The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-02-28

We have started the new century
safely on its career. 1t could not have
been started without us. | have watch
ed the returns from all directions to
note the bloviations over what the
nineteenth century did for people, par
ticularly women people. For these, so
far as have read, it Is all deviation.
Not one writer has taken the trouble to
mention or see even that there are
chains In which woman Is bound tight
er than she was century ago-chains
social and domestic. Here Is a sample
of what mean: The window opposite
me has four different kinds of curtains
and shades to drape 1t, besides the out
side shutters. The dining table in the
Is Is furnished with quite three times
as much ware as tables had a century
ago-a dozen kinds of knives and forks
and spoons, with linen serviettes, dol
lies, centerpieces and side patches to
match. Our house furnishmsnts are
so overdone that 1t Is q WEAKNESS to
live among them. Little girls must
kinds of costly clothes as girls had a
century ago or be jeered by their cruel
heather playmates, for nobody Is so
merciless to others as little girl. If
mother, to save a girl child's eyes and
tender nervous system, cuts her hair
short and let's her run In comfort, boys
and girls shout "Tomboyw at her. A
woman must likewise have four times
as much clothing for herself as women
got along with quite comfortably GEN.
fury ago. If she has not, she is made
painfully aware of 1t. She does not
rebel. Our whole system of society
and housekeeping ID barbarously clum-
~ and heavy. 1t will fall to pieces by
its own weight one of these days. Then
maybe we can return to simpler, health
Ter. more refined ways Of living.
Women now have limited suffrage in
20 states. full suffrage In 4 states
An Indiana woman past 60 years old
whose education had been neglected
started In with the primary children In
public school. She did not know the
alphabet when she began, but in a
years time she has been promoted to
the Third Reader grade. This proves
that a woman Of any age can learn
anything she wants to If she sets her
head to 1t. There is the right sort of
pluck and spirit for you.
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At first thought 1t does not seem
possible that Frenchwoman could
play with any sort Of success the great
character Of Hamlet. Yet this Sarah
Bernhardt has done to the wonder and
satisfaction Of all who heard her-that.
too. In French version Of the Shake
speare drama, In which it necessarily
loses much. A New York critic of
Nine. Bernhardt's performance SAYS
she has the finest brain of any wo-
man In France or on the stage, and
he adds, I'm the player scene Nine.
Sarah electrified the spectators by a
stroke of consummate art that sur
passed the achievement of Booth. Irv-
ing and Sothern in that episode" Such
tribute to the genius of woman has
seldom been paid.
Some young men and women of Co
lumbia college, New York, have formed
social progress club. Its object is to
study social reforms. Good for these
enthusiastic young students. 1t Is the
college educated and the refined and
everywhere that ought to
take bold Of social reforms. When
young men and women together bring
their undimmed enthusiasm, their un-
worn. unweary souls to reform work,
progress will be made. Meantime the
club has looked after its own progress
by appointing young women on its
board Of officers.
l see Mrs. Ballington Booth has gone
into the cat business, breeding and
selling Angoras In aid Of her dis
charged cOnvicts' home Other wo-
men might do the same for their own
benefit.
II Is certain that more than O good
living can be made by many women
from the raising of small fruits and ,
vegetables. Given a little patch of
good ground near a favorable market.
and brains will do the rest. 1t is well I
o select some speciality and devote {,
oneself mostly to that | have heard {
ately of lady who has made spe- I
'ialty of raising cucumbers under glass I
or the winter market. for we in cities I
nay now enjoy cucumber Nightmares
he year round if we like Mrs. Angus T
Bosworth furnishes these to Boston. I
Is music teacher in New York she q
)st her health. and no wonder so she I
Migrated to the country and began to h
aise cucumbers to cool and soothe the t
sething intellects of New England. G
rom one greenhouse $50 feet long the S
dy gathers from November till Janu- q
y 200 bushels Of cucumbers, selling K
from 25 to so cents apiece says the I,
'wspaper report 8,
Did you take note Of that wonderful Ct
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