Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-10-02
THE NEW WOMAN
Various Interesting Manifesto
tons in Everyday Life.
EMANCIPATED FEMALES F0lBLES.
Quaint and Curious Freaks-A Few OF Her
Peculiar interests. Powers
and Exploits.
EMANCIPATED FEMALES FoIBLES.

wing shot of International reputation.
In a business way he attends the prln-
cipal shooting tournaments OF the
country. From frequent attendance
upon these events in his company Mrs.
Lindsey. about five years ago, became
enthusiastic over the sport, and de-
yeloped after little practice skill
that has emboldened her to appear be-
fore the traps in amateur club meet
ipps. Her enthusiasm has kept pace
with her ever.increasing expertness.
and although she has from purely
sentimental reasons preference for
shooting at "clay pigeons" her best
performances have been at live birds.
She is slightly built. with keen eye
and quick movements. Her shooting
costume is simple and modest, and she
has resolutely refused to don the man.
nish habilaments of short skirts, knick-
erbockers and leggings affected by the
women of England who have made
shooting fad.
Their Hoboken home is surrounded
by spacious grounds, over which scam
per number Of very fine hunting dogs.
A black bear follows the lady of the
house around like spaniel, and is an
especial pet. Mrs. Lindsey never ap-
pears at tournaments except with her
husband. She enters for the shooting
events under the name of "Wanda. J"
In their home are displayed many
trophies of the skill of both Mrs
l;u1ploxy aud bar husband
To Miss Pearl Jones, of Cleveland,
o.. is due the fact that there is in ex-
istence the National Association of
Colored Stenographers of the United
States Miss Jones's father was Su-
preme Grand Chancellor of the Colored
Knights of Pytbias of the World, and
her faculty for organization was inner
tied. She sent out call for conyen-
ton. and about twelve hundred young
women and young men who can play
on a typewriter and write pot-hooks to
dictation assembled last Thursday in
Chicago, and made Miss Pearl Presi-
dent of the association which they
formed.
Texas, a State which reminds the
world frequently that it is digger
than France" has sent out to the press
a remarkable series of very new wo-
men. Snake charmers, train wreckers,
bandits brides, cattle queens and dead
shots are few of them. Dallas pro
duces, however, woman who is the
mother of nine children. who believes
in the bicycle, who shot at and hit a
providing thief, who, when she lived
in Michigan, was deputy recorder of
deeds, was admitted to the bar, then
went TO Ann Arbor and earned di-
ploma as an M. D. Mrs. Helene Bad
der, the Texas woman of this story, in
an interview, says: Between the
protest. ons, law and medicine, for
women, prefer medicine, because
think it is not such a great departure
from woman's ordinary sphere and it
draws out her finer natural sympathies
and feelings. In the selection of an
occupation l think woman, like a
man, should be left to follow her own
inclination and talents. She should
be guided solely by adaptability and
reason"
Chicago papers are printing pictures
of pretty and plucky Josephine Seitz.
eighteen years of age, who gave sup
per-hour burglar the battle of his life.
81 just grabbed him by the throat and
squeezed him, and he yelled and
screamed, but held on because he had
my bracelet in his hand, and ] kept on
squeezing and screaming until my
brother and pa came in, and they fixed
him, but / wasn't scared at all until
it was all over. and then ] had to go
down to the drug. store with a young
man that visits our house, and really
was not right until l had taken three
ice-cream sodas
The new woman is not exclusively
of American growth. In fact, "she"
of the short skirts and the leggings.
don't you know. is very English, you
know. Scotland accepts new ideas
very slowly. A few weeks ago gay
London lady attracted a great deal of
attention on Scotch moor by appear
ing in the garb that is usually worn
by her brothers. She was spectacular,
but as q shot she was a dead failure.
An old Scotch gamekeeper. who was
with the party, said of her perform
ance: "She apt the gentlemen a
that she cud. She wore the same
claes. she smoked. drank a nip of
whuskey; ay, an anoe gied bit
swear alich in; bit as for shutin she
cudna hit barn.door at ten yards.
an she never ance said Thank ye' tae
masel. II ony mair o. her kind come
ABBOTT I'll throw up ma job"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. of New
York, ON her way to organize the wo-
men of Montana into an aggressive
suffrage band, stopped off at Chicago
and fingered long enough to be dined
by seven women clubs and to be the
lioness of twelve receptions Mrs. Gait
is quite a novelty in the suffrage
ranks. being but twenty three years of
age, with a husband who adores her.
and has reason to, for she is said by
the Chicago papers to be "the hand
soonest woman that ever aspired to