The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-12

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# been making a ridiculous to do
/. @ over the appointment of wo-
men inspectors for steerage
female passengers on board incoming
steamers. These perspicaciOus jour
nails start out with the general PROPOSE
ion that no woman can climb Il ships
ladder; then they cause to be inter-
| viewed those persons who are supposed
| to agree to the proposition. One lady,
maybe a member of the -Four Hundred,
| perhaps says it's terrible to think of a
| woman trying to climb a steamers
| side; another individual. perhaps a re-
| tired old fogy doctor who never crossed
| the Atlantic in his life, says it's pre-
! posterous to think a woman could posi-
| bly, do SO unladylike thing. To cap it
all, one of the. journals represents the
women inspectors in state of distress
over devising a costume that will en-
able them to perform this perilous feat
of climbing an iron or rope ladder.
| Now look here. l give you herewith
few cold, hard facts ON this question,
and let them settle it. To begin. my
self in ordinary woman's clumsy and
inconvenient clothing have boarded
steamer by climbing ladder dozens
of times in almost every quarter of
the globe and did not think l was do
ing anything uncommon. Neither did
| anybody else. In the tropics and in
! the orient women passengers board
ships in that manner every day, be-
cause it is the only way. There are
almost no docks built out in the har-
bors enabling a passenger to walk
aboard. The steamers at Hongkong,
at Manila, at nearly every one of the
| Chinese and japanese ports, at Co
| lombo and Penang-and the list might
be extended neutrality-suspicious. mile
! or two ofTshore and are reached by
| lighters and tenders. At Colombo to-
day is young woman medical inspect
or with her own rowboat and crew
who boards every incoming steamer
| and examines the women passengers.
| Along our own Maine coast women
| passengers go out to sea to catch
steamers, and once in Boring sea l
heard a steamer captain say, well. l
can climb rope ladder as spry as any
| body of this ship unless it is Mrs
Blank" So there!
After all, women are queer. An
abandoned wife is suing another wonl-
an who she says 'alienated'' her hus~
! bands affections. The wife whines
and sniyels and says: ats all the fault
of that woman, the wretch! Before
she got hold of him my husband loved
/ me- Here are two points for the
earnest consideration Of deserted
/ wives: First. husband whose afIec-
tons can be ..alienated'' by anybody
or anything is not worth keeping; sec
/ ond, il, nevertheless. husband does
/ thus become aIienated and his wife
must get even, the husband himself is
the one to s.go for, not the woman. He
undoubtedly wanted to be led astray.
/ But the best way of all to get revenge
4 on a delinquent husband is to let him
go. Nine times out Of ten he will be
awfully sorry he went.
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4 Women are proving themselves ex-
| cellent advertisement writers. A girl
only sixteen years old who hit on
new and humorous idea for a good adj
! yertisement is getting $1,000 year
out of it. Advertisement writing has
become regular occupation that is
now often more lucrative than regular
newspaper work, especially if one can
/ be humorous and original. 1t is a
/ promising field.
i Whatever. woman decides to do, if
! she takes hold of it with pluck and de-
/ ternined perseverance she will win.
/ Miss Kate E. GriswoId, who has be-
come well to do through her own dis
tinguished ability and industry in a
field previously occupied by men, had
/ many obstacles to overcome before she
i succeeded She says, however, to 9th
| err women. There is always plenty of
encouragement to go on" So there is.
g. y
! President Roosevelt, who is SO bitter
against chiidless homes, ought to have
| been for few years a laborer with a
wife and six children to support on a
i dollar a day. Then he would have
been qualified to speak.
y v
/ have seen in a newspaper a letter
/ from a high school girl complaining of
the sfrictness of the rules she had to
! obey and whining over the severity OF
] the examinations That girl will never
amount to anything. The girl that is
| really worth something rises to every
emergency and meets it with soul
/ equal to it. Difficult achievements
/ strengthen us intellectually.