The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-10-10
The
New
Woman
BY Eliza
Arcbard Copper

A woman writes to another, young
business woman Of seventy or there
about asking her when she is going
to ''settle down" The young business
woman of seventy writes back that she
expects to live a century and that she
is never going to "settle down." Just
so soon as a woman begins to give up
active physical habits and intellectual
exercise, just so soon as she begins TO
lie abed mornings and let her daughter
button her boots for her, she is getting
lazy in her mind. The mental slug
gishness repeats itself Immediately in
her body. Her shoulders begin to bow
over disgracefully, her body becomes
heavy and lumpish around the hips
in short, it begins to settle down. Ma
ture never meant woman to m1sde-
velop into a dumping, but she does it
of her own free will. 1t comes first
from a mental sluggishness, particular
~ among women who do not have to
work for their living. They let them
selves lose through sheer laziness the
bright, eager, enthusiastic minds Of
their girlhood, which nature gave them
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trouble to keep up. They eat too much,
they lie abed too much, they walk too
little and they do not exercise or think
at all. Then the poisonous, numbering
fat accumulates over their bodies, and
they have "settled down." useless,
physically incapable old women in the
prime Of their years. The mental laZi-
ness starts Oftentimes in the first place
through depending on others-husbands
maybe, maybe daughters think for
them and manage for them. 1t Is the
easier way when you first begin to
slide down hill, but death and destruc-
ton are at the bottom. Don't ever "set-
tie down."
You would not take poison into your
stomach If you knew it. Well, worry
ing has the same effect on your body as
that would have. It is a poison, some
times not a very slow one either. You
can't help worrying? Yes, you can.
Make yourself think Of something else.
What would become Of husbands if
their wives saw no more in them than
other people do and knew them just
as other people do?
Let us be proud of Florence West.
She is only seventeen, yet in a three
mile swimming race in New York bay
she easily defeated five members of
life saving crew belonging to one Of the
government stations. All Of them fin
ished the course, but all were worn out
at it's close except the girl, who was as
fresh as when she began.
It is surprising the number Of men
and women who find out after they are
married that somebody else is their
ideal.
Chicago has nearly 1000 deserted
wives on charity rations. 1t will be a
good thing for those deserted wives to
stir themselves and go and earn their
own living.
Let us hope we shall hear again, and
hear good report, of the three enterpr1s-
ing Kansas girls-Misses Wentworth,
Burns and Wolf-who drew farms re-
Gently at the opening Of the Kiowa-
Comanche reservation.
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Miss Carmelita BeckWith has written
charming and witty booklet called
'Motoritis." 1t is the biography of
trolley car motor, told by itself, in
which it shows to the reader that it
has arms, shoulders, a feeder" ears,
etc. While it certainly has no hair,
nevertheless ''switches" are a part Of
it's equipment, and it is constantly be-
ing shocked, particularly when it must
run over 'frogs" The little book shows
familiarity with the mechanism Of
an electric motor that is unexpected in
young lady.
"You can get a divorce from hus-
band or wife whom you don't like, but
you can't get divorce from your own
family" says a woman who knows
what it is to live with relatives who are
not to be got away from.
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Miss Anthony says If Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton had the weapon of the ballot she
would not have had to use Ratchet.
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A live woman dentist Of New York,
DR.. Anna NJ. Sawyer, has had the en-
terprise to go to Manila and open an
Office there, where good dentists are in
demand and prices for tooth work very
high. DR.. Sawyer is said to be doing
exceedingly well in Manila. Naturally
for wherever Americans are they know
enough to take care OF theirt teeth,
which is more than people of other ma
tons know.
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Young men generally are fearful wo
men will think there is some small vice
IF fbo masculine soy that thew are not