Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-10-25

WOMAN |
! By
ELIZA
ARehRRD
CONNER
The casting of the presidential ballot
by the two daughters of Secretary
Long of the navy will be white mile
stone in the progress of woman suf-
frage. The passive unreasoning oppo-
sition Of women of wealth and fashion
to the emancipation of their sex is the
heaviest obstacle it has to contend
with. Women Of so called first society
have all that heart could wish in the
way of material things. Never do
they feel the pinch Of poverty, never
the grinding down Of wages, the mar
rowing of opportunity, the openly ex-
pressed contempt of men for them in
tellectually that result from lack of
political power. Their higher, more
serious aspirations are broken and
scattered by the tide of friyolities in
i which they swim. When a woman in
the front rank Of social life proclaims
herself in favor of woman suffrage, it
is therefore a great gain to progress.
Three ladies of Secretary Longs house
hold will vote this November in Colora-
do, his two daughters and their grand
mother, Mrs. Glover. One Of the young
women is a graduate of the medical
school of Johns Hopkins university.
The other was one of the most bril-
liant and accomplished ladies of the
cabinet circle in Washington Their
names were entered upon the lists
months ago. On the Tuesday follow
ing the first Monday in November their
delicate fingers will drop freeman's
ballot into the polling box at Colorado
Springs. This being the first time In
our history that a lady of the cabinet
ever voted for president, the act will
be historic. 1t viii start vibrations as
a trumpet note casts them on the air.
They will spread in waves throughout
the Union. The story will be cabled to
Europe. Queen Victoria and her prin-
cess daughters will learn that the
American woman has political rights
from which they themselves for all
their royal blood are barred 1t is
splendid. If cabinet ladies can afford
to vote, other women the country over
will presently see a great light.
b. b e
To the men of America: Finland has
made women eligible to all municipal
offices. that too, without any special
effort on the part of women them
selves. Go ye and do likewise.
Nine. Sarah Grand need not have
named her last admirable story "Babs
the impossible" Babs is no more inn
possible than Nine. Grand's other fas-
einating girls.
/ What we cali our sensitiveness is of
ten only bad temper.
T. y y
1t is worth a woman's gaining citl-
zenship in Colorado and journeying
thither every year just to cast her free
mans ballot.
| One of the mighty joys of being at
home in my native country after more
| than two years absence is the posses
sion of plenty of those Invaluable rub
Der straps and bands to hold my let
ters and papers together. The benight
! ed peoples of other lands than ours
know them not. Even in British post
offices the clerk solemnly and pro
foundly winds yard or two of string
about small bundle of letters and I'm
winds it in the same way when yot
ask him for your mail. Let us thint
/ on our mercies in America.
Another woman has been appointed
to the post Of quarantine officer by the
British government. She is Dr. BontC
Amos and is on duty in Egypt, at Suez
When is the United States going tt
make one of our highly educated ant
capable women physicians quarantine
inspector at a seaport? Answer-Wher
women have the right to vote and elect
presidents and congressman.
The woman who can light two kero
sene lamps with one match and lift th'
shades and chimneys off and on agar
while she does 1t may be called tru'
economist.
Charles Reade always contended tina
woman was stronger in the back ant
loins than man Mrs. Charles Ball!
of West Orange, N. j., says SO TOO
What is more, she has proved it in he
own case. Her husband, the estimabI'
Mr.. Charles Bally, prided himself OF
his power and skill in the light anC
gentle exercise Of slcdge swinging. III
had beaten several of the men in Iii
neighborhood and was lifted up nc
cordingly in his mind His wife. 2
years old and weighing 100 pounds
bet 50 she could beat him. Two /:
pound sledges were selected. and hus
band and wife each began ut the sans
instant humping a block of wood il
the yard. Charles began TO pant u
] the end of an hour. His pride KEEP
him up to it 20 minutes more. however
Then, crushed by the sense of his frail
weak masculinity, he threw down thu
sledge and abandoned lie struggl'
against the stronger sex. Mrs. Charles
continued batting a while longer jus
to show she was not tired then lait
down her hammer and coolly claimed
her So. This is a true story Of the new
woman.
The woman who spends her spare
hours doing fancy work and elnbroider
ing cushion covers. rough and unpleas
ant feeling to lie upon, is as wise al
the man who puts in year carving
the Declaration of Independence upoI
n gourd. gs
/ FAMOUS BOOK AGENTS.
Mark Twain was book agent.
Longfcllow sold books by subscription.
Jay Gould, when starting in life. was
canvasser.
General q. S. Grant canvassed 70
Irving's columbus"
James G. Blaine began life as a can
vasser for Life of Henry Clay"
] Bismarck, when at Heidelberg, spent
vaoa tim IN canva1SintV far ono of Rlu