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A WORD
WITH THE WOMEN

(By Elia W Peattie)

One of the most prominent women at
the suffrage convention which is to be
held at Atlanta, Ga will be the Rev
Anna Shaw Miss Shaw is a woman
with a genius for learning, and when
she was graduated by the Boston university,
reveived diplomas from the
medical and law departments, as well
as from the theological. She has spoken
in Omaha, and her cordial, delightful
personality enirely redeems the franchise-
desiring sisterhood form the opprobrium
which has been cast upon it
becasue of its unloveliness.

White Pierrot sheds his tears-and
laughs as the salt drops mark the chalk
on his checks The world enjoys the
contrast, and is always interested when
it hears that Pierrot is weeping. No
story has been more often told of Edwin
Booth than that of his triumphant
presentation of The Tools of Revenge,'
with its hilarious yet bitter raillery.
In the midst of the drama the word came
to him that his baby son was dead-
his first born But the bells and cap
were on and the actor wore them to the
drop of the curtain. There are many
similar tales but none more sad than
that which comes as an echo of this
last Christmas day. 'Whittington and
His Cat' was being played at the
Chrismas pantomime. The actress
who played King Cat, after a song and
dance dropped dead. The play was not
stopped however, and the 'White
Pierrot her husband, was forced to
play his part to the end. Thus the
dramas throb within the dramas.

One of the most successful and reasonable
of women's organizations is
the National Industrial union. It came
into existence at the Columbian exposition,
where women meet daily in the
womans builing to discuss questions
concerning domesticity. The union was
formed there before the close of the exposition,
and has its headquarters at
New York, although its membership
and its operations are national. To
break down class prejudice along industrial
lines to train servants, encourage
scientifc cooking and in every way develop
the industrial independence and
fitness of women is its object. Fortunately
women are trained more along
domestic than other lines of industrial
activity, and the tendency is therefore
to bring them into the home instead of
divorcing them from it Mrs Virginia
C Titcomb is the president and treasurer.

New times, new maners. One used
if one were so fortuante as to be a
woman - to be forced to read columns
upon columns of discriptions of magnificent
gowns worn but the princesses
of European the millionairesses of
America and to search in vain from
the description of costume of the
sort that any ordinary woman of average
purse capacity could purchase or appropriately
wear. Now the fad of the
hour with the fashion writers is bicycle
costumes. The making of bicycle costumes
has become a fine art. The
women tailors who know how to fit a
leggin properly have become famous
in New Yotk Chicago and St. Louis.

A lively corespondence is kept up in
some rapers regarding the rivalry of
long skirts and short skirt skirts of
heavy cloth and skirts of light cloth.
There is a small sided lilterature on the
subject of jackets And little by little
laws are being made for the wheel habits
as rigid as that for the equesterian
habit.