The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1893-11-17
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/ NsoMAQS WORLD iN PARAGRA s.
4 sensihle Father and 4 Brave ma Useful
Little Daughter.
A few weeks ago we had d carpenter
doing some work in our flat. IIs was /
kladly, intelligent man, not afraid that
b might possibly do the tweftysaig htls
part af an inch more WORT than hls esn
tgaetealled for. We asked him for hta
LIN, He said he would make II cut end
send It, Some days afterward a neat
pretty girl, perhaps IA years old, rang
tie bell, II have brought fathers bill
for carpenter work she said, We took
the bill, paid II and thought that was
the end "No," said the Young lady, Fl
must receipt the bill, She took out her
pencil and signed the name In q
most correct and businesslike hand.
SHE told ua, in answer t0 some
questions, that she did her fathers
collecting because he did not have
time Do do it himself. am net
aure indeed, from the looks Of the writ
ing, that she does not also make out the
biils as well as collect tham. She goes
to school faithfully, and out of school
hours makes her rounds, gathering up
tho money for her father. Most girls cf
her age would spend their out of school
hours ourled up on o sofa reading silly
novels, feeding their already exaggerat-
ed emotions ON the felovan stories that
drive girls and women to folly and ruin,
The carpenters bright little daughter,
on the other hand, knows exactly the
state Of her fathers finances aud ii get-
ting business education that Is quite as
good in its way as that obtained At
school, Her father ID teaching her the
care Of money and the responsibilities
that attend It's possession, Thousands
of wives and Inothers have less knawl-
edge Of business methods today than
thia child has, and 1t ID little tn their
credit that It ia SO,
Jennie 9, Wilder, Marshall Wilders
young sister, Is on the road this season
with her own company Of entertainers,
she being the comic reeitationist of the
group, Miss Wilder has given much
pleasure BY her reeitations wherever she
has appeared,
Really, Mr., Walter Beaant puts one
oat Of patience He has heen utteling
another solemn aiGtum on the woman
question, He says lis ssbelieyes,H does
Rasant, that IL women were asked what
they would rather ba they would all
say with one voice they would prefer
baing the mathers 0f sons and danghters
than 10 be actresses, lawyers, doctors,
artists on typeWFiters, or engage ia any
money earning calling. This is nom
sense, Walter Besaut, if ha had his
way, would have married even joan of
Arc to some ciadhoppeF and kept her
digging potatoes Ia the intervals Of pro-
dueing other clodhappers rather than
have had her he 80 .tnnWonalgiyA al to
ride forth gloTioHsly In mailed aTmor
ard liharate France, So far as human
Judgment can reach, France would have
been Q British dependency this day only
for Joan Of Arc, Besideb, whether even
the ordinary woman would rather he
the mother Of sons and daughters than
10 achieve a successful business career
depends altogether on the kind Of cons
ard daughters, Can the mothers Of Car
lyla Harris Or Mrs, Halliday ever know
o glad hnurF II the mothers of sluIn
Children have any human feeling at all,
eal they be proud Of the job Of bringing
panpers and Gonvicts into the Worldl
Finally, would Mr.. Walter Besant rath-
Ell be a husband and father than to bio
the author of .tAll Sorts and fionai-
tians Of Menu
The prize Of $500 offered by the Ma
tional Conservatory of Music at New
York Tor the best opera lihrett0 was
won by q woman, Marguerite Merring
ton, author Of the play, Captain Let
tarhlair,a
Walter Beaant would not even let is
women do as we please about marrying.
He would make US all be wives and
mothers whether we want TO o. not.
Ida Rose MeGahe last year travelled
through all parts of tho Union collect.
ing information about college girls and
the schools they attend, both c0ndpGas
tianal and the institutions Of learning
for women alone The talented hard.
working and conscientious young writer
obtained great mass of information,
which has been prepared In pleasing, pie-
tnresana style and published urdar THO
name nf 1.-THE American Girl DIT Gnllega,N
Ia the history Of educational maYamenta
IN America Miss MeGabeis hook will
hold its own place Tho chapters On
physical culture alnong girls are care
eiallg valuable,
My sisters, let us work on. IN n cen
tnry from now manllind will hagln ta
take women saEiouslg.
Miss Ray Frank Of Oakland, Gal., will
be the frst Jewish woman rabbi. SHE
obtained her education partly ID The |
state university pf California and after
ward III The Hebrew Union college al |
Cincinnati Thus the grand ola Jewish |
race swings into line en- the woman ones
tion,
At this time when the country Is in |
tiia midst of the grayest crisis II has lfsi |
tn facs since the war, when handreas ~ |
81 our sex are out of employ
nient aud many Of them well nigh starry
ing, ladies' are discussing with profound |
iHseFast ma excitement tha question
xhether " Il proper 70 wear 4 street /
gewp 70 all hfteFpoon tea.
Donlt he q pntty woman, 70 Just atiak |
ehers yoa ara thrawn and believe what |
you aFa told without 4 thpnght beyond
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owu Felatisea
RFnna GQlamaA the giFl anagefist
c8ula net vote, huf sl4e eati share equally
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