The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-31
The New
Woman
BY ELIZA
ARcHARD CONNER

l have been on my travels again
THIS time to make better acuuain+
ence with my own great country Nv
wanderings took in a farm region
Cleveland during the G. A. r. repn;on
and the Buffalo exposition. l bava
met meantime all sorts and conditions
OF my fellow women. | saw women
young and old. in the Grand Army ma
rade, marching side by side with tbA
veterans. In that procession clear eyed
women certainly seventy years old
marched with free step alongside tba
veterans, oftentimes stronger and mora
active than they. Some Of the ladies
belonged to the Woman's Relief corns
and were there to help take care Of
feeble old men. their husbands or IA.
theirs. Two years ago, am told. there
was not woman in the G. A. R. "a.
rade. l was surprised at the number
of old and middle aged women | met
not only in Cleveland, but everywhere
else. On railway trains and steamers.
at Niagara Falls, on the Midway at the
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woman to the young woman was as
two to one. Fifty years ago these
mothers and grandmothers would have
been sitting in the corner in cap and
spectacles knitting, shunted off the
track as useless. those whose existence
is merely tolerated Today these old
girls are taking in the worlds sights.
and nobody could have more of good
time than they. 1t is the day of the
old woman. These elderly danes have
reared their families and earned Their
outingS-yea. earned a dozen times
over all the outings they will ever get.
Now they are on their travels, as &C.
tive. as bright and eagerly learning as
if they were sixteen. The world moves.
Brave old girlsi Success to theml
May they continue travelling and learn.
ing something till they round out a
century
One Of the matters that interested
ME at great street parade l witnessed
not long since was the performance of
q pIGllA gil kCut WAS SldllOlEu
at the entrance gate of a huge block
of wooden seats, hundreds of them al
together, rising tier on tier above the
street. Her task was to conduct peo-
pie to their places in the roYs. Men
saw her moving about among the tiers
and bought tickets 8 her section just
to see how she acted. In that way she
drew custom. Women stared at her
and rather hesitated at first to give
their tickets to an usher of their own
sex, but did so at once when they CON-
pretended the situation, and the ex-
pertinent was a success all round.
quite as much as it is in the Paris
theaters, where the ushers are uni
formed women, sometimes pretty, Of
tener otherwise.
In one court IN one day recently in
New York city there were 1l9 appIica-
tons for divorce. Worst of all. a large
majority of the cases were undefendcd.
showing that one partner in The firm
was as anxious to be free as the other
Best of all means to bring to time the
man who deserts his family is that law
proposed by the Illinois board of asso
ciated charities. 1t recommends thai
such a husband and father be sen
fenced to hard labor at some trade IN
the state prison Wages shall be NJ
lowed for his work meantime. the
wages TO be turned over in every D.
stance for the support of his wife end
children. Excellently well done. Ill
nois board of charities. A woman has
Q perfect right to earn her own living,
but she cannot do it with little children
to take care of.
Harvard university has a woman
professor in all but the name. She Is
Miss Ethel Puffer, teacher and lecturer
in psychology So far as anybody
knows anything about psychology. Miss
Puffer is I'D v-ith the best