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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
der WALD'S" COMPOSER.
Miss Ethel Smyth and Her Remark
able Achievement.

Miss Ethel smyth and Her Remark
able Achievement.
An interesting event OF the musical
season Of 1903 has been the perform
ance for the first time in America of
Miss Ethel NJ. Smyth's opera. Der
VALID C'The Forest'D. Thus it cannot
be longer said that no woman has ever
composed a successful opera. lore
over, distinguished musical critic said
Of it after its first night in New York,
ITO the operas credit. it can he said
that discussion Of it may proceed upon
the broad plane of contemporary nlu
sic without reference to sex or nation
atty"
This is very good, considering it was
written by j man concerning a wom-
ans musical composition. which gener-
ally receives more sneers than pats on
the back from masculine critics. In
deed, even in this case the critic. like
man, involuntarily claims what is
best in the opera-that is, the style OF
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

has to earn her living. But do you sup
pose would stay bending over desk
all day If found it was running my
health and brains and preventing me
from making friends, from seeing life,
cramping my whole future? No, IN
deed. If could not persuade my su,
periors that fresh ideas and brain
constantly receiving new impressions
are worth more than a certain number
of musty office hours q day. ! would
work nights. Sundays, every spare
minute. to put myself in a position
where could both live and do my best
work and where by improving all the
time / could put myself beyond the
possibility of being thrown away some
day like sucked orange when had
finally reached my limit. It isn't work
that makes woman old. hopeless and
worn; its selfish idleness or a narrow
life or work under adverse cireum-
stances. Even sorrow doesn't ruin a
woman's existence If she still keeps her
hand on the prise of life. II she still
moves and has d part In the world
about her If she does not allosv herself
to becuis.e shut Iii.
MAID ROBINSON.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19


many small things in which woman is
most extravagant.
She will wear her best tailor made
out in the rain, thereby impairing its
freshness forever and day. and this
simply to make an impression on some
woman she doesn't really care two cents
about. She will likewise hold up her
umbrella in a rainstorm using hand
incased in white glove. She might
at least remove the glove. for one spot
Of water absolutely ruins it.
She will buy dozen wells at one
time, wear each once or twice and then
throw it in a little heap in the bottom
of drawer. If the veil had been roll
ed lengthwise. it would have lasted
four times as long. and why use so
many at once?
Then she will put rough bindings on
the bottom of her skirts and ruin her
expensive boots, or, worse still. put on
no binding at all, which ruins the skirt
Yes, and she will waste money for
neck ribbons which are mussy and
don't look half as we'll or last as long
as regular collar and buy fancy belts
and novelties. which go out almost ais
soon as they are in and which eat
up her money so wonderfully that she
wonders why she has none left to pur-
chase the important pieces.
On the whole, l am sorry to say,
women are apt to be penny wise and
pound foolish. HELEN CLIFTON.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

one which became popular so suddenly
that it amounts to fad. The fad will
die natural death by and by. but
while it lasts hundreds of quiet domes-
tic women are getting good money out
of the homemade rug business. There
are braided and sewed rugs, crocheted
rugs, knitted ones and those woven by
hand in way similar to that whereby
the most expensive Persian and orien-
tai rugs are manufactured All over
the Union women are catering to the
popular fad, learning from aged moth
ers and grandmothers how these made
rugs half a century ago. except that
the grandmothers made the rugs for
sturdy farm boots to tread upon, and
that right heavily. while the grand
daughters make theirs for dainty la
dies to show off in parlors and even I'm
some eases to hang up for draperies.
The rug foundation can be painted or
stained with the outline of a colored
figure or scene and the rag or wool fill
ing be worked in to correspond, SO that
the outer surface represents a sort of
tapestry picture. To produce the thing
quite perfect all the dyes used must
also be the unfading homemade ones
used By the grandmothers young
lady in New York city is actually. max
Ing a fortune freni the manufacture
and s.sln 81 falasa .uss Size occupies
All the Eafs-s t:lssa
i ~ ~ n r-7-sf- ri T, ~
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

HoI "tI Oh dc-
cording to their
position in life,
their allowances
are small and
they have many
expenditures.
T b en-. too,
they have been
trained to know
{ b e price of
things. and they
. 4GH. - ~
usually get their
moneys worth.
Wonan's meth
nj nf parDinU
money has usu-
ally been to save
1t, and although
we are begin
ming to change
this yet it is
still SO to a great
extent, for to
men is given
the privilege of
e arni Il G t b e
larger incomes.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
Many Women
Earn Money
Hf Ho m e

WN every country neighborhood, in
any town small or large, women
Id who are in earnest and set their
heads to it may originate ways of
bringing in money while at the same
time they attend to their daily house
hold duties. At meeting of the Min
nesota Dairymen's association several
ladies reported their success in Cow
keeping. One woman, Mrs. Holmes,
was fond of COWS and had money TO
buy one. That was some years ago.
Mrs. Holmes now has farm of I4O
acres in small grains and pasture. The
grain lands gave a phenomenal yield
to the acre, the men farmers said when
they heard the average was nearly if
ty bushels Mrs. Holmes has now
twenty-six COWS, which gave her nearly
$1,000 worth of butter last year For
farmer that is not a bad income.
Mrs. Holmes wisely uses all the prod
uct of her land to feed her stock on.
A Maine woman, Mrs. Florence Cum
mings, who likewise plays the piano,
deyotes her farm to poultry, hay and
dairying. She does all her own house
work and sells twenty pounds of butter
q week. Country women around Bos-
ton have taken up market gardening
with enthusiasm, and several of them
are in receipt of incomes from this
source that many professional men and
women might envy. In New England
it is becoming common to employ Ital-
ian women to do the work in market
help. They do not get drunk or quar-
rel. In the west and southwest, of
course, however, it is left for women
to conduct farms on grand scale. In
California Mrs. Buckingham of Vaca-
Vile long since showed what woman
can do in the agricultural field; so did
the ingenious woman who raised PAM
pas plumes and created demand for
them. In the Panhandle of Texas Mrs
Pauline Whitman owns and operates
ranch of 100000 acres, on which she
raises $1,000 cattle a year.
In another field of home industry
may be mentioned Mrs. Kidd, the lady
who began making delicious pickles &C
cording to recipe that had been in her
family for generations. Year after |
year she took premiums for her wares
at southern state fairs before she ever
thought of pickle making as renu-
neratiye industry. Finally it occurred |
to her that, since her pickles We're so |
very good. she might get some spend |
ing money by selling them. She Of
fered some of them at a famous south /
arn hotel. At once they met with ia
vor. Then another and another hotel |
wanted them till trade be- |
gan that was widened out to include I
railway dining ears and great ocean /
steamer lines. Like Mrs. Macready of /
Buffalo, Mrs. Kidd first made her deli
,;leies in her own kitchen. AS was the
,ase with Mrs. Macready's husband
llso, ere long Mrs. Kids husband had t
% give up his own work and help his /
wife with the industry she had found
I'd. A large factory has been built III
he rear of the old southern home in
which Mrs. Kidd lived. and scores of
helpers are now employed regularly. T
Among the most interesting and lu-
rative home industries for women is
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

two shades Of the same color, the up
per section being lighter than the low
er, as rule.
The dividing line is concealed by a
shelf which .uns around the room and
which holds china. books. bric-a- brac.
etc.
The illustration shows just such a
treatment of wall. The color scheme
is in two shades of blue. harmonizing
prettily with the white woodwork and
the blue and wh.e china.
r. DE LA BAUME.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
Why Uomer
Cros' Old Sooner
Chan M e ~
wv YHY is it that women grow
N.Y. old so much sooner than

wv men?"
Il don't admit itr' retort
ed the bachelor girl promptly.
The man with whom she was folk
ing leaned back in his chair and smiled
!nduigently at her. why. my dear
girl he answered, Just look lr;>;,n.!
you among our acqua ntances. Take
the Van Peppers, for instance. Majo.
VAN Pepper at seventy is as lrisi rs =
young man. and Nils. Van PepDer-
why, she can barely waddle around, A.
though she is nearly ten years his Jun
lor she affects caps and sits be-
hlnd screens cosseting herself all the
tlme. She never goes anywhere. and
her only pleasure is making exactions
ana complaints. And look at Miss
Spinks. She can't be more than forty
II she's day, and she sits behind her
stuffy window curtains, carefully adj
Justed SO that no sunshine will pierce
through and no rude wind blow uDon
her, and she knits and gossips all day
long. with her cat curled up at her feet.
Forty. mind you! Why. at forty a man
Is youngster. hustling around to beat
the band and thinking of what the fu-
ture has in store for him.
But
wait minute. Well come down to
even younger women. There's Miss
Scribbler. She's barely thirty-two. and
yet she bends over her desk in a news
paper office every dreary day long. and
q CHI IN, HI s,,@o
to move. That is her existence"
st has always been a wonder to me
she could write To write, it seems to
me, one should go around. mix with all
kinds of people and gain some new ex-
perience every day." broke in the bach
elor girl.
'H-m-m! She is drawing upon her
past experiences before she was shut
up. Besides. there are plenty of news.
paper clippings and encyclopedias in
the literary factory where she works."
But her BRAIN
"oh, naturally that doesn't grow
strong any more than her body. She is
only another woman shut in
why, what do you mean? | thought
the shut ms We're invalids who couldn't
stir from their chairs and that they
founded a society,"
Eyes, know. But there are others
who have shut their own selves in and
yet who are as strong as you or l. They
are the women who grow old and, alas.
useless before their time-society wom-
en-, like old Mrs. Van Pepper. who new
er take any real interest in life and
what life means. who live on admira-
ton as girls and exact even more as
married women. When. owing to their
artificial lives. their charms fade early.
there is nothing for them to do but to
take refuge in the cap of the dowager.
Ind their sole consolation is being wait
I'd on hand and foot and making miser-
ab1e the lives Of those under Them
but Miss Spinks'
aAh. isn't she a shut in?' If she
would only stop mourning over her
.ufned life and her one past love affair."
T she would only go out into the fresh
lir, walk. exert herself, take an inter-
st in life-who knows but she might
wen have another love affair."
And Miss Scribbler.''
THAT is the saddest of all. because
he is handicapped by the fact that she
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
|1SLTIONAL KILLING
Young Albanian Slain
By Another One
BIRMINGHAM PLACE.
su Latham Shot to Death Upon
leading Thoroughfare of That
fity BY Travelling Ne"
orleans Salesman.

,...;ng,,an1 Ala, April 1S.-Short-
;,vs IL o'clock Friday morning
aav;s a well known young man,
.ns killed Elias NJ. Latham. a
s''ss Ia salesman for a New Orleans
.s Wl,a made his home here. The
49, ss.v accurred at the Nineteenth
sntraace to the Morris hotel. The
a,et and auarreled, whereupon
'I,.s.;s uas seen to draw his revolver
60 a three shots at Latham. The
.s.... ,sade his way to the door OF
a. natal bar. where he fell and died,
,sas having taken effect in the left
ss. HaYis surrendered and is in
III sa.irty jail. Havis claims that
.s,.lIs S. and Latham were quarreline
.ss, s;]Ierences that existed between
nam attempted to draw pis.
Il Isl Havis got his out first When
sasu's body was picked up his re-
|sssSVsr was found under the body on
81 saof But It had not been discharg-
~ Hsvis refuses to tell the original
|ssass 81 the trouble. He claims self
& man was prominently connected,
4 W. l st,l-in-laW of former Mayor W.
5lorris local capitalist. He was
'sk thirty years old. HaVis is TWEEN.
Is years Of age. ...
sfsr william Wiss, prominent liq-
@ merchant was arrested On a charge
q ll|ne 40 accessory to the killing OF
g6anl HE and Havis were together
S ID tragedy occurred. Both are
Tue county Jail. Latham, it is
R6n aid told a friend a week ago that
Il III having some trouble with al
aIsa and many believe that woman
s. Ebe bottom of the affair, but ne
3i directly concerned will talk in this
<61azelidn.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
For Half Mourning

Half mourning is not now so rigidly
insisted upon, but white yoile with
black silk null trimmings or with chif-
fon ruchings and other garniture are
allowable. When such gown is to be
worn with hat. the latter should be
trimmed with mauye tulle mingled
with white and with punches of white
violets. Mauve is used now instead of
the unbecoming lavender. Few people
put their children into mourning now
except for the funeral and for church
for few weeks, as it is thought too de-
pressing for young minds.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

4Ei Ilt. 4 y
peint and W. received an
II aaa Z shower Of thanks when
seHelHled Secretary Wilson
IS Qaa1eed most brilliantly by
q Nandler. whose tribute to
s soAed the most cordial APP
Wilson spoke about the
81 agricultural education.
:ea esFs oI the country need an
9re comprehensive than
||',sz Re have borrowed from the
Ell, s. naiiy designated for the
= man, the man Of leisure
aariditary law giver The
me age in lines of re-
ls reached the tillers OF the
81 i fed them with ambition
a'lafe CT the principles with
|s7 slve to deal
salaon Is required as our
q tlans Of learning have
1= 81 8 cannot be longer ne
hlndering the progress
sixty-fve per cent of
pre- from the farm ane
Is aean grown by people
4 nad special training be.
ltIons of the farm.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
VIII SON SPOKE.

>l1ry u agriculture Talks of Agri.
sltural Education Necessity.
kIkrilIe, Miss. April 18.-Friday
Marked an epoch in the industrial
w u Mississippi. The occasion
mi ke laying of the cornerstone of
IN $4,000 science hall at the ag-
fsI md mechanical college.
leatpre OF the forenoon was the.
and patriotic speech of Hon,
iison, secretary Of agriculture.
M 2plauded to the echo from
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
Women who Manage.

Mrs. Hearst and Mrs. Stanford, who
have given away millions of money.
understand the detail and management
OF their own business better than any
OF their agents. As for Mrs. Hetty
Green. I he richest woman in the world.
would Hertz Green trust to any mere
man 70 i'agest u II control her money
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
EXTRAVAGANCE OF WOMEN

They Waste Many Little Things
Which Count Up.
Are women extrayagant?
An English paper discusses this at
great length in it's usually ponderous
fashion.
say they are and they are not
In household and many important
matters the majority of women are not
extravagant; for. as a rule. they are
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
Tfuok Dy a1ra1n.

lS.-An electric car
y lbs horse show. was
ring OF freight cars run.
she Santa Fe tracks at
4 eS and q number of the
'fed. The most serious
ca 70 Y. NJ. Roberts Of
2 nad both legs broken
efashed SO badly that it
efated at the hospital.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
TREATMENT OF WALLS.

A Hint For the Woman Who "fshes
an Artistic Effect.
If the walls are tastefully decorated,
a room is more than half furnished.
Wall papers are now produced in such
endless variety that something artistic
amount
Perhaps one of the most popular
methods of treating wall consists in
papering it in two colors, or, rather,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

The state school
.s the following bonds
- gent school fund: Co
'eooo Bastrop Jail s10.-
Iesfunding $4,000. city
ae.oW and city Of Nc.
na king d total OF SOL.
nges from 9 1-2 to S
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19
9 be Ne e,
Donaor1 and
Her Doif,6J

WV YHAT is probably the most
AAE hopeful sign of that strange,
" ID complicated. conglomerated
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

A serubbins machine has been in
vented which will do the work of two
women. Well. women won't quarrel
with that sort of an Invention
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

United States senate document 100,
page 100, contains the following testi-
mony before the Philippine commits
sion, by Archbishop Nozeleda of Ma
Mia, concerning the Filipino native wo-
men and men: THE woman is better
than the man in every way-in intelli-
gence, in virtue and in labor - and
great deal more economical. She is
very much given to trade and traffick-
ing. If any rights or privileges are to
be given to the natives, do not give
them to the men, but to the women"
Question: ''Then you think it would be
better to give the right to vote to the
women than to the men?' Answer:
"Oh, much better"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

Oh, for colony of good people where
men and women can do and dress as
they please. where old Grundy is bar
red out forevermore from debating to
women, where no old Tables of either
sex are allowed to constitute them
selves guardians of the manners and
morals of other folk
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

Isora Duncan. the American barefoot
dancer in Berlin, gets prices for her
performances equal to those paid to the
greatest opera singers. Berlin art low
ers are building a theater for her in
which she will reproduce Greek plays.
The theater will be modelled after a
Greek temple.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-04-19

2 Miss Mary E. Springer, recording sec
rotary of New York city chapter D. A.
R., is deveting herself to historical ro-
nance writing. She has dedicated to
the Sons and Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution her second novel. :'Eliz-
abeth Schuyler: A Story of Old New
York
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

Chicago has reason to be satisfied.
with its automobile regulations. They
require operators to show practical IA
miliarity with their machines by actual
tests. Licenses are issued to no others.
The laws also insist upon double
brakes, the conspicuous numbering of
machines, speed limit of eight miles
an hour, and the enforcement of the
rule that no part Of the machinery
shall be left running while the ma
chine IL standing in the street. Under
these wise rules there have been but
two fatalities in four years, and other
accidents have been few.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10
New "Rock OF Ages.

A missionary lately returned from
India expressed the opinion that re-
hgious work was going on very slowly
there on account of the difficulty in
translating the spirit as well as the
text OF the Gospel.
Take an instance" he said. 81
tried to teach my converts the old
hymn:
Rock of Ages. cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee"
at had a native Bible student trans
late 1t into the vernacular. To make
sure that he had grasped the spirit of
the words. I took his translation and
had it translated back into English
by another student. 1t then read:
"'Very old stone. split for my bene-
at, let me absent myself beneath one
of thy fragments. Detroit News
Tribune.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

nation and swelling of the glands the grons red eruption a
hold and the blood becomes
infected the drop out the skin spotted with
o.
monster scouge there is whole body
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10
AS OLD, AS
TAEPYRAMID

That blood poison existed among the ancients has
been proven beyond question It has been traced back
thousands Of years. and is old as the Pyramids This
bghting curse has been handed down from nation to
nation and from individual to individual till it has
spread to all parts of the world.
Contagious blood poison, it is called in modern
times begins with a small ulcer through which
the virus enters f~ hood This is followed by inafn
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

@The horror of this awful disease
can never be told. The one who con-
tracts it suffers In body and mind,
and if the poison Is not eradicated
transmits the faint to his children,
and Contagious Blood Poison thus
becomes responsible for many OF the
Ills OF childhood-Skin Eruptions,
Catarrhal Troubles, Sore Eyes. Scalp
Disease, White Swelling, Scrofula
and others just as bad. S. S. S., the
great vegetable blood purifier and
tonic, has long been recognized as
radical and safe cure for Contagious
Blood Poison. It counteracts the
deadly virus and cleanses and puri-
hes the diseased blood, and under it,
tonic effects the general health i'm.
proves and soon ali signs of blood
poison are gone. The strong miner
are 6o offer, vnrooc~shod for the diSeaS
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10
DEAFNEss CANNOT BE CURED

By local applications, a. they cannot reach the
way to cure deafness. and that is by constitu.
tional remedies. Deafness 10 caused by An in
famed condition OF the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in.
feet hearing, and when 1t 10 entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the infamma-
ton can be taken out and this tube restored to
its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases out OF ten are caused by
catarrh, which Is nothing but an infamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by oatarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

Fast trotters are all well enough in
their way, but Dat Patch would re-
specially call attention to the fact
that he is doing the pacesetting in the
swift equine world.
Mothers will ma Mrs. Windows Booth.
ing 6yrun the best remedy TO use for their
shildrsn during the tsething period.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

Russia takes nearly half the agri
cultural machinery that the United
States export.
Piso's Cure Is a good cough medicine.
It has cured coughs and colds for forty
years. At druggists, rs cents.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

Live stock men declare that there
is too wide a difference in the price
packers pay for cattle and the price
they charge for beef. They do not
claim, however, that this declaration
Is based on any new discovery.
You Can Get Aliens Foot Ease FREE.
Write Allen s. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y, for a
free sample of Allen Foot Ease. 1t cures chill
blains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet
1t makes new or tight shoes easy. certain
cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists sell
1t. Csc. Don't accept any substitute.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-12-10

It's almost as difficult for a medium
to predict what is going to happen as
1t is for a historian to record what has
happened