Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-10-07
THE NEW WOMAN.
Women Who Are Going to the KIondike
Gold Country.

Gold Country.
It is sign of the progress of our sex
that women are among the pioneers to
the Alaskan and Northwest Territory
goliifelds There were no women among
those who broke the first ground in the
gold mines of California or Australia
or South Africa. Yet among those who
have already made their piles" in the
Klondike and adjacent country are sew
eral strong and determined women. The
members of tho Women's Klondike syn
dictate who start for the gold region
next March expect to succeed. In fact.
they cannot fail, for they will stay on
the ground till they do succeed. What
other women before them have done
they, too, can do, with better equip
ment and the benefit of the experience
Of those who went first. Several Of the
ladies will take their SONS with them
and start them in the work of gold min
ing. There is something especially ex-
cellent in this idea of mothers them
selves going with their boys and help
ing the young fellows to get established
in new world. The sons will not be
tied backward to the mothers apron
strings, as the old sneer at woman has
it. On the contrary. the strong, wise,
fearless mothers will go forward, and
the sons will go with them An enter
prise with mothers, and such mothers
as these, at it's head will be successful
in noble way Mrs. S. W. McDannold
takes her son with her She is the con-
ductor of the expedition 1t is interest
ing as showing which way the wind
blows to note that a large proportion
of the letters of inquiry in regard to the
tion that they desire to go and take
with them their sons A true home in
fuence will thus invest the whole en-
terprise. Young men will not be
thrown out to grow rough and reckless
away from womanly influence. A man
he does not need and desire a pure
and gentle woman influence about him.
Such influence. if it could go with the
boy all the way, would save him from
much of the evil and uncleanness that
seek to cling to his garments. We
have said myself am goingf-we are
SO full of enthusiasm over cur project
that we dream of it nights We have
had already present Of a gold washing
machine
The fall purchasing trade brings to
New York this year larger number Of
women buyers for the wholesale houses
the country over than was ever known
before. Women with their quick eye for
color and their delicate touch are Pc
ouliarly adapted as buyers for the dry
goods trade.
A woman was lately riding a bicycle
in New York city and got bad fall
In the fal the steel of her corset broke.
penetrated her body and made terrible
wound. Well, if women will be crazy
enough to wear corsets on the wheel,
they must expect to be MANNED, Grip
Piled, pant for breath and be made i'll.
A preacher who was lecturing his
congregation said, Often am called
to marry ouples when would rather
see the woman laid in her grave than
to join her to such man. Well, what
did he join her to such man for? If he
felt as he said, he committed worse
crime than murder when he joined the
two together 1t is no sort of excuse for
minister to say when he marries a
sweet young girl to vile old reprobate
that if he did not do it somebody else
would. He might just as well say if he
did not steal pocketbook or rob hen
roost or commit murder somebody else
would. This saying that if we do not
do wrong thing somebody else will
has ever been tie DEVILS favorite argu-
ment to lead mankind into wiokedness
The truth is that ministers themselves
are the ones to blame for very large
proportion of the divorces on our court
dockets The ministers of the country
roll up the whites of their eyes to
heaven in horror of the constantly in
creasing divorce habit, never for one
moment confessing even to themselves
that the divorce is merely the undoing
of their own bad and hasty work. just
SO long as preachers make marriage as
easy as it is now just that long will
divorce be correspondingly easy, and
ought to be, and all the antidivorce
leagues on earth will never make it
different Ministers are beginning at
the wrong end when they try to sup
press divorce
A single one of the sayings of Francis