The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-24
THE NEW WOMAN.
Women Who Are Going To tho KiondIke
Gold Country.

il % sign of the progress OF our sex
that women are among the pioneers tc
the Alaskan and Northwest Territory
goldfields 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 MAS their piles i'll 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 a 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 its 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
expedition are from ladies who men
ton that they desire TO 90 and take
with them their sons. A true home in
fiuence 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
never becomes SO old or so strong that
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 going!-we are
so full of enthusiasm over our project
that we dream of it nights. We have
had already present of 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
culiarly adapted as buyers for the dry
goods trade
A woman was lately riding bicycle !
III New York city and got bad fall. |
In the fall 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 |
pied, pant for breath and be made i'll.
A preacher who was lecturing his
said, "Often l am called
to marry couples when l would rather
see the woman laid in her grave than
TO join her to such man." Well, what
did he join her to such a man for? II 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 II he did not do it somebody else
would He might just as we'll say if he
did not steal a pocketbook or rob q hen
roost or commit a 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 wickedpess.
The truth is that ministers themselves
are the ones to blame for very large
proportion of the divorces on our court
iockets. The ministers of the country
roll up the whites of their eyes 10
heaven In horror of the constantly in
,reasing divorce habit, never for one
moment confessing even TO themselves
hat the divorce is merely the undoiup
II their own bad and hasty work. just
10 long as preachers make marriage as
Easy as 1t is now just that long will
nvorce be correspondingly easy, and
'ught to be, and all the antidivorce
eagues on earth will never make il
Inherent. Ministers are beginning at
he wrong end when they try to sup
'ress divorce.
A single one of the sayings of Francis
the healer, is proof that he
vas not insane He asks. How can
women pray III tight laced corset?"
Another saying was this, when women
acrifice artificial things and live nearer
ature, Father will heal them rapidlv ;,
Like the swapping of the string of a
arp comes the announcement that
weet Mary Kyle Dallas is no more in
nc nesh. She was beautiful. high
red lOOkInu ..t- | ,