The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-02-11
THE NEW WOMAN.
Her Capacity For Organizing and NInnap.
Ing Important business Enterprises.
1t is one of my cardinal doctrines thnt

organizing and executive talent. They
are quick to observe, and unless they
have been brought up ignorant as babes
or how mcnny is earned they ere 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 well off, nothing or no
body can stop her from it but herself
She has only to keep working and watch
ing for opportunity i'll the direction in
which sho set out and she will arrive
at her goal. But women usually let
their sentimental emotions, which they
mistake for their affections, swerve
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
tho grit and backbone are lacking in
themselves. Hetty Green, with her
$50, 600, 600, has shown she can head off
and beat at their own game the shrewd-
est SO called tinancierS i'll America. SEQ
the work Estcllo Reel, state school su-
perintendent, has dono in Wyoming.
Her first task on taking office was TO
thoroughly acquaint herself with all it's
duties and resources. Tho state school
lands at that time were bringing only
SIT, 900 a year to the public fund. Miss
Reel addressed herself seriously to leas-
ing these lands. Her plan was to fix tho
rentals so moderate that rangcmen
would be justified III 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 800
600 year from the school lands, Il sum
large enough to pay 90 per cent of the
whole annual public expenses of tho
state. The Engineering and Mining
journal, one Of the most influential, re-
liable and respected periodicals of its
kind i'll 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
er day, year after year, she is at her
post directing tho money affairs of the
paper. She has brought its finances
from co-fused, 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 Il low
salary women should qualify themselves
carefully for chosen occupation and
then go into business for themselves
more generally than they do.
Letus hope the report that there is to
be an attempt to repeal the school suf-
iragc law for women in Ohio is "a mis-
take. Can there be i'll the state where
noble mothers have given to tho world
SO many great men one single masculine
creature base enough and piggish enough
towant to deprive Ohio mothers of their
right to help choose those who control
the education Of their children? Great
heavens! For tho honor Of my native
state | hope not-I hope not
Man If SO conceited that recently Olie
OF the sex came out in Il newspaper let
ter and said that women were not ca
pablo 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, bat still they can keep from
smoking long enough to get away where
they will not puff the efliuvia of their
throat and nostrils, disease microbes and
all, into the faces of people who don't
like it.
During one of the cool headed, calm
and logical arguments in the Austrian
rcichsrath recently one member was
stabbed i'll the hand, another had his
collar bone broken, Il third got IL scalp
wound, while above all the uproar the
voice of fourth cool headed logician
was heard declaring that he would bring
his revolver TO tho rcxt meeting. But
women cannot be TT, sted to take part in
politics. They are tt dangerously emo
tional. Oh, ye gods.
Tears age good l5r women, = writes
some old dundcrhcad of Il doctor. ga
good cry helps their nerves" This stuff
makes INC tired. If tears arc good for
women, they are equally good for men,
for their flesh ami blood and nerves arc
constructed the same Think Of Prcsi-
dent Mckinley falling upon sofa and
having "a good cry when his cabinet
does not act to suit him!
III Alabama there is Il Young lady TOO
tender and fragile in her nerves to live
i'll this wicked world She ought really
to be brought up i'll an incubator and