The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-21


holding fast to them meanwhile as
to life itself. More than a generation
ago u German girl went to Cincinnati ii.
She was very young, very quiet and
retiring and she had no money at all.
But she had a good musical educat ton
and an enthusiasm for music that lift
ed her to the plane of the gods. Gin
cinnati was rather provincial then.
having neither its great music hail nor
its beautiful art museum. There was
no great desire for music culture. The
young German girl, Clara Baur, began
giving singing lessons to any pupils
she could get, and they were not many
at first. But the girl teacher had even
then an ideal. 1t was of a noble school
of music, in which the art harmonic
should be taught in all its branches,
horn, string and human voice. She
was so sweet tempered, SO earnest and
enthusiastic, as well as such au excel
lent instructor, that she gained friends
and patrons rapidly. In a little while
she opened small conservatory of mu-
sic. She stuck to business faithfully.
never letting her enthusiasm flag,
which was the main thing after all.
What is also important. she never let
down for moment in her high ideals
of music. Pupils increased. Miss Baur
worked hard still, both for love and
money. She was only a little woman
and she was alone, but full of grit and
genius. She saved her earnings, not
with the idea of retiring from work.
but Of building home for music. at
last she has succeeded in her plan. A
conservatory of music costing 100000,
with beautiful concert hail. has lately
been erected by the interchangeable little
lady and it is all her own.
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Did you ever take walk bareheaded
in the warm rain? The raindrops CON-
tain atoms Of the liquid gold of life
which the sun rays send to the sweet
old earth to make her blossom and
bring forth. The raindrops in the face
soften and feed the skin; they soak into
the roots of the hair and invigorate it;
they cool the fretted, fevered scalp and
brain. The rain bath is uncommonIy
promotive Of health and good looks.
Wear some old cotton garments thin
enough for the soft rain to penetrate
stay in the falling shower till you are
soaked through, then go home, remove
the saturated garments and rub your
self briskly till you are dry. You will
feel like new woman. In the tropics
the natives do not remove their cloth
ing after being caught in one of the
rains that tumble out of the sky by the
bucketful. They simply go about their
business in the sunshine till they dry
off and are all the better for their rain
bath.
The old fashioned seold is disappear
ing from the earth, eternal rest to her!
You seldom hear the incessant ''scold,
scold, jaw, jaw" that used to be the
special prerogative of the old woman
In the days when, woman was op-
pressed grievousiy by man the only
way in which she could get even with
him was by flashing him with her
tongue. and we have the evidence of |
history in the ducking stool that she
availed herself of the privilege Old |
women used to rate all creation by the |
hour. But it has been many a year
since have heard real, old fashioned |
scold. AS woman gets her rights she /
ceases to scold
Never tell your ailments to anybody |
but your doctor and never tell your
troubles at ali. The desire to do so
arises from morbid craving for sym |
pathy, craving you ought to squelcn.
When you draw on Others sympathies, |
you are vampire feeding on them.
They have troubles of their own, and |
you have no right to exhaust their
nerve force.
Recently in New York city a man
was taken with laughing ft. He
Just began and laughed and laughed
and laughed Tor week without any
known cause. His unnatural mirth in
fected Others. so that the moment they
saw him they, too, began to giggle and
smoker without any cause except just
The catchiness of the thing. At last he
was taken to hospital. where after
several days the laughing attack left
him. Then he was discharged cured.
But the curious point in this case is
hat never once did anybody, physician
,r layman, say the man had mysteries.
e he had been woman, now!
The editor of the much talked OF We
mems daily newspaper in Chicago is
eported as having said that the new
ournal is not going to be champion
# woman suffrage. Then what's the
,ood of it? What is the need of it? 1t ,
S foredoomed to failure.
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Talk of woman and her many clubs! !
august Belmont belongs to twenty :
I've, William G. Whitney to twenty
Wo, President Roosevelt himself IN j