The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-26
New
WOMAN
Happening

Yesterday evening at the rush hour
for returning passengers l was going
home on New York city elevated
train. At the station where l stopped,
in the midst of a great throng of peo-
pie, | heard mans voice above all
the din and roar of the cars saying in |
loud, angry tones, as though he were
speaking to dog, go homer l look !
ed around, but saw no dog. l did see
the man clo was ordering the I'M
known creature to go home. He was
a well dressed man, with hair quite
white, and he really looked decent and
respectable. Where was the dog?
could not find it, but did see 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 Inundated look made me- know
that the man was speaking to her and
that nobody but her husband, a 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.
us he your husband?" l asked. Eyes,"
she replied; 81 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 WON
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 n
hapless and helpless state of intoxica-
ton. 1t was the first time such 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, a man occu
plying high place. All this was spread
before the public, was telegrapheo
from one end of the land to the other
and the miserable woman and her fam
ily were 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 ant
the new years appointments show
larger number of women on schoo
boards than there have ever been be
fore.
Missouri is new woman state
There the salary of women teacher
averages slightly higher than that o
men teachers.
An important federal official in thu
irrigation states is the water inspector
who must settle water right dispute
and make surveys in case of need
Miss Amalia Parshall has been sent b,
the department of the interior to b
water inspector at Sydney, Neb.
Grand Rapids, Mich, has woman
citizen who plays the piano, has fin
literary tastes and cobbles shoes TO
her living. She is Mrs. Nellie Harmel
first assistant in her husbands shoe
shop.
The hope of the country, so far as
concerns women, is in our wester
!. states. Educational statistics shoY
that there are nearly as many wome
as men attending college.
The woman who continues to liv
with a husband that is a habitu'
drunkard not only degrades herself, bt
she is lacking in the respect due to be
womanhood.
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}. Miss Anna Payne, cross country ma
carrier, express and freight agent.
SIocum. Pa, drives forty-two miles e
. cry day with her load. In the morl
ing before she starts she grooms, feet
and harnesses her own horses an
milks three cows. If she were a ma
IS mail carrier. she would not have
,,.;II- fboca COWS