The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-01-10
The New
Woman
BY ELIZA
ARCHARD CONNER

Mrs. Katharine Swan, a young col
lege woman, has originated a pleasant
occupation for a limited number of
her sex. For several years she was a
successful newspaper writer; then she
turned to another field, which suited
her better. First, she took lessons in
scientific cookery. Being an educated
woman, it was easy for her to master
culinary matters. In thousands of
homes in all the large cities gas is
now used instead of coal for cooking.
Owing, however, to the ignorance Of
the cooks and sometimes of the mis-
tress of the house herself the gas range
does not always work satisfactorily.
The range is blamed instead of the
mismanagement of it, and the next
thing that is said is that gas is no good
for cooking, and its use as fuel is aban-
doned. This of course works to the in
jury of the gas companies. In one of
the largest eastern cities a gas COM
pany employs Mrs. Swan to go to the
houses in which the range does not
give satisfaction to adjust it and to
show the cook how to use it in the
most economical manner. incidentally,
too, Mrs. Swan gives a cooking lesson
to illustrate her methods. She is eX-
tremely tactful and is careful to give
no offenSe through assumption of SUI
perior culinary knowledge. She has
learned thoroughly the mechanism of
gas stoves, and if one is really out of
order she can clap her finger on the
exact spot and suggest the remedy.
The gas company gives her good sal
airy, and it pays it to do so, for she
is the best advertising agent it could
have At the same time she shows
fuel, how to manage their ranges and
incidentally how 10 cook many n choice
dish. Mrs. Swan is very successful in
her new work.
Recently | have heard of a lady who
is the mother of IS children. Her hus-
band provided we'll for the numerous
progeny, and she reared them to ma
turty-the whole IS. They are doing
we'll enough in the world. She and her
husband have a comfortable income.
| She was an admirable mother to the
| children, sacrificing all the best years
of her life to them. Here is what she
says of the lot, Il raised them well, the
whole IS, and today could not depend
on one of them for dinner if | needed
to do So"
y r. q
A mother can make no greater mis-
take than to sacrifice herself for her
! children, a wife can make no greater
mistake than to sacrifice herself for her
husband. 1t breeds the habit of self
ishness into the very ones they try to
help.
Why is a young lady wearing one Of
the nightmare millinery creations Of
the present season like the long black
letters on the first page of a yellow
journal? Because she is a scare head
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If you are languid and have no appe
tite these days and suffer from stom
ach troubles, try the no breakfast fad
Drink water, nothing else, and eat
nothing until II o'clock or perhaps
noon. Then eat whatever you like, but
take no drink with your meal. If you
feel that you must have coffee, walt
till you finish eating and sip it slowly
80 nj ri RIO fhOcn Nyhn ola I'M
the no breakfast fad will cure almost
any disease. 1t certainly is an excel.
lent remedy for dyspeptic disturbance
Two meals a day are enough for most
people anyhow.
The wife of railway fireman wants
a divorce from him because he will not
wash the black off himself when he
comes home. She is justified. The
court ought TO grant that divorce in
tantly.
| M0mentous Tribes.
The greatest events are often drawn by
hairs. Rome was saved by the cacllina
of some sacred geese. The life of Napo-
leon was saved from the internal ma
chine" because General Rapp detained 10
sephine a minute or two TO arrange her
shawl. 4 COW kicked over lamp and
started the great Chicago fire. A jest Of
the French king was the death of VIII
liam the Conqueror. The destruction of
J Athens was brought about 10y jest Oh
Sulla Some witty Athenian. struck
with his blotched face. called him a
mulberry pudding" \ spark from Il
candle falling on a cottage floor was the
cause of the fire that destroyed London
| Lafitte. the great banker, was n pauper
He attributed his rise in life TO his pick.
ing up a pin in the streets of Paris. The
| invention of glass is ascribed to some
! Phpnician merchants lighting a fire on
the sands of the seashore. Vulcanized
! rubber was discovered by the accidental
mixing of crude rubber and sulphur on Il
! cook stove The dog Diamond by upset
ting a lamp destroyed papers of Sir Isaac
Newton that had been the toll of his life.
Objected To the Shelf
The ways of the sleeping ear are al.
: WAYS a trial to women, even to the most
experienced travellers. 1t was one of tn
inexperienced who the other night faced
for the first time in her life the difficulties