Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-03
Observation-Disclosures.
The New
Woman
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Observation-Disclosures
BY ELIZA
ARCHARD CONNER


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Sitting here at my desk during the
summer l have watched with much
interest the different ways in which
women take their vacations Really
original, resourceful ones generally go
yacationing in way out of the common
rut. They do it unconsciously, without
the vulgar idea of being different from
other people just to attract attention
to themselves. Some ladies have made
a trip from New York to Boston or
from Boston to New York and back by
trolley journey past green fields and
under open skies, blue or gray, but
always glorious and expansive. We
may look forward with delight to the
time when this great country is troll
leyed from one end to the other. En-
trancing summer vacation trips there
will be then, as in the delightful old
stagecoach days, only these will be
cleaner, swifter, and there will be no
horses to wear out. One young lady
lawyer whom l know went with a
friend on bicycle journey through
part Of New England. She has one Of
the new cushion frame, chainless,
coaster brake machines, and skinned
like bird 60 miles q day without
fatigue. Most Of ALL however, appeals
to the Imagination AIr. and Mrs. Deck
ers automobile journey from the At
lantic coast to Texas. Mrs. Decker
was captain and pilot, Mr.. Decker was
crew. Away they went, on good high
ways nearly a mile minute, over
roads yellow and red in the clay coun-
try, white in the limestone region and
dusty and black in the rich loan plains.
If there be anything approaching per-
feet happiness on earth, it is this.
Here's hoping we shall all have auto
mobiles some day. This kind OF travel,
too, is like flying, and flying is the next
attainment the genius of man will
achieve.
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The Era, a woman's club Of New
Orleans, started a few years ago with
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them earnest. public spirited workers.
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l notice a ''profe9sor" advertises to
teach people personal magnetism. If
you want personal magnetism, cultivate
good will and kindness to every
creature. If you have an enemy, put
out good viii and friendship all the
more strongly to that enemy. So shall
you lift yourself above the plane OF
human jealousies and pickering. SO
shall a perfect aura Of personal mag
netism stream out around you.
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A Woman's own estimate of herself
80 .aAAra nnarly correct than that of the
women who Calm to be Fer friends.
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Johnnie Blank is the only son of his
mother, and she is a widow. He is
one of the best SONS living. Johnnie is
s.nra senra Gaffiice boy and hands his little So a
week faithfully over to his mother
She is a dressmaker and works very
hard. The two together do their house
work. Johnnie washes dishes, scrubs
floors and even carries home the kero-
sene can full of oil without murmur,
for he loves his mother. There is only
one thing among the thousand which
he might kick" about that he objects
to-he says he doesn't mind anything
except when his mother laces corset
upon him and uses him for Il dummy
over which to fit the gowns of her Gus
toners.
g. g. e.
Is there any woman artist in Ameri-
co who can paint a horse race or cav
airy dash like Lucy Kemp Welch of
England? We have in America one
woman who has pictured horse race
splendidIy III poetry. That woman is
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and the poem is
"Salyator."
Rev. Edward McSweeney, Roman
Catholic, of Mount st. Mary's. Md,
puts himself down in favor Of woman
suffrage. He writes: *All the while
that we claim home as the province OF
woman we hope she will help Us in po-
liticaI matters generally, for that home
| is now coextensive with the cty-nay,
with the country. with the world"
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Mrs. Sarah ellison of Gardiner, Me-.
is a skilled blacksmith. works In the
| shop with her husband and can swing
| the heaviest hammer in that shop.
| The first colored woman preacher ir
| the United States or anywhere was re
| Gently ordained after being graduated
| from the Howe Bapisst Theological
school at Memphis. She is Rev. Mollie
B. Craft Oh. Mollie.
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The order has at length been giyer
| for the statue Of Frances Z. Willard
| which Illinois is to present to the gov
| ernment for niche in the capitol al
Washington. The lucky sculptor who
| will model the statue is Miss Helen f
| Mears Of Oshkosh. Wis, another west
| ern girl that has let her light shine up
ON the country. Miss Mears is a pupi
of Augustus st. Gaudens.
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There are about 80 women druggist
in New York who conduct establish
| ments of their own.
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The little town of Babylon, N. Y.
has new woman who is uncommon II
her way. Tits new woman is only
girl and very nice one. She is LilliaI
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