Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-11-18

way when she makes a call, and she
dawdles over her toilet, and when each
night falls she has wasted enough time
to have taken her to the swimming
school twice over.
Such people waste life's precious
cloth of gold by fraying and raveling
out the threads, and then complain that
the fabric is too small to cover their
needs.
The successful in life are less fire.
quently geniuses than merely people who
do not dawdle.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX!
Short Beach, Conn.
woMaN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Ecad Below and Then Say Witch Is tho
Extravngant Sex.
Coming down town in New York ell
evated train yesterday morning over
heard two gentlemen commiserating the
sad fate of one of their friends who had
married early in life. One of them was
plainly the kind of man who stays single
in order that he may spend all his money
on himself, which is a good thing for
posterity. John would marry" said he,
land now look at him. His children are
growing and have to have music lessons
and all that. and it keeps his nose right
down. But now he's in it," EYES," said
the other, with an extravagant wife
too. With some women $50 a month
is as good as $3.50 is to some Of the rest"
An extravagant wife! Let us see. The
Is
well dressed city men who smoke and
drink moderately, as they call it; not
drunkards or slaves to tobacco by any
means, but who just smoke, say. four
cigars day, take a drink of whisky
before each meal and perhaps four glasses
of beer i'll the evening. On Sunday the
indulgence is little extra, of course. I
am informed by gentlemen who have
| been kind enough to ''fess" to me that
| 81 Il day the year around is fair aver
age for the alcohol and tobacco con-
sumed by the ordinary city man. And
| yet these very men talk of extravagant
wives! A dollar a day would clothe out
and out annually family of children.
wonder men can look IL woman in the
face and preach to her about extrava-
gance.
The native Maoris of New Zealand
were enfranchisel in 1872, several years
later than the negroes of the United
States. The Maoris still vote in New
Zealand, and the negroes still vote in
some parts Of the United States. This
year New Zealand has extended the right
of suffrage till it now includes women,
so that New Zealand women, white and
Maori, can vote and hold Office as freely
as man can. But the women of the
United States. except in Wyomil <, cau-
not vote yet.
If Mrs. Ada Bittenbender, the Ne
brasEa lawyer, is not chosen chief jus!
tice of the supreme court of that state,
it will be because the Prohibitionists
have not votes enough to elect her.
During the past summer some of tho
women's clubs in the large cities inaue
gurated the delightful fashion of buying
or hiring a house in the country or by
the seashore, where the members could
60 and take their ease away from the
discomfort and mixed company of d
great hotel. One of the clubs that thus
had its own stopping and resting place
was the New Haven Ladies' Cycle club!
Their country clubhouse was within
reach of New Haven by bicycle, and the
members spun out upon their wheels to
their cottage and back again as they
pleased. This is charming idea and
ought to be followed up extensively an
other summer and hereafter.
Though Miss Ella Knowles just missed
by q few votes being elected attorney
general of Montana, she was afterward
appointed assistant attorney general;
which is quite satisfactory. This brave;
bright young woman has lately been in
Washington to confer with the secretary
of the interior and the United States at
torney general in reference to Montana;
school lands.
1t is to be hoped that the sweet po-
tato flour which is made by means of Il
st. Louis woman's invention will soon
be on the market. Doctors are discov-
ering just now that wheat and corn
bread and all cereals are very bad for the
human stomach. They stuff US up with
starch and mineral salts and make our
muscles grow old and stiff, so the ex-
perts say. Likewise yeast fermentation
is very harmful we are told If sweet
potato bread will do any better by us,
then we ought to have it.
It gives me pleasure to record that the
first woman to register and vote in her
ward in New Haven under the new Con-
necticut school law was the wife of
newspaper editor. Her name is Mrs.
Abby B. Sheldon.
Mrs. Josephine Butler, in an inter-
view printed in the English paper called
The Young Woman, gives this as her
word to girls: The one thing feel is
their lack of dignity. The sense of their
own worth should be impressed upon
girls in all ranks of life. They are too
cheap. They are made cheap, and they
allow themselves to become cheap. They
ought to remember that they are queens
born, and that they must co1nport them
selves as SUCH"
have lately seen in some paper the'
statement that the great raisin industry
Of California was founded by woman,
Miss NJ. F. Austin, teacher who had
lost her health in her profession. She
built the first drier for the raisin grapes
and invented the style Of packing which
made the California raisin attrac i've to-
buyers. This is all true, but not all the
truth, which is sad enough in this case.
Miss Austin had not capital enough to
extend her own vineyards and purchase
The appliances necessary to complete her
success. At the same time her health,
always delicate, broke down again. Miss
Austin died in March, 1889, and died not
st all wealthy. Others reaped where she
had sown, and sown so bravely. The