The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-03-14
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SINGULAR case OF attempted
IA robbery occurred not long since.
~ Two young women were riding |
In a cab near the dock of one of |
the great transatlantic steamer lines In |
New York. Wagons, street cars, pedes-
TRANS and carriages were mixed up In
inextricable confusion. The two young |
women were richly and showily dress
ed. One of them, ungloved, displayed
the fingers of each hand loaded to the
knuckles with gorgeous rings. They
were so numerous and they glittered
SO they gave the impression that the
wearer had borrowed them from jew
elry shop in order to show them and
herself off to the miscellaneous crowd
at the steamer dock. The carriage con-
tanning the women was stopped by a
blockade of vehicles The beringed
one rested her hands most complacent-
ly and admiringly in position where
they would be visible to all the world.
Suddenly boy of fifteen sprang at
her with large, open knife. He grab
bed one of the hands and slashed the
fingers across, cutting a tremendous
! cash. 1t Is horror to write and think
of, but the young iend was trying to
cut her fingers off SO he could get her
rings He was prevented before he
finished the deed, but he came very
near it. For the moment the sight of
! those gems, richer than anything he
had ever seen, so close to him madden
ed him. A dreadful wretch? oh, yes,
of course. But what of the girl who
made the tempting display merely to
| crafty her own vulgar vanity? For
! 1t is the extreme of vulgarity and i'm
| perfect breeding to display a load of
valuable jewels outdoors in a miscel-
laneous herd of mortals aside from the
danger of it. To wear outdoors In a
public crowd any garm01t or ornament
that glaringly arrests attention is in
the worst possible taste, and it is some
thing no high bred woman ever does.
A certain woman is traipsing up and
down the land lecturing on Home Is
Woman's Place. Then why does not
this woman stay there?
! disgruntled thinker says that man
is bundle of prejudices and woman
bundle of superstitions.
There is no shutting or lodging In
the attitude Of President James of the
Northwestern university at Evanston in
the matter of coeducation. He comes
out calmly and candidly in favor of it
and says the American policy is to give
woman as full opportunity as man for
higher education. Then he calls atten-
ton to the necessity for two entirely
separate and equally equipped sets of
college buildings, where the sex line is
drawn among students. He says it will
be a long time ere the American people
can afford to erect two such sets of
buildings for every scholastic institu-
ton; then he adds, Nor will such a
+ duplication of educational facilities
ever be justified by the fancied evils Of
coeducation." Let us not forget that
President Edmund j. James, Phi. D.,
LII. d., of the Northwestern university
is in favor of justice to women and
says SO.
Here is precisely what might be ex-
pected in city like New York, whose
mayor and superintendent Of education
distinctly discriminate against women:
An order was issued that high school
girls who wished to enter the training
school for teachers in Brooklyn should
be subjected to physical examination,
that it might be ascertained whether
they were healthy enough to under
take the profession they proposed for
themselves. And the physicians that
were to examine them were to be men.
Now, how does this strike the really
enlightened portion of the American
people, who are mostly outside of New
York city?
A tightly laced woman cannot stoop
over to put on her own overshoes
Well, neither can a fat man. l have
watched oneNtry it.
Whenever you see the name of Unit
ed States Senator Teller of Colorado,
recall that he was nominated for his
high Office this time by a woman mem
Der of the legislature in state where
women vote for every officer, presiden-
tial electors included, and that the
woman who did it is Hon. Alice NJ
Ruble.
So
Many women have a sort of warmed
over tone In their voices when they
}, endeavor to be polite and cordial tc
their friends and acquaintance.
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