Woman's World

Since the time of Motber Eve woraan jas been "managing things," thoughit is only in these end of the century days ;hat sbe has ventured to extend her sphere beyond the walls of her house. Bnt this age is one of progression, aud Then womau once gained a footing in :he business world she decided to turn ler talent for managiug, inherited from generations of capable housekeepers, to some account in the new field. Thern are but few to be found in the audiences at the Chicago orchestra concerts who do not know of Miss Anna Millar, the bright young woman who is the business manager of the orchestra. Uiitil recently Miss Millar was the only one of her sex to hold such a position in Chicago, but uow in Steinway hall is ;ho office of auother young woinan whose card reads: : L. E. EANDALL, : Business Manager. : Miss Lillian E. Randall - for that is ier full name- -doesn't look as if she could manage anything more earthly :han a sliceof augel foodoralemon ice, out she is known in musical circles as a most successful manager of concerts and lectnres. She is tall and fair, witli the same kind of blue eyes The Duchess used to give her heromes and hair that nature and not the hairdresser has made fair. She doesn't wear queerly made frocks or iuanuish looking bats. She doesu't spell woman with a big W, nor does she talk aggrcssively about the "downtrodden sex. ' ' She talks about interesting things when she talks at all, and the rest of the time she works. One year ago she was known as a elever accompanist and a teacher of music in Hyde Park, where she lives. One day she undertook, to oblige a f riend who was UI, the disposal of 50 tickets f or a Sunday af ternoon concert. She was so successful in this that the field into which 'she had acccidentally strayed opened wide before her, and as it teemed with possibilities she staid there. Tïiis winter her work has been confined inainly to superintending parlor recitals, one of them being the Chicago debut of Mts. Swabacher, at the resideuce of Mrs. P. D. Armour, Jr. She has also managed several dramatic readers, concert singers and lecturers, among the latter being Mr. William Armstrong, the musical criticwho has pleasedmany audiencesas critical as himself withhis lecture on "Unpublished Interviews With Great Musicians. " Miss Bandall, who, it is whispered, is an own cousin to a title across the water, is as rnuch of a success in her home and the social world as she is in the one of business. She lives with her mother, wliose hands are raised in indignation if any one, even jokingly, refers to her