Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1892-04-07
woMAn's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Heartrending Tale of Dog and Young
Woman.

HeaFtfehutnS lale OF q Dog and "A Young
Woman.
Never do / cease to believe ia the com
ing golden age when All women viii Ivy
strong, wise and sensible. that Is. nearly
all But there are times when | get
tired Of hoping, not permanently of
course, only for few hours perhaDs.
One Of these occasions came recently
when | read how Brooklyn girl went
and boohooed in court over little beast
of a dog. She loved that dog. the girl
did She said she paid hundred dol
lars for him when he was a puppy III
London. Then one day, when her pa
was taking him out for an airing. the
little brute, Darling Daffodil.s . she
called him, got lost. He was found and
taken care Of by family who put him
into the dog show. The girl who loved
him so much recognized him. don't
know whether he had peculiar way of
dropping his blessed little tail or whether
he had a peculiar note in his sweet little
bark. At any rate she knew darling
Daffy, and then there was a scene which
was adjourned to court In court the
family who had taken care Of the
beast two months offered to give
him up if she whose lost love he was
would pay fifty dollars for bis
keep. She refused to do this, although
she had paid a hundred dollars for him
when he was only in the stage Of pup
hood, and she loved him. 50 besides.
Pending decision darling Daffy was car
ried away by an unfeeling lawyer. Then
the lady who wouldn't pay fifty dollars
for his board raised the neighborhood
with her sobs and lamentations. A
stranger would have thought that moth
ing less than her own baby had been
Tuthlessly torn from her arms. All this
when there are thousands Of starving.
homeless real babies that would grow I'll
be noble, intelligent human beings IL
only somebody would have mercy on
them and give them chance for LIE.
No wonder there are people who incline
to think women are little better than
idiots
A story is told of a teacher in a girls
school who used to cut the naughty
things out Of the newspaper each dav
and then let her pupils read it. She
soon quit the clipping, however, very
wisely concluding that "the evil men do
should be known to their fellow men for
the protection of the individual Quite
right Girls would not 10 wrong al
often as they do if they knew Of the
snares tkdt lie in wait for ignorance and
inexperience.
The Pro Re Nata society, Of Washing
ton considered recently the 50 called
"woman's column Of the average news
paper and unanimously condemned It as
''silly stuff, bu thought there must be
a demand for such gush and nonsense
or it would not be furnished. They
thought that the prevalent ignorance Of
women about wider and nobler topics
was responsible for the present woman's
column Of the newspaper
Canada il a step III advance Of the
United States in one respect at least.
All the Canadian universities are open
to women.
The Chautauqua circle Of Chester, Pa.
IS made up almost entirely Ut women.
bit tIsess sz5 lot iaieslfi % He i.y1cfss41s u
the question which viii form the lead
ing issue in the next presidential cam
paign. They have been studying the
tariff and have had addresses delivered
to them by experts on both sides, so as
to be able to make up their own minds.
This is a good deal better than studying
the ruined castles Of Europe
Mrs. Ladeau is bookkeeper and man
ager of the Poudre valley herd Of Hol-
stems in Colorado. She manages the
fine dairy herd with entire success and
carries on the poultry business at the
same ranch-that Of Mr. J. H Packard,
of New Windsor. Her poultry house is
one of the handsomest in Colorado.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.