The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-12


pianist. Her strong point was and is
her versatility. She can render a pi-
ano solo or a coon song accompany
prima donna in opera Or play dance
music with equal facility. Some years
ago Mrs. Hand was left a widow with
four little boys to support. Music was
her first love. and to it she turned for
living. When she was only four years
old, she had begun piano playing and
did not leave it off when she was mar
ried. When widowed, therefore, she
faced the future with her four boys
around her and only her dauntless will
and her knowledge of music between
all of them and homelessness or de-
pendence on charity. At first she
taught piano music and played for
evening entertainments wherever she
could get engagements. She was also
pianist for an orchestra. Then she de-
termined to have an orchestra Of her
own. She was known and highly re-
spected by members of the musical
union. The system she devised is an
elastic one. She obtains an engage
ment for an orchestra of a given mum.
Der of players, from five to twenty-five
as is ! lifted. Then from other orches-
tras and from the musical union she
engages here and there the desired
quota, and thus the count is made up.
She herself does not usually conduct
the orchestra in person. because she is
the pianist of the company. She has
had a hard struggle. the hardest part
of it against that prejudice which ever
tries to stamp out women in new
field, but she is overcoming that. 1t is
pleasant to record that here is one wo-
man with practically perfect health.
and that is All Unreasonable help to
her.
Says the editor of the New York
Evening Journal, The man who is
surly to his typewriter and Indifferent
to her feelings will be surly to his
wife and Indifferent to her feelings"
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For generations men and women
artists have painted from the nude in
evil has been thought of it, Lately
private studio was opened in Berlin in
which the same practice was inaugu-
rated. The German police interfered
and demanded either the closing of the
studio or the separation of the art stu
dents along the sex line. The edict was
obeyed for awhile. Then matters slid
back as they had been, and the stu
dents painted In the same class. The
preceptor was of the highest rank; the
students We're men and women with
out exception enthusiasts in their task.
This time. although the authorities
must have been aware of the fnfrac-
ton of their order. the studio was not
interfered with.
am sick Of people who always know
what other people ought to do 49,
The greatest misfortune in life is to
be born laekadaisical, SO that one can
never become enthusiastically interest
ed in anything. T..
Most of us are the result of our own
and our parents mistakes.
The real lady never says behind your
back what she would not say to your
face.
There is a Greek legend to the effect
that once man asked Jupiter to change
him to woman awhile SO he could see
how it would go Jupiter allowed mis-
request and changed him accordingly.
After he hae been a woman for time
jupiter asked him how he liked it. He
replied that lie would like TO be wom-
an always. Thus there is only one
man on record who preferred to be
woman, and he, alas, is nothing but
myth,
Not long ago the Womens Single
Tax league Of New York gave a BAN
quet to Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1t
was notahis gathering OF brainy wo-
men and men. One Of the speakers
girl Kate Gordon. In her speech at
the banquet sine said. THE new WON
an to me Is progress personified.' Just
so. The time has come when to be
called a new woman is an honor.
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The most ridiculous affair that has
come under my ken recently is the mar
riage of a widow whose grown son
gave her away" at the wedding. She
was rich, had reared that son and sup
ported him all his life, yet he had to
give her away when she married
again.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman says that
only in the human species is the fe-
male inferior to the male, and this is
woman's own fault for not cultivating
her powers Further, Mrs. Gilman says
that man can run, but that a woman
can only Waggle little way Spleen