The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-11

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personalities. ald they max" fun of one
another constantly behind backs. 1t
makes me think of EIipton. where |
used to teach school. There wcr" Wo-
men in that town who knew every
movement Of their acquaintancsS and
twisted tGe most innocent acts INTO
something to he criticised or sdiculCd.
They watched the pOStoifice 10 see how
often people got letters. They peeked
out behind their closed blinds to study
their neighbOrs' clOtheslineS. OF patch
ell garments were displayed. these
gossips did everything but publish The
fact in the village newspaper Yf Il
man. married or SINGLE called AZ
house OF an evening. the town knew OF
it next day, and motives were imputed
to the man which he in his widest
moments could hardly have dreamed
of"
But ire country people worse Cos
sips than city folk" | asked.
Indeed they are. LII the city there
is always somewhere to go and some
excitement to occupy the thought. The
city woman who undertook TO keep
track OF her next door neighborS would
be driven into nervous prOstaation.
Now, is what Miss Walltrell said
true? Is the air of country villages
full Of poisonous gossip. the microbes
from which fermcnt i'll the souls of the
women who live there and wither up
and kill all sisterly tolerance. all noble,
broadening growth and aspiration:
Flatly, do not believe it.
or old humility was considered fhe
virtue Of women and slaves.
No new woman is ever found III an
old woman's home.
If men, law and custom do not stop
discriminating against and prosecuting
the feminine sex for being wives and
mothers, the feminine sex will i'll time
cease to be either. Men may as well
know now that this Is the ultimate of
that financial independence for WON
en- which is coming as fast as time
can bring 1t. Normal woman naturally
likes man, but now that she is able to
earn her own living it will have to be
d tolerably fine man who can WOO and 4
win her. She more and more looks at
the man himself, not at the support"
Let the man take notice accordingly
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Isn't 1t about time some women
learned to mind their own business?
Do not glory in weakness and cow
ardice. Glory in courage aud strength
That noble organization, the National
Council Of Jewish Women. has now
more than 1000 members. lis presi- |
dent, Mrs. Hannah G.. Solomon, fayors
an international gathering of Hebrew
women at the st. Louis exposition
Pathetic is the story that Il grand !
daughter OF Patrick Henry, Mrs. vir-
ginia Henry Beasley. aged, penniless
In charity home at Ithaca, n 7. She |
is eishty-seFen years old, but apparent
" SIS able to earn her own living as |
she was at twenty, for she says. MY |
father was Il son of Patrick Henry. |
He owned Il great plantation on which |
there We're 1000 slaves The war
wrecked my fathers fortune" Mrs. |
Beasley was brought up in the old |
helpless, useless way to do nothing. |
That was her greatest misfortune. |
The southern woman of the new school I
is bravely earning her living.
A to do is made over the fact that |
there is now living in Kentucky wo-
man eighty-two years old whose grand
once refused to marry
George Washington. Well, what of it?
Two ablebodied widows. mother and I
daughter, advertise in Long Island
paper for husbands. one apiece. TO take
care of them. Those two ablebodied
widows will find themselves much bet
Eer on IL they hustle and take care Of
themselves. Men in these days are
not marrying women to take" care of
hem.
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The writer of a letter printed in the
Philadelphia North American says she
IS a widow, eighty seven years old.
hat she reads without glasses and
loes her own housewak. That IS the
light sort Of widow. Let us have more
# them.
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Women's clubs, especially woman
suffrage cubs should have each Eel, |
2 an impressive celebration of the
birthday CT Abraham Lincoln. tie man
Who believed in giving the ballot to
ii. by no means excluding females.
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