Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-02-12
Of Int teres st
To the
New Woman

LIZABETH BRYANT JOHN
R STON and her two nieces are
- examples of how talent now
adays often runs in several
women of one family. Miss Elizabeth
Johnston herself is known best as the
author of the textbook, George Wash
ington Day by Day." and the recent
volume of old Kentucky sketches en-
titled DAYS That Are No More" Miss
Johnston has two brothers, Anderson
and Judge Sanders Johnston. These
each have one daughter. Judge John
ston's daughter Mary early developed
exceptional power as a singer, which
was cultivated abroad, and the young
lady became professionally known as
Marie Decca, the soprano. She now
lives in New York city, where she is
established as singer and instructor
in vocal music. Meantime her cousin
Frances, daughter of Anderson John
ston, showed strong bent toward
drawing and painting. She went to
Paris and studied art two years even
as her cousin had studied vocal music:
tA1Nh SAC ANtNitiCd " nCl uOdle HI w dSu>
ington. 1t was her intention to devote
herself to illustrating AS an aid to the
accomplishment of her purpose she
learned photography, not dreaming of
making it other than subsidiary to her
picture making by hand. She became
SO fascinated by the picture taking that
she decided to give herself to art pho
Biography. She opened her studio in
her fathers Washington home, and
that is her headquarters. But she trav-
els all over the country photographing
interesting objects for magazine arti
cles which she herself writes. Thus
she has pictured and described coal
mines and salt wells and much else Of
interest. Lately she photographed
Booker Washington's school at Tus-
kegee. She it was who photographed
Miss Alice Roosevelt on the debut Of
that young lady. From the money oh
tanned from the sale of the photographs
Miss Johnston built the Alice Roosevelt
wing to her studio.
If a majority of the women of your
club fail to see things as you do, don't
you pop up in meeting. tear off your
club badge, fling it at somebody, resign
your membership and dash out of the
meeting with the grace and celerity
of an infuriated COW, making of your
self, of women's clubs ard of all wom-
ankind a laughing stock in the eyes of
gods and newspaper reporters. If you
must disagree seriously with your sis
ters and most of the time this is quite
unnecessary, rise and express your dis
approval in cool. ladylike way Then,
if you decide that you must resign, send
in a letter. dignifed and calm-always
that-expressing your regret that you
must leave the club.
Don't become excited and sputter,
whatever the provocation Scolding and
sputtering are marks of feeble mind.
May Hopkins, who herself establish
ed a most successful business in New
York city, says that when she worked
for other people she was never afraid
of doing more than she was paid for
If you must do something you don't
like, don't make noisy. scolding, i'm
potent fuss over it. Go and do it cheer.
fully and don't say anything about it,
and by and by you will come to the
point where nothing you have to en-
counter is really very disagreeable to
you
A writer, speaking of Ida Rose Nc
Cabe. the journalist. says that, for
woman. she is full Of exceptionally
bright humor." Dear, dear! The con-
ceit of il certain sex. which shall be
namelesS. is monumental
r. D.
The w0men's dog show in Madison
Square Garden. New York. proved that
the breeding Of fashionable CANNES is
profitable. Many animals of the pop
ular breeds sell for from so to $500
apiece Besides here is field Of in
dustry in which women can be as sue
cessful as men. For generations Eug
lish ladies Of the highest social stand
ing haze kept kennels and reared blue
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