Women entering law and public life tested by sphere
Essay argues women face bias from male and female critics about oratory and capability in law. It cites Isaac Russell supporting women in law, notes many lawyers lack eloquence, and warns motherhood requires educated minds. It contrasts college bred and club women with untrained mothers, urging proper mental training for responsible motherhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Franklin Russell
University of New York
Russell
New York City
Lowell
Ladies Aid Association Sees Valued Gift For Hospital Beds
The Ladies Aid of Lowell General hospital met at Mrs. Walter Parker’s home on Wilder street for the last regular session before vacation. President Mrs. N W Norcross announced a gift of 70 yards of blue denim from U S Southworth for hospital bed covers and reviewed sewing output since March 1 1901 including sheets pillow cases towels and garments amounting to many hours of work and substantial material purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Association
Lowell General Hospital
Walter Parker
Wilder Street
A. B. Rose
House Committee
Thomas Talbot
N. W. Norcross
U. S. Southworth
Massachusetts Mills
Dorchester Women's Club Builds Landmark House
The Dorchester Woman's Club, one of Massachusetts' largest with a 500 member cap and a long waitlist, founded by Mrs. Clara Ripley in 1892, has raised funds to purchase land on Central Street and erect a clubhouse. Meetings occur on the second and fourth Tuesdays from October to January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester Woman's Club
Massachusetts
Clara Ripley
Elen Dana Orcutt
Central Street
Dorchester
Two Successful Business Women in Stenography Field
Marguerite Brooks highlights Misses Zerlina and Laura Rosenfield of New York as leading figures in stenography. The sisters built the largest stenographic firm with offices in Empire Building and West Twenty eighth Street, proving education and dedication open high level opportunities for capable women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Brooks
United States
Zerlina
Laura Rosenfield
New York
Zerlina Rosenfield
Empire Building
Broadway
Alice Rosenfield
West Twenty-eighth Street
Theatre Dstrict
Miss Rosenfield
Rosenfield
Gifts for Vassar Honor Mother and Founder
At Vassar College commencement President Taylor announced Piiza Davidson Hall would honor the mother of John D. Rockefeller with $110,000 for the dormitory. Helen Gould added $10,090 for a Helen Day Gould scholarship. A record 142 graduates received diplomas as readers listed. The alumnae asked for $1,000,000 for campus needs, and trustees named a new Edward Lathrop building after the long-time board president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vassar College
Taylor
Piiza Davidson
John D. Rockefeller
Helen Gould
Helen Day Gould
Mary Barbour Whitman
Chicago
Louise Sommer Holmansz
New York
Margaret Pinckney Jackson
Providence
Helen Eldrey Storke
Auburn
Ada Jeannette Lord
Wolfboro
N. H
Clara Stillman Reed
Springfield
Mass
Edward Lathrop
Lathrop
Worthy cause supports vacation house for working girls
The Girls' Friendly Society in the city organized its annual strawberry festival at St. Anne's parish rooms to fund a Milford New Hampshire vacation house for working girls. The event featured piano duets and solos, a fancy table, candy table, and extensive refreshments led by Mrs Carrie Davis Gilman and Mr E K Baldwin, with many young women volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls’ Friendly Society
Whch
Lowell
Edson
St. Anne’s Church
Carrie Davis Gilman
E. K. Baldwin
Ruth Gilman
Katherine Eastman
Edward Swift
Cedric Asquith
F. A. Estes
Chambre
McArthur
Ferguson
Paasche
Mina Wheeler
Linda Armstrong
Gertrude Randlett
Lizzie Chadwick
Ada Garner
Alice Saunders
T. G. McGannon
Miss Greenhalge
Miss Hart
Amelia Bennett
Addie Kimpton
Minnie Bernard
Annie Douglass
Bessie Atwood
Florence Malley
Jennie Kelley
Minnie Breen
Ethel Midwood
Elizabeth Clough
Bella Farr
Ethel Forbes
Ethel Waterworth
Annie Jones
Mary McAlden
Public Parks and Landscape Value for Cities
The article argues public parks improve urban health and wealth, tracing benefits from reduced mortality to cleaner air and sanitary trees. It notes early opposition to park spaces and cites widespread acceptance of park taxes as prudent spending while predicting expanding park areas in major cities and future national landscape art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
United States
Pontine
Rome
The Park as Art and Public Benefit
The essay extols urban parks for cooling cities shaping views and inspiring care in yards. It lauds parks for their economic health value and especially their artistic power to reveal nature, with hills and trees creating distant vistas. It notes state and national efforts to preserve vast forests and the allure of national parks drawing travelers for rest and study of flora and scenery.
Kate Chase and Her Great Ambition
The article recounts Kate Chase Sprague born 1840 who pursued influence to help her father Salmon P. Chase gain the presidency. It covers her early political drive, marriage to Senator William Sprague, and near success in 1868 when she aimed to sway the Democratic national convention at Tammany Hall before Horatio Seymour was nominated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Chase
William Perrine
Ladies’ Home Journal
Salmon P. Chase
Kate
Chase
William Sprague
Rhode Island
White House
Sumner
Charles Sumner
Tammany Hall
New York City
Horatio Seymour
Kate Sprague
Capital of Hayti and Its People
Port au Prince is described as filthiest world capital with wide streets but open drains. The piece portrays a degraded sanitation scene, highlights racial stereotypes about labor and leisure, and notes social dynamics between town blacks, women traders, and foreigners as seen by Chambers's Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port-au-Prince
Chambers
Window of Ladies Oxfords at 1 19 a Pair
A.G. Pollard & Co offers 3000 pairs of ladies oxfords in latest styles and regular $2 to $4 qualities, cleared from floor stocks of three manufacturers. Sale today in the basement shoe department, described as the best values offered yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Pollard & CO
Woman Prefers Popular Beach For Children Outing
A reflective line suggests a woman who chooses a popular beach over a farmhouse for her children's outing may be thinking for the children and herself, akin to the many uncles and aunts who accompany a small child to the circus.
When a Man Comes to Himself by Woodrow Wilson
A philosophical essay argues political office tempers zeal. It contrasts Russian autocracy with English and American leadership, noting the limits of one man and the tempering effect of office. Mr. Bright exemplifies reform tempered by parliamentary duty and gradual policy adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
England
Artists Errors in Famous Portraits and Gallery Mistakes
A St James's Gazette note recalls errors in academy art and gallery works. It cites a rainbow sun painting with impossible physics, a London street scene with traffic on the wrong side, Jesuit Lisbon’s Adam and Eve in modern garb, a Holland church Isaac scene with an old pistol, and Dutch painter Van Guyt showing Daniel in the lions den with pistols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Constant
Academy Pictures
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Bok
Ladies Aid Association
Dorchester Women’s Club
New England
Vassar
Helen M., Gould
of “Girls’ Friendly” Society
St. Anne’s
Hayti
Oxfords
Steinert Hall
Ivers & Pond
Hallett & Davis
Merrimack Street
Cissk
Merrimack, Palmer and
Middle Sts
Mr. Bright
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