The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-17
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for business or school, and the baby
made comfortable for the day, per-
haps we wondered why We ever
married But such a thought vas
but momentary, born of the biz
zarl which brings such discomfort.
If we allow it, it is just these i'm
portunities of work, cold or hunger
that spoil our lives, without these
every soul could feel touch OF di,
vine peace. It's best to pass lightly
over the ,rs and discords peculiar
to each day, ever looking beyond
them, hoping TO strike into mel
o iy unawares.
Almost every paper is flied with
stories of want and privation ei-
dared bJ families all over the coun-
try, at this season, especially
those of the western PA rle', where
the bllzz,rds are so terri tic. The
heroi-m di p'ayed by wom n amid
the innumefable hardships should
make us ashamed to even murm ar
at our few discomfoIts
To SIT in a cabin dAy after day,
the bowling wind sweeping ever
thing with terrific force, DIR wing III,
rain and sleet through the cracks
into the room, whose occupants are
cold and hungry, is bad enough;
but to be shut off from all compan-
ionship, TO be sta we'd mentally, ls
what takes the color and sweetness
from life. Ana the fortituds that
these prairie women evlnce IN living
out their cheeIlsss lives, ever hop
ing ana waiting to ''strlke 1t rich, "
that the little ones may have com
forts aud their own lives be- brighter,
has surely touch of pathos in it,
for although sometimes their hopes
are realized, more often lonely
grave with a hand jul Of stones at
the head is the end.
An interesting question of the
period, auent the wonderful progress
of women during the last century,
is, ITO what ia the evolution of
woman tending?" Public opinion
votes that the American woman is
improving faster than the America 4
man. He immerses hlmsolf in the
pursuit of the mighty dollar, willis
she spends her time and the afore-
said dollar in reaching the highest
physical and intellectual perfection.
Are we going to have complete
reversal of the order that prevailed
when man was the lord and master
and woman his bond servant? Let
us hops not, at least, and be salts.
fed in the fact that our social and
mental position is in every way
equal to mau's. 1t is only thos of
OR sex who are cranks who want to
supersede men entirely. Tue
womanly woman sill thinks the
b, st of life is to be wife and mother.
The following is clipped from the
St. Louis Globe. Democrat, and ia
the latest departure of the fair sex:
Somewhat novel is the scheme
evolved by number of women who
entered the Cherokee Strip at the
time of the rush with the avowed
purpose of founding feminine
Utopia, where there should be moth.
ing of the harshness of masculinity
to annoy or make afraid. They
camped on the border along with
the other boomers, and were appar.
emily we'll satisfied with the out.
look. Miss Annette Daisy, Ken.
tuckian, was their leader, and she
had we'll defined idea as to estab-
fishing feminine comm unity.
"The party of a score or more
spinsters was laughed at by the
other boomers, and their chimerical
scheme provoked much amusement
sill along the line. But they made
thu rush on September l6 toge, her,
and reports are that they have sue.
ceeued In establishing their longed'
for community
"They took up, between them,
three sections a few miles from
Ponca, and by a series of double
cabins, the dividing walls on the
section lines, they are enabled to
have close companionship, and yet