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Architecture is becoming a recognized
profession for women in Austria. Frau
lein Erska Paulas has juet received a
commission for the erection at Bistritz
of n residence for the official Forest
Commissioners. Previous to this she
has been entrusted wilh other import
ant Government commissions. At first
she met with much opposition, but
passed a mason's examination at Klau
senberg and afterward gained an archi
tect's diploma at Budapest. The fol
lowing article from the Chicago .Eve
ning Post throws some light upon archi
tecture as a profession for American
women:
Mrs. Burton Harrison very truly says
in her article on "Society Women in
BusineBo" that architecture offers a
great Held for them. The real problem
of that profession man never has suc
cessfully solved. As it is not his busi
ness to keep a house in order, he cannot
know how it should be arranged. With
him closets are merely necessary evils,
whereas a woman realizes that the
closets Bhould be outlined on the plans
first, and the space that is left cut up
into the number of rooms desired. In
truth, Mrs. Harrison'6 comment on tha
subject of closets leads to the supposi
tion that she has heard of the Chicago
woman who insisted upon planning her
own house.
"That is a tine large dining room you
have," said the architect who was en
gaged to attend to the details and su
perintend the construction.
"Dining room!'' exclaimed the woman
scornfully. "It's mighty little you
know about a model home. That's '.he
china closet." ""
"Don't you think,'' suggested the
architect after he had recovered from
the shock, "that ii would be well to
have an alcove in this big bedroom on
the second floor?"
"That's the linen closet," returned the
woman.
"But there are two windows in it,'
protested the architect.
"It is of utmost importance that a
linen closet Bhould be well ventilated,"
assured the woman.
The architect went over the plans
carefully before making any further
comment
"Ah, now I understand," be said at
last., "Here is your room on the third
floor."
"That's the storeroom," she answered
"I have only attended to the most im
portant details on each floor. You can
put the other rooms wherever they will
tit in."
At a meeting of the Worcester Wo
man's club held December 12th, she
following resolutions were adopted and
ordered to be sent to the Board of Di
rectors of the General Federation of
Women's clubs:
"Whereas, the board of directors of
the Geueral Federation of Women's
clubs at its meeting in Milwaukee in
June. 1000, refused to admit to member-'
ship the Wcman'e Era club of Boston
without giving a satisfactory reason for
its action; Resolved, that we, the Wor-
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cester Woman's club of Massachusetts,
regard this action as a direct violation
of the constitution of the General Fed
eration of Women's clubs and consider
in this action the board of directors has
taken an unwarrantable liberty. As
the Worcester Woman's club is a con
stituent part of the General Federa
tion, it is, thereby, responsible for the
action of its servant, the board of di
rectors of the General Federation, wo
therefore, hereby express our emphatic
disapproval of the action of this board
and request a satisfactory explanation
of its course of action or a reversal of
its decision."
A little girl of the doll worshipping
age received from Santa Claus on his
recent visit a perfect wonder in the
shape of a doll, even considering all the
remarkable dolls that one sees every
where now. The day alter Christmas
the little miss took her dolly out to be
seen by such of her playmates as had
not called to pay their respects to it.
One companion in particular, whose
judgment on the doll question stands
very high among her friends, had not
Been it, and it was to her that she want
ed most to show it. So her mother
helped her to decide which street gown
looked the most stunning for the doll
and then let her go out in search of
compliments knowing how like bliss
these are to the mother instinct that is
in every little girl even before she can
walk or talk. But the doll and the girl
were not gone long. They returned
locking rather out of joint, perhaps, but
still composed. "What's the matter,"
said the mother of the doll's owner,
"couldn't you find Agnes?" "Yes, I
saw her," replied the little girl "but she
had a baby brother come last night, and
shes so proud of it she couldn't think of
anything else. She didn't notice my
doll, bo I didn't say anything about it.
Just told her that I thought the baby
was lovely the nurse let me peek at
him and came home. She'll get tired
of him after a few days, when she hears
him cry much, and then ehe'll be glad
enough to see my doll." Later the
father and mother of the little girl talk
ed it over. The father prophesied all
kinds of wonderful things bound to
come to one with such tact, but the
mother expressed the keenest appre
ciation of the quality of the tact dis
played by saying that "when that child
comes to a clubable age she will be fit
ted to be the president of a federation
of ten thousand clubs, and never give
offence to one member of one of
the clubs, either by the thing3 she
does or by the things she leaves un
done," And the father allo-ved that it
might be 60. Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Henry Solomon, president of the
Chicago Branch of Jewish women, is
issuing invitations for the annual ex
ecutive meeting of the National Council,
which occurs in New Orleans during
Mardi Gras week. Fifty sections of the
council from large and small towns will
send delegates.
The committee appointed to appear
before congress to apply for the grant
ing of a charter for the General Federa
tion is as follows: Mesdames Lockwood,
chairman; Fairbanks or Indiana, Blount!
Trautman of New York, and McNeal of
Denver.
Kansas City, Thursday and Friday of
this week. Those bidden to the con
ference were officers and directors of
the Missouri Federation, St. Louis re
presentatives of the World's Fair Com
mission and the presidents of the fol
lowing federations of states included in
the old territorial bounds: Nebraska,
Minnesota, North Dakota, South Da
kota, Oklahoma, Texas, Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Louisiana, Arkansas,
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wy
oming and Montana.
Among the clubs united with the
Maine Federation and members of the
General Federation, is one composed
entirely of young Indian women, in
habitants of a small island off the coast
of Maine. The purpose of this organi
zation is the preservation of Indian tra
ditions and folk-lore. It became a mem
ber of the Maine Federation soon after
its formation and this year paid its dues
in Indian baekets, the work of its mem
bers. The receipts from the baskets
were considerably in excess of the dues
and the surplus was immediately re
turned to the club. Some of the work
of the club was shown at the exhibit of
Arts and Crafts committee in Milwau
kee last June.
Mrs. Charles Dennison, acting presi
dent of the General Federation, will re
presente the national organization and
offer greetings at the conference of New
England club women to be held in Bos
ton in April.
At a recent meeting of representative
club women of or near St. Louis, reso
lutions were passed, objecting to a wo
man's department in the plans of a
celebration of the Louisiana Purchase
to be commemorated during the World's
Fair in St. Louis in 1003. The opiniou
of St. Louis club women is that such a
classification as a "Woman's Departs
ment" would be unjust to woman in
that it would confound her sex with her
work and that such method is exhibit
ing woman's work would make it a
nineteeuth rather than a twentieth cen
tury fair. With reason they maintain
that women are now the equals of men
in some branches and that consequently
the work of both sexes ehould be ex
hibited 6ide by side. The whole there
fore to be an example of the industry of
the humanity of 1903 and not of the
work of men as contrasted with that of
women.
meeting, which occurred at that time
on New Year's day. The innovation
proved so successful that the constitu
tion of the club has been altered to al
low the social meeting of this month to
fall permanently on the first day of the
year in order that the men may par
ticipate. This year New York Sorosis
celebrated the New Year with a lunch
eon followed by a literary program in
the ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria to
which fathers, husbands, sons and broth
ers were bidden. Mrs. Dennison, presi
dent of Soroeie and vice president of the
General Federation of Women's clubs,
welcomed the guests. The day was in
charge of the committee on Houce and
Home. Mrs. Riley Smith, chairman,
read the opening paper "Some Chorda
and Discords in Our New Century
Life." She emphasized the great in
tluence of the home, quoting Sidney
Lamer's exclamation: "Good heavens!
how I wish the whole world had a
home!" Her idea of the purpose of the
higher education for women is in ac
cordance with that of Helen Moody,
"the higher education of women should
aim to prove not that a woman can do a
man's work as well as a man, but it
should aim to fit her to do a woman's
work as well as a woman can do it "
She closed her remarks with a plea for
good manners. "Would that some beau
tiful contagion of good manners might
sweep our land, and everyone who had
not already had them should take it '
Other subjects were: "The Home:"
"Prophecy or Fantasy the Religion of
the Future;" "Wanted-A Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Speech;"
"The Hope of the Century Our Girls
and Boys," and "The Decline of Cour
tesy" by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton
ThompBon, a guest of the club. Mrs.
Thompson gave to the definition a
double meaning "courtliness of man
ners and civility springing from kinaly
feeling." She proved with convincing
illustration, how if the "courtly servility
of earlier days" has declined so have
"brutalities." That though the demure
ness of the Puritan maiden and the
courtesy of Puritan manhood has more
or less disappeared, the general level of
civility has greatly advanced. Defer
ence, she said was on the decline and
for this parents, co-education and high
er education are largely responsible.
Among the many useful suggestions
that originated at the Albany meeting
of "New York Federated clubs was that
of a traveling club. Mr. J. P. t'ann.
who conducted the Federation Special
to the Denver Biennial was requested
to come to Albany and give as much
information as possible as to desirable
trips and their cost. As a result a
Mexican trip of three weeks which ma;
be extended to four has been planned.
During the World's Fair that will
take place in St LouiB in 1903, there
will occur an extensive celebration if
the Louisiana Purchase. The fifth
biennial of Women's clubs adopted a
resolution, making the Missouri Fed
eration practically responsible for the
woman's department in this celebration.
In consequence, Mrs. Edwin Harriron
president of the Missouri Federation'
called a conference that was held in
Queen Wilhelmina's joy knew no
bounds not long Bince when the Kaiser
Wilhelm appointed her Colonel of the
Fifteenth Prussian Hussars, though it
is not her first command. To be the
honorary colonel of a regiment of sol
diers is one of the great hobbies of a
royal princess. The women colonels '
only number about sixteen, and these A f r C
appointments are confined to Germany , I ll.rVlvix.IJ
and Russia. There are only two women
in the world who enjoy the rank of ad
miral. The Empress Dowager of Rub
sia is chief of the first establishmeLt of
the Russian navy, besides being colonel
of four regiments, and the Queen of
Greece getB much satisfaction and a
fair amount of glory from being chief
of the second establishment of the navy.
Czar Alexander III. was always ex
tremely fond of his young relative, and
knowing her passion for the sea gave
her ships instead of troops. Chicago
Tixes-Herald.
No. !, Board of Trade,
CHICAGO.
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ST06KS
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The number of women's clubs that
offer some special courtesy to men each
year is increasing. In Lincoln several
clubs have banquets and others recep
tions in honor of the men. This cub
torn doubtless prevails throughout the
state. Ayearairo New York SoroeiB
made a gentleman's day of its January
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