The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-28

| fenced off to themselves, taught to be
weak, defenseless, submissive, never to
let anybody know they had physical
/ strength OF courage, even If they pos
sessed any, because 1t was ''unwoman-
ly" to be otherwise than cowardly. No
girl was allowed to have a latchkey.
Every one must be In at nightfall and
tell the matron just what she had been
doing all day. One morning the girls
and one of their female bosses were in
the library at prayers. The female
boss was reading the prayers. Not
he creature was ever allowed In the
house. and the girls were kept away
from them as from monsters. strictly
according to old woman notions. That
morning, however a meek little man
was down at the front door repairing
the bell. He weighed 100 pounds. Sud
denly two drunken fellows saw the
door open and in crazy freak ran in
past the bell hanger, past the old wo-
man who stood guard and on into the
library where the girls were hearing
prayers read. The drunken men pulled
Off their coats and talked big. OF girls,
bosses and women servants in that
house there must have been at least
| twenty. But they had all been brought
up in old woman ways; therefore all
| they could do was to screech like cats
and tumble over one another. Seeing
their utter decentralization, the drunken
men grew bolder and more bullying.
| If three new women had been there
trained in athletics and taught to keep
their heads on they would have simply
| collared the intruders and marched
! them out to the street. Their moral
force would have given them physical
strength even If that had been lack
| ing. But, no! All those twenty women
thought they could do was to screech
| and huddle together. Meantime the
one little bell hanger ran into the room.
seized hold of the two big fellows and
threw them out before they knew what
had struck them. Is it not time tine
new woman was here? #
Miss Edith J. Griswold, the patent at
torney of New York, Is an enthusiastic
bicyclist. She is now preparing a
cycling calendar. It will contain 565
i hearty Endorsements of cycling one for
every day In the year, from that num-
Der Of distinguished individuals in the
industrial and professional world.
The fine ladies' were having after
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and aesthetic; all the newest fads even
In afternoon teas were manifest. A lit
tie boy three years old peeped shyly
through the open door and gazed, wide
eyed, on the scene. He was rarely
fine infant, perfectly formed, with all
/ the radiant loveliness of normal child
hood about him, beautiful as one OF
RaphaeI's baby angels. "Oh, oh, oh!'
exclaimed the ladies. How exquisite!
Who is he? Come here, you little
cherub, and LET me kiss your do they
! think poor people cant have beautiful
Children grimly muttered the cook to
/ herself ais she snatched up her boy and
took him back to where he had strayed
from the kitchen.
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i Are you sure you are getting your
right share of sunshine and outdoor air
these days?
i No neighborhood Is SO poor that 1t
cannot have common clubhouse for
lectures and social gatherings, even
weddings. Jewish people have set
good example In this matter. II a
4 grand social event, like wedding or
large reception or ball, is on, a suitable
hall is hired for the occasion even
among the wealthy. Thus all the nerve
racking worry Is taken out Of the home
to more convenient place.
i One of the most efficient sanitary in
spectors IN this country Is Mrs. Joanna
Won Wagner of Yonkers, N. 7. She is
1 refined woman and a linguist and eaa
talk to the Stun people In their own
various languages. This gives her
/ great advantage. She takes all a wom-
ans sympathetic interest In helping.
people and In cleaning up things. This
/ has enabled her to work a marvellous
change among the poorer, consequently
dirtier, districts of Yonkers. There
ought to be women sanitary inspectors
In every town and city In the Union
S. y !.
/ Woman only wants now interior illu-
nination Of mind and soul to make her
equal TO her opportunities. She must
know she is no longer to be the emo
tional, irresponsible creature of the
Turkish harem, but a reasoning, think.
Ing individual with soul which she
herself must save il 1t is saved at all.
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Dr. Lyman Abbott roars against vo-
/ man suffrage in the columns of the
| Outlook, but when woman wishes
him TO print brief article In reply
from the other side he answers that he
| will not discuss the question in hts pa.
| per. This conspicuous example of the