The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-06
THE NEW WOMAN.
Always Include Patriotic REGULATIONS and
Songs In Entertainment Programmes.

grammes were somewhat able, but not
varied. / was interested to see how the
average woman's mind ran when she
planned programme. There were some
comic Rotations and dialogues that
brought down the house. They proved
beyond doubt that women have the
sense of humor. There was also good
singing, but it consisted of light,
catchy ballads on the coming of spring
and screechy love ballads in foreign
tongues. The recitations were to me
disappointing. If there is anything in
| spring, it is to hear handsome, Guilt
waited woman recite stirring poem,
| throwing all the verve and intensity OF
her nature into it. Handsome women
did reoite poems and prose selection at
these entertainments. The selections
were wearisome and discouraging to
the best wishers for the sex. They were
! silly and sentimental enough to nause-
ate anybody but girl of l6. A we'll
known actress, a great, strong, splendid
creature, who looked as if she could
fence or break colt, win swimming
match or carry musket, gave mandy
PANTY little fool poem about woman
who was so tired because her sweet
heart did not come back. Such trash as
that is the most unwholesome stuff n
woman S mind can be fed on. The Sec
ond selection she gave was Of the same
character, a measly, mean little thing
about love-love between the sexes.
That seems to be the one theme to
which the old woman's mind is capable
of rising, not real, steadfast, working
love either, but her own false, exagger-
ated and slushy idea of love. Well, l
observed that the men in the audiences
were distinctly bored. l did not blame
them. myself was insufferably bored.
Here was grand opportunity for wom-
en-, and they lost it. 1t is time Of dan
ger and anxiety in our beloved land.
None there knew when war might be
declared. The undertone OF thought Of
every American ran on the possibility
of that war. A grand, patriotic poem,
magnificent national air by the chorus
of singers, would have fairly raised the
roof off the house. These were not CIV
en-. Remember when you have church
entertainment, a club benefit or other
public exhibition to put into your pro-
gramme something stirringly patriotic,
something that will tell all the world
you love your country and watch her
through good and i'll with keen snter-
est. Women patriots are needed as
much as men.
Almost more than any other woman
/ have heard of in some time do l re-
speot Mrs. Downey of Vineland. N. j.
Mrs. Downey's husband, woodman,
fell i'll. She had him and her children
TO support. Mrs. Downey did not weep
and cling, She took her husbands ak
and went to the forest and cut and split
good lot of cord wood. Then she har-
messed up her horses and hauled it into
the village. She took some of her chill
dren along to keep them out of mis-
chief. She took the cord wood into
Nineland to sell. The people of the
place naturally had so much respect for
Der and for the pluck she showed that
they bought her wood faster than she
could cut and split it.
l regret that Professor Charles A.
Briggs, champion of free thought and
honest Bible criticism, has connected
himself with denomination, the Prot
estant Episcopal, that is still barbarous
enough to retain the word "obey' in
its marriage service. Even Roman Cath
olics do not do that.
Two ladies have written stirring
poems Oh the Maine disaster. They are
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Mrs.
Ella Dietz Clymer.
Miss Grace Espy Patton, state super
intendent of public instruction in Colo
RADIO, is brilliant and remarkable
young woman. She was professor of
sociology and English literature in
Colorado college, although she is now
only little past 80. When the contest
for woman suffrage was ON in her state,
Miss Patton, although still the college
professor, entered heart and soul into
the contest, and her eloquent speeches
helped win the day. She was Demo-
crat in politics, and her party presently
called her from the professors chair to
the wider field of the superintendency
of the public schools of the state. She
was also Endorsed by the silver Repub-
licans Of Colorado She made a mag.
nificent address at the national wo-
man suffrage convention in Washing
ton. As superintendent of public in
struction in Colorado Miss Patton is
also member of the state boards of
school examiners, of education and of
public lands.
Mrs. Sara Steenberg is a director and
manager Of farmers institutes in Illi-
nois.
Miss Elizabeth X. Reynolds of Spring.
field, Ills, is young lyric poet who
has obtained recognition from the be-
ginning of her career. A little book of
her poems lately published has been
welcomed in way that must give her
many pleasing thrill"
Miss Estelle Reel eunaripto,dant 80