The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-16
THE NEW WOMAN.
Gains For Women at the Last Presiden-
tiaI Election.

tial EiecElOn.
Since the presidential election of 1892
women have much to be thankful for in
the way of political progress IL is true
that, measured by results, the gains
seem small in proportion to the truly
herculean labors the brave workers for
women's political emancipation have
performed Butnone of these efforts are
lost They will all tell at once one of
these days, and then results will come
with "a rush. This year the women Of
three states, Wyoming. Colorado and
Utah, voted for presidential electors.
One woman, Mrs. Sarah Malloy of Wyo-
ming. was herself chosen presidential
elector on the Republican ticket. The
Colorado house of representatives will
this winter have as members three strong
and noble women. They were elected
on the Populist fusion ticket, and their
names are Mrs. Evangeline Hearth, Mrs.
Olive @. Butler and Mrs. M. A. Il. Co
nine. These ladies all live in Denver,
which has been described as the most
beautiful city in the world. Perhaps
that is because women have so much to
do with its municipal affairs. In the
new state Of Utah Mrs. Martha @. Can
non was sent to the state senate. She is
a Democrat and doctor, practicing her
profession. She was before polygamy
was abolished the fourth wife of Angus
Cannon, but now lives with her son and
daughter in neat home of her own.
The oldest part of her candidacy was
that her former husband. Angus Can
non, ran against her OH the Republican
ticket for the same Office of state senator
and she beat him by a majority Of
1000. She is a woman Of fine, strong
character and an original mind, which
she uses to do her own thinking. She
emphatically goes in for women taking
a share in running this world. To sum
up, in the three states in which women
have full suffrage were there chosen at
the November election one woman SEN
ator in Utah, three women representa-
tives in Colorado and one woman presi-
Dental electer in Wyoming. Therefore
the sun do move"
In an interview with Winifred Black
Of the New York Journal, Mrs. Martha
q. Cannon, state senator elect in Utah,
says: "Now, / know that women who
stay at home all the time have the most
unpleasant homes there are. You give
me woman who thinks about some-
thing besides cook stoves and washtubs
and baby flannels and I'll show yen
nine times out of ten successful home
maker and q successful mother Some
to q certain number of children, and
then the mothers of the land can live as
they ought to live-free, happy, healthy
lives.
Women who keep up with the fash
ions waste sinful lot of their waking
hours over their clothes, and, after all,
do not look nearly SO handsome as the
ones who follow an artistic simplicity
in dress With good many women
clothes are not made for the use of the
body. In their idea, the Creator made
the human body only for the purpose Of
showing off clothes.
Charles Nordhoff's daughter Ethel
has become bookbinder. She is wise.
Bookbinding pays better than book writ.
ing, as rule.
Alice Stone Blackwell says in The
Woman's Journal, after women had
had full suffrage in Wyoming for ten
years the census reported that in all the
territory there were only three fanatics,
and those three were all men.
The engineer of the sawmill at Por-
terville, GAL, is woman, Mrs. Cherb-
borne.
Miss Adelaide Hasse has entire charge
Of the library of public documents in
Washington. She catalogued the collec-
ton of books herself.
It was quite right to abolish the law
requiring that women should be en-
ployed only eight hours day in fac
tory work in Illinois, leaving men to
work as long as they pleased. 1t was
abridging the right to the pursuit of q
AiNink Vi - cCA aiiOouy nv q 6AOdt oioou-
vantage in the world Of paying indus
tries.
Miss Lille Sullivan fills an impor-
tant place in the agricultural depart
ment at Washington. She examines
mites, insects and parts of insects micro
scopically, and then makes colored
drawings of the magnified image.
If Mr. Roby, instead of Mrs. Roby,
had presented Wolf lake to Chicago uni
versity, would the newspapers have said
Mrs Roby had ALLOWED" Mr.. Roby to
make the gift? That is what l should
like to know.
Personal beauty is something far
more within woman's own control
than she supposes In answer to ques-
ton Of how human being could reach
a certain desirable state, Swami Sara
dananda replied at Greenacre, "Think
that way" Just so. The woman who
would be beautiful must begin and
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