The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-08
THE NEW WOMAN.
Manager of a Branch Of n Great DEPART
ment Store.

] ut OiiltT uuN was III Oho VI WIZ
largest of the huge New York depart
ment stores. Behind the counter, a
saleswoman and manager Of one divi-
sion, stood my lovely new woman. AS
came near and asked for what wanted
she locked up with rarely sweet
smile hen ! saw her fully. There
were perhaps 100 girl clerks around
her, aud she was old enough to be the
mother of almost any of them: They
were adorned after the style Of girls,
laced tight and decked with ribbons
and laces and having hair brushed over
! their ears in the height of the present
! fashion. The woman who was old
enough to be their mother was attired
very plainly, without pinched waist,
| without useless frill or hot iron curl
, about her; Immediately clean, howev-
er, which am sorry to say some of the
girls were not. Yet there was some-
thing about this middle aged woman's
noble presence that dwarfed them all
into insignificance. Their mannerisms
and petty Alterations, their artificial,
falsetto voices, their crudeness, their
ignorant, hard little notions of things
faded into pitiful smallness before her.
She had bright steady eye, clear,
pink and white complexion and a voice
modulated TO sweet gentle tones. She
had had large experience of life and
learned from it all TO be steadily sweet
tempered, serene and perfect hammered.
She was just kindly, courteous wom-
an, absolutely sincere, interested in all
the questions of the day, woman who
read the newspapers and believed in
the amending progress Of the race to-
ward higher and better things. There
was not a trace Of deceitfulness in her.
Her mind and intelligence were as
broad as her heart. She never lost her
temper even with unreasonable custom
ers or the squabbling, silly girls about
her. She knew the blistering path of
torture over which all such women and
girls must tread until they get the bad
temper, the fault finding nature and
the bigoted Ignorance ground out of
them. She had taken care of her health
i'll youth, Lad learned 20 control her
temper and foolish emotions and had
CulllNdttu DtI liilHu. NOW SIC SNOOu
among these girls, old enough to be
their mother, but noticeably the most
beautiful Of them all, touch of sun-
shine and sweet perfume in the clogged
atmosphere of that vast vanity fair.
You knew as you passed from her that
you would always remember her. Here
was the new woman, strong, sweet,
gentle, beautiful and wise. Just so all
women will be when they learn more
sense.
observe that some Of the would be
wits of the newspapers are saying al
legged smart things about the dumpy
woman on wheel. / wonder if the
dumpy woman Oh a wheel looks any
worse than the handy legged, four feet
around the girth man on a wheel?
Miss Edith j. Griswold is the author
of the articles on copyright and trade
marks in Fowler's Publicity" an en-
cyclopedia of advertising. Miss Girls.
void opened in New York city some
months ago an office for the examining
and obtaining of trademarks, copyrights
and patents for inventors and others.
Already she is entirely successful in this
new woman occupation.
An enterprising woman in Jersey City
conducts an extensive business in the
| baking and selling of pies. First, she
people Wanted them. That opened her
market She has delivery wagons which
carry the goods around to hotels and
restaurants. On the wagons is the sign,
MRS. Wagner's Homemade Pies
know of one woman in New York
who makes living, and good one,
baking cakes. She has "a talent for this
and in the course of years has secured
an enviable reputation. Where unusual
: ly fine cakes are wanted for any occasion
, in private homes or elsewhere her serv-
+ ices are in demand. In summer, when
: her patrons are mostly out of the city,
! she has vacation. In the autumn her
busy season begins again.
An unknown woman committed sui
eide in New York not long since. The
, newspaper reporters gave so minute a
description of her apparel as to mention
the number of her shoes, and they were
+ 90. This ought to be enough to prevent
any woman from committing suicide in
future.
Did you read how four girls were
caught in a thunderstorm and three of
them were killed, while the fourth es.
capped; also that the three who were
killed wore corsets of the usual steel
stayed kind, while the girl who escaped
had no corset on and owed her life to
that fact?
BY her magnificent success in "Tess
of the D'Urbervilles" Mrs. Minnie
Madden Fiske has won her place as the
first living American tragedy actress.
She has likewise given Thomas Hardy's
story fame it never would have other
wise obtained, strong as it was.
A recent description of crash and