The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-25

twenty-five to Jos. have come to the
conclusion it is time for the old man to
reconstruct himself to fit the new wom-
an If he does not, he will find himself
left This old man l listened to was a
very old man. His opinions are those
of the age of Tiglath Pileser and Je-
honadab. He thinks man knows it all
and woman knows nothing except as
man imparts it to her. His definition
of a man is anything that wears trou-
sers. This old man was talking to some
new women They had learned in their
childhood that two and two make four.
1t may be mentioned that they could
read Latin; also that they knew how to
pronounce French. Spanish and Ger
man. But the man was a Rriten, there
fore a doubled and twisted old man.
Yet that ancient and widowed old man
sat there and told the women of the
geography. the politics and the govern
ment of their own country with the air
of one who was announcing great
truths which the women would never
have heard if Providence by special act
had not raised him up to announce
them. You observe this is way
men have-old men. that is. They pat
ronize the whole feminine sex and en-
deavor to explain things down to its
capacity. They expect to do all the
talking, so as to exploit their knowl-
edge They resent it if a woman pre-
sumes to know anything out of her
own head Such female creature is
extremely unwomanly in the eye esf the
old man. She makes him feel hurt i'll
his vanity; therefore he never likes her
afterward But the old mai is being
Jared in his vanity every day these
times Will he learn thereby that he
must reconstruct himself and become
new man to match the new woman?
A man who is neither the old man
nor the new on the woman question.
but who is Just lying low and taking
observations, confesses himself per-
picked over girls, He is good looking,
intelligent bachelor of thirty-fye or
thereabout, not old enough TO be
grumpy and set in his ways. yet old
enough to have left his gosling days
behind He daily crosses East river in
a ferryboat between Brooklyn and New
York. Many girl clerks and stenograph-
ers do the same. The bachelor says:
when see these girls. they are al
ways giggling about something. In the
morning when they come over they
giggle and litter from shore to shore.
they giggle and litter all the way again.
It seems to me girls don't do anything
but giggle. What do they do it for? l
never could find out Can you?
White male lawgivers and makers OF
rules are always ready to regulate wo-
men and negroes White male men in
Richmond. Va. seem to be seriously
concerned over the smoking of ciga-
rettes by women. SO that they have
caused to be posted Ia places frequent
ed by the feminine sex notices forbid
ding this indulgence. Why don't they
forbid men to smoke cigarettes? again,
in Mississippi the press and physi-
clans are so exercised over the grow
ing use of cocaine among negroes, par
ticuIarly female negroes" that they
are trying to get law passed against
it.. Why don't they include white peo-
pie, too-white people from whom the
blacks learned the use eff the drug?
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If you keep at a thing. only keep at it.
1t will be accomplished at last.
A good way to make living is to
found society, supposedly for some
good object. then charge those who join
it an initiation fee and use the proceeds
| yourself.
In Switzerland, sometimes in Germa-
ny, when couple are married the hus-
band takes the name of the wife, add
| ing it to his own. Thus. il Mr.. Brown
welded Miss Smith she would not be
Smith Brown, but he would be Brown
Smith, hyphenated. The daughter OF
the distinguished Prussian statesman
Adolph Lette married Mr.. Schaefer.
Thereafter the couple were Mr.. and
Mrs. Schaefer-L
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| At banquet not long since of the
students of great male university
there were mobbish rioting and smash
ing of furniture and crockery that have
never been surpassed in New York
| city,s east side slums. Just so But
suppose it had been coed" university
and ladies had been present there.
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| Don't do a weak. foolish or wrongly
impulsive thing, but If you do don't
plead the baby act. Don't cry like a
fool or claim the privilege of your sex
to get you out of the scrape. Stand up
like fun grown woman and face the
consequences The woman who man.
ufactures tears or illness to influence q
/ jury or anybody else is a despicable
i creature.