The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-06

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Yesterday evening l was walking
along Broadway, New York. Three
young women came toward me. They
were strongly built young things, every
one. A gang of hoodlums passed me,
Youths of IA to 16 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 slap in
the face that would have made him see
stars and made his unclean cheeks TIM
gle half an hour, besides teaching him
q blessed lesson in manners. Moreover,
two of the girls together could nave
trounced the tough soundly. But no!
They merely did the tiresome OLD I'M
protected female act of the dime noYe4,
and the unwhipped cub passed on TO
reneat 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
Drizefgbter. 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 ana uncoln-
Portable lot in life is that of being
obliged to live with a suffering. disap-
pointed, cranky person, young or ola.
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 a
small amount by way of experiment
lust to see what they would do with it,
Ss Ss Sg
have lived long enough to see WO
man who has voted for president. /
esteem it one of the privileges of my
life. The lady voted in Colorado. She
is q distinguished musician, brilliant
accomplished and popular socially, be
sides speaking four languages fluent
ly. 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 neutrality-suspicious.
err l.. generations back cast her ballot
for president At any rate, mine eyes
have beheld her am not yet quite
ready to depart in peace, but ! have
certainly seen a great thing
ss e e.
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 nus
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 anothers husband or
wife is undoubtedly crazy.
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Mrs RosaHe Mauff of Denver has
built up the largest greenhouse bust
ness in the northwest In artifciaHy
heated glass houses are raised every
thing from palms and ferns to aspara-
gus. Her palmhouse is a vision Of land
scape from the tropics. In Denver it
self she has six greenhouses and in a
village near by y. All these grew in
II years out of tiny glass rooted
room heated by a stove Three factors
contributed to Mrs. Maufs success.
She is a woman of rare business ability
to begin with. Next she started her en-
terprfse where there was a good mar
ket. Third she superintended personal
ly every detail of her work from
planting seeds to decorating churches,
the Denver Times says.
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In the states in which women vote
for presidential electors the returns
show a largely increased baIloting 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 9,100 to So,
302. In Washington a majority against
it of 1886 a few years ago dropped to
9.SS2 in 1898. South Dakota in 1890 dc