Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-07-18
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
What Young Mar Could DO More Than
This Girl Has Done2


This Girl Has Done?
A young friend Of mine, Miss Edith
A. Reiffert. has just graduated with the
degree of bachelor of laws from the
University Of the City Of New York un-
der circumstances that do great credit
to her intellect, courage and persever-
ance- Her father, scholarly German
gentleman. died some years ago and left
large family On Miss Edith fell the
task Of providing for herself and help
ing the rest. She had learned, as most
young women Of German Darentage do,
/ fancy Knitting, needlework and en-
| broidery. Her first move was to turn
! this knowledge to account. She began
/ embroidering fannels and knitting
/ shawls and fancy articles in fine woods.
/ She sold these to the large stores. Pres
emily she hired other women to assist
her and made a profit on their work.
She still kept this business well in hand
\ while she herself proceeded to learn tel
egraphy, shorthand and typewriting.
Thus triply armed she had no trouble in
securing a situation as stenographic or
telegraphic correspondent whenever she
wished. She filed such situations while
still keeping up the little business in
knitting and embroidery. Presently it
occurred to her that she would have a
great advantage III business il she were
to study and graduate in law. Three
years ago she began this. working still
as stenographer, studying evenings
and mornings. But that was not all.
While carrying on all the rest Of the
work have mentioned she has also
\ built beautiful home i'll the suburbs
and is paying for it Oh tile installment
plan. 50 here we have my plucl1y girl,
4 still young, able to earn her living any
day III the occupation named. a gradu-
ate IN law ard the owner Of a handsome
house. Who could DO moro or better?
Professor Max Muller, with his Ger
man notions Of the housewife, was for
merly opposed to the higher education
Of won II. But now like man he con
fesses his mistake and says cit is real
| pleasure to me to see the young girls so
eager to learn Young men do as little
as they can. Young women do as much
as they can-too much indeed. wish
the men could be shamed and spurred
on to further effort
I A writer says there are three planks
/ in the platform Of the wife of Senator
I Quay, and they are 'home, husband and
children. 4 These are all very well SO
far as they 90, but Mrs. Quay discharges
her duties III life very poorly if she has
no thoughts or interests beyond them.
1t is this same "me and my wife. my
son John and his wife policy for gen
erations that has made woman so mar
row and ignorant and emotional as she
too often is. She has trimmed herself
down to that pattern because she was
I told by men it was the proper one for
4 her sex, and now the very ones she has
trimmed herself down to please turn
about and laugh her to scorn for being
/ illogical, ignorant and emotional and
not fit to be trusted with large affairs.
The men who have the domestic woman
On the brain are hard to please
\ There il play running Oh the New
York stage which represents the new
woman i'll the character Of q v-estern
sheriff The author of that play probably
did not know that there is IN real life
/ western woman who is a sheriff, at least
deputy sheriff. She i Miss May Simp-
son Of san Francisco. She has been pc
culiarly successful in managing insane
persons, and large part Of her duties
consists i'll conducting insane women
from the court TO the asylum. In the
/ performance OF this sometimes danger
Gus task she is singularly successful
The most distinguished scholar i'll the
1915 class Of the California university
was young woman, Katharine Conway
FELTON,, who received the award Of the
gold medallion the year, which. however,
she declined, on the ground that students
ought not to work for rewards in that
way.
Miss Weeks was recently thrown from
her horse, and the skirt Of her riding
habit caught in the horn Of her saddle.
The horse dragged her along head down
ward and finally trampled her under his
feet. If Miss Weeks had been riding in
the only rational way and wearing the
only safe and convenient dress for riding,
her horse could not have thrown her,
her dress could not have caught in the
saddle, and she coald not have been
dragged along under the horse feet.
Tt always gives me that tired feeling
to hear a man laying down the law
about woman's 3 sphere What does be
know about it? What can he know about
\ it till he himself becomes a woman? 7
wish sono men could be women awhile.
There would be more fun than this poor
old world has ever seen yet.
The fashions change with snch kalei-
doscope rapidity that it gives one that
tired feeling To try to keep up with
them. Don't try just get something
good and becoming and wear it ont,
| fashion or no fashion, and don't trouble
any further about it. This is the only
way to be happy. 1t is time the Ameri-
can woman was asserting her right to
dress as Size pleases, as well as to think
\ ~ Sle pielSts
I am rejoiced that two young women,
Miss Cannon and Miss Hands. archi-
/ tects, have undertaken to make a spe-
cialty of planning apartment and tene-
ment houses. 1t is only the comparative
4 ly rich in the large cities who can have
D whole house to themselves The rest
must live either ill flats OF tenement
rooms The miseries Of fiat dwellers
have never been told When women plan
these apartments for families, they viii
not make a parlor large enough for 80
people ana miserable little dark bed
rooms not large enough for cat. They
viii also have kitchens large enough to
put table into, besides putting the mir
ror and mantelpieces, likewise gas fix
lures, low enough for woman to reach
without climbing upon a chair.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.