Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-25
Woman's CuIiQusity

'o" "P "ieh uishity ana Calk aD0uU "Woman's Curiosity"
 We are moved to discuss the curios- ity of women by the recent sad case of Miss Alma Kump.
 MISS kump, young woman de- scribed as young and athletic, was em- ployed by Dr. Litchtenstein in New York city. Miss Kump observed one day that in the house of her employer one of the doors was locked on the Inside. It remained locked several days. Nobody came out. Yet, Miss kump reasoned, somebody must be in- side, since the door was locked on the inside.
 Who could be inside that room? Why was he or she there? What was the mystery? These questions dis tnroed MiJs kump. They destroyed her rest.
 Finally she got out of window on the fourth story and let herself down oy a rope to the third story that she might look into the mysterious room.
 She looked in, saw that there was nothing there-then the rope broke and she fell thirty feet fortunately not iniuring herself fatally. There was no mystery about the locked room except that the wind had blown the door to, snapping the lock.
 But the young woman's curiosity was too strong to De resisted, hence the rope and the fall
 Miss kump's adventure, being print ed in all the newspapers, has caused the usual sneering about the curiosity of women.
 We want to remind our intelligent readers that this curiosity is natural, necessary and has rendered the great est possible service. Woman's curiosity is product Of her maternal instinct.
 Woman, like every other mother, from the ninety foot whale in the northern seas Uu the smallest humming DiAN iAt"A S'V NHushtcip lsio 0tNtlOHtd on lines provIdIng tor protection of helpless infancy.
 The mother, whether she be woman, d Kangaroo, all elephant ur a rninoceros, must be curious. She must notice every nUtlC thing and make up her mind whaC IL means m ume to protect her young ones.
 The nuble father, wnO has such scuru for female curiosity, has no thing to do but run away anu save nimseu when danger comes.
 BuJ the mother knows that the little ones cannot run very fast, She Is pound Jo stay wILn them, no matter what happens, and It Is her uuLy, through constant curiosity, to iUresee danger and guard against IG.
 Perhaps some of the in ense curios- ity in woman IS d survival, d mental vesuge, as lJ were, of her animal days.
 The poor monkey mother used JO sit shivering all the time on her hmb when the baby was young, for every rustic or the leaves might mean the approach of q snake, d panther or d huge bird Of prey.
 Inc little monkey clinging to the long hairs on her breast made it diff cult for her to move rapidly through the trees. She had to put all oI her mental force into curiosity.
 Even in her present noble and i'm. proved condition, woman, in justice to her children, must keep her iD- stincts of curiosity alive.
 She must be interested in the boys and girls and in the men and women who associate with her children and Influence their careers. She must be keeniy curious in studying the devel- opment of character Tn her children, tU encourage what Is good and dis courage what Is bad.
 What men foolishly and critically call curiosity in woman Is really d use ful instinct Of observation and precau- tion.
 We must excuse it and speak of it lenienGly, even when once in great while it leads a woman to crawl out of fourJh-sJory window hanging to a thin rope e-lhlcapo American