The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-12-28
THE
NEW
WOMAN
By
ELIZA
.AReHARD
CONNER


AReAARD
Yesterday evening l was walking
along Broadway, New York Three
young women came toward noe. They
were strongly built young things, every
one. A gang of hoodlums passed me,
youths Of IA to 49, Instead Of turning
out to the right for the girls one Of the
fellows butted his head in among them,
showed them apart and staggered
rudely between two Of them, grinning
and laughing like an ape as he did so.
Then the other hoodlums grinned and
laughed like apes at the exploit The
girls merely looked helpless and unpro-
tected and scared and hurried on. Any
one of them could have given the
shambling, understood tough a slap in
the face that would have made him see
stars and made his unclean cheeks tin
gle half an hour, besides teaching him
blessed lesson in manners. Moreover,
two of the girls together could have
trouneed the tough soundly. But no!
They merely did the tiresome old UNI
protected female act of the dime novel,
and the unwhipped cub passed on to
repeat his performance with added zeal
and confidence Stories TEEN of insults
to women, of attacks on them, of aw-.
full murders of those who still play the
helpless female role. In view of these
horrors it would be a rare good thing If
parents would employ Fitzsimmons to
give their daughters lessons in boxing
and wrestling and the womanly art of
self defense. Men seem no longer able
to protect women. Fitzsimmons is a
prizefighter, but he never insulted or
wronged a woman. When women as
sumo that they can take care of them
selves, they will be able to do so.
There is more strength in the spirit
than in the size.
The most unfortunate and uncom-
Portable lot in life is that of being
obliged to live with suffering, disap-
pointed, cranky person, young or old.
Heaven save us from the chemically
disgruntled!
Are women's brains not equal to
mems? All the more reason, then,
why they should make the very most
and best of what they have, supposing
that the Creator only gave them Q,
small amount by way of experimen
just to see what they would do with it.
have lived long enough to see a wo-
man who has voted for president.
esteem it one of the privileges of my
life. The lady voted in Colorado. She
is a distinguished musician, brilliant
accomplished and popular socially, be-
sides speaking four languages fluent
~. She may never be able to vote
again if she stays in this benighted old
New York, but at least her descendants
will be able to point with pride to the
fact that their -grandmoth-
err II generations back cast her ballot
for president. At any rate, mine eyes
have beheld her. l am not yet quite
ready to depart in peace. but | have
certainly seen a great thing.
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| A wife ran away with a tramp. The
tramp starved her and finally beat her.
In response to her piteous appeal her
husband forgave her and took her
back on the ground that she was out
of her mind when she eloped. A hus-
band ran away with his wife's pretty
sister. When he was tired Of it, he
was also welcomed back repentant to
his home, and the word was given out
that he had been temporarily insane.
That is right. Any married person
who elopes with another's husband or
wife is undoubtedly crazy.
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Mrs. Resale Mauff of Denver has
built up the largest greenhouse bust
ness in the northwest. In artiticially
heated glass houses are raised every
thing from palms and ferns to aspara-
gus. Her Farmhouse is a vision of land
scape from the tropics. In Denver it.
self she has six greenhouses and in a
village near by 10. All these grew in
II years out of a tiny glass rooted
room heated by stove. Three factors
contributed to Mrs. Mauff's success.
She is a woman of rare business ability
to begin with. Next she started her en-
terprise where there was good mar
ket. Third she superintendent personal
ly every detail of her work "from
planting seeds to decorating churches"
the Denver Times says.
Hss y
In the states in which women vote
for presidential electors the returns
show a largely increased balloting on
their part In The Woman's Journal
Mrs. Chapman Gait gives instructive
statistics from the states in which wo-
man suffrage amendments have been
twice defeated In Kansas the vote in
favor has increased from 300 to 90,
800. In Washington majority against
it Of 1886 few years ago dropped to
9SS2 in 1898. South Dakota in 1890 de-
feated the measure by 23610; in 1898
by only 3,2S5. In 1884 Oregon went
against by 1888; this year by only
2,033. In Oregon the negative votes
were this year within very small fig
ure of what they were in 1884, showing
that the old hunkers who voted against
then still live and slumber but the In
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