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AN INTEAFSTINI WOMAN,
Victoria Woodhull Martin Returns
to the United States on Phil.
anthropy Bent.
$er Social Theories and Eduoa
tional Schemes for Men and
Women.
Rev. Anna Shaw-Mrs. 3raeunnUeh, Iusl
ness Manager of the Minng Journal
Striking Characteristics of WVomen.
[Special Correspondence of the Independent.1
Nuw Yoax, May 7.-Victoria Woodhull
Martin is an interesting woman. After
meeting her one understands better her
picturesque career in New York half a gen
eration ago. Put her anywhere she would
have power over men and women.
She is quite slender, of medium height,
with short hair flecked with gray. As she
enters a room your first movement is one of
surprise at finding herso small. You realize
that, half consciously, you expected her to
be striking.
Her face is the face of an enthusiast,
strongly marked, and yet not one which
would, if you saw it in repose, command
your attention. When she speaks it becomes
animated, expressive, and, at times, to a
marked degree winning.
She dresses very simply, without jewels.
She talks quietly, without trying to produce
an effect, and yet she must have the gift of
oratory. She impresses you as a woman
very much in earnest and who believes in
herself thoroughly, a generous egotism, if
that phrase conveys a meaning.
She has conquered a position in England,
so at least one would judge from the April
number of the London Charity Record,
which speaks of "the talented American
lady whose noble and devoted life has se
cured'for her the unbounded respect and
esteem of the whole civilized world." She
has come back to New York to conquer a
position here. Considering how she wenlt and
how she returns after thirteen years the situ
ation is dramatic. One cannot say she has
not splendid courage.
Her husband, Mr. John BiddulphMartin,
is a London banker, who calls her his "dear
litble wife," and who is apparently nearing
50. He has a fine, straighforward face, par
tially overgrown by a full beard. He is in
terested in the Anglo-American Debenture
company, and may start banks in New
York and Chicago. Zula Maud Woodhull,
Mrs. Martin's daughter, has grown up a
pretty girl with wavy hair and a beautiful
forehead. She is devoted to her mother and
weilds a clever pen in support of her
theories. Lady Cook, nee Claflin, is with
her sister, preparing for a trip across the
continent.
The parlor of the house in West Seventi
eth street which Mrs. Martin has taken, is
furnished harmoniously in gray-green and
crimson, with here an ebony chair and
there a couch heaped with cushions. Evi
dences of refined taste and plenty of money
with which it may be satisfied abound.
One of the most conspicuous ornaments is
an old newspaper caricature, handsomely
framed apd resting on an easel. Across the
top rans the legend: "How to Manage a
Team." The team is a four-in
ef bulls and bears with the faces of
..pd t .FPisk, Gould, etc., and seated
aloft, holdig whip and reins, are two
]hoops-tak -Jehus, While you are exant
inintthis souvenir of the first firm of
womam eok broker, "'lhw old are you?"
asks M Martin with frank directness.
"Theres see. I cann' talk with you as
if ye qo rem, tuber us iin the height of
car vity. When we caime to New orka
w~man ealdn't get a meal in a restaurant
satles d had a man to escort her. Now
t1a., nd. I .m o,,ling ei the
suet awto y ·1bboaa us"-end
she picks up the rough proof of a bulky
volume. "Here we are trying to vote. I
was the first woman, you know, who offered
a ballot at the polls. Here is the nomina
tion for the presidency." The leaves flutter
open at this point at an antiquely comic
picture of a mass meeting addressed by a
gesticulating female. "Here is something
not so pleasant." The illustration shows
the sensational arrest of somebody in a
very large chignon. Why, the things we
were reviled and sent to ptison for advocat
ing are topics for discussion now in every
drawing room."
"In what direction do you think the great
est advance has been made ?"
"In the opening of money-making occu
pations to women. Formerly a woman had
no resource but to sell that which to her is
most sacred-her maternity. The woman
who sells herself in the slums for £1 is do
ing nothing worse morally than the woman
who sells herself in church for £100,000. The
woman who gets the poorer price needs the
most help and sympathy. There isnoother
difference. Theremedy in both eases is the
multiplication of honorable ways of earning
a living."
"Report says that you are going to lecture
on Marriage.'"
"I have had large sums offered me to do
so. but I am not sure that my health will
permit the exertion. If I lecture the pro
coeds will go to the schools I wish to found
for girls. I do not care to make money, I
have plenty and when I die I cannot take a
penny with me. It is rather my concern
and my husband's to make good use of
what we have.
"If you found a school in New York how
will it differ from those established al
ready?"
"I hope to open schools not only in New
York, but in Chicago and in several of the
principal cities of the country. I have not
come back to America because I had any
need to do so, or any purpose of my own
but-do you see that?"' She pointed through
the open door to the Stars and Stripes and
the tUnion Jack draped together on one side
of the hall. "Mr. Martin couldn't leave
home without his colors, but I love my own
land and I want no monument for myself
but the one I can build by helping forward
the education of its girls. Mr. Martin is
with me in my projects. He says, 'Where
ever you lead, little wife. I will follow.'
My plans for the school are not formed, but
they will be co-educational.
"I hope to re establish Woodhull & Claf
lin's Weekly." [This was the paper that
had so much to do with precipitating the
Tilton-Beecher lawsuit.] "But this time it
will treat of social questions from a purely
scientific standpoint. Shortly before he
died 1 had a letter from John Stuart Mill,
in which he said: 'The difference between
you and other reformers is that you begin
at the foundation.' That is what we shall
do in our paper."
"Will you tell me what is the founda
tion?"
"The foundation is the mission of the
woman as the architect of human beings.
We have people devoting their lives to de
veloping beautiful orchids. We have agri
cultural fairs competing to breed the finest
horses and cattle and offering prises for so
doing. But to waste a moment as reflection
over the perfecting of so miserable a creat
ure as man is impossible, the disoussion is
vulgar.
"We know that one pauper may be the
ancestor of one thousand paupers. We
know that many diseases tend to become
hereditary. We acknowledge, purely as a
matter of theory, that much of the crime
committed is the result of inherited weak
blood or malformation or disease of the
brain. We know that we can get rid of vi
cious traits in animals by breeding, and yet
we go on building institutions for the incar
oeration of the insane, the idiots, the epi
leptics, the drunkards, the criminals, and
never realize that nowhere on the face of
the earth is there a building erected to
teach people how to perfect the human
body.
"What can we expect but murderous in
stinct from the unwelcome child, whose
mother tried to kill it before giving it birth?
"It is a crime to reproduce in one's off
spring one's own debilitated condition both
of body.and muiid.
"Wih't man is there who does not feel the
bitterr.ess of death wben cursed with a
hereditary taint, aznd yet is there one who
lifts his voice to ask that these saumand
tuents be added to the law?
"Thou shalt not matrry wha .ae esd
or diseased.
"Thou shalt not produce His image in
ignorance.
"Thou shalt not defile His temple.
"The solution of social problems can
come only with the education of men and
women to appreciate their full responsibili
ties when they impress on the blank tablets
of other human souls the impress of their
own past."
A Woman Preacher.
The Rev. Anna Shaw, who is national
superintendent of franchise for the W. C.
T. U, is one of the best speakers among
the platform women. They tell the story
that while she was in college the professor
of elocution said to her: "If you were a
young man and my son I could make you
the best orator of the time; but, being a
girl, you are a disgrace to your school, to
your sex and to your country." Miss
Shaw cares little more for millinery than
does Miss Willard, who is said to wear her
bonnets until they drop in pieces. Ten
years ago when the woman preacher was a
student in the theological school of Boston
university she used to be referred to by
disrespectful strangers as "that Miss Shaw
with the hat," on account of the size of her
headgear. That she has courage to fight
the world, the flesh and the devil may be
inferred from a tale of her childhood. She
had seven or eight brothers and sisters,
and when one of the horde did
wrong there was a family connec
tion who used to paralyze the culprit with a
basilisk gaze. Anna maintained that she
could bear unmoved this stony glare, and
her biggest brother being sufficiently sure
she could not to wager 27 cents on it, she
purposely offended at the first convenient
opportunity. This chanced to be at the
breakfast table. The terrible eyes were
turned full upon her. She did not wince.
Was not the big brother watching for her
discomfiture? Again the shaggy brows
were bent and the eyes levelled. They
seemed to bore like gimlets but shLe stared
straight bach again undismayed. For
twenty minutes the speechless combatants
sat fighting with looks, and then with a
"--the girl!" the basilisk pushed back his
chair and quitted the field. Little Azina
saw eyes dancing on the wall and peering at
her among the leaves all day. But she got
her money.
Miss Shaw was for some time pastor of a
Methodist church on Cape Cod. A Congre
gational church in a neighboring town
asked her to supply its pulpit to tide over a
vacancy, and liked her so well that while
she remained in the vicinity it called no
preacher of its own denomination.
A Woman and a Ward Lieutenant.
There is a woman who goes back and
forth between New York and Brooklyn
daily on the bridge trains and who always
gets a seat even in rush hours and in spite
of the theatre crowds late Saturday eroven
ings. If you happen to erose with her you
will see that she goes about it scientifically,
placing herself precisely over one of the red
lanterns scattered along the track and to
which the thoughtless give little heed.
When a train switches into position, it
stops with a door just abreast of her and
she steps aboard with the irst of the throng.
This clear-heasded individual is Mrs. Sophia
Braeunlich. the business manager of the
Engineering and Yining JoornaL There
is a good deal of govetnmat work now be
ing done in the Jounaloaoe in the prepara
tion of minin statistics foe the next cen
sus and Mrs. Bae snliok bas had some odd
experiences with the politioal "workers"
who were broght fowrd by their ward
captajus for lerical positios. A "states
man" who objected to pesenting his cre
dentials to a woman rlivd the mon
otony of a whale afternoon. The lieoten
as Is g snna made ll l certs otand
hMrs. Imwnl fllly ead oat the
whole gaq.
What Is year Idsl at a 3a?
It is an odd feet that many of the women
who ar parsmally the mstidaomadea in
setlon and an the conduc at than lives are.
In the abstraet, the heartlat webaribera to
what has bean e.aed slalaps late Dinah,
Maris Meloek pemalga t hta 4loor msat
thascy. Thew lisae. ladle. she
stands very erect and you wouldn't fancy
she would care to be trampled on. Some
body asked her the other evening what was
her ideal of a man. "He must," she said,
"be strong. Most men are weak as wax,
but I should like one to dominate me. You 1
can't imagine how wearisome it is always to I
have your own way. I can get up to-morrow
morning and go off if I chose to the East
Indies. Now, sometimes I am weary of
holding the reins. I should like to be made I
to render obedience, to be commanded." I
Ask any group of young women what sort of I
men they fancy and your answers are likely
to be full of brawn, with perhaps a little
brutality. But the taste is commonly al
tered by experience. f
WVhat Strikes You About Women?
What strikes me about Miss Frances
Willard is that she is frank. She owns that
she would like the reward of fame for her 7
temperance crusades.
" What strikes me about Miss Grace Dodge
is that she can keep a mass meeting to bu
siness better than nine hundred and ninety- I
nine out of a thousand officers. During i
the three days' session of the *orking girls' I
convention the entire program was carried i
through and everything was done to the
minute on time.
What strikes me about Mrs. Ella Dietz
Clymer is that she can sit down on a sister
who is out of order so sweetly that the
crusned person revels in the sensation. At a
Sorosis she will check a wandering tongue t
and that tongue thenceforward and forever
will sing her praise.
, What strikes me about Laura C. Hollo
way is that she can in a trice put an assem
blage in good humor. At the meetings of c
the Seidl society she will interlard her
speeches with merry personal allusions and t
questions that cause smiles to ripple in con
stant succession over the room. I
What strikes me about Annie Jenness r
Miller is that her lectures are not profound,
but that her audiences like her.
What strikes me about Miss Margaret
Bisland is that she is the prettiest young
woman in New York.
What strikes me about New York and
Brookiyn women in general is that they
have all been taking whist lessons. t
It is Necessary to Kick.
The Parisienne has a proverb, "it faut
souffrir d'etre belle." The modern girl
adapts this adage; she says, "it is necessary
to kick to be beautiful." If your imsagina
tion is sufficiently active you can picture
her just getting out of bed in the morning
prancing about in her slumber gown. When
I crossed the ocean ferry in the steerage of
the Cuuarder Aurania it amused me one
night to see three or four stalwart, red
cheeked Irish lasses set a mark on the wall
and kick at it to s whose feet should go
highest. This is drecisely what the would
be athletic giris now doinr, except that
her feats are not performed before wit
nesses. "Kicking." said a clever girl whom
I consulted on the subject, "trains down
the figure. There's nothing like it to make
the limbs round and to give grace and
suppleness. Also, I may add, it makes me
hunry." Not a ballet danoe, but a ballet
kick beiore the morning bath is now the
latest and most approved.
Canoeuig For Women.
Now that the dogwood flowers are out and
the great white pyramids of the horseohest
nuts, the thoughts of the young woman
naturally turn tosammer pestimes. To the
girl who has in ambition to row I would
say. Why not rather paddle your own
canoe ? To sit in a rowboat and plash
about with the oars while all the time you
are backing u blindly alast the somesy
is not to be oompared with the pleesare ex
lrieaced when you feel the Iaugh of esas
ittl, w:le as t bllnthes almostm
}our rde. and wield the sbinlna estag
be._uttiul enoui to he t p asarn ea
i·u in a drawut-ine
i t :s surprisia expr wtoue Onm
b)oes ai a ease iat. Theeaeri amma
' mo iere diw-a at low - s
what should be of importance in this age of
feminine athletics, develops the chest amaz
in ly.
Xn outfit of canoe suitable for a woman's
use, paddle, cushions and suit costs more
than a boating or tennis rig, but on small
rivers and inland waters like the Adiron
dack lakes, where decked canoes are un
necessary, the expense is not burdensome.
A light canoe that will not draw above
three inches of water nor weigh more than
twelve pounds is an ideal craft for a young,
pretty and clear-headed sailor, who can
get more healthy recreation and honest fun
out of it than a water-course can in any
other way be made to afford. A rowboat is
all very well, but one can love a canoe.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.
TO REFORM LEGAL VERBIAGE.
The Pittsburgh Bar Said to be Considering
a Plan for Greater Brevity.
A very important move has been pro
jected by the bar association, says the Pitts
burgh Despatch, but the attorneys are keep
ing quiet about it. The scheme is an ef
fort to slough of that great mass of stupid
ity found in deeds, mortgages, &c., such as
"all the right, title, interest and claim of,
in and to John Smith to certain," &c., and
get down to nineteenth century solid busi
nesssense. A report is to be made by a
a committee at the meeting of the associa
tion, Saturday.
An idea of the importance of the work
will be had by considering that the country
records are now encumbered by a car load
of useless paper covered by verbiage.
The paper cannot even be sent to the mill
to be ground over, as the records are of im
portance, and a vast amount of room is
necessary to store them. They cannot be
damped into a vault, for they are necessary
to consult daily, and the number of racks
necessary to contain them suggests that
owning to the number of financial opera
tions nowadays, and the probability that
they will continue to grow, the entire court
house will be necessary to hold them before
the end of another century. This verbiage
is also an expensive relic of the olden time,
as an army of transcribers is necessary to
keep the records in shape. It is also neces
sary to retranscribe them once in a century,
unless better paper and indelibile ink be
used. A conszderable number of copyists
have been at work for months rewriting the
records made previous to A. D. 1800.
When it is understood that the records of
several years after the borough of Pittsburg
was inmor rated were contained in single
book, and that at present the record of a
single day's transfers and mortgages might
fil a volume, the importance of brevity will
be understood at a glance.
While good lawyers generally may admit
that there should be reform in this matter,
there are some who would make the
change very caretfully and for good
reason. This view is set forth by Judge
Fetterman and J. L. Black. It m that
there has been so much litigation during
centuries, that not only every phrase, but
word and even syllable has been settled by
judicial ruling, and if the form be followed
and the grantor be competent to grant,
even the gates of perdition cannot prvail
against the conveyance, Judge Fetterman
suggese that if the change is to be made,
thetatest uae should be gotten up and
have the supreme court pas on it.
Mislitary :·-: Acdemy.
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