ABOUT WOMEN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1904, 15 June 1892, Page 6

ABOUT WOMEN.

" Working girls' clubs " are a recent, but a very potent influence for good in New York. They owe their origin to the unselfish efforts of a few rich ladies, headed by Miss Grace Dodge, who for several years served as a lady^commissioner of the Board of Education. Like the fcradee unions, they have succeeded in, many callings in raising the price of labor to an equality with the normal standard of comfort, but they have never invoked the aid of violent methods, and have relied entirely upon the cultivation of an esprit de corps and a mild threat of boycotting on the part of the patrician patrons of the clubs. Among the girl workers there is leas distrust of the rich and a less keen sense of individuality than among men of their own class, and this is undoubtedly the secret of the success that has been achieved. In several quarters of the city the girls have now self-supportiug lodging-houses and cluos, and some of their receprions " go off" with a spirit that much more pretentious gatherings might envy. Thanks to such agencies, a young girl, cited by Miss Dodge in a recent address before the Chatftuguti Assembly, out of a salary of five dollars a week, which is one dollar or two dollars less than the average income of the Ne*v York working woman, lived well, dressed well, and, in five year?, saved 350 dollars. Among these young club women, too, it may bs also said that the Chataugua Association find some of ifca brightest aud most Bucoeaaful students. The Legislature of Wyoming passed two Bills of note during ita last session, one raising the age of consent to eighteen years and the other providing for organising a home for friendless women and children Miss Minerva Parker, who has been ss looted as architect of the women's pavHlou at tho Chicago Exhibition, comes of a family of architects Her grandfather was a noted architect, and his daughter — Minerva's mother— studied the science with him and encouraged her daughter's aspirations. Misa Parker has had most thorough training for her profession, being a graduate of the Franklin Institute and Industrial Art School of Philadelphia and of Prang's Art School. She has also modelled with the Eeulptor John Boyle. Among her works are the designing of the New Century Club, of Philadelphia, aud of the elegant country home of Rachacl Foster Avery, secretary of the Woman's Council. At least two corporations in Philadelphia, engaged in developing suburban residence property, have engaged her as permanent; architect," There werfi altogether 454 lady exhibitors at the Paris Salon this year. Of these, 165 paint in oils, 190 are sculptors, 77 designers in pencil and pastels, and 52 engravers and lithographers. No lady architect or medal emgraver has yet appeared. The ladies who have won prize 3at past salons are : — For painting, 194 ; for Bculpture, 109 ; and for engraving, 30. It io calculated that there are altogether 1,800 professional lady painters, sculptors, and engravers. The National Women's Christian Temperance Union last year boasted of 144,955 members, having gained 8,886 during the year, The present membership is over 240,000. The Women's Temperance Association has a publishing section which employs 150 women, besides four female editors. The paid-up capital is Ll£,ooo, and the concern was so well managed that it last year paid a 7 per cent, dividend. It prints three newspapers, and last year circulated 125,000,000 pamphlets and leaflets. The piize offered by the Manchester (England) ' Times ' for the best composition on ' The Best Book, and Why I Like It,' was won by Miss Jessie Sudlow, a seven-teen-year-old pupil of Charleston, South I Carolina, public schools. Her subject was • Ivanhoe.' The honor won is emphasised by the fact that there were competitors from Frarce, Germany, Canada, South America, and Mexico, as well as from England and the United States. Mrs Frank Leslie, of New York, has announced her determination to make a will, by which LI 25.000 will be bequeathed for the establishment of a woman's institute, where women of artistic and literary proclivities may cultivate their tastes and have a complete theatre for the exercise of them. a girl's essay upon coys. Boys are men that have not got as big as their papas, and girls are young women that will be young ladies by-and-bye. Man was made before woman. When God looked at Adam He said to Himself : " Well, I think I can do better if I try again "; and then He made Eve. God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there have been more women than men ever Bince. Boyß are a trouble ; they are wearing out everything but soap. If I had my way, half the boys in the world would be little girls, and the rest would be dolls. My papa is so nice that I think he must have been a little girl when he was a little boy.