Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-01-20
THE NEW WOMAN.
Her Capacity For Organizing and sTanag-
ing Important Business Enterprises.

The NEW WOMAN.
Her Capacity For Organizing and sTanag-
ing Important business Enterprises.
It is one of my cardinal doctrines that
women are especially endowed with the
organizing and executive talent. They
are quick to observe, and unless they
have been brought up ignorant as babes
of how money is earned they are care
ful in its expenditure. They have natu-
raj heads for economic science, where
they have turned their attention in that
direction. If any woman, no matter
who she is, sets her head that she is 60
ing to become we'll off, nothing or no.
body can stop her from it but herself.
She has only to keep working and watch
ing for opportunity III the direction in
which she set out and she will arrive
at her goal. But women usually let
their sentimental emotions. which they
mistake for their affections, swerye
them aside from the way in which they
have started. They become discouraged
easily, too, and lazily conclude a wo-
man cannot do this or that, when only
the grit and back bone are lacking in
themselves. Hetty Green, with her
$50, 900, 900, has shown she can head off
and beat at their own game the shreWd.
est SO called finaneiers in America See
the work Estelle Reel, state school su-
perintendent, has done in Wyoming.
Her first task ON taking office was to
thoroughly acquaint herself with all its
duties and resources. The state school
lands at that time were bringing only
$17, 600 year to the public fund. Miss
Reel addressed herself seriously to leas-
ing these lands. Her plan was to fix the
rentals SO moderate that rangemen
would be justified in accepting her
terms and putting thousands of sheep
and cattle upon the unused territory.
She has been so successful with the
scheme that now Wyoming draws $780,
600 year from the school lands, sum
large enough to pay 20 per cent of the
whole annual public expenses of the
state. The Engineering and Mining
Journal one of the most influential, re-
liable and respected periodicals of its
kind in America or the world, owes its
success more to its enthusiastic and tai
ented business manager, Mrs. Sophia
Braeunlich, than any one else. Day aft
or day, year after year, she is at her
post directing the money affairs of the
paper. She has brought its finances
from confused, doubtful state to a
point where it pays handsomely, and
her comrades generously acknowledge
her services.
Instead of being content to work for
somebody else all their lives at low
salary women should qualify themselves
carefully for chosen occupation and
then go into business for themselves
more generally than they do.
Let us hope the report that there is to
be an attempt to repeal the school suf
frage law for women in Ohio is mis-
take. Can there be in the state where
noble mothers have given to the world
so many great men one single masculine
creature base enough and piggish enough
to want to deprive Ohio mothers of their
right to help choose those who control
the education of their children? Great
heavens For the honor of my native
state hope not--I hope not.
Man is SO conceited that recently one
of the sex came out in newspaper let
ter and said that women We're not Ca
pable of making pie crust, that only the
mighty brain and arm of man were
equal to the great achievement. But we
can t all be cooks.
Women have not much self control
perhaps. but still they can keep from
smoking long enough to get away where
they will not puff the effluvia of their
throat and nostrils, disease microbes and
all, into the faces of people who dom t
like it.
During one Of the cool headed. calm
and logical arguments in the Austrian
reichsrath recently one member was
stabbed in the hand, another had his
collar bone broken, a third got scalp
wound, while above all the uproar the
voice of fourth cool headed logician
was heard declaring that he would bring
his revolver to the next meeting. But
women cannot be trusted to take part in
politics. They are too dangerously emo
tional. Oh, ye gods
CLEARS are good for women, writes
some old dunderhead Of doctor. "a
good cry helps their nerves. This stuff
makes me tired. If tears are good for
women, they are equally good for men,
for their flesh and blood and nerves are
constructed the same. Think of Presi-
dent Mckinley falling upon sofa and
having "a good cry'' when his cabinet
does not act to suit him.
In Alabama there is young lady too
tender and fragile in her nerves to live
in this wicked world. She ought really
to be brought up in an incubator and
nourished through tube. She held the
place Of choolteacher-held it, not filled
it. A bold bad boy, a horrible, fierce
and cruel giant years old, laid de-
moniacal plot to either murder her or
dethrone her reason, the dreadful mon
ster did not seem to care which. He
took mouse, fierce, bloodthirsty and
awful mouse, and laid it ON her desk.
The mouse was plainly dead, or it
would not have lain still, but that
dreadful boy perhaps thought it would
rise like the Hamlet ghost He intended
that it should eat the teacher But she
foiled his wicked plot. She gave one
blood curdling, hair lifting yell and fed
as though the fends Of perdition were
after her. She ran to the police, and as
soon as she could recover from her nerv-
GUS prostration she entered formal COM
plant against the monstrous boy. The
gallant police arrested the monstrous
boy. The still more gallant grand jury
held him in 5000 bail to answer to the
charge Of the Lord knows what He