The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-04-11

the better class flats of New York city.
There is a hallboy to admit visitors at
the street door and to keep out beggars
and photograph fakirs. hallboy is a
badge of gentility. The ceilings of our
parlor and dining room are decorated
to the queens taste We have a tiled
bathroom, with hot and cold water,
and there are electric light fixtures. |
These are also a badge Of gentility. /
There are eight rooms in the apart
ment The floors and finishingg are of |
handsome hard wood. Here is the rest |
of it: There is not in that whole high |
class fiat one solitary place in which
woman can hang up a dress skirt, !
though there are large so called closets !
in the bedrooms. The manner Of them
is this They are some eight feet high.
a short woman cannot reach the top
drawers with her finger tips unless she
brings stepladder They are of no
particular use even to a tall woman. A
third of the closet is taken up by this
pile of lumber at the top The next
compartment below is supposed to be
the place where you hang your gowns.
1t is not, however, spacious enough the
up and down way to hold without
wrinklng the skirt of a woman five
feet high. 1t is the most exasperating
thing when you try to suspend in it
your best silk gown. Below this carl
cature of place to hang dresses in are
some puckered up little drawers of no
use to man or beast. Would to heaven
the man who planned the continuance
had had less mosaic and thing on the
brain and instead little more common
sense! Now, then, why do not women
study architecture and plan flats and
homes the country over? There is
loud and narrowing cry for them. No
woman in her right mind would be
such a fool as to build closets after the
manner as above.
"NVealth is a serious thing" writes a
millionaire who is giving advice to
young people. Well, maybe. But the
want of it is yet more serious.
b. 81 o.
During the last campaign the Repub-
lican state central committee of Utah
had woman secretary Mrs. Annie NJ
Bradley. The chairman of the commit
tee, against whose wish she received
the appointment, said recently that he
could not have had in any man more
able and efficient secretary.
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1t is plain that if women cannot vote
they should not be made to pay taxes.
b. g g.
For women who live in suburban viii
lagos or in the country near a good
market there are health pleasure and
profit in poultry. The American people
now eat so many eggs for breakfast
that the wonder is they do not crow
even more and louder than they do al
ready. The improved modern breeds
OF ducks, geese, turkeys and chickens
put money in the pocket of those who
know how to rear them and who stick
to business. A certain duck farm
know of nets thousands of dollars G
year to it's owners.
r. b. t.
Miss Adelaide J. Thorpe, who wor
the 500 prize offered for the best de
sign of an official flag for the Pan
American exposition, is the assistan
interior decorator Of it's buildings.
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The clubwomen of New York hav,
been working vigorously at Albany TO
a bill to establish state industrial
school for girls where those who ar
homeless and destitute may find shell
ter and at the same time learn trades
such as cooking, laundry work, dress
making and millinery. The schoo
would be in no sense a reformatory, bu
eri,. Ic mood n
reforming can learn to earn an honora
BILE living. The object Of the under
taking is noble one. Such. schoc
ought to be in every state in the Ur
ion. This is the way to reform wome
and men-catch them and make ther
useful members of society before the
need reforming.
Miss Caroline Stewart has obtaine
the degree of doctor of philology frol
Berlin university.
b. T. T.
What is the matter with the men
The other morning l looked out of
window and watched the people goin
past to business The women even
their swaddling clothes frequent
walked more DrlSkly tnan the men.
man somehow seems often to gro
heavy at 40, old at 80 and sometime
decrepit at 60.
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a certain ferryboat plies like shu
tie back and forth between two cite
They are large cities, no matter wher
They are in the United States, that
sufficient. The ferryboat ran into
schooner or the schooner ran into Il
ferryboat, it lis not clear which. IL
mems cabin, on the side where {
schooner did not strike, was crowd
with passengers. They screamed al
ran wildly hither and thither'in a pa
ic, trying with trembling fingers
buckle on life preservers. In the OPT
site cabin the one which the schoon
did strike, there was one solitary "
80. ,1occaprar. She sat OlliptlV IN