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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
BerIin's Child Exchange.

The oldest plan for furthering the right
development of children is employed in
Berlin. 1t provides for an interchange of
city and country children.
The poorer people of Berlin who cannot
afford family outings send their children
TO the peasant families in the country and
in return receive for time an equal num-
Der of peasant children, who thus get Il
chance to see the wonders of the city and
TO brighten up by contact with a life diff
ferent from their own.
The charitable German women who
have devised this temporary exchange of
children are highly pleased with the way
the scheme works so far. Reciprocal sell
fish interest in their own children. they
say, prompts considerate treatment of the
little visitors by the families in each home.
The most enthusiastic supporters of the
plan would like to extend it. If the ex-
perience gained by city children in the
country and country children in the city
is so valuable, they want to know why an
international exchange of children Il little
older between the different countries
wouldn't be of benefit all around
There isn't any great likelihood of the
German plan being developed thus far,
because English, French and American
ideas don't fall in with this scheme of
putting the home idea out of existence
But the German women can't imagine
why it should not be great success.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

>, women are unbusinesslike- most n,
lntui' here is no doubt about il Tbov
ult apt too, 10 have Il sense of irrosno,.
SlhllIiy that is absolutely reckless a. %
consequences. Men charge wop,o, -
a. nav ing lower locals of business honor
lhah they and it is to be feared that the
men are often right in this. The rrest
majority of women have always had = IA.
ther or husband who took from tbom oil
responsibility in the weightier MATTERS Of
NE, so that they scarcely realize tba+
they should be bound by the Same rrlos
mat govern men in business saws tho
Jacksonville Times Union and Citizon
1neSe reflections are excited bv knoyvI.
euse OF case in point, and a case that is
Out one of many, many thousands It
was or woman who. with n small ram
ltal, opened fashionable dressmol;ino ns-
Enlistment In large CITY. She wos an
ar'ist' and she had no lack of customers
from among persons so rich that money
meant nothing to them. She had TO en-
large her facilities; in fact, until she en-.
pioyed large army of workwomen. But
she failed in business. To a friend she
explained that against her largest cus.
toners she had charges running over two
ana three years, and this not only for
work done. but for the costliest of ma.
terials. Bills sent were ignored. OF
course, in time, when everything Just
suited, those women would pay. but in
the meantime she had to meet her bills
for rent. for her workwomen and for the
materials she supplied, for she supplied
exquisite, exclusive fabrics for gowns as
well as made them. Consequently she
could not meet her obligations. though her
books showed heavy balances to her cred
1t. She wrecked her health lost her little
capital and her credit, and all through the
thoughtlesSness and selfshness of other
women, who never knew what it meant to
deny themselves a whim.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

1t is not question OF what can womcn
do. There are a hundred things WAITING
Mt her hand. and each woman must hor-
self decide what under her own circum-
stances and conditions She can do. That
the obligation is upon her To do whatever
she can. that the best cpitaph she can
ever have is ''She did what she could"
needs no emphasis.
Leaving the moral and philanthropic
and educational side and turning to the
question of what woman can do for 9TH
ers through what she can do for herself
we strike that great line OF industries by
which good can be done To others through
her securing support for herself We can
say nothing of the nobest profession of
all, that Of. wifehood and motherhood.
UnqueStionably women can do most and
best in this line. Next. the teaching of
childhood. and we add To that the use of
the pen in literary aud journalistic fields.
and of the two say there is no lack of
opportunity in these lines. provided the
woman has the necessary power and will
take the necessary trouble 10 prove her
right to something higher than mere
mediocre place. In handicrafts innu-
merable the same rule holds true.
The women who can do any one thing
well enough so that other people are
willing to pay TO have it done can or
dinarily find that something to do.-Mary
Lowe Dickinson
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Proper Regard For Mother.

The essence of motherhood is self sac
rihce. 1t is the first act, the initial, and
we see it in almost all forms of life.
The leaf dies for the new bud; the flow
er for the seed The she bear fights to
the death for her cub; the human mother
will go through fire for her child. There
even are mother insects who spread them
selves over their eggs for no other pur-
pose than to be devoured by their young
when Matched by the warmth of their
bodies.
But as life sweeps on there comes a
time when the mother, strange as it may
seem, ought to find a higher self sacrifice
in practicing less self sacrifice. 1t may
be hard for her to forego the luxury OF
being trodden on, but it becomes her duty.
1t has been and still is her joy to give
herself for her family, for her husband
and children, and even the stranger with
in her gates.
1t has been their joy to accept all her
service, her thinking and devising and
working and abandonment OF her whole
being in wish and pleasure and deed to
them. And, of course, there is but one
outcome to it all.
In order that she may be unselfish ev-
cry one else in the house is made an ego
fist.
Thus 1t becomes the mother, for the
sake of those she loves, to leave off her
habit of forgetting herself; on the con-
trary, to remember herself, to make other
people remember her, and her rights and
their duties, to take less burdens on her
own shoulders, to regard her own leisure
and convenience and enjoyment, to make
sure of her share of the pretty toilets,
the pleasures on the wing, the drive, the
excursion, the concert, of whatever is
making the moment pass more quickly,
and to do it all with conscience and deter
mination, and almost as a religious rite If
aught of religion lies in loving others as
oneself.-Harriet Prescott Spofford.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT.

Francisco), erected a residence and other
buildings thereon and improved the
grounds, making an attractive home, the
improvements costing, as nearly as can
be ascertained, between $4,000 and $15..
900.
In June, 1861, after the beginning of
the civil war, she leased the property to
General e. f. Beale, the United States
surveyor general for California, and went
to New York to join General Fremont.
On Oct. 2, 1868, the secretary of war in
structed General Wright, commanding
the department of the Pacific, to take
military possession of Point San Jose and
erect battery. Troops accordingly took
possession of lands, including the proper
ty Of Mrs. Fremont.
In all these years, though repeated ef-
forts have been made to present the
claims of private ownership to certain por-
tons of this military reservation, Mrs.
Fremont has never succeeded in securing
any compensation for or q restitution of
her property.
Few women in this country have had a
more eventful life than Mrs. Fremont. In
the afternoon of her life she is still an at
tractive, tactful and impressive personal
ity.
The women of California are especially
proud of her. and her home is visited by
hundreds every year.-Los Angeles Cor.
New York Evening World.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

Sweet and comely are the maidens of
DevonShire; delicate and of gracious
seeming those who live in the pleasant
places of London: fascinating for all their
occurrences, the damsels of France cling.
ing closely to their mothers and with
large eyes wondering at the wicked world:
excellent in their own place and to those
who understand her is the Anglo-Saxon
IN her first season, but the girls of Amer
lea are above and beyond them all.
They are clever; they can talk. Yes,
1t Is said they can think. Certainly they
have an appearance of so doing They
are original and look you between the
brows with unabashed eyes, as a sister
might look at her brother.
They possess, moreover, life among
themselves, independent of masculine as.
sociations. They have societies and clubs
and unlimited tea fights, where all the
guests are girls. They are self possessed,
without parting with any tenderness that
IS their sex right; they understand: they
can take care of themselves; they are SUI
perbly independent. When you ask them
what makes them so charming, they saw:
1T Is because we are better educated than
your girls, and we are more sensible in
regard to men. We have good times all
around, but we aren't taught to regard
every man as a possible husband. Nor is
he expected to marry the first girl he calls
on regularly
but the freedom of the young girl has
its drawbacks. She isl say it with all
acknowledgements, from her $40 bon.
net to the buckles on her $1S shoes. She
talks tippantly to her parents and men
old enough to be her grandfather"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

1t has been said that Americans are not
hospitable exception sometimes being
made of families in the south and west.
1t is true, but also true that Americans
are not acceptable guests. 1t all comes
from that spirit of independence which
we tlaunt in everybody's face for fear
that it will not be recognized and appre-
ciated. If we could forget sometimes to
make the eagle scream we would be more
enjoyable companions. We seem to be
so afraid that we will not get all the
rights to which we are entitled that we put
ourselves constantly on the defensive, dare
the world to knock off the chip we wear
upon our shoulders. You find it in the
little tots who rule the household and in
the aged who may lose strength of body,
but never strength of that peculiar at
tribute we call Yankee independence
Betty Bradeen.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Why Women Join Clubs.

Women join clubs because they enjoy
sociability which is placed upon an intel.
lectual basis. The pleasure to be derived
from the exclusively fashionable gather.
ings is initiated against by the fact that
the circle is comparatively small and is
composed of persons who have similar
traditions and standards. There is apt,
after time, to be n sense of monotony;
there is also apt to be rivalry, and. above
all, woman must be young and beautiful
or rich and influential in order to extract
the true essence of the pleasure of fash.
ionable society. Club society is much
more democratic and is composed of a
greater variety of elements. Its reason
for being is intellectual. Such rivalry as
exists has nothing to do with material
things. The elderly and plain woman.
poor in purse and unknown outside of her
club, may win her double frsts there and
find life that otherwise would have been
lonely and uneXpressed filled and warmed
by what she receives and what she is able
TO give.-AIrs. Ella W. Peattie in Chicago
Record-IIerald
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

Queen AleXandra's face has for some
time appeared on stamps of the British
empire, though. of course, not as queen.
The head of the Princess of Wales was
used in the design of the Newfoundland
3 cent stamp issued at the time of Queen
Nictoria's diamond jubilee. 1t formed
one of a set of five stamps issued by this
little colony as its tribute in celebration
of the jubilee. The set depicted the four
generations of English royalty then living
the queen, the Prince of Wales, the
Duke of York and little Prince Edward,
his son. The much loved princess, though
not in the direct line. was not forgotten.
Thus her present majesty's face appeared
on postage stamp. 1t is an interesting
fact that no other English monarch ex.
cept Queen Victoria had ever seen a post.
age stamp. 1t is also Of interest to note
that her head appeared on every stamp
issued by Great Britain.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

"While | was over in the Arkansas
mountains one winter on a hunting trip
my guide and l came across a sugar ma
pie orchard where two men were collect
ing and boiling down the sap" said a
Memphis man.
1--WE sat around with the native awhile
and ate maple sugar. When we started
to leave, one of the men who had been
regarding my tie very closely asked the
guide in a low voice why ! wore that rag
around my neck.
"'That's to keep his nose from bleed
ing replied the guide, who was a man of
some humor.
"As we walked away / heard the ma
tives telling each other how sorry they
felt for me on account of my afiliction."-
Memphis Scimitar.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Enormous sermons of the Past.

We find that the Puritan oratory. in
quantity at least, if not in quality, was
enough to oyerpower the most daring
modern mind. Holy Master Cotton. min
lister of Boston, came out from England
with two clergymen-eldcrs they would
then have been called-to accompany
him, and they preached sermon apiece
on every one Of the 40 days of the voy-
age. After every meal they had a SER
mon. We know that when Samuel Sewall,
afterward best known as Judge Sewall,
preached his first sermon he was too shy
to look at the hourgass and preached for
two hours and half before he got to the
end of the sermon.-Colonel L. w. Hig.
ginson's address ON Puritan Oratory."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Enlightenment of Indian Women.

An English woman who has gone to
practice medicine in India stated in a let
ter to a friend: 1T has been proved that
only through the enlightenment of the
high class women of India can help come
to the Indian women of lesser rank. and
the medical work of English women is
evidently to be the greatest and most
powerful lever for raising the iron door
that shuts the eastern woman from west
ern freedom and culture.
1T is an unfortunate fact, however,
that there are no more strenuous oppo-
nents of any change in the position of In
dian women than most of those women
themselves. 1t is known to be no uncom-
mon thing for the old mother of the fam
lily to refuse to eat and make herself and
everybody else wretched if one Of her
daughters is merely allowed to go to
school,"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Women Lawyers Were Not Popular.

The attempt of n young woman to be
admitted as a lawyer in Scotland led the
attorney for a Scottish law society to in
vestigate the reasons assigned in early
Roman times against women being al
lowed to become lawyers. The Roman
regulation excluding women from becom-
ing advocates was passed because Of the
unpleasant ways of a persistent woman
named Carfania, who, pleading her case
without due respect to the court, lost her
case, lost her temper and finally gave the
Judge "piece of her mind" An early
digest states the objection in those days to
women lawyers as follows: "They should
not mix themselves up with the affairs of
others contrary to the modesty BETTING
their sex, and women should not perform
masculine Offices" The nearest approach
to woman lawyer in Great Britain was
q Miss Fray, who, after failing in her
own litigation, turned her attention to
that of others. She did quite considera-
Bile business in coaching less experienced
litigants who appeared in person in court,
claiming the right to prompt them as a
friend. She followed up street accidents,
found the injured persons and urged them
to sue. The English Incorporated law
society looked at her askance, but she
kept just beyond its reach. The disre-
spect with which she used to treat every
Judge who decided against her led Mr.
Justice Kay once to accuse her Of most
ungentlemanly conduct"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Enrly journalism In England.

Among other examples of newspaper
enterprise in the days before telegraphs
and railways had covered the country,
Mr.. Coleman tells how Murdo Young,
the proprietor of the old Sun, in whose
Office the veteran writer rose from read
ing boy to subeditor went to the enor
nous expense of engaging special relays
of horses between Glasgow and London
in order TO obtain the earliest report Of
the installation of Sir Robert Peel as
lord rector of Glasgow university. The
copy" was in this way received and
printed in a little over 24 hours, which
was about the equivalent of two hours Of
the present age of wires, huge stats
OF compositors and perfected printing
presses.-London Post.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Objectionable Employment.

It may be affirmed as general princi-
pie that one of the newer occupations for
women, that of displaying themselves in
shop windows as advertisements for hair
dressers, new styles of gowns and other
things, ought not to be approved or en-
couraged. The practice is Objectionable
and offensive from every point of pro-
priety and good taste. But, bad as this
is, it is not nearly so bad as the practice
introduced by some London tradesmen
who send young girls out in the streets
as walking advertisements of their pat
emf goods. This, like the English GUS
tom of having young women act as bar
maids. It is to be hoped, will never
be countenanced in America.-Lesile's
Weekly.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Bridal Superstitions.

The bride must not take any hand in
sewing her wedding gown or in making
her wedding cake.
She must not try on her wedding cos
tune in its entirety.
She must not on any account put on
her wedding ring before the ceremony.
She must not neglect to weep a little
on her wedding day, no matter how
happy she is.
She must be sure to put on her left
shoe first on the eventful morning.
She must be careful not to look at her
self in the glass after her costume is
completed and before she is actually
married.
She must be sure to wear Something
old and something new, something bor-
rowed and something blue"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
WOMAN AND HOME.
MRS. FREMONT'S LONG LITIGATION
WITH THE GOVERNMENT.

A Proper Regard For Motbe-
ThOughtIessness of Women-KiD-
nng's OpiniOn-A Trade In wives
Why Women Lawyers Were Not
Popular.
Under the shadow of "the NTotbor -
Mountains" in a cottage the gift Of tbe
women of California, lives Mrs, Jessie
Benton Fremont, wife of the great path
finder" as her husband was known in his
day.
There is no occasion to rewrite the story
of the tremonts, for it is an old one and
has many of the elements of romance in II
The objec. of this reference TO Mrs
Fremont is to call attention to the fact
that the government and Mrs. Fremont
nave not yet settled the litigation began
W years ago by the soldiers widow.
1t was in 1850 that Mrs. Fremont do.
string to obtain property suitable for n
ZONE and at the same time likely to an
preciate in value and thus provide for her
children, purchased for S41 900 a tract of
land at Point San Jose BLACK Point. San
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
A Trade In Wives.

Many people say that high society is
nothing but a marriage market and that
scheming mothers sell their daughters as
wives to the men who can offer the great.
est wealth and finest title.
A daily paper has been pointing out that
wives are literally sold today in England
1t is not the husband, however, who buys
them, but sells them to get rid of them.
In 1913 a husband left his home and
creditors in Belper for the liberty of
America. The week after his fight all
his goods were put up at auction to salts
fv his debts. His wife claimed part of
the money, and this being refused she in.
sisted on being offered for sale as part of
her husbands assets. There was no sale,
however, for LOT 90"
In even more recent days wife sales
were common, and are even being effected
in this present year of grace.
In 1887. in the Sheffield county court,
man admitted that he had bought another
mans wife for shillings. The agree
ment ran:
AT the Royal Oak, Sheffield. I, Abra-
ham Boothroyd, agree to sell my wife,
Clara, to William Hall, both Of Sheffield
for the sum of shilings."
In the Durham court in 1894 it tran
spred that n man named Shaw sold his
daughter, a girl of &c. to a collier called
Cudman. The agreement was explicit:
81 give my daughter into the care Of
your hands, to feed and clothe her in a
proper manner. If not satisfied in one
month, return my daughter same as she
came to work for her living. l give you
my daughter. sell you my daughter for
Is. Yours truly, b. Shaw"
Many wife is at present sold in the
east end of London, as well as in York
shire, for a quart of beer or an ounce Of
thick twist .-Enrlish EXCHANGE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26

Beige is a favorite color of the sea
son.
The disk. or plateau. hat grows lit
tie too generally popular.
Taffeta is the watchword for smart
wear and carriage use.
Gray swiss is an odd and rather at.
tractive variation in gowns
Silk tucking is economical and effect,
i've adornment for separate bodices.
American tailor made hats now set a
fashion for the world.
Small button roses in pink. with a
stylish bow of black velvet on Il black
and white crinoline hat, are charming
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
Afternoon Entertainments.

The nature of an afternoon function
may vary from the gathering of a few
intimate friends for cozy cup of tea
and gossip to that form of social recog-
milton known as an afternoon reception,
a function introduced to release the over
taxed society woman from the impossible
task of paying a ceremonial visit to each
one of her social acquaintances. Invita-
tions to these functions convey to the
guest the intimation that the host de-
sires to continue the acquaintance. These
afternoon affairs are known as tea lunch
eons-which are not teas at all, but after
noon receptions-or what might be called
standing luncheons."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-04-26
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