Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-02-13
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Yesterday evening at the rush hour
for returning passengers 1 was going
home on New York city elevated
train. At the station where stopped,
in the midst of great throng of peo-
pie, l heard mans voice above all
the din and roar of the cars saying in
loud. angry tones as though he were
speaking to a dog, go homer I look
ed around, but saw no dog. l did see
the man who was ordering the I'M
known creature to go home. He was
well dressed man, with hair quite
white. and he really looked decent and
respectable. Where was the dog? 1
could not find it, but did see a woman
near the man, woman covering in
shame and humiliation. She wore dia-
mond earrings, expensive furs and a
handsome hat. Only her hurt, fright
ened, humiliated look made me know
that the man was speaking to her and
that nobody but her husband, man
she could not get away from, would
dare address a respectable woman
thus She glanced toward me instinc-
lively in search of that sympathy
which one woman gives to another.
She met it pouring out to her half way.
SIS he your husband?" l asked. "Yes,"
she replied; y want him to come home,
and he is going to saloon to get
drunk. He has been getting drunk
for years He treats me awfully some
times" And still that idiot of a wotz~
an has lived with this beast, listened
to his curses and endured his blows!
Because she does so she is quite as
much to blame as he. She should not
have stayed with him twenty-four
hours after he had thus insulted her
before a throng of people. For the
sake of clean. self respecting woman
hood it is better to live alone and scrub
for bread than TO stay with drunken
husband
A rich and up to that time, thor
oughly respectable young woman was
found wandering on city street in
hapless and helpless state of intoxica-
ton. 1t was the first time such a mis-
| fortune had happened to her and was
| likely to be the last time. But re-
porter got beat on the item for his pa
per and did not rest or sleep till he had
dug out by means of detective spies
| the woman's full name and address,
also that Of her husband, man occu-
| pying a high place All this was spread
before the public, was telegraphed
from one end of the land to the other,
| and the miserable woman and her fam
lily We're disgraced for life. But the
| reporter got his beat. Perhaps some
day an equally enterprising reporter
will get a spicy beat" concerning this
reporters mother, sister or wife.
Reports from the last elections and
the new years appointments show
larger number of women on school
boards than there have ever been be-
fore.
Missouri is a new woman state.
There the salary of women teachers
averages slightly higher than that of
men teachers.
An important federal official in the
irrigation states is the water inspector.
who must settle water right disputes
and make surveys in case of need.
Miss Amalia Parshall has been sent by
the department of the interior to be
water inspector at Sydney, Neb.
Grand Rapids, Mich, has q woman
citizen who plays the piano, has fine
literary tastes and cobbles shoes for
her living. She is Mrs. Nellie Harmer,
first assistant in her husbands shoe
shop.
The hope of the country. so far as it
concerns women, is in our western
states. Educational statistics show
that there are nearly as many women
as men attending college.
The woman who continues to live
with a husband that is a habitual
drunkard not only degrades herself, but
she is lacking in the respect due to her
womanhood.
1t is odd to note that, according to a
recent interviewer, Mrs. Hodgson Bur-
nett now calls herself an English wo-
man. 1t is true she was born in Eng
land, but has she forgotten the little
country girl childhood in the mountains
of Tennessee. where she used to pick
blackberries? Has she forgotten that
her girlish writings and her first book
found recognition in America, and only
for that recognition and its attendant
pecuniary success she would never
have been able to sail to London and
take a house in Portland square and
make studies for her novels from the
British aristocracy? Dear. but some
people are queer! But perhaps it was
the newspaper reporter who posed her
as an English woman.
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Paris has Travelled so far along on
the new woman road as to elect two
women, Mile. Levy CT the Woman's
Stenographic union and Mile Bouvier
of the Dressmakers' union, members OF
the general labor council.
ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.