent of the : Pittsburg division. She was on retir ing presented with $100 in gold by fel- ' low employees. A BREEZY TALK ON WOMAN AND HER WAYS: SOME OF KATE CLYDE'S OPINIONS HAVE AN AIRING C ONCEIT is the fashion. Not to have it is fatal. “I shall take Mary abroad and marry her there," a clever mother remarked to me recently. "She will never make a match here, but will braid St. Catherine's tresses to the end of her days!" "But she Is a pretty girl!” "Oh. yes"— "And such n nice girl.” "She is my daughter, and I can say that.” "Well, but then"—* "My dear, she hasn’t an ounce of conceit—confidence or whatever you choose to call It. It makes me wild to see girls without half her talents or looks eclipse her completely. She Is lost at a dinner party. She decorates the wall at a dance, and you would never know she was on earth at a re ception. "Over in France they will say she is well bred. Here they think there’s nothing .to her, and all because she hasn't a good opinion of her own ability. "Isn’t it awful?” Let Us Consider. Well, there are two sides to tho ques tion. Which will you choose? The overconceited miss who hasn’t seen her and felt sorry she was so painfully young and crude? Then there's that other overconfident Into your aching palms and vow (while the noise endures) that you will tell her at all costs the minute the last note is struck that she must not for the sake of humanity sing any more—that she sings false, as false as— Mercy, where am I? In the Kate Clyde letter! Your pardon, mes- dames, it won't happen again. But have you ever heard any one sing like that? When the mu sic (?) stops, with the sud den relief comes cowardice. You can't be the -first to tell her. Let some one else. Why, her family would cut you dead. They wouldn't believe you if you swore it to them. There are enough stone deaf peo ple in tho room or social climbers to stand with the family too. So you lean back in your chair and exclaim dream ily, “How lovely!” and so the evil work goes on. "Learn to be an artist! Rushem’s Academy of Practical Art teaches you pastel, oil and water color work in “Learn -short story writing, institute. Write at once for particu- and easy when you have course in the De Maupassant A hold black enormous shape. A Commercial Age. A cynic once said, "People either person—the ludy who thinks she can j write from fullness of mind or empti- sing. ness of pocket." They speak of the unpardonable sin j And I think that’s one of the best In tho Bible. Well, there's a social un- : things I ever heard. pardonable sin. It really does seem nowadays as if It is singing novel writing in particular were done when you can’t. ] by the yard instead of by the inspira- All her people tion. There are still some people who think she can, believe that if a man tells one story in sing, mind you. his lifetime and tells that well ite is a They must be great author, but the number is dimin- tone deaf and \ Ishing. stone blind.. To be a “great” author nowadays one They have spent I must have a list of best sellers to one’s a fortune on her. credit as long as the il of a comet Instructors who That most of them are trash and won’t had sound be even looked at by the next gen- nerves and need- eration doesn’t affect this generation, the cash steeled Neither does it hurt the income of the themselves to. “great” author, which is the main con- the sound of her; sideration with him. voice. j This is the age of commercialism. What makes a 1 Everything can bo learned, and nearly 1 he lady who thinks she cultivated bad everything can be bought, if you have cun ei»y. voice so much; the price. You don’t even have to at- worse than an; tend school. They teach you by cor- unculttvated one? I suppose because respondence. In the old days one had Its possibilities are greater and the mu- j to have talent for certain things. Now. 8 le it nttai ks is fuller of pitfalls. ; Bah! You read in the advertising sec- And idle sings off the key! Not a lion of nearly every magazine phrases little off the key, but right off. So off like these: "So you want to be a poet! that you press your quivering fingers 1 Attend Bixby’s Correspondence school.” MME. RECAMIER’S TWENTIETH CENTURY RIVAL On the theory' that a woman is only as “old as she looks" there is no reason why the fair creature depicted herewith should plead guilty to forty-seven. Yet she confesses that she hus been a mortal since the first gun was fired on Sumter. In ordinary cases this naive admission would be accepted merely as an approximation, but in the Instance of Lillian Russell it serves, at least, to explain how it is possible for her to be a grandmother. How sho manages to rival Mme. Recamier in the art of keeping youthful is quite another matter. lars and price list.” You don’t even have to spell to do all these things!" Wonderful is the nerve of the nineteenth century. Please don’t think I write from the point of view of the imbittered and re jected manuscript sender. Not I! I'd rather ramble on talking to you this way, airing my views and “knock ing” people occasionally, than write the best love story ever. Blit if I had it in me to send forth something great I’d write that thing and that alone, unless, indeed, I were so fortunate as to give birth to several great things, which only happens ever so rarely. But what I would not do would be to turn literary medium and raise up false ghosts and shades of things. There are occupations more honest than to be a fake, and I’d rather be a good dressmaker or milliner than be a poor poetess or a sloshy novelist. Why Not Millinery? And, by the way, let no man turn up his nose at millinery. There is a deal of poetry in a well trimmed hat, and a badly put together one suggests all kinds of evil qualities in the face bd- neath it. If you think it’s so easy to fix up a chapeau try doing one yourself. In the first place it takes knowledge of character to be a success at millinery. You can put a simple little shape over an angel face and trim it with baby blue and what looks like little celestial clouds, but try a combination like that over a countenance that has a “dash of the divole” in it! Oh, my friends, what a result! The face fairly swears at you from out of the innocence of hat. No, indeed! A bold, black, enormous shape with a dash of geld for the wo man of this type and you have created one of the successes of the season. Would you place a pair of sophisti cated eyebrows under a simple pana ma? Fie upon you. You are a dis grace to the trade. A tulle shape bound with satin and tilted to corre spond is what she needs. Trim it with a fancy plume that has the air of look ing for trouble and half veil a silver orchid among the tulle if she has the price of one. Millinery an art? Well! Well! If you have a practically trimmed hat on you may be in rags as far as the rest of you is concerned and no one will notice. And as for dressmaking. There’s cold logic for you! You don’t think it needs right minded reasoning* power to know why a waist still wrinkles after it has been taken up on the shoulders? Go, my friend, to a poor dressmaker, one with a weak chin and wandering eyes. and learn to your cost and that of your materials that there is more sense in Kate Clyde’s nonsense than you dream of! Yes, indeed, there’s more in the so called simple vocations than meets the unsophisticated eye. Hence the failures. Greatest of All. But if you should ask me who’s the greatest artist of all I would answer you, without a moment’s hesitation, the perfect wife. She gets no applause, no press no tices, no bunches of orchids, yet. my friends, she does more successful act ing in one year than the greatest ac tress with the longest season. Sho has no limelight or makeup to help her either, only her native cleverness and intuition with which a merciful Prov idence has endowed every daughter of Eve to make up for other means of self protection which she doesn’t possess. Talk about business ability! Every day of her life she makes 10 cents do the work of a dollar, and that’s the pro portion bis financiers work in. Talk about the tact and patience of a hospital nurse! The nurses don’t have to live all their lives with their "cranky” patients, but how many wives do! Think of the cross grained man, tli dyspeptic man, the (worst of ail) sulk) man, and think of the artist of a vvo- Think of the cross grained man! man it takes to be able to live with such a man! Then in the case of chil dren consider the good generalship, the keen judgment, the self control re quired. Ah, my friends, the plain successful wife is tremendously underrated. She is as various as the chameleon. Sho comes nearer being a genius, I can tell you, than many of the "geniuses” I know. HaC. C-CuA— H ARD as has been the way of the impecunious British host ess of the smart set there Is every prospect that it will be even more intolerable this season. Never in the history of London has there been such an invasion of rich Americans, most of them anxious to win a place in high life and willing to spend any amount of money to accom plish it. Much as the English sneer at Americans, particularly rich Ameri cana. dollars will more readily -..In po sition In London than anywhere else In the world. There society accepts the gaucheries of the multimillionaire philosophically, provided tho million aire gives gorgeous entertainments and Is likely to prove useful in a financial way. As wife of the American ambassador Mrs. Whltelaw Reid Is nuturally the chief hostess In the American colony. She Is the daughter of D. O. Mills of New York and in wealth and experi ence Is well adapted for the role of social leader. The Reids occupy Dor- 'tbester Mouse, the most magnificent private residence In London, for which they puy un annual rental of $(0,000. more than twice the $17,500 a year which Is Mr. Reid’s official salary. Al though tho season has just opened they have already entertained the king once and tho Conimughts several times. Princess Patricia of Connaught, who likes American girls, being a very great friend of Miss Jean Reid. All London Is interested in the strug gle for sm-iul supremacy which is on between the Duchess of Manchester end the Duchess of Roxburghe. Now' that the Duchess of Marlborough, with her millions and great family prestige, is. owing lo her separation from her husband* practically out of the raco one of these Indies would like to take her place as leader. The Duchess of Roxburghe. who as the heiress of the Goelets. Is the fortunate possessor of twenty-Hvo to fifty millions, has a monetary advantage over her grace of Manchester, who Is only a millionairess in prospect. However, the Manchester^ finances are at present far from being In an unsatisfactory condition, the duchess* father, Mr. Zimmerman, the Cincinnati railroad magntUe, making them a very liberal allowance, while the duke’s mother, the Dowager Duchess Consuelo of Manchester, gives them something out of the fortune left her by her brother, Mr. Yznaga of New York. Of course there are the rents from the Manchester estates, and the recent sale of Tandaragee castle netted a large amount, which the duchess, who has all her father’s business keenness, has doubtless invested in profitable se curities. One of the most valuable as sets on the Manchester side in the race for social leadership is the good will of royalty. King Edward has a horror of court scandals and scandal makers, and the fact that the daughter of the American millionaire could effect so radical a reformation in such unprom ising material as Manchester was a source of gratification to the king and queen and to the duke's relatives. His grandmother, the Duchess of Devon shire, is, next to royalty, the social ar biter of Great Britain, and his mother. Consuelo, duchess dowager of Man chester, Is both popular and influential. The young Duchess of Manchester was recently appointed lady in W’aiting to Queen Alexandra and now stands so well at court that rumor says that when tlie aged Duchess of Buccleugh resigns her position as mistress of the robes the American will get the posi tion. The Duchess of Roxburghe has jkst rented, at a magnificent price, Lord Colebrooke’s house in Stafford place and intends to open her social cam paign without further loss of time. That indefatigable lady, Mrs. Potter Palmer, after several ineffectual sea sons at Newport, has gone to London, taken a house and already achieved a social coup. Mrs. Palmer began by making a friend of Mrs. George Kep- pel, whose influence with royalty is said to be unlimited. Were Mrs. Pal mer a less handsome, clever and rich woman she would still bid fair under such auspices to be heard from, but by a single brilliant function she may be said to have arrived, for the king, hear ing of the entertainment provided, asked that it be repeated for his bene fit. Mrs. Palmer’s trump card in the social game was a drawing room per formance of Strauss’ much talked of opera of "Salome,” with Mme. Frem- stad in the title role. Mrs. Bradley Martin, who entered English society under the auspices of Mrs. Paran Stevens’ daughter, Mrs. Arthur, now Lady Paget, has a hand some house in Chesterfield gardens, and her dinner parties are highly suc cessful affairs. Princess Christian of Sleswick-Holstein, her daughter, Prin cess Louis, and her sister. Princess Louise, duchess of Argyll, are very friendly toward Mrs. Martin, who is a great lover of music, as are these royal ladies. Every year she gives a private concert at which appear the highest priced artists of the opera season. At Balmacaan. her splendid country,seat in Inverness-shire, Mrs. Martin enter- George Cornwallis West has been less conspicuous as a hostess. Lady Wil liam Beresford also is living very quietly. The Duchess Dowager of Manchester has moved into a larger house and is likely to do some notable entertaining this season. Lady Cheyles- more, who was Miss Elizabeth French of New York; the Marchioness of Duf- ferin, who was Miss Flora Davis of New York; Lady Bacho Cunard, who was Miss Maude Burke of Chicago: Lady Barrymore, whose daughter, Miss Nellie Post, belongs to tho debutante set; Mrs. Chauncey and her sister Lady Newborough; Cora; countess of Straf ford, and Sirs. Adair have all laid out more or less elaborate social cam paigns. Mrs. A. J. Drexel, whose daughter Marguerite is regarded as the most eligible American heiress in Lon don: Sirs. John Jacob Astor, who has taken the Astor mansion at Carlton, terrace; young Mrs. Waldorf Astor, who is hostess at Cliveden House; Mrs. Almeric Paget, nee Whitney, and Mrs. Glasgow of Richmond, Va., are among the newer hostesses likely to win social laurels. Sliss Helen Gould, who is said to have taken a house in Scotland, is expected to take some part in the Lon don festivities, but it will doubtless bo a very quiet one and due largely to a wish to please her sister, the Countess Casteilane, with whom she has been traveling. It is whispered that the smart set in Paris has not been over cordial to the divorced wife of Count Boni. and if London is kind it may see more of her in the future. HELEN HARCOURT. tains for the autumn shooting. Through the family of her son-in-law, the Earl of Craven, she has established herself in English inner circles as well as is possible for an alien from across the Atlantic. The Countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw, has taken a promi nent box at the opera and evidently means to go into society as much as possible during the London season. Un fortunately the Hertford connection is not a particularly influential one, nor has the young American yet succeeded in establishing herself in the holy of holies of London society. Mrs. Fanny Ronalds, long famed as the most in tellectual woman of English society, has been in Europe so long that most Americans forget that she is a Bos tonian. Mrs. Ronalds’ salon is fre quently graced by royalty, for she pro vides the best private concerts in Lon don through her friendship with the great musical artists. It was to Mrs. Ronalds that Sullivan, the composer, left much of his fortune in order to show his appreciation of her friendship and encouragement. Mrs. Ronalds is not rich according to millionaire stand ards, yet at her house are to be met most of the really smart people of so ciety as well as the stars of the liter ary, musical and art world. Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. ietyLic £v,dersWhoAmAchievirg SoekdDi stinciiorv Abroad, orwe oflkem Enter