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WOMAN'S WORLD.
MISS MARSDEN'S WORK AMONG THE
•'- • LEPERS" APPRECIATED.
■Use Aathooy'a Appointment — Drawing
f..r I»» «.n Plates— How to Treat a
Duabnnd —A Woman Inventor —A Wom
an biding- Master— Odds and Ends.
Princes* Christian attended a meeting
»f tho Royal British Nurses' association,
over which Sir \Villiniu Savory presided.
A reaolution was put to the meeting by
the honorable secretary, Dr. Bezley
IThorne, and carried unanimously, that
the silver badge of the association be
conferred upon Miss Kate Marsden, in
recognition of her work among tho
lepers in Siberia. Dr. Bedford Fenwick,
In extolling Miss Marsden's bravo con
duct, said she bad litoratly sold all that
she possessed to pay the expenses of her
undertaking. Most of her relatives have
died of consumption, and she had been
warned not to expose herself to cold or
damp, yet she had token her life in her
hand and traversed 2,000 miles of swamp
and forest to find the lepers, who were
livifig- miserably without home or
friends.
The Princess of Wales had interested
the empress of Russia in Miss Marsden's
mission, but when she found herself in
the interior of the country Miss Marsden
herself had. as it were, raised tho cross
and appealed to tho religious enthusiasm
of the people. Tho respouso was thor
oughly sa'isfactory. Thirty trained
guides gave their services gratuitously
io lead the party through the forests,
and £4,000 a year was raised. As a re
sult thirteen leper colonies have now
been properly organized, with tho lepers
properly housed and looked after. Miss
Marsden has now come to England to
raise more funds for tho same object.
At the conclusion of Dr. Fonwick's
speech Miss Marsden wns introduced to
the princess, who decorated her person
ally with the silver badge. Her royal
highness then read a brh'f address in
which sho referred to the bravery of the
Hisses Anr.csley and Henrietta Kenealy,
expressing her warm appreciation _of
their courage in devoting themselves to
the nursing of the cholera patients in
Hamburg, and adding that their exam
ple had, she knew, produced most bene
ficial effects in Germany. Princess
Christian also said sho hoped that many
English nurses would join tho volunteer
roll in the event of cholera breaking out
in this country. Her royal highness,
who was accompanied by Miss Emily
Loch, woro a black silk dress with a
scarlet vest, a black bonnet, trimmed
with scarlet, »nd n. sealskin cape.—Lon
don Queen.
Miss Anthony's Al>pointmpnt.
It is announced that Governor Flower
has appointed Misa Susan B. Anthony to
the office of manager of the State Indus
trial school in tho city of Rochester.
This act of Governor Flower is to be
highly commended. It will give pleasure
to the multitude of women aud men all
over the country who know Miss An
thony or have heard her public speeches
or are acquainted with the history of her
life. It will. be well regarded by those
who havo disapproved of her advocacy
of female suffrage not less than by thoce
who have approvod of it.
It is over forty-three years since Miss
.Anthony began her public career by
calling a convention of tho women of
thia state for the maintenance of rights
that are now freely accorded to them:
and during ail those years she haa been
conspicuous as an advocate- of various
reformatory and philanthropic projects,
especially of thoso in the interest of hor
own sex. and more especially of female
suffrage. She has presided over hun
dreds of conventions; sho has delivered
thousands of speeches end lectures: she
has written profusely and energetically
in favor of her ideas. Withal, her de
meanor and life have always been gov
erned by a moral standard worthy of
her American womanhood, and we may
suppose that this part had an especial
influence in leading Governor Flower to
make her a manager of tho State Indus
trial school.
Sho is undoubtedly well qualified for
the office. As far back as the year 1 S3?,
when she wus but seventeen years of
age, she entered upon the duty of school
teaching in this state, and followed it
regularly for at least five years. Sho haa
never lost her interest in education or in
the training of youth, and now again
she will have the opportunity of exercis
ing thoae talents which wore first put to
service in her early life.—New York Sun.
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j Drawing for Fashion Plates.
! A field for women workers nnd one
that is comparatively unoccupied as yet
is drawing fashion plates for magazine*
and papers. It would seem that thia
work would immediately recommend
itself to women, and yet men are doing
it for nearly all the well known fashion
journals.
"Why do you not employ women?"
was asked at Harper's.
"We are perfectly willing to do so,"
answered the superintendent in chargo
of the fashion department, "if they prove
themselves capable of good, practical and
artistic work. But it does not seem at
though women wanted to do that kind
of drawing. If they do. they don't come
to us. Of course many of our design!
are sent direct from Paris: still, a good
riiany aro made here, and men draw all
of tbem. Sometimes a leading New York
tnochtte will invent a handsome gown of
suit and will let us have the benefit of
her idea.
" In such Instances we send some of our
artists to the shop of the dressmaker,
the garment to be sketched is put upon
a young woman who is employed by
madam to act as a model, nnd the figure
is drawn with the head very much ideal
ized, or simply from the artist's fancy.
Of course such a picture cannot be treat-
Ed in what an artist wouhl call a
•sketchy' style. Every puff, ruffle and
band must lie accurately indicated, and
the garment must have a certain smart
nesa or chic, which the artist who painta
pictures would not consider necessary.
"The work is fairly well paid, though
aot so generously as designing lor patent
aSoap or tobacco labels. Still it has the
benefit of having a steady demand, and
of course the expert will bring his price.
I see no reason why women should not
go into it. I Bimply know that, as far at
my expgriance goes, they do not." —New
York Letter.
After • night with the biy»
Yonri for a elu»r head—BromoScltier.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1893.
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How to Treat a Husband.
"What do you do when your husband
goes off to a man dinner and never
oomo* home till goodness knows when
and you with dinner all really at home
and not a word till the last minute, when
his message comes?" exclaimed a little
woman. "Oh, it makes me so mad! I
am going to give him a piece of my
mind, but I wish I could do something
better."
Then a little bride laughed and said:
This is what I do. My husband goes
rery often to dinners like that, and 1 al
ways dress up in regular evoning dress
and my hair done lovely. I take a nap
in the early evening, so as to be fresh
and bright till real late. Then 1 prac
tice my guitar, and when he comes in 1
jump up and say. "Did yon have a nice
time?" And he—well, usually he «ays,
"Jove, what a picture you are!" Then I
get kissed a good deal. Harry is almost
always real jolly when he gets home like
that, and we sit up and 1 sing him songs
and flirt with him. and we have a lovely
time. He always says he wishes he had
come home sooner. You see, I think it
is awfully dangerous to let a man come
homo from having a good time and find
everything horrid.
Tho only thing is to let him find every
thing at home just as out of the ordinary
and jolly as it was where he has been.
Besides, it's great fun to hear about the
speeches and everything. He puts salted
almonds in his pockets, too, for me, and
always brings me home the bill of fare.
I have a collection of them, and every
one of them means just as good a time
for me as I hope it did for him. —New
York Commercial Advertiser.
A Woman Inventor.
Mrs. Ella Neilson Gaillard was in hor
youth a belle of the aristocratic eastern
chore of Maryland, but later distin
guished herself as an inventor. One of
her first inventions was the amusing
automatic toy sold on the streets as the
"irrepressible conflict." being the figures
of an Irishman and an African engaged
in a fierce fight. She also invented tho
eyeless needle, which is almost univer
sally used by surgeons, and is useful to
many other people Another and more
ambitions effort resulted in the musical
top, which plays a full tune while spin
ning in the ordinary way. From none
ot these inventions did Mrs. Gaillard
reap a return worthy of the name. , She
waa not discouraged, however, and has
been busy perfecting other inventions.
Among her recent patents are a fold
ing basin for travelers, a folding flat
iron, a novel bird cage chain and a
musical fountain, which renders exqui
site music while throwing a stream of
water from a beautiful slatuet te with
such precision that not a rlrop escapes to
spoil the carpet. Her most important
and valuable inventions are a dress
shield and a "sweat band" for hats,, and,
a carnage telephone. Mrs. Gaillard bas
also invented a lock and key and a
musical paperweight. The lock and key
invention enables any one by eiroply
looking at tha key to determine whether
tho door is safely locked or not, the
locking being registered on the key. The
musical paperweight is in the form of a
stem winding watch. The face of the
weight indicates tho day. month and
year.—Chicago Post.
A Woman Riding Master.
London has a woman riding master, a
Mrs. Hayes, who insists, notwithstand
ing the traditional supremacy of the
English woman's horsemanship,.that you
rarely see an English woman sitting
gracefully and firmly in her saddle, and
that Frenchwomen are really the more
graceful equestriennes. Mrs. Hayes
teaches in a modest boyish costume with
out a skirt, and takes a 5-foot gate on
her lively charger without holding her
reins at aIL Her theory is that a riding
master cannot teach a woman to sit well
on a side saddle because he doesn't know
how himself except theoretically. She
is taught to rely firef and foremost on
her reins, when it is not her reins at all
that save her when hor horse shies or
falls. The reins should never be given
to the pupil at all until she is perfectly
secure in her seat and has learned that
it is the grip on the crutches of the sad
dle by the muscles of the knees and an
kles that gives her the firm seat.
The reins are simply to guide the
horse. Tbe stirrup snould be shortened
until the knoe presses firmly against the
leaping head. It is to teach the position
of the legs that Mrs. Hayes rides in the
boy's dress, and when a woman learns
to use these members properly Mrs.
Hayes claims that her seat is more nat
ural, more graceful and more secure
than if she rode astride. Tliis lady rid
ing master is a daring rider, accepting
most vicious mounts with fearlessness,
and stopping short of nothing, not even
a zebra, in her experiments.—London
Letter.
"Wearing Brocades.
Brocades are fashionable. Likewise'
they are a snare to the dressmaker. "To
buy a beautiful fabric of this sort is one
thing; to make a successful gown of it
quite another. It must be managed with
discretion. Tho dressmaker who Fays
"this brocade is so beautiful it should be
made perfectly plain, so as to show of
the pattern." is lost. So also is the worn
an who wears the gown so made. She
has become a manikin to show off a
pattern. If yon would have your brocade
gown successful not make it
smooth fitting, so that the pattern fol
lows the surfpee of the pereon. Why?
Because by this means what was an
ornament to the fabric has now become
a decoration to the person, and you have
made yourself look like a tatooed savage,
but worse.
A pattern may enrich a texture, but it
will only demean your person. Fancy a
Greek vase stamped over with a repeat
ing pattern! Now you understand.
How to avoid this? Look at oriental
dress; it will toll us. Orientals us*much
brocade, but they do not make it fit like
a mati i x over tho figure. It falls in loose
drapery, in uncertain, shifting fields.
Thus the beauty of the fabric is devel
oped, and the figure, instead of being de
creased, is honored by its covering,
The form for a brocade dress must be
carefully chosen, and the woman who
would buy a brocade because it is in tha
fashion should first reflect whether she
oan or will wear a grown design suited
V> it.—Chicago Herald.
A Traveler* Tern.
A unique charitable entertainment
planned for a cooking clnb is "A Trav
eler's Tea."
Each maiden in tbe clnb is to provide
-■' '•>• lij.'enmiq : '..
a oasfcet of any size or shape sDe chooses,
filled with refreshments for two. Mar
ket baskets, waste paper baskets, the flat
baskets used by mountain guides, ham
pers and dainty fruit baskets, anything
pretty or grotesque may be used and
decorated with ribbons, fruits, flowers,
grasses, or whatever one chooses. With
in there may be a course luncheon, or
two or more delicious dishes, perhaps
only one, for which the girl who packs
the basket has a particular talent. Lob
ster, Newburg rolls and piokles will be
in one: sandwiches, game, pie and fruit
in another; salad, wafers and cheese in a
third. The baskets are all to be auc
tioned off and the contents not known
to the buyer until it is his "for better or
worse."
A tearoom set with pretty little ta
bles, each for two persons, is arranged,
and there the buyer of the basket par
takes of his luncheon with the young
woman who prepared it and whose card
is inside the cover.—Chicago Post.
A Smart Girl's Lecture.
A sixteen-year-old girl reads a lecture
to the young men in a Lincoln county
paper. She exclaims: "Why do the
young men of Gdgecomb do so much
loafing? Go to work! Push ahead! 1
am but a young girl. I have clothed
myself, have money in the bank and am
only sixteen years old. I lay up more
money every year of my life than any
boy or young man within a radius of
three miles of my home. When they get
a dollar they go to a dance, and go home
a dollar out. My father is able to sup
port me. but I choose to support myself.
I advise all girla to cut clear of those
loafing boys. Give them a wide berth,
and never marry a man unless he is able
to support yon. And never put your
arm through the handle of a rum jug."
—Lewiston Journal.
A Pathetic Experience.
"One of the pathetic experiences I en
counter from rime to time." said recently
the manager of a woman's exchange, "is
to have a woman come with some old
fashioned fancy work, the bead em
broidery, wax flowers perhaps, or tbe
worsted samples' work of a bygone
day. Her need has como lato in life and
she seeks to meet it with this skill of her
youth, which, likelier youth is past end
forgotten. It is hard to show her deli
cately that there is no place among the
exquisite creations of today for these
stiff and graceless things of a long ago
yesterday, and harder still to note her
discouragement when the truth is finally
made plain to her." —New York Times.
Women Explorers.
Women are more ardent globe trotters
than men when once the craze asserts
itself. Elizabeth Taylor started alono
from Winnipeg early last summer, made
the trip alone as far as the most north
ern posts of the Hudson Bay company,
and stands on record as tbe first woman
explorer to venture into the polar re
gion on her own account. And now a
zoologist and his wife, an accomplished
taxidermist, hnve started out to explore
Melanesia in the interest of science.—
New York Sun.
The Knowledge of Hello Girls.
Telephone operators in Belgium, many
of whom, aa in other countries, are girls,
are required, now that the government
bas absorbed the business, to pass an ex
amination in Flemish. French, German
and English. They must also have a
good knowledge of geography, and be
able to draw a complete map of Europe
-Pall Mall Budget.
A Successful Experiment.
Woman suffrage has not resulted in
any of the evils that it was predicted
would follow woman's participation in
elections. The Wyoming experiment,
so far as one can judge at this distance,
has been a success, and the women are
to be congratulated on the result.—Bos
ton Traveller.
There are at present more than 500
women in New York city who ride bi
cycles, and a club has been formed, with
Mrs. M. L. Peck as president, for the
purpose of securing quarters convenient
to Central park.
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A pretty throat is far more beautiful
when its curves are relieved by the slen
der lines of a gold chain, now so much
in vogue. The fashion prevails of add
ing pendants of jewels at the front of
such necklaces.
Memphis women property holders
voted at a recent municipal election,
some twenty-five in all, and to each,
even to the two black women among the
number, the greatest respect was shown
by men.
The transparent enamels from Russia,
decorated with the tracery of opaque
enamel in a tnyriad of rich colors, are
«rwn this season in library trays and
rious other articles for the library
Mme. Diaz, the wife of the Mexican
. president, will, at her own expense, send
to the World's fair a woman's band of
forty-five -musicians. It will comprise
the most expert musicians in Mexico.
The Society for Promoting the Return
of Women as Guardians of the Poor in
their last report say that among 28,000
guardians in England and Wales there
are only 136 women.
Oh, girls, do be natural! Oh, women
of families, do tell the truth!— Exchange.
He ,'om't in It.
Seeker—You know Bugging of course?
Yes? Well, did you know he had lately
taken to horseback riding as a pastime?
Sageman—Gh, yes; I saw him in the act
this morning.
Seeker—Ho w does he appear in the saddle ?
Sagoman—Couldn't say. When he passed
the house he wasn't in the saddle enough to
give me a chance to judge.—Boston Courier.
Her Plan.
Clara—Mercy, dear, what are those
strange figures on your gown?
Maude—They are interrogation marks.
That bashful Mr. Family is coming again
tonight and 1 am in hopes tbat this will
bring him to his senses.—Cloak Review.
Qualified.
"Then," he said, rising, "I am to under
stand that you decline me absolutely,"
"No," she answered; "I made no such
sweeping assertion. I will keep your pres
ents."—New York Herald.
Permanent.
Jones (meeting Brown in dry goods stoat)
—Hello, Brown, how an you. What are
yon doing now—got a steady job?
Brown—l guess I hare. I'm waiting for
my change.—Lite.
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I Refunded upon any purchase made over TEN DOL- |
4 LARS. The cause of this liberality on our part is to |
1 find out which daily new: paper in Los Angeles is the I
I Best Advertising Medium for our business, and to |
I give them all a good chance we will give the people $
I GREATER BARGAINS than was ever given by any |
]| Clothing House on this continent, TO-WIT: U
I Men's stylish ?nd richly-tailored $22 50 and $20 Suits and Over- ||
9 * J\. Jl J coatis made up equal in tvery respect to cv torn tailor garments, |jj
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H And to make the tHng still m >re interesting we have taken 3000 of our retrulsr $T5, I
<p $1350 and $ '.2.50 Men's Suits and Overcoats and placed upon them the insignificant Low |
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I WTT This is the greatest offer ever made by any legitimate house f||
ill UflllN 1 LJIIVIIIIi in America, and if you can duplicate these Stylish and Hand- Ej
J some Garments at any house on this coast within 25 per cent Ey
H of these Gift Prices, we'll allow you to carry them away for nothing. jn
I HERE IS A GIET! I
j Last summer we placed an order with a large eastern manufacturer of Fine Shoes |fl
iH for 1200 pairs of Men's High-grade Pa>-ent-lea'.her Shoes, the same to be delivered De- Ij
H cember Ist in time for our holiday trade, but owing to a strike the goods were delayed H
§1 and have just arrived. We wired the makers that 'we could not use them," and their Id
m reply came, ' As goods are stamped Jacoby Bros ,' and we cannot sell them to anyone |&
■ else, slaughter them and charge the loss to us," and Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock we I
P will throw them away at |||
As they are regular $600 and $7.00 Shoes, and cost $4 3 0 to manufacture, you can if I
I imagine how long they'll last at this price, so if you come around the last of the week and EJ j
I find'em all sold don't blame us. ii 1
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l\/Tr\TUCT) C If you think that Wf have overlooked the boys in this week's great I |
! IYIU 1 IlJlrvO Bargain Banquet you are mistaken—s4o Boys' regular .$5 suits M
have beeu cut down to f %
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I AND 400 DOZ 60e and 50e CHILDREN'S SHIRT WAISTS I
m HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO 25 CENTS. P
I Ladies, this week' will be one long to be 'emembered in the minds of all economical I
I I people who believe in the old proverb tbat a "Penny saved is better than tenpence H
hm earned." Ls
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