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day school! That was Mary Garrett Site Qyde Mary Garrett Hay, Organizer of Women's Associations Secondhandi Troubles if ab, I'm worried almost out'Ot'nT, I I mind!" -what's the matter?" "Oh, my sister's sister-in-law's htM- band is very ill: not expected to live! want the real article in emotions; we really don't. We leave that sort of feeling to the slums and to the people who just plain "live." The pretense you see never disturbs or shocks or calls for any special effortand then, too, it is so much more graceful. Blan, Bewaret The modern woman is 'certainly worth studying. With her it is a triumpn of cleverness and subtle strength. The weak strength and the great foolish heart of the woman before her are fast becoming memories.

To be clever is the greatest modern feminine virtue; to care the: greatest But if isn't alone the women who force their sisters, into that course of action; you must take into consideration his majesty the. modern man. He has changed as much as she has, and some day I think I'll leave off criticising niy own sex for once and Jet him hear thel opinion of 1 KATE CLYDE. New York. If he dies, there'll be his wife and three -children left without any support, an! the whole family will have to bunk in on my sister's husband, and he has as much as he can do to take care or nis What Decome oi my poor wiwr I don't know.

She and I are. both or us, nearly crazy." tional American Woman Suffrage Woman's brain cannot plan large enterprises? Mary Garrett Hay is proof to the contrary. The political party that could secure her as a state organizer might deem itself well off. In California in 1896, at the time of the adoption of the state constitution, a strenuous effort was made to incorporate woman suffrage as a plank. Miss Hay had charge of the whole state campaign for the woman's cause.

She appointed her lieutenantsbrave, willing and earnest as herself and they did heroic work-fought their battle from start to finish. They almost won it, how near few in the United States know. Woman suffrage was carried throughout the whole state as far as Sacramento. Then in the three cities of Sacramento, Oakland and San Francisco the women were beaten by between 5,000 and 6,000 votes. Bitterest dose of all, it was the Chinese vote that did it.

You did not know that Chinese could vote in this country. Well, neither did I until Miss Hay reminded me the other day that all male natives in this land have the birthright of suffrage, and there you are. Chinese have been coming to California and bringing their female counterparts now more than forty years. Thousands of Chinese as much Chinese as if they had never seen American soil have been born and reared to man's estate in San Francisco and its vicinity, and they can vote. Moreover, the very elements that ordinarily are most rabid against the yellow man in 1896 trotted him out to the last unit and made him cast his ballot to keep the ballot right from white women.

So there you are 1 -r 7 foulard With, Vf JS THE NEW HAIR NET. To keep her tresses tidy when summer blow, the up to date girl covers her low coiffure with one of the new silk nets which are beginning to make their way. Hay's first important achievement. In her temperance works she learned parliamentary usage and made a careful study of it She also became familiar with the financial management of women's organizations. The next step was that she became warmly interested in woman suffrage and began to work for that.

At length she went from town to town, from city to city, organizing woman suffrage clubs. "How do you do it?" "Well, I would go into a town, not knowing a soul. I would ask first for the postmaster, the editor and a prominent minister. These I would call on and get from them the names of public spirited women. Then I went to see the ladies themselves.

I talked the move-, merits up to them and got them to help me call a meeting, sometimes in a private parlor, again in a public hall. There I addressed the women, and before I left a town usually had organized a suf-frage club among them. For eight years I was the organizer of the general associa tion; ior iweive years I' have labored for it Mary Garrett Hay. And I never was snubbed by man or woman," said Miss Hay. She has journeyed thousands, of miles, certainly a distance of twice around the globe, on her mission.

She has traveled night and day, in cattle cars and by wagon, by every possible means of locomotion, arriving many a time in a place at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. "I never had a man act toward me otherwise than as a gentleman," she said. "I have had a station agent take his lantern and escort me in the night to a hotel. No matter how rough or coarse a man seemed to be, he was always a gentleman." It is a grand tribute to American manhood. Miss Hay is at present railroad secretary for the N.

A. W. S. A. Because of her stanch conservatism, for one thing, she is an invaluable servant to the.

cause so dear to her. Others may lose their heads or tempers or fly off on a wild goose chase; she never She Is a woman with prematurely white hair like a glory round her head, with sparkling dark eyes, flashing 'white teeth and a frank, merry smile. You will not find a brighter, handsomer, more wholesome woman in a Journey across this continent that journey Mary Garrett Hay herself has taken so many times in the interests of her sex. She has a strong, sincere, energetic voice, the voice of a woman-who can make things hum. LILLIAN -GRAY.

ABOUT. GLOVES. No unduly thick or plump, hand should ever be encased in anything lighter in the way gloves thanva. mouse colored tint, unless tho wearer be all in white. Thus declares an authority on gloves.

White gloves should never be' wof-n by anybody who is not wearing another distinctive touch of white, on gown or hat. The contrast is too crude. The woman with a large hand, if it is well shaped, may wear white, but not a pure white; rather the "oyster" with black stitching. Black gloves should only be worn with black gowns and coats. "For your gown in every shade of brown, rom chocolate down to the range ot mastic and paste lines, you can have gloves to match.

The same with grays. FROM JAPAN. An English lady in Japan bought a can of mushrooms and found the directions translated into English as follows: "Directions. If several persons will be to eat this in that manner they shall feel satisfied nutrition and very sweet or it can put in the hot water for the half hour and then take off the lid. They shall be proper to eat It can be supply without putridity for several years." Elucidates the Mysteries of Dress as Well as the Mysteries of.

Social Popularity and Incidentally cultivating the acquaintance, of that female potentate. If the blue spectacled Daughters of Progress gives a euchre, sure as fate you'll find her there, punching the score cards; and even at the dance of the Association For Providine Aged Seamen False Teeth you're likely to run across her footing it with the youngest. She keeps her ears open, she' buys tickets wherever it is possible, and sometimes where it is apparently impossible she wire pulls. She has the nerve of a bull terrier and the endurance of a camel. I And yet does the camel have as hard a time of it with-the needle's eye-as the woman who makes her way by subscription things and afternoon teas? Don't, Become Blaae'.

The great thing in the game is not to become blase. It's pretty hard to avoid the state if one 1s naturally thoughtful. And, by the way, here's 'another thing you don't want to indulge in too much-thinking. The people who think and the people who ideals, and the people who don't like to pretend they are having a good time were never meant for society. Sooner or later it gets on their nerves and they break down and have mental malaria.

In other words, they become blase. That's a pretty bad state to be in, let me tell you. You wander through a maze of teas and thingamajigs and you look at the people and you yawn one perpetual internal yawn same. men, same women, same things to eat, same things to say, same smiles even, that were used the season before. You might talk, of course, but what's the use! Let the other people do that.

Now and then, just to let' them' know you are there, you pick up some thread of conversation and twist it-in -a few words the way it was not meant to go just for pure contrariness. You frighten the debutantes and. the nice little boys, while as for the plump matrons who don't understand you, they feel vaguely uncomfortable, and only the worldly wise old bachelors-look up at you with a gleam of fellow feeling that is, if they are not too busy eating truffles or sampling champagne or trying to interest an heiress or indulging in any other strenuous occupation. Popularity's Sign Manual. No! If a desire to please your fellow beings is actuating you, if you ache to be popular, take as your emblem the sparrow or any other small brained cheerful little creature capable of making a great deal of nuise, and for your motto, "Just a little." Just a little a little smile, Just a little love, just a little hate, just a little enthusiasm, just a little jolly but as you value your success, not a great.

deal of anything! That's where now and then a venturesome -girl -too -full-of life makes a mistake. She allows herself to have real whole feelings instead of three-eighths of feelings. She loves with her whole heart and she hates with her whole heart: she admires with her whole heart and she is bored with her whole heart. When such a girl falls to the lot of a chaperone. the unfortunate woman is horror stricken and, in the interests of her ward, does all she can to change her.

Well she knows the failures and the disasters in store for that girl! Pianissimo! We are all very civilized and cultured mad a lot of other things and we don't NO great church or political gathering could be better planned than an annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Railroads, hotels and boarding houses give specially favorable rates, and accommodations are all ready for the fair guests when they arrive in the convention city. The mayor and leading residents welcome the ladies and do them honor. Ministers preach sermons at and about them, political orators and philanthropists make addresses at their meetings, and special excursions to points of interest are arranged for the women who come to the annual convention in a luxurious special train. After the assembly breaks up the real fun begins. There are always delightful tours of from one to three weeks, again at low rates, to be enjoyed by the fortunate woman suffragists.

Two years ago they went through Colorado and Yellowstone park. This year, after being whelmed in flowers at New Orleans, the ladies continued their journey through Texas and Mexico, bringing up finally in California exactly at the time when it is a paradise of flowers and oranges irf spring. It is enough to make a suffragist out of any woman. These "good times," these rare journeys and rare courtesies from railroad and hotel people at a cost very moderate, are all the result of the labors of one woman, Mary Garrett Hay, the great organizer of woman sunrage 1 clubs and railroad secretary of the Na fN-Sc-S "But it isn't your own personal trouble, is it?" 'No, but I'm troubled to death on my poor sister's account" "But it is not even your sisters trouble, Isn't it your sister sister-in-law's husband who is ill? He is the one who suffers." 'Yes, but it's cruel and inhuman not to worry over your relatives troubles. 'Is it indeed? Can you do your rela tives the slightest good by fretting -vicariously for them? Did you ever see any woman at all do any good even to those she loves best by fretting and worrying over their misfortunes?" "No, I don't say I ever did.

But I do say we'd be inhuman monsters if we -didn't sympathize with our own family in their griefs." "Sympathize with them, yea. But what's the good of making a dozen persons miserable over one individual' mishaps. Upon my word, that constitutes half the trouble of women in this life, worrying over other They think it shows off their womanly, sympathetic nature to advantage, when often it merely shows off a sickly aenti-mentalism. Now, look here: "Troubles and misfortunes are. the outward casting off of erroneous mental Physicians tell us even dis- ease is many.

a. time the outcome of wrong thoughts. Bad habits which result in disease certainly come from wrong thought and desire. Now, yon -would not put on your relatives' old, secondhand garments and hug them fondly to you and wear them, would you? Then, why should you wear tbeie troubles, especially when you cannot thereby do them a grain of good ano 1 only do yourself harm? "The only result of fret "and won' to a woman, even over her. own miseries, is that she grows old and -haggard and wrinkled and upsets her digestion and nervous system.

As she thus injures her in the like ratio she' Upsets her mental poise '1 and injures her very power to help i herself and others. Is it worth "But there's my sister's only son going to the bad. Oughtn't she to worry over that?" i "No. a thousand times no! She hat done all she could to stop him. Now let him go.

In his case there seems no other way. No mother owns her children. After reaching years of account-; ability they are as much individuals as, she is. They must live their own must save their own souls. She has done her best prayerfully for them; now -j they belong no more to her, hut to They must learn the lesw sons they need most from experiences of their She would be doing thenw a wrong if she sought to take troubles on herself, even if she could In the' great round up every soiil must stand for itself "But any woman with a speck ot heart can't stop worrying." "Don't tell me that! You can stop worrying.

Any woman with a speck of brains knows that she has within hejT the God power to control her own emo- tions, every one. She knows, too, that only evil comes from fretting and anxW -ety. Therefore she casts this harmful thought all out of her mind and trusts to the good God to bring everything right, after she has done the best she knows. The worry habit la every whit 1 as injurious as the tobacco or alcohol habit and there is not a woman living who cannot break it Especially she can stop the unpleasant habit of putting on secondhand troubles." JANE MOSES. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

Miss Nightingale, the first woman army nurse, was eighty-three years old May 15. From childhood she was great ly interested in nursing matters, and later in life she was fully trained in nursing by the Protestant Sisters of Mercy at Kaiserwerth on the Rhine. It must have meant no small effort to vol unteer for the Crimea, but the sufferings of the Wounded haunted her thoughts night and day. War is always terrible, but its terrors before the nursing movement were aggravated in a. hundred ways.

Miss Nightingale's endurance during the campaign was remarkable. Every evening, it is said, she-walked through six miles of wards, and to every very dangerous case she gave her personal attention. It is not surprising that the wounded men blessed even her shadow as It fell upon wall. She reduced chaos to order and1 never spared herself, standing on more than one occasion for twenty consec utive hours. After the war terminated a testimonial was offered to her: of $500,000, but she devoted the whole of the fund to the founding of a home.

for. Miss Nightingale is very reserved with strangers and dislikes notoriety of any kind. OBJECTING TO PHOTOGRAPH8. It is said that Princess Louise, 4uch- ess of Argyll, has maintained, for up ward of twenty years her dislike of any portrait of herself being reproduced. In consequence of this veto no newspaper has been able to give any but snap shots.

of the princess unless one is reproduced in- which changes of fashion make the photograph look out of date. It is not 1 that the princess has. not been photo-! graphed fairly often, but that she 'will not consent to the photograph being re-, produced. The result is that the really beautiful face of her. royal highness is.

far -less known than the -faces of any other members, of the royal family. SUMMER. DRESS Wool delaines, veiling and French challies are prominent this season. The plain sheer surface is figured with natural colored floral effects or with self colored spots, and some of the pat-j terns have a white silk or satin stripe! UJ A JDOtA stripe and plain portion thickly sprinkled with or i i Don't forget to sew in a neat Unfair when trimming a hat. An unlined hs i i i ivurjji uituiur cuiu.

tunaieunsn. AT a garden party I went to the "other day, which by the way -was given up the river on one of the old Dutch estates, there were some very pretty frocks which I want to. tell you about me one you see in the sketch 'fc-as of gray with an embroidery of gray taffeta applied her there on its surface. This embroidery was in a design of oak leaves and acorns. The waist simulated a loose jacket falling over a wide belt of a darker shade of panne.

Down the front wpr two tabs. Costume of gray, and the jacket effect' opened enough to give a glimpse of lace caught here and there with a jabot of white tulle. The sleeves had long cuffs of mixed embroidery and lace, and the Bkirt, laid in clusters of three tucks. was ornamented around the bottom With the taffeta embroidery. By the way," I notice that all the prevailing styles aVe very loose.

In fact, the only parts of the costume which seem be fitted are the belt, the tops of the sleeves and the hips. Nothing ruins a dress more than having it" fit snugly. By far the smartest hat of the season and you see it in the same picture-Is of burnt straw, rather coarse in texture and trimmed with fluffy black ostrich tips. Another costume worn at this' same garden party was of soft old rose crape trimmed with fantastic patternings done in narrow black and white braid. There is nothing smarter for trimming purposes than this same black and white- braid, let tell you.

The Social Climbers. Oh, the merry social game! It is no wonder that now and then Borne of its most cherished votaries desert it in disgust and bury themselves in the shims, where there is at least a genuine although a very terrible life, and where one can do of come account. And yet the social" climbers are indefatigable! I have in mind the case of my friend Mrs. Binks, who came out of The yccrWy Kite old bachelor. goodness knows where a little less than a year ago and landed in this town absolutely friendless.

At the present moment she hasn't an evening, she can call her own. How she do it? Oh," of course not with invitations from the Four Hundred; but you'll find her she can push in. If the High-eteeple church cives a sociable, lo and behold, she- is' In the corner cutting cake or selling' toys in the booth next to that ccupled By Mrs. Highmonkeymonk jfc IKS 1 rrubGowrol vfe Umf- AfPale-fcreefi) MlVi I i A Trench VT H' IJIK jg again. But it was a glorious campaign for the women nevertheless.

"It was the happiest year of my life," says Mary Hay. At its close she returned to her work of organizing woman suffrage clubs throughout the Unicn. She has a natural bent for organizing and managing as well as for political work. She was born and spent her childhood and earliest girlhood in Indiana, across the Ohio river not far from Louisville. Her father was a physician and prominent Indiana Republican.

Her mother died when she was a few years old and left her to her father. He took her with him in his carriage when he visited his patients. Many places she went with him; even sometimes when he presided at political conventions ho took her and held her in his arms. If she went sleep he laid her down somewhere to one side when he rose to address the meeting. of her first recollections is of sitting upon her father's knee and listening to the falling showers of political oratory; one of her first remembered mental operations is thinking that when she got older she.

too. would like to make political speeches, not knowing then that for a girl politics was tabooed. When at length she did find it out she began at once to work for the good time coming when women might have a voice in public affairs. She went-to school at the famous old Western Female seminary at Oxford, After she left school she learned to be a druggist in her father's pharmacy. But all her heart was Jn philanthropic labors temperance work at first.

Thence the girL reformer drifted out uoon a broader current toward the progress and complete emancipation of woman. This Drougni ner into contact with Zerelda Wallace, the beloved step mother of Lew Wallace, whom, unknown to the subject thereof, he made the model for his type "of all noble motherhood in the story of "Ben-Hur." "Oh. the things I learned from dear Mother Wallace!" says Miss Hay. At the age. of seventeen Mary Hay decided that the Presbyterian Sunday school which she attended ought to have a woman superintendent She went to work to bring about that end.

It took her a year, but at the expiration thereof, lo, there was the feminine superintendent of a Presbyterian Sun- A TURKISH WOMAN LECTURER A very beautiful Turkish lady of high birth is making a tour through Europe for the purpose of improving the life of her own sex in Turkey. Strange to say, she speaks no language but her own, and her appeals to the Interest of her audiences are made through an interpreter. The lady has the interests of her own countrywomen so deeply at heart that she spares no pains to make their degraded position and want of education known, and it needed some effort on her part to break through the traditions of centuries and go unveiled. The lady is accompanied by her husband, a Swede, who occupied an important post in Turkey. He goes everywhere with his beautiful wife, but a political exile, also a accompanies them as lecturer.

Americans would probably be pleased to see her here..